Name of village

Salikosh Dumsuwakhola, NP-3 – named Mother Village

Was the Triangle procedure followed? Were there any deviations from the standard procedure of choosing a village committee?

Yes the villagers followed the Triangle procedure of governance and local capacity building. There were not any deviations.

How many people were present at the village meeting on Settlement Level Planning?

(29 men/28 women and there were 22 from Dalits)

How many members are in the committee?

4 men, 3 women

What were the issues raised at the village meeting?

Repairing of walking trail and fair weather road, Health, Drinking water, Income generation activities, women empowerment, health and sanitation, education environment sanitation, Women Skill development (sewing and Cutting) etc.

What were the priorities presented during the Settlement Level Planning in October 2013?

What did the villagers decide to spend the funds on?

Use of Trianglen supported money:

The villagers decided to spend Nrs. 7,000 for the social harmony training, Nrs 15,000 for repair of primary school roof and Nrs 10,000 for drinking water to school children, Nrs 25,000 for stool making training from bamboos and Nrs 23,000 for off-season vegetable farming and training.

Has the committee received the funds yet?

Yes (October) after completion of the settlement level planning in September-October.

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

All planned activities will be started after Nepalese big festival Dashain Tihar (Oct-Nov) and finalized in December 2013

Who is responsible for the implementation?

The Triangle village committee plays the vital role in implementation of the all activities. VDC Secretary, VDC hired social mobilizer and Triangle/ASK responsible person Hari also support to implement and monitor.

How were the beneficiaries selected?

After finished the settlement level planning the village committee’s members again organize the meeting to identify the potential source of funding and distribution of the Trinaglen money. To distribute the money for the income generation activities; they have developed criteria themselves. Generally the villagers made some indicators for the distribution of money for income generation;

• the family who has no or very little land, poor condition of house, Lack of food security for whole year, Labors for livelihood for others, Landless people, Unemployed family, No guarantee for settlement, etc.

Were there any disagreements – discussions about the priorities?

What was the role of the Triangle facilitator?

Before the training of settlement level planning, some of the villagers found they received very little money and also experienced conflict of Interest, so it was difficult to fulfill the expectation of the villagers. Now the facilitators from their own village, neighbour village facilitators, and Hari explain about the SLP method and of resources available, internally and externally, and the supporting system from Triangle. The villagers agreed to the new method, and find it more participatory and just.

Specially ASK cooperates and fully focus on the settlement level planning process with the engagement of communities, gave information of the Triangle and support to planning, implementation, monitoring, coordination and reporting

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

In previous years, lack of awareness caused difficulty in managing the money the right way. Following the villager’s participation in the settlement level planning, they realized and fully agreed on the method; it was realistic and participatory. But we have to provide more technical knowledge for the settlement level planning.

Name of village/cluster

Last visit

Progress in the reporting period

Changes/delays/comments

(Salikosh-NP 3, Named: Mother Village)

October 2013

1. Settlement level planning is completed.

2. All planned activities from Trianglen Support; social harmony training,   repair of primary school roof, drinking water to school children, Stool making training from bamboos and off season vegetable farming and training are under Implementation

1. All the activities were delayed because of heavy rain, Local festival and the training of SLP. All activities implementation are on-going. It is expected to be finalized in December.

2. VDC is cooperating in the SLP process by assigning the Social Mobilizer for training workshop and planning exercise at village level.