Better Brick- Nepal Project

Semi -Annual Report (1st Dec 2017 – 1st May 2018)

Prepared By:- For :- Submitted To:- Integrated Green Better Brick-Nepal Global Fairness Initiative Development Nepal TABLE OF CONTTENTS CHAPTER PAGE Acronyms and Abbreviations ...... 3 Section I: Key achievement so far ...... 4 Section II: Narrative of Progress ...... 5-26 BBN Program ...... 5-17 a. Tripartite agreement: ...... 5 b. Kiln wise child labor and management ...... 6 c. Construction of ECEC Building ...... 7 d. Stakeholder engagement for the promotion of child labor brick ...... 8 e. Workers and Naike training ...... 9-14 f. Awareness Rally ...... 15 g. Financial support by Kiln management for meeting BBN standards ...... 16 h. Grievance Committee (Formation and reported grievance) ...... 17-18 i. Worker Committee (Formation and Involvement) ...... 19-20 Bridge School Program ...... 21-30 a. Children assessment & School linkage...... 21-22 b. Before after school program...... 23 c. School outing or learning activities for school going children ...... 24 d. ECEC Training ...... 25-27 e. Nonformal education class ...... 28 f. Children enrolled in ECEC ...... 29 g. ECEC materials Support ...... 29 h. Food for ECEC ...... 29 i. Extra curriculum activities for ECEC children ...... 30 j. Monitoring by DEO and RC ...... 30 k. school join status in source village ...... 30 Section III: Cross-Cutting ...... 31-36 A. Gender Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI) ...... 31 B. Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning ...... 32-34 a. Baseline Survey ...... 32 b. IDELA survey ...... 32 c. Training Supervision...... 33 d. ECEC quality Monitoring ...... 33 e. Monthly data verification...... 33 f. Kiln Monitoring visit ...... 34 g. Board members monitor the activities ...... 34 C. Communication Change ...... 34-36 Section IV: Technical Support visit ...... 37 Section V: Management ...... 37-38 Section VI: Issues or Challenges in Programme Implementation ...... 38 Section VII: Lessons Learned ...... 39 Case/Success Stories: ...... 40

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Acronyms and Abbreviations

ABI Asmita Brick Industry BBN Better Brick-Nepal BJP BJP Brick Industry BSP Bridge school Program DCC District Coordination Committee ECEC Early child care and education center GBI Gorkha Brick Industry GFI Global fairness initiative IGDN Integrated Green Development Nepal IOS Implementing organization KBI Kundur Brick Industry MA VI Secondary School MBF Macchapuchre Brick Factory NGF Nepal Goodweave Foundation NI MA VI Lower Secondary school PBI Pokhereli Brick Industry RM Rural Municipality TOT Training for Trainers

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Semi-Annual Report (1st Dec 2017 – 1st May 2018) Integrated Green Development Nepal (IGDN)

Section I: Key achievement so far

Section I: key achievement so far

 Out of six, five kiln managed to stronghold the child labor free brick kiln status in initial report of social audit.

 All of the component listed in the CAP has been completed in MBF as

well as other kiln are making a progress in it.

 Urdu class under the Non formal education program is much success.

While it plays an important role to eradicate child labor from KBI.

 Province level stakeholder engagement has been conducted in Pokhara on Better Brick –Nepal through a mega event which creates a ripple effect

among the policy maker& Province government and at least three millions stakeholders of province 4.

 A municipal level Awareness rally has been conducted in collaboration with construction association of Nepal, Tanahun through which at least 3000people were outreached, while Myagde Rural Municipality promised to embrace such rally as a component of their budget in upcoming fiscal

years.

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Section II: Narrative of Progress

Better Brick Nepal Activities

a. Tripartite agreement

As tripartite agreement are the vital component of the Programme and it is the most important groundwork. As far as in this season altogether 641 tripartite agreement was filled within the six kilns by respective SM of the kiln. Below is the index of the tripartite agreement which is filled this season.

