Fiscal year 2010/11 - Poverty Alleviation Fund, Nepal

2. Facilitation of Community Through POs
Partner Organizations (POs) are selected by PAF to facilitate Community
Organizations of the Poor (COPs). The facilitation work of POs includes
organizing COs, enhancing COs capacity development on planning
activities, carry out detailed feasibility studies, survey design &
estimates, and proposal preparation during preparatory phase, and
provide technical assistance and monitoring and supervision of various
sub-projects during implementation phase.
As such, 370 Partner Organizations (POs) are working with communities
(57 for Mountain Districts, 174 in hilly Districts, 128 for Terai districts
and 11 for Innovative Window Programme and 37 for NDM-World Bank
Programme). In addition, 17 POs were terminated due to their under
performance.
Table 4: Details of POs Number
Description
No. of Pos working
Mountain 57
Hills 174
Terai 128
Innovative Programme 11
TOTAL 370
NDM-World Bank 2005 12
NDM-World Bank 2008 25
GRAND Total 407
3. Reaching Out to the Poor
and Social Inclusion
PAF has taken the strategy to with the thought that poor community should be
organized themselves to prepare, implement and manage their programme
and they should be in the driving seat, with decision making authority.
chart 5: CO Members-Beneficary Category
8.60%
0.20%
poor, and thus included as CO members in PAF programme.
3.1. CO Members
During the reporting year, PAF was able to reach out 64,758 poor HHs
and organize them as CO member households to carry out different
activities aimed at improving their livelihood. A total of 470,021 CO
members households were benefited from PAF assistance till the end
chart 6: Regionwise CO member HH
32%
of the reporting year,
3%
11%
When comparing the region-wise break down of the CO members, Hilly
region holds the highest share with 54 per cent, followed by Terai and
Mountain region with 32 and 11 per cent respectively, while innovative
districts have a meager share of 3 per cent.
Table 4: CO member-Beneficiaries
54%
Programme Areas FY 2067/68 Cumulative
Mountain 9,616 53,857
Hills 29,160 253,674
Terai 25,479 149,114
Innovative District 503 13,376
Total 64,758 470,021
3.2. CO Members by Poverty Ranking
Hill
Mountain
Terai
Innovative districts
25.40%
65.80%
Hardcore Poor
Medium Poor
Poor
Non Poor
Among beneficiaries members in Community Organizations of Poor
(COPs), 65.8 per cent members falls under the hardcore poor category
(food sufficiency less than 3 months among criteria fixed by community),
25.4 per cent members falls under medium poor category (food
sufficiency more than 3 months but less than 6 months among other
criteria set by the community itself), 8.6 per cent members falls under
poor category (food sufficiency more than 6 months but less than a
year among other criteria set by the community itself) and a very small
fraction of per centage members falls under marginal Non-poor Category.
Participatory social assessment and community well- being ranking
process identified the poor community members as primary beneficiaries
at the settlement level. They are organized into community organization
to plan, implement and manage their sub-projects. As entry point of PAF
programme at settlement level, social mapping and participatory social
assessment are the primary social mobilization steps. The settelmenet
level social assessment has revealed that the 62 per cent of the HHs are
3.3. CO Members by Caste and Ethnicity
Out of the total 470,021 CO members households till the end of the
reporting year, CO member households constitutes 29 per cent Dalit, 28
per cent Janjati, 3 per cent Muslim, 30 per cent Brahmin/Chhetri and 10
per cent other caste and ethnicity.
8 ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT (2010/2011)