Name of village

TARUK-TOMATO Village, NP-5

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?

22 men/43 women and there were 32 from Dalits for Settlement Level Planning, SLP

How many members are in the committee?

5 men, 4 women and 2 Dalits

What were the issues raised at the village meeting?

Drinking water, wall building, income generation activities,   women empowerment, women skill development etc.

What were the priorities presented by the committee?

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

The villagers decide to spend Nrs. 30,000 to the tomato and other vegetables farming in plastic tunnel house, Nrs 32,000 for goat raising and Nrs 18,000 for small poultry farming from triangle supported money.

VDC approved support the Taruk Mohandanda foot trail improvement-Nrs 20,000, Repair the water tank in Taruk project Nrs. 20,000 and bagare bazaar mondanda rural road repair and training for sewing and cutting project (budget not fixed yet) 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?

• NRs 75,000 invested for micro loan to income generation.
• NRs 5,000 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 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?

Due to lack of awareness it was difficult to manage the money in the right way in previous year and because of some conflict of interest. But after villagers participated in SLP they developed trust and realized, fully agreed, and called it a realistic and participatory way of planning for the village. However, Triangle/ASK has to provide more technical support for the SLP.

Name of village/cluster

Last visit:

Progress in the reporting period

Changes/delays/comments

(TARUK-NP 5 Named: Tomato Village)

Oct 2013

1. Settlement level planning was completed.

2. All planned activities from Triangle Support; tomato/vegetables farming, goat raising and small poultry farming 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.

(TARUK-NP 5 Named: Tomato Village)

Jan. 2014

All planned activities were completed

• NA

Use of Microloan until 2014

Micro loan total collected from pay back of loans: Nrs 187,400 (112,400 from previous year + Nrs 75,000 from 2013)

• 1 family got the microloan Nrs 10,000 (1 Person*Nrs 10,000) and started the tomato farming.
• 3 families got the microloan Nrs 57,400 (1 Persons*Nrs 20000+ 1 person*Nrs 19600+ 1 person*17000) and started the small poultry with vegetables farming.
• 11 families got the microloan Nrs 1, 15,000 (3 Persons*Nrs 15,000+ 5 Persons*Nrs 10000+ 4 persons*5,000) and started the goat raising.
• 1 family got the microloan Nrs 5,000 (1 Person*Nrs 5,000) and started the vegetables farming.
• 1 person who got loan for goat raising but the goat did not produce babies, so it was difficult to return all the money. Hence, the committee decided to repay Nrs 800.00 next year from that family.
• 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:

• Those 21 families who got loan for goat raising in 2012, they got benefits and additional money (Minimum Nrs 2000 to maximum Nrs 6,000) and spent it for the food and some clothes for the families and school dress to the children. Now they have felt their livelihood is improving. Therefore, they would like to remember who support the village.
• 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 emission is less. Now they are happy and give many many thanks to who support their village with new concept and now every Hhs have improved smokeless cook stove.