Fiscal year 2010/11 - Poverty Alleviation Fund, Nepal

3.2. Results From Monitoring
Data Analysis
The re-social assessment of the sample 289 COs which are three or more
than three years of maturity period was carried out during 2010.
The comparative analysis of the re-social assessment data with the
baseline social assessment shows that HH level assets increased, School
enrollment of the children increased, improvement in food sufficiency
duration of individual HH, and Construction and use of toilet/latrine
increased.
Similarly, the household level gross income (from all the sources) of the
re-assessed 8,168 HHs has increased by 82.5 per cent in real term. A
district-wise gross annual income change of CO members is provided in
Annex 13. g year. The data was collected till November 15, 2009.
The revolving fund assessment carried out during the end of FY
2066/67, shows that community has been managing their revolving fund
satisfactorily (Annex 14). The data collected as of July 16, 2010, shows
that fund provided to the COs by PAF has been increased by 7.8 per cent
which includes the interest charges against the loan taken by its members,
community contribution and fund collected from other sources.
Similarly, among the total CO members, 84.6 per cent of the members have
accessed the fund at least for one time to initiate their income generation
activities. Out of the total members accessing the fund from RF, 8.72 per
cent members have used the fund for more than two times, 19.77 per
cent members have used two times and 71.51 per cent members have
used one time.
The assessment also shows 83.8 per cent of the total fund has been
invested as loan to its members, 14.1 per cent of the fund is in bank and
rest amount is as cash in hand in COs itself. Further, assessment shows
that the average rate of repayment of the loan disbursed is 76 per cent
3.3. Environmental Framework
and Monitoring
Majority of PAF supported sub- projects are of small and micro
scales hence they hardly fall under legal obligations for environmental
assessment. However, PAF realizes that even micro/small scale
projects may have some environmental implications and has laid
down Environment Management Framework (EMF) to address them as
precautionary principles. EMF has standardized methods for the subprojects
to assess the environmental problems associated with their
implementation and ways to mitigate them.
According to PAF EMF environmental assessment and planning mandatory
during the project preparation for sub-project’s approval. Possible risks of
proposed sub-project and their mitigation measures are identified by the
community and documented as Environmental and Social Assessment
(ESA) Checklist in facilitation from the partner organization. PAF monitors
the compliance to this process during the sub project appraisal. During
project implementation, PAF reviews the progress on implementation of
the mitigation measures outlined in the ESA checklist. Both compliance
and impact monitoring on environment are important components while
conducting regular sub project monitoring.
In addition, the monitoring team of Environmental Consultant also carries
out special environmental monitoring of sub projects on sample basis.
ERMC P. Ltd. In Association with SchEMs P. Ltd. has been working as
environmental consultant from February 2011. 72 sub projects in six
districts were monitored in FY 2010/11 by the environment consultant.
Monitoring reports has not pointed out major harmful implications of the
PAF IG or Infrastructure development activities on the local environment.
The monitoring result has rather shown that Community-level
environmental assessment and planning has increased environmental
awareness among target communities and ensured environmental
friendliness of the sub-projects.
3.4. PO Performance
Evaluations
From the last FY 2066/67, PAF has initiated to evaluate the performance
evaluation of the POs in different aspects. The evaluation was done in
2 major areas. The first section is focused on the PO’s organizational
chart 29: Ranking of POs
Not participated
D (Less than
11
50%)
117
C (50-64%)
181
B (65-79%)
44
A (80% or more)
357
Total
0 100 200 300 400
capacity to deliver the services as defined in the TOR and the second
section is focused in how the COs/Beneficiaries perceive the services
provided by the POs to them.
The overall objective of this process is to strengthen the PAF M&E
system effective and assess the effectiveness of the services provided
by the PO s to the COs.
During the FY 2067/68, POs’ perfornmance evaluation was also
conducted. The total number 357 POs were evaluated and based on
the results, the POs were entered into agreement for partnership with
PAF to work in FY 2068/69 accordingly. The following graph shows the
rankingof POs based on the score obtained in the evaluation process.
3.5. Impact Evaluation
Baseline Survey
4
Number of POs
Centre for Economic Development Administration/Tribhuvan University
(CEDA/TU) has been selected for conducting the baseline survey in
30 new districts. The contract has been done during this year and the
preparation works conducting the survey is ongoing.
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