Triangle Report

Semi Annual status update

SETTELMENT LEVEL PLANNING, SLP, OCT 2013

District: Syangja

Period covered by this report: January to October 2013

Name of village

Sanabhanjyang, NP-7 – named Forest Village

Was the Triangle procedure followed for the Settlement Level Planning?

Yes the villagers and village committee followed the Triangle procedure. There were not any deviations.

How many people were present at the SLP village meeting?

25 men/27 women, there were 15 from Dalits

How many members are in the committee?

5 men 4 women

Name	Position
Tikaram Sharma	Chair Person
Less Bahadur Gurung	Secretary
Ms. Hem Kumari Gurung	Treasure
Ms. Sunmaya Gurung	Member
Ms. Churimaya Gurung	Member
Ms. Sanmaya Gurung	Member
Kumansing Gurung	Member
Tham Bahadur Gurung	Member
Ram Prasad Gurung	Member

What were the issues raised at the October 2013 village meeting?

Drinking water, Repairing of foot trail and rural road, Health awareness, Income generation activities, women empowerment, Women Skill development etc.

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

S.N.	Name of Project identified in settlement level planning	Total Score of Project	Priority scale 1 -10	Potential source of funding (Institution)
1.	Repairing of Siddha Temple	33	1	VDC
2.	Repairing of foot trail	33	1	VDC
3.	Drinking Water	33	1	VDC
4.	Tourism Area development	33	1	Community
5.	Health awareness	33	1	Triangle
6.	Garbage management through pit and drain making	33	1	Triangle
7.	Training on identification and promotion Medicinal Plant	31	2	District Forest Office CFUG
8.	Small irrigation	30	3	DDC
9.	Goat raising for income	29	4	Triangle
10.	Cellar mill	29	4	Cooperative/ Project list
11.	Agriculture Training	29	4	Project List
12.	Women Skill Development	27	5	Project List
DDC-District Development Committee, VDC-Village Development Committee, CFUG-Community Forest user group, DFO-District Forest Office

What did the villagers decide to spend the Triangle funds on?

The villagers decide to spend Nrs. 10,000 to the awareness of good nutrition and sanitation, Nrs 25,000 for garbage management through pit and drain construction and Nrs 45,000. for goat raising micro loan support from Triangle supported money.

Has the committee received the funds yet?

Yes (October) after completion of settlement level planning (SLP) in Sep and Oct

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

All planned activities will be started after Nepalese festival of Dashain Tihar and will be finalized in December 2013

Who is responsible for the implementation?

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

How were the beneficiaries selected?

Following the settlement level planning (SLP) the committee’s member again organizes the meeting to distribute the Trinagle money for project activities and for the income generation activities. They have criteria’s 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 physical 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?

In previous years, before the training of settlement level planning some of the villagers raised issues such as the money is very little and there was conflict of interest in distributing the money so it was difficult to fulfill the expectation of the villagers. Now the facilitators from their own village, neighbors’ village facilitators and Hari explained about the money and resource availability, and the supporting system from Triangle and the villagers agreed and want to make participatory decisions on how to spend the money.

ASK specially cooperated and fully focused on the settlement level planning process with the critical engagement of communities, provided the information of the Triangle and supported in planning, implementation, monitoring, coordination and reporting.

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

In previous years, due to lack of awareness it was difficult to manage the money in the right way. Now following villagers participated in settlement level planning (SLP) they realized and fully agreed and named it a realistic and participatory process. But they need more technical knowledge for the settlement level planning. Triangle Money is ok but the villagers doubt whether the VDC and DDC will support properly or not for this year.

On-going activities – Status Update

Name of village/cluster

Last visit

Progress in the reporting period

Changes/delays/comments

(Sanabhanjyang -NP 7)

Named: Forest Village

October 2013

1. Settlement level planning is completed.

2. All planned activities from Triangle Support; awareness of good nutrition and sanitation, garbage management through pit and drain construction and goat raising are in progress

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 mobilize for training workshop and planning exercise at village level.