Fiscal year 2010/11 - Poverty Alleviation Fund, Nepal

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Chapter 7: Lessons and Future Directions This chapter discuss the the outcome of some of the major studies relating to PaAF results on the ground. 7.1. Lessons PAF will work on the expansion of its programme in new VDCs and districts. However, different strategies will be taken for poorest districts and districts with greater access and livelihood opportunities. While expanding in districts with greater access and livelihood opportunities, emphasis will be given to the most deprived community. Based on lessons learned and considering the immense demand for both Income Generating and Infrastructure sub-projects effort will be given for more prudent use of available resources by giving due attention in selection of target communities and the sub-project activities. PAF's participatory project formulation and implementation management process will be reviewed so that priorities of ultra poor/ marginalized be addressed. To reduce duplication of efforts and redundancies, inclusion of PAF activities in integrated district plan and co-financing from DDC/ VDC and other agencies will be highly prioritized. Community people are engaged in diversified IG activities including agriculture, livestock, manufacturing, service sector and trading. These activities need to be modernized by improving technology and by methods such as using improved animal breeds/seeds, animal health facilities and husbandry methods coupled with proper marketing planning of the produced goods. Effort will be given to synchronize these activities with community infrastructures such as irrigation, road, drinking water and marketing management. PAF's current initiative to build the Community's Capacity to Manage Revolving Fund and Operate the Sub-Projects and raise the awareness of the community through functional literacy will be further intensified. To this, social mobilization will be kept unabated. Considerable input will be given to establish COs linkages with basic health, education and youth training. Provisions for innovation and special programme will be reviewed and emphasis will be given to replicate and scale up the successful innovations. PAF will continue its efforts to explore an alternative to livestock and agriculture based activities for landless poor. As PAF is maturing, technical assistance for activities under high demand needs to be provided regularly and attention should be paid to the quality of service providers. This is an important factor in ensuring that efforts made by communities are sustained and served to bring them permanently out of poverty. A new system of PO performance evaluation with involvement of COs has been started this year, this process will be will be continued with further improvements in coming days. Efforts will be given to increase collaboration with private sector, governmental agencies, local governments and donor agencies at all level to implement the programme and sub-projects in the communities to bring marked impact in considerably less time by complementing and supplementing each other's effort. Several Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) has already been signed with different organizations to facilitate collaboration. PAF's effort will be to materialize it in implementation to benefit the poor while exploring further collaborative efforts in the future. Increased governmental and civil society ownership in the programme will be achieved by regularizing productive workshops, reviews, coordination meetings with relevant stakeholders in both central, regional and district levels. In addition monitoring and supervision visits by central level and district governmental agencies, DDCs, VDCs, civil societies, political representatives and journalists in PAF project sites in the district will be organized regularly. Community institutionalization is taking place with the formation of CO Federations, enterprises, multi-purpose or single purpose cooperatives and VDC wise informal networks of COs as per communities' felt need. PAF will give effort in formalizing (and legalizing) these institution development process while ensuring that poor community will gain maximum benefits from these institutions. For sustaining incomegenerating activities initiated by communities, important initiatives will be taken to establish the linkage with financial institutions, market as well and the availability of Insurance Safety-Net. PAF is working with its exit strategy focusing on its strategic thrust to enable community to go to sustained path to get out of poverty within a stipulated 5-6 years of time. In this line, PAF will work on activity based pocket area development approach by building on the potential strength of the area, linking with market and at the same time focus will be given on improvement in nutrition. PAF will also give apecial focus to upliftment of marginalised community. Moving ahead, PAF will pay increased attention to research and development, monitoring processes and outcomes, improving financial management and capacity building of CO, PO, Local Bodies and PAF. 38 ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT (2010/2011)
7.2. Challenges In view of the wide varieties of activities undertaken within the subproject, the challenges faced for sustainability of the sub-projects include the linkage with market for sustaining income-generating activities as well as the availibility of Insurance Safety-Net particularly for livestock. PAF is also to explore an alternative to livestock based activities for landless poor as the huge demand are mainly livestock related. Another important challenge before PAF is to build the Community Capacity to Manage Revolving Fund and Operate the Sub-Projects and raise the awareness of the communit through functional literactcy. Also, there is a need to adopt different approaches for poorest districts and districts with greater access and livelihood opportunities and special support to vulnernble poor, backward ethnic groups such as Mushhar, Dom, Chamar, Raute, among others. 7.3. The Future strategy PAF is now working for the expansion of its programme in new VDCs and districts and important initiatives are taken for the institutionalization of Community Organizations as co-operative or other forms of higher tier institution as per their decision and link with financial institution and markets where programme is already in implementation. Also the PAF is laying special emphasis on the capacity building of community organization, partner organization and PAF while co-ordination and collaboration is being accorded high priority. This year onwards PAF is strenghening on syststmatic Grievance Handling Process with stakeholders’ views on the effective Performance Management System of COs, POs and PAF secretariat. Marginalized Community Development Programme Despite the project interventions in the poor districts, diffferent monitoring result shows that the marginalized community is still lagging behind to reap the advantage of programme. So PAF is working to remedial steps in this regard. The special focus will be made to the marginalized communities including Mushhar, Dom, Dushadh, Chamar, Khatwe, Byadha, Kusunda, Raute, Gandharva, Badi, Patharkatta, Muslims, Haliya, Deuki, Jhuma, Disabled, single women, and HIV infected people, who are deprived, backward, illiterate, socially excluded. The government of Nepal has also entrusted PAF to carry out special programme for these groups under the immediate relief programme of the fiscal year 2011/12. Under the programme, specially tailored social mobilization is being conducted This kind of training covers- plumbing, house wiring/ electrification, mechanic-cycle/rickshaw/motorcycle, welding, bet/ bamboo product making, candle making, driving etc. More focus is to be given to youth force of the community. This kind of skill also enables them to seek employment in different organisationsprivate, NGO, INGO etc. Special attention is given to commercialize the traditional occupation of poor through enhancing their capacity, supporting appropriate equipment/technology, and creating linkages with markets.To this effect, PAF has developed a strategy for speically focussed programme for marginalied community. Pocket Area Development Programme PAF has realized that the beauty of diversification of IGA activities is being limited to fullfill the local market demand and building confidence to initiate income generation activities for small producers. In order to commercialize particular products, linkage of external market is pre-requisite and to establish marketing chain, volume of markatable production is important. Diversification of IG activities has limited the potential of establishing necessary business services required to poor producers from public as well as private sectors. In many of COs, activity based areas have emerged in different clusters. But POs are not clear to link those activities of cluster with market, and for their institutionalization. It has, heneceforth, been inevitable to encourage POs to link activity based areas of cluster with markets and sustain them. To this effect, PAF has develpved a strategy on activity based pocket area development. ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT (2010/2011) 39
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