Triangle Annual Report from Village

Annual status update

District: Syangja
Period covered by this report: January December 2014 and follow up after earthquake May 2015

Name of village

Pakhere, NP-8

Was the Triangle procedure followed? Were there any deviations from the standard procedure?

Yes, the villagers followed the triangle procedure and held settlement level planning in September. There were not any deviations.

How many people were present at the village meeting?

23 men/29 women in Settlement Level Planning- SLP

How many members are in the committee?

4 men, 3 women

Name of Committee Members	Position
Dut Bahadur Gurung	Chair Person
Ms. Nirmaya Gurung	Secretary
Bisan Gurung	Treasure
Bhakta Bahadur Budhathoki	Member
Ms. Deumaya Gurung	Member
Ms. Tabi Gurung	Member
Dan Bahadur Gurung	Member

What were the issues raised at the village meeting?

Water and sanitation, income generation activities, women empowerment, youth empowerment, irrigation, ponds conservation, school repairing, foot road, women skill development, vegetables farming, road etc.

What were the priorities presented by the committee?

S.N.	Name of Project	Total Score of Project*	Priority	Potential Source of funding (Institution)
	Pakhere drinking water construction	30	1	DDC
	Tomato farming in green house	29	2	Triangle
	Scholarship for poor children	29	2	Triangle
	Goat raising	27	2	Triangle
	Seed support for garlic farming	27	3	Triangle
	Poultry business promotion	27	3	Triangle
	Construction of conservation pond (Deviko than)	27	3	Triangle
	Smell instant stick making training	27	3	VDC
	Irrigation for vegetables	25	4	Agriculture Office
	Support to make the volleyball ground re[pairing to youth club	25	4	Triangle
	Sewing and cutting training to women	25	4	Waiting
	Vegetable farming in plastic house	24	5	Waiting

What did the villagers decide to spend the funds on?

The villagers decide to spend Nrs 15,000.00 for tomato farming, Nrs 7,000.00 for scholarship, Nrs 30,000.00 for goat rising, Nrs 20,000.00 for poultry support, Nrs 5,000.00 for conservation pond, 5,000.00 for garlic seed support and Nrs 5,000.00 support to repairing of volleyball ground for youth from Triangle supported money.

Has the committee received the funds yet?

Yes in October 2014, it was transferred.

Activity plan: When are the activities going to be implemented?

All planned activities were completed, which are described below:

Nrs 86000 rupees invested for micro loan to women and poor’s income generation.

Who is responsible for the implementation?

The village committee plays the vital role to implement all activities and after that VDC Secretary, VDC social Mobilizer and Triangle responsible person Hari also support to implement and monitor.

How were the beneficiaries selected?

After finishing the settlement level planning the village committees’ members again organized the meeting and make the criteria to distribution of money. Generally the villager followed some indicators for the distribution of money which is indicated by LGCDP(Local Government Community Development Programme):

The family with no or very little land.
Poor house condition.
Lack of food for whole year.
Labours for others for livelihood.
Uunemployed family.
No guarantee for settlement, etc.

Were there any disagreements – discussions about the priorities?

What was the role of the Triangle facilitator?

Some of the villagers found that the Triangle donation could not fulfil all aspects of the wishes the villages had. However, the facilitator and Hari explained about the money and the supporting system from Triangle (getting to know how to influence VDC and DDC to get projects approved, and how to ask for better services).

Specially ASK cooperate and fully focus on the settlement level planning process with the engagement of communities, give the information of the Triangle, and about the resources of the VDC block grant and the District Development Office possibilities of supporting the village. The villages have seen that the Triangle support to ASK and the villages, has given the villagers more tools for managing their own resources and influencing those of the local bodies (VDC and DDC).

Did the villagers have any comments/questions for the Triangle?

With lack of awareness, it was difficult to manage the money the right way the previous years, but after villagers participated in settlement level planning, they realized and fully agreed to the method and found it was realistic and participatory. There was a request that ASK should provide more technical knowledge for the settlement level planning and development possibilities in the village. Now the money for micro-loan is increasing so it has to provide the account management knowledge also.

On-going activities – Status Update

Name of village/cluster

Last visit:

Progress in the reporting period

Changes/delays/comments

Pakhere-NP 8 Named iskus Village

September

2014

1. Settlement level planning is completed.

2. All planned activities are under Implementation

All the activities were delayed because of heavy and delayed rain, Local festival and giving approval from Ministry of Local Development for settlement level planning. Implementation of all activities is on-going. It is expected to be finalized in December.
VDC is cooperating in the SLP process by assigning the social mobilize in training, workshop and planning exercise at village level.

Pakhere-NP 8 Named iskus Village

May 2015

All planned activities were completed

In settlement level planning there were selected for pond conservation, scholarship for students and repairing of volleyball ground. The pond conservation is not suitable at this time, scholarship was paid by district education office and the volleyball ground was repaired by the chairperson himself so all this money was transferred in Income generation activities.

Reporting of Micro loan

Use of Microloan until end 2014

Micro loan total collected from pay back of loans: Nrs 230000 (144000 from previous year + Nrs 86,000 from 2014)

22 families got the microloan Nrs 125500 (21 Persons*Nrs 5500 and 1 person*Nrs 10000) and started the goat raising.
3 families got the microloan Nrs 15000 (3 Persons*Nrs 5000) and started the small poultry business.
1 family got the microloan Nrs 25000 (1 Person*Nrs 25000) and started the pig raising.
5 families got the microloan Nrs 24500 (4 Persons*Nrs 5000 and 1 person*Nrs 4500) and started tomato farming.
8 families got the microloan Nrs 32000 (8 Persons*Nrs 4000) and started ginger farming.
2 families got the microloan Nrs 4000 (2 Persons*Nrs 4000) and started the garlic production.

Major Achievements from Previous Year

The 25 families who got loan for different kinds of income generation activities (poultry business, goat raising, tomato farming, pig raising and mushroom farming) in 2013, they got a lot of benefits and extra money which was spent for the dress and books for their children, food and some clothes for the families and pay back loan to committee. Now they have felt the a little bit improvement for their livelihood. Therefore, they would like to remember who support the village.
The women, children and the all villagers health situation improved because of improved smokeless stoves, the use of firewood is more economical and CO2 emission is less. Now they are happy and give many many thanks that support their village with new concept and now every Hhs have improved smokeless cook stove.
1 Persons were also involved in proposal writing training organized by ASK and Triangle with the cooperation of VDC.
The chairperson was selected for Ward Citizen Forum Chairperson for VDC in the NP-7 Village.
People from the village are continuing the regular saving, credit in a sustainable way and almost all villagers are involved in one micro-credit group and the group is affiliated in VDC level multipurpose cooperative also.

Some examples of activities supported by Trianglen


Sunmaya Gurung has planted tomatoes	Ram Bahadur is raising goats

Several people benefitted from growing garlic	People are aware about personal hygiene and the environment

Village situation after earthquake and aftershock

21 houses are totally collapsed and 17 houses are partially cracked. The school building also partially cracked and it is difficult to teach inside the room because the earthquake with aftershocks is not stopping yet. Many livestock sheds are cracked and damaged. People are requesting more shelter for the school and houses.

Pakhere 2014 rapport (jan-sep)