Triangle Annual Report from Village

Annual status update

District: Syangja
Period covered by this report: January to December 2014, visited May 2015 after earthquake

Name of village

Taruk, NP-5 Named Tomato Village

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?

18 men/21 women and There were 15 from Dalits in Settlement Level Planning- SLP

How many members are in the committee?

(3 men, 4 women)

Name	Position
Gupta Bahadur Shrestha	Chair Person
Ms. Maya Nepali	Secretary
Huminda Shrestha	Treasure
Ms. Putali Nepali	Member
Subarna GT	Member
Ms. Shanti Shrestha	Member
Ms. Parbati BK	Member

What were the issues raised at the village meeting?

Income generation activities, drinking water, women empowerment, health and sanitation, community building, Play ground, women skill development, vegetables farming, road etc.

What were the priorities presented by the committee?

S.N.	Name of Project	Total Score of Project*	Priority	Potential Source of funding (Institution)
1.	Vegetables farming (cauliflower and tomato)	28	1	Triangle
2.	Poultry management training	28	1	Livestock service center
3.	Support to traditional dress for mother group	28	1	Waiting
4.	Goat raising training	27	2	Livestock service center
5.	Poultry business promotion support	27	2	Livestock service center
6.	Ginger farming	26	3	Triangle
7.	Community house construction	26	3	VDC
8.	Drinking water tank repairing	25	4	Triangle
9.	Repairing motor able road	24	5	Center Govt
10.	Support to repairing the volleyball ground	23	6	VDC

What did the villagers decide to spend the funds on?

The villagers decide to spend Nrs 20,000.00 for vegetables farming; Nrs 30,000.00 for ginger farming and Nrs 40,000.00 for repairing of drinking water tank from Triangle supported 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 the 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 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 the 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

Taruk Khorbar -NP 5 Named: Tomato 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 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.
VDC is cooperating in the SLP process by assigning the social mobilize in training, workshop and planning exercise at village level.

Taruk Khorbar -NP 5 Named: Tomato Village

May 2015

All planned activities were completed

Nrs 40,000 were planned for repairing of drinking water tank, but this activity was more expensive so the village committee has changed it in income generating activities.

Reporting of Micro loan

Use of Microloan until 2014

Micro loan total collected from pay back of loans: Nrs 282600 (196600 from previous year + Nrs 86,000.00 from 2014)

10 families got the microloan Nrs 101000 (1 Person*Nrs 20000, 2 persons* Nrs 15000, 3 persons*Nrs 10000, 1 person*6000 and 3 persons*Nrs 5000) and started the goat raising.
4 families got the microloan Nrs 66600 (1 Person*Nrs 20600, 1 Person*Nrs 20000, 1 Person*Nrs 15000 and 1 Person*Nrs 11000) and started the small poultry business.
5 families got the microloan Nrs 75000 (2 Persons*Nrs 20000, 1 person*Nrs 15000 and 2 person * Nrs 10000) and started the ginger farming.
4 families got the microloan Nrs 25000 (1 Person*Nrs 15000 and 1 person*Nrs 10000) and started the tomato farming with vegetables.
1 family got the microloan Nrs 15000(1 Person*Nrs 15000) and started the pig raising.

Major Achievements from Previous Year

The 17 families who got loan for different kinds of income generation (tomato farming, vegetables farming, goat raising) in 2013, they got a lot of benefits and extra money minimum Nrs 2000.00 to maximum Nrs 7,000.00) and spent it for the dress and books for their children, food and some clothes for the families and pay back loan to committee. Now they have felt the a little bit improvement for their 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.

Some examples of activities supported by Trianglen


Bishnu Kumari Shrestra keeps 200 chickens in her poultry house	Jit Kumari Nepali has a lot of local chickens

May Nepali has four goats	Sita BK has a lot of goats
	Pigs are also kept.

Village situation after earthquake and aftershock

19 houses are totally collapsed and 20 houses are partially cracked. Many livestock sheds are cracked and damaged. People are requesting more shelter and food also.


Houses damaged by the earthquake
	A shelter made by people in the village

Taruk-2014 rapport (hele året, med kort status efter jordskælvene i april/maj 2015)