Triangle Annual Report from Village

Annual status update

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

Name of village

Salikosh- NP-3 Named: Mother Village

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?

25 men/16 women and there were 12 from Dalits in Settlement Level Planning- SLP

How many members are in the committee?

4 men, 3 women

Name	Position
Ms Shushila Gurung	Chair Person
Ms Tanmaya Gurung	Vice Chair person
Tikaram Sunar	Secretary
Thakur Prasad Regmi	Treasure
Both Bahadur Gurung	Member
Ms Debika Regmi	Member
Kul Prasad Regmi	Member

What were the issues raised at the village meeting?

Income generation activities, drinking water, women empowerment, health and sanitation, toilet construction, women skill development (bag making), 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)
	Tallo tole drinking water repairing	33	1	Triangle
	Construction of permanent toilet for dalit and poor	33	1	Triangle
	Bag making training to women	33	1	Triangle
	Bee keeping	33	1	Waiting
	Tomato farming in plastic house	30	2	Triangle
	Small poultry business promotion	30	2	Triangle
	Scholarship for children	30	2	Triangle
	Sewing and cutting training to women	29	3	VDC
	Repairing of School	27	4	District Education Office
	Salikosh mathillo tole drinking water repairing	27	4	District water supply office

What did the villagers decide to spend the funds on?

The villagers decide to spend Nrs 20,000.00 for repairing of tallo tole drinking water, Nrs.24, 000 to the construction of permanent toilet for poor, Nrs 20,000 for tomato farming from experience farmers, Nrs 20,000.00 for small business for poultry and Nrs 5,000.00 for the scholarship of 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:

The villagers decide to spend Nrs 15,000 for repairing of tallo tole drinking water.
They also invested Nrs.20000 to construction of permanent toilet for poor.
Nrs 5,000.00 were distributed to the poor students for the scholarship.
Nrs 40000 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.
Unemployed 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 year, 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

Salikosh-NP 3, Named: Mother 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 l 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.

Salikosh-NP 3, Named: Mother Village

May 2015

All planned activities were completed

Reporting of Micro loan

Use of Microloan until end 2014

Micro loan total collected from pay back of loans: Nrs 172000 (132000 from previous year + Nrs 40,000.00 from 2014)

18 families got the microloan Nrs 72000 (18 Persons*Nrs 4000) and started the goat raising.
9 families got the microloan Nrs 40000(5 Persons*Nrs 4000 and 4 persons*Nrs 5000) and started the small poultry farming.
15 families got the microloan Nrs 60000(15 Persons*Nrs 4000) and started the vegetables farming.

Major Achievements from Previous Year

The 33 families who got loan for goat raising, small poultry and vegetables farming in 2013, they got a lot of benefits and extra money (Minimum Nrs 3000.00 to maximum Nrs 9,000.00) and spent it for the dress and books for their children, food and some clothes for the families. Now they have felt the improvement for their improved 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.
2 Persons were also involved in proposal writing training organized by ASK and Triangle with the cooperation of VDC.
People from the village are continuing the regular saving, credit in sustainable way and almost all villagers are involved in the micro-credit group also.

Impact of Settlement level planning

The villagers are also got one project (repairing of drinking water)from VDC.

Some examples of activities supported by Trianglen


Tikaram Sunar has many goats now	Maini Sunar has a buffalo

Ratan Sunar with his two goats	Laxmi Gurung has planted beans

Putali Sunar is also raising goats	Subdar Gurung is growing cauliflowers
	The Chairperson has started a small poultry business

Village situation after Earthquake and aftershock

Nine houses are totally collapsed and 19 houses are partially cracked. The school building also partially cracked and it is difficult to teach inside the rooms. Many livestock sheds are cracked and damaged. People are requesting more shelter but the VDC distributed very few.


Damage from the earthquake	Shelter built by the people in the village

Salikosh-2014 rapport (hele året, med kort status efter jordskælvene i april/maj 2015)