Triangle Annual Report from Village

Annual status update

District: Syangja
Period covered by this report: January to December 2014

Name of new 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 and held settlement level planning in September. There were not any deviations.

How many people were present at the village meeting?

25 men/32 women and There were 22 from Dalits in Settlement Level Planning- SLP

How many members are in the committee?

5 men, 4 women and 2 Dalits

Name of Committee Members	Position
Dam BahadurGurung	Chair Person
Ne BahaduGurung	Vice Chair person
Ms. BabitaGurung	Secretary
Ms. KalimayaGurung	Co-Secretary
KumbhaBahadur Nepali	Treasure
Ms. Nar Nepali	Member
LalBahadurGurung	Member
TikaBahadurGurung	Member
Ms. DhanmayaGurung	Member

What were the issues raised at the village meeting?

Income generation activities such as: goat raising, pig raising, tomato farming, scholarship, foot road, women empowerment, health and sanitation, education for children, environment sanitation, women skill 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.	Tomato Farming	31	1	Triangle
2.	Male buffalo keeping	30	2	Triangle
3.	Banana Farming	30	2	Triangle
4.	Goat Raising	30	2	Triangle
5.	Garlic/Onion farming	29	3	Triangle
6.	Poultry business	26	4	Triangle
7.	Pig Raising	25	5	Triangle
8.	Drinking Water	24	6	VDC
9.	Road Rehabilitation	24	6	DDC
10.	Agricultural Training	23	7	Waiting

What did the villagers decide to spend the funds on?

The villagers decide to spend Nrs.30,000 to the goat raising, Nrs25,000 for pig raising, Nrs 5000.00 for tomato farming, Nrs 5000.00 for banana farming, Nrs 5000.00 for garlic and onion farming, Nrs 5000.00 for small poultry business and Nrs 25,000.00 for male buffalo keeping from Trianglen 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:

All 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 completed 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 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

(Sirukharka-NP 1 Named: Sweet potato 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 waiting for 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.

(Sirukharka-NP 1 Named: Sweet potato Village)

May 2015

All planned activities were completed

Nrs 5,000 were planned for tomato farming, Nrs 5000 for banana farming and Nrs 5000 for garlic and onion farming and these activities were more expensive so they changed for goat raising.

Reporting of Micro loan

Use of Microloan until end 2014

Micro loan total collected from pay back of loans: Nrs 220000 (134000 from previous years + Nrs 86,000.00 from 2014)

11 families got the microloan Nrs 106000 (2 Persons*Nrs 12000, 7 persons*10000 and 2 persons*Nrs 6000) and started the goat raising.
2 families got the microloan Nrs 12000 (2 Persons*Nrs 6000) and started the ginger farming.
1 family got the microloan Nrs 10000 (1 Person*Nrs 10000) and started the small poultry business.
4 families got the microloan Nrs 720000 (2 Persons*Nrs 25000, 1 person*14000 and 1 person*Nrs 8000) and started the pig raising.
1 family got the microloan Nrs 20000 (1 Person*Nrs 20000) and started the male buffalo keeping for better breeding.

Major Achievements from Previous Year

The 12 families who got loan for goat raising in 2013, they got a lot of benefits and extra money (Minimum Nrs 5000.00 to maximum Nrs 15,000.00) 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 a sustainable way and almost all villagers are involved in the micro-credit group also.

Impact of Settlement level planning

The villagers are also got two projects (repairing of drinking water from VDC and Road Rehabilitation from DDC) from the VDC and district

Some examples of activities supported by Trianglen


Namrata Gurung with her income-giving goats	Hunmaya Gurung has a lot of goats

Gyan Bahadur Gurung produces chicken	Chandra BK raises pigs and goats, and has been able to drop his job in the Gulf

Village situation after earthquake and aftershock

One house is totally collaped and 18 houses are partially cracked. The school building also cracked and it is difficult to teach inside the room. Many livestock sheds are cracked and damaged. People are requesting more shelters, but the VDC distributed very few.