Name of village

SIRUKHARAK-SWEET POTATO Village, NP-1

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

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

How many people were present at the village meeting?

32 men/35 women and there were 18 from Dalits for Settlement Level Planning, SLP

How many members are in the committee?

5 men, 4 women and 2 Dalits

What are the names of the Committee members?

Name

Position

Dam Bahadur Gurung

Chair Person

Ne Bahadu Gurung

Vice Chair person

Ms. Babita Gurung

Secretary

Ms. Kalimaya Gurung

Co-Secretary

Kumbha Bahadur Nepali

Treasure

Ms. Nar Nepali

Member

Lal Bahadur Gurung

Member

Tika Bahadur Gurung

Member

Ms. Dhanmaya Gurung

Member

What were the issues raised at the village meeting?

Rehabilitation of drinking water, income generation activities, scholarships, foot road, women empowerment, health and sanitation, education for children, environment sanitation, women skills development (sewing and cutting), drinking water, enterprise development

What were the priorities presented by the committee?

S.N.

Name of project

Total score of   project

Priority

Potential source of funding (Institution)

1

Rehabilitation of drinking water

33

1

VDC

2

Ripukhola community health post construction

33

1

DDC

3

Sirukharka Rapakot rural road construction

33

1

VDC

4

Community forest management

32

2

CFUG

5

Painting of school building

32

2

Mother and Youth Club/VDC

6

Social awareness and harmony

32

2

Triangle

7

Open grazing control

32

2

Community

8

Construction of rest place between NP 2 and NP1

31

3

Triangle

9

Support to school furniture

30

4

Triangle

10

Construction foot road (Darbot-Kamidanda-Naulekharka)

30

4

Community

11

Stool making training for women for income from local bamboo materials

29

5

Triangle

12

Goat raising

29

5

Triangle

13

Electricity for School

29

5

VDC

14

Jhagade banjho darbot Irrigation

29

5

DDC

15

Vegetable farming

29

5

Project List

16

Sheller mill

29

5

Project List

17

Construction foot road (Kafaldanda-Jhakribas)

26

6

Community

18

Construction of rural agriculture road (Gairabari Chyandanda)

25

7

Project List

19

Training in making instant smell stick (incense sticks)

25

7

Project List

20

Sewing and cutting for women

22

8

Project List

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

• The villagers decide to spend Nrs. 7,000 to the social awareness training, Nrs 7,000   for construction of rest place between NP 2 and NP1, Nrs 41,000 for loan to women for goat raising, 12000.00 for furniture support to School and 15000.00 for stool making training to women for income generation from local materials Bamboos from Triangle Money.
• VDC approved the Sirukharka road construction project-Nrs 50,000. and school painting project Nrs. 10,000 submitted by settlement level.

Has the committee received the funds yet?

Yes in October 2013

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

• Successfully constructed Rest place between NP 2 and NP1 and used the fund Nrs 7000.00, other villagers gave personal contributions to the Rest place.
• Primary School successfully installed the electricity and spent Nrs 10000.00
• Stool making training for women for income generation from local materials Bamboos were successfully completed and 25 people got the practical knowledge and spent Nrs. 25000.00
• 33,000 invested for micro loan to women income generation.
• 5,000.00 Still in account for the emergency fund.

Who is responsible for the implementation?

The village committee plays the vital role to implement all activities and after that, VDC Secretary and Triangle responsible person Hari support the implementing and monitoring.

How were the beneficiaries selected?

After completing the settlement level planning the village committees’ member again organized the meeting and made the criteria to distribution of money. Generally the villager made some indicators for the distribution of money

• the family with no or very little land, poor house condition, lack of food for whole year, Labors for others for livelihood, unemployed family, no guarantee for income etc.

Were there any disagreements – discussions about the priorities?

What was the role of the Triangle facilitator?

The villager’s perception was that the Triangle support was very low. After the settlement level planning training and exercise and facilitation from ASK that the money is for supporting system. Now villagers understood and spending in right way.

ASK cooperates and fully focused on the settlement level planning (SLP) process and explain that that the SLP is done through training from Triangle, which also included the engagement of communities to plan and apply for projects from the Village Development Committee. The villagers saw that the Triangle in partnership with ASK is supporting planning, implementation, monitoring, coordination and reporting.

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

With lack of awareness it was difficult to manage the money the right way in the previous years because of some conflict of interest. But after villagers participated in settlement level planning they realized, fully agreed, and called it a realistic and participatory way of planning for the village. Triangle/ASK has to provide more technical knowledge for the settlement level planning.

Name of village/cluster

Last visit:

Progress in the reporting period

Changes/delays/comments

Sirukharka-NP 1 Named: Sweet potato Village

Oct 2013

1. Settlement level planning was completed.

2. All planned activities from training Support; Social awareness training, construction of Rest place between NP 2 and NP1, goat raising for women, furniture support to School and stool making training to women for Income generating from local materials Bamboos are under Implementation

• All the activities were delayed because of heavy and delayed rain, local festival and the training of Settlement Level Planning.   Implementation of all activities is on-going. It It is expected to be finalized in December.
• VDC is cooperating in the SLP process by assigning the Social Mobiliser for training, workshops and planning exercise at village level.

Sirukharka-NP 1 Named: Sweet potato Village

Jan. 2014

All planned activities except Social awareness training were completed

• Nrs 12,000 were planned for furniture support to School but now there is electricity in the village since January 2014, so villagers want the electricity for the School so they changed the budget line from school furniture to school electricity and   spent only Nrs.10,000
• Nrs 7,000 were planned for Social awareness training but it was difficult to find the trainer in the village and stool making training was more expensive so they converted the money from Social awareness training to stool making training as well as some money reduce for micro loan and invested 3,000 for the stool making training.

Use of Microloan until 2013

Micro loan total collected as pay back of loans: Nrs 119,000 (86,000 from previous year 2012+ Nrs 33,000.00 from 2013)

• 12 families got the microloan (11 Persons*Nrs 10,000 and 1 person*Nrs 9,000) and started the goat raising
• People from the village starting the regular saving, credit, and almost all villagers are involved in the micro-credit group also.

outcome from Previous Year (year 2012)

Achievement of   2012 from Micro loan so far:

• The 11 families who received loan for goat rising in 2012, they got a lot of benefits and additional money (Minimum Nrs 3,000 to maximum Nrs 10,000) and spent it for the dress and books for their children, food and some clothes for the families. Now they felt that the improvement for their improved livelihood. Therefore, they would like to remember who support the village.
• Those students who got the scholarship in 2011, their study was more effective and the teacher said they improved their study with better mark and position.
• The women’ and children and the all villagers health situation improved because of improved smokeless stoves, the use of firewood is more economical and smoke is less. Now they are happy and give many thanks that support their village with new concept and now every Household have improved smokeless cook stove.

The rest place in front of village opened on 10 March 2014