Fiscal year 2010/11 - Poverty Alleviation Fund, Nepal

3.5. CO Members by Key Position Holders
The president, treasurer and secretary are considered as key positions in every individual COs. There are a total of 45,632 key position holders within
the community organizations registered to PAF. The gender-wise and ethnicity wise breakdown of key position holders are presented in following tables
and charts.
Table 5 : CO members by Key position holders
Gender
Ethnicity
Region
Male Female Dalit Janajati Brahmin Chhetri Muslim Others
Mountain 1,584 3,876 1,183 1,836 316 1,998 0 2,441
Hills 11,422 13,628 8,036 6,458 1,667 8,288 8 10,548
Terai 3,290 10,746 6,225 3,816 110 128 972 3,023
Innovative District 426 660 118 915 20 30 3 50
Total 16,722 28,910 15,562 13,025 2,113 10,444 983 16,062
Of the total 45,632 key position holders in PAF supported COs, 62 per
cent are female, in accordance with PAF’s affirmative approach for the
empowerment of the poor women.
Caste and ethnic representations in key positions shows that 34 per
cent are Dalits, followed by 27 per cent of Janajatis and 29 per cent of
Brahamin/Chhetris and 8 per cent other ethnicity. At the regional level,
Dalits dominates in key position holders in Terai and Chhetris dominates
in hilly districts. Janajati dominates in mountain region and innovative
districts.
chart 10: Key Position Holders-Gender Wise
4. Community Institutional Building
Community institutionalization process is also emerging in some of the
districts where community felt need to federate themselves for certain
purpose. 53 Multi-purpose co-operatives and 547 federation of COs are
formed as per communities’ felt need. Informal networks of COs are
being formed in each VDC, in the process of institutionalization. PAF
has recently formulated CO graduation and PO exit strategy setting out
its priorities
from making an exit after making the COs capable of handling their own
development needs. The annual performance of the individual PO is tied
to the number of COs that would be graduated to a self-propelling and
self-sustaining institutions. Details of community institutional building is
given in Annex 8 and Annex 9.
38%
62%
chart 11: Key Position Holders-Gender Wise
34%
29%
8%
2%
27%
Male
Female
Dalit
Janajati
Muslim
Others
Bramhin/Chhetri
2.2.2. Income Generating Activities and Micro
Enterprise
PAF has been successful to reaching out to over 540 thousands poor
households through the supporting of different income generation
activities and community infrastructures. Out of total investment of
Rs 8266 millions, 72 per cent is made in income generation activities
followed by 21 per cent in community infrastructure development, 4 per
cent to build up community capacity and rest 3 per cent in communty
organization management and monitoring activities. A wide range of
income generation activities have been demanded and supported,based
upon the potentials and opportunities available at community level. The
potentials include the availability of raw materials, resources, access to
market, skill and traditional occupation etc.
Partner organizations provide information to community members
and facilitate them to identify potential income generation activities. It
is apparent that Nepal being an agricultural country, more than 80 per
cent of its population relies on agriculture. Income generation activities
supported by PAF are mostly related to agriculture and livestock sector.
IG Activities—Sector, HHs and Investment
By the end of FY 2067/68, PAF has made agreement with 16,819 COs
to implement 19615 sub-projects. Out of them, 16,576 sub-projects
are related to income generation activities. The ratios of number of IG
subproject to the total number of sub-projects, increased from 55 per
cent in FY 2061/62 to 83.64 per cent in FY 2064/6 and it stands on 89
per cent on FY 2067/68.
10 ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT (2010/2011)