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 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, there were 22 Dalits

How many members are in the committee?

5 men and 4 women, including 2 Dalits

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?

What did the villagers decide to spend the funds on?

The villagers decide to spend Nrs.30,000 to the goat raising, Nrs 25,000 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?

Funds are in transfer process (will be completed in October 2014) and arrive after completing the settlement planning and resource allocation plan.

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

All planned activities will be started after Nepalese big festival Dashain and Tihar and finalized in December 2014

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 monitoring.

How were the beneficiaries selected?

After finishing the settlement level planning the village committees’ members again organize 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.

• the family with no or very little land, poor house condition, lack of food for whole year, labors 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?

Before the training of settlement level planning some of the villagers found that the donation is very little so it is difficult to fulfill all the wishes of the villagers, but the facilitator and Hari explained about the money and the supporting system, from Triangle, and the villagers agreed and want to spend in right way.   Specially ASK cooperate and facilitate and give full focus on the settlement level planning process with the engagement of communities, give the information of the Triangle and support to 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 previous years, but after the villagers participated in settlement level planning they realized and fully agreed and said it was realistic and participatory. ASK has to provide more technical knowledge for the settlement level planning.

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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

1. 1.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.
2. 2.VDC is cooperating in the SLP process by assigning the social mobilize in training, workshop and planning exercise at village level.