Fiscal year 2010/11 - Poverty Alleviation Fund, Nepal

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shown in the graph below), it is obvious that PAF is focusing on socially excluded and disadvantageds groups such as Dalit and Janajati. By and large, PAF has covered almost 100 per cent of Dalit in initital 25 districts. Also PAF has benefited almost 90 per cent of the poor households in 25 districts. Programme Cost Sharing 1200000 1000000 800000 600000 400000 200000 Percentage 80.00 70.00 60.00 50.00 40.00 30.00 20.00 10.00 0.00 0 Dalit, 11.66 Total HH Janajati, 18.66 District Total District Poor HH Chart a: PAF Benefited Poor HHs in 25 Districts Others, 69.69 Dalit, 29.43 PAF Benefitted HH (93.42% of District Poor HH) Janajati, 25.92 CO Member Beneficiaries Others, 44.66 Chart b: District Population Ethnicity Composition Vs PAF Beneficiary in 25 Districts PAF is investing 80.6 per cent (i.e. Rs. 9,183m) of the total subproject cost. Community sharing is 15 per cent (7 per cent in Cash— i.e. Rs. 761m and 8 per cent in Kind—i.e. Rs. 881m) of the total sub-project costs whereas VDC/DDC and other development partners are sharing 5 per cent (i.e. Rs. 564m) in total sub-project cost. In Income Generating sub projects, community is sharing 9 per cent in cash and 2 per cent in kind whereas in Infrastructure sub projects, it is 1 per cent in cash and 24 per cent in kind. Apart from community contribution, DDC/VDC are sharing 1 per cent of the cost and other collaborating partners are sharing 4 per cent of the cost in infrastructure sub-projects. Out of the total PAF investment, 79 per cent is for income generating sub-projects and 21 per cent for infrastructure subprojects. About 87 per cent of the PAF investment in income generating sub-projects is established in community managed Revolving Fund(RF). Community Institutional Development Community institutionalization process is taking place in some of the districts where community has felt need to federate themselves for certain purpose. Multi-purpose co-operatives, co-operatives for single purpose and federation of COs are formed as per communities’ felt need. Informal networks of COs are being formed in each VDC as a process of instiutionalization. A total of 166 CO federations are formed till the end of the reporting year. Also, 53 cooperatives are established on the aegis of the PAF supported community organizations to carry out different activities aiming at alleviating poverty. Collaboration in Sub-projects Implementation PAF emphasized in collaboration with different partners while implementing its program its program at the district level. For this purpose, PAF has signed MoUs with MLD, WFP, DNPWC, REDP, Helvetas, USAID/EIG, Heifer, LFLP and FNCCI, among others so to strengthen synergies between programmes. PAF Outcomes The follow-up study in six sample districts, and three controlled districts, shows that the net program impact on per capita consumption (in real terms adjusted for price inflation) increased by 49 per cent for those beneficiaries who have received the money for at least six months and 28 per cent for all beneficiaries’ who were PAF money recipient households (HHs) with food sufficiency for six months or less has decreased by 10 per cent. The social re-assessment, has shown that the average income of individual household has increased by 82.5 per cent. The comparative analysis, with three or more than three years of maturity period, shows that HH level assets and school enrollment status of the children have increased while there was a marked improvement in food sufficiency for individual households. Also,construction and use of toilet/latrine has increased. Also, the revolving fund assessment carried out during the end of FY 2066/67, shows that communities are managing their revolving fund satisfactorily. The data collected as of 16 July 2010, shows that the fund provided by PAF has increased by 7.8 per cent. Similarly, among the total CO members, 84.6 per cent of the members have accessed the fund, at least, for once to initiate their income generation activities. The assessment also shows that 83.8 per cent of the total fund has been invested as loans to its members, 14.1 per cent deposited at the bank and the remaining fund is with the COs in the form of the cash. Further, assessment shows that the average rate of repayment is 76.1 per cent. vi ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT (2010/2011)
Budget Expenditure Out of the total PAF expenditure upto FY 2067/68 (2010/11), 93.52 per cent is from IDA (International Development Agencythe World Bank) grant, 2.21 per cent is from IFAD (International Fund for Agriculture Development) grant and the rest 4.26 per cent from GoN (Government of Nepal). In this FY 2067/68 (2010/11), total expenditure is Rs. 2,60,12,83,022.25 which is 85.59 per cent of total budget of Rs.3, 039,166,000. Currently the PAF Project II is funded by IDA Grant with US$ 100m and IFAD Grant of US$ 4m for four years till January 2012. IDA disbursement to this PAF II project till date is 98.49 per cent (as advance) i.e. equivalent to about US$ 98.49m. IFAD disbursement to PAF till the end of the reporting period is US$ 2.29m. Recently, IDA hs agreed to provide additional finacing of US$ 75m (out of which US$65m is from IDA grant and US$ 10m grant is from FPCRTF) for PAF II project. Lessons and Challenges In view of the wide varieties of activities undertaken within the sub-project, the challenges faced for sustainability of the subprojects include the linkage with market for sustaining incomegenerating 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 there still persists a trend of huge demand of livestock related sub-projects. Another important issue before PAF is to build the community’s capacity to manage revolving fund and operate the sub-projects sustainably. It also need to raise the awareness of the community through functional literactcy. Similarly, there is a need to adopt different approach for poorest districts and districts with greater access and livelihood opportunities and special support to vulnernble poor, marginalized ethnic groups such as Mushhar, Dom, Chamar, Raute, among others. While working towards above challenges, it is inevitable to work with diversified groups of poor communities supporting each other and network for linkages and collaboration with other programmes and line agencies to support communities. Further, legal institutionalization of Community Organizations through coalition or formation of functional co-operatives and establishment of strong linkages with VDC/ DDC are also important for sustainability and long-term support to these community groups. PAF is also initiating dialogue to formulate a separate act to govern community organizations and self help groups to avoide duplications and sustain community efforts. 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 needs to work on pocket area development approach based on the strength local potentials and at the same time, focus will be given to nutrition improvement by diversifying production and providing special focus to marginalized community groups. The emphasis will be given for infrastructural development to support these initiatives. Monitoring, Research and Development needs to be further strengthened to support the implementation including capacity building of main actors i.e. CO, PO, Local Bodies and PAF. The future strategy Based on lessons learned, PAF will work for the expansion of its programme in new VDCs and districts and important initiatives will be taken for the institutionalization of Community Organizations as co-operative or other forms of institution as per their decision and link with financial institutions and markets where programme is already in implementation. PAF will also emphasize on the capacity Building of community organizations, partner organizations and PAF while Coordination and collaboration would also be accorded high priority. This year onwards PAF is strenghening on syststematic Grievance Handling Process with stakeholders views on the effective Performance Management System of COs, POs and PAF secretariat. We look forward to work together with all stakeholders in the days to come. Thank you. Raj Babu Shrestha Executive Director ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT (2010/2011) vii
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