S.N. Industry Total Male Female Molder Transporter Firing Jhokai Bojhai Naike Other

1 Macchapuchre 112 76 36 - 60 6 5 14 - 27 2 Asmita 116 84 32 67 27 5 5 5 2 5 3 Pokhereli 81 70 11 - 41 4 9 14 3 10 4 BJP 136 110 26 75 23 4 8 10 - 16 5 Kundur 105 92 13 35 40 6 5 12 3 7 6 Gorkha Brick 91 88 3 32 24 8 6 11 2 4

641 tripartite agreement is filled and it was slightly less than expected. Here are some of the reasons due to which tripartite agreement was filled less than expected.

 Due to the late fairing on the BJP kiln ., red brick carrier and another working group such as fireman and even molder were haired less then than previous estimation.

 Due to early starting of the monsoon this season, production has stopped early and hence new workers did not arrive after the old one run away.

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At the beginning of the season there were three child labor cases in two industries .two of them are of Asmita and one is from Pokhereli Brick Industry. The following are the list of child labor early found in this seasons. S.N. Industry Name of the Age Permanent Address Worker Type worker 1 Asmita Jagat bdr 14 Hariban Municipality,Sarlahi Molder Pariyar 2 Asmita Shyam Magar 12 Bagmati Municipality-11,sarlahi Molder 3 Kundur Khusnur 14 Khiri,lakhimpur,India Molder Khatun 4 Asmita Ruksin khatun 13 Khiri,lakhimpur,India Molder 5 Kundur Umer khan 10 Khiri,lakhimpur,India Molder 6 Kundur Mahanur 14 Khiri,lakhimpur,India Molder Khatun 7 Kundur Jayed Khan 8 Khiri,lakhimpur,India Molder

Management 1. Shyam Magar is an unaccompanied child who had come with the Nike Sukhal Paswan .as he is underage to work as a worker. We tried our best to enroll him in nearby school but he is not willing to study neither want to enroll in vocational counseling classes.so he had return back to his source village with the kiln manager as well as his neighbor Ramhari Shrestha after 15 days and throughout the process, it is strictly confirmed that he reached his source village safe and sound.

2. Jagat bdr Pariyar is also an unaccompanied child who had come with his brother and brother in law and initially work as a molder. After our attempt, he got convinced and enrolled in class 5 of pasale Basic school and with the help of before and after class, he managed to pass out the final exam.

3. Khusnur Khatun, Ruksin Khatun, Umer Khan, Mahanur Khatun &Jayed Khan all are the children of age below 14 are found on the molding process in the social audit of NGF. After that they were enrolled in the vocational counseling education , where they were taught basic numeric and writings in Urdu language by a teacher name mahanur khan in the kiln premises.

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c. Construction of ECEC Building

ECEC Construction in progress, ABI Out of six kilns under the program, only three ECEC were operational .one in ABI of Tanahun district, One in BJP of lamjung district and in Kundur kiln of Gorkha district. one new ECEC building was constructed during this season.

 One ECEC center of Asmita kiln was fully constructed as the previous year’s ECEC class was temporary. A total cost of NRS.50, 000 was invested out of which NRS.20, 000 was supported by the program as ECEC renovation cost, remaining materials and labor cost were provide by the industry. One ECEC facialatator has been appointed by the program for five months.The ECEC is in good condition and will be operational for next season.

 In Kundur Brick kiln Previous ECEC class was fine so after the little renovation of the cost at about 20,000Nrs. Such as mattress and wall painting, it is Children on ABI ECEC fine to use. Two ECEC facilitators were haired one from the program for 6 months and another from kiln for 4 months. The ECEc is in good conditoion and will be operational for next season. ECEC of KBI

 In case of BJP Kiln, as the construction of chimney and dough is currently in progress, kiln owner couldn’t manage to construct a new ECEC class, but they managed a rented room (NRS.1000 Per month) for this purpose. One ECEC facialatator has been appointed by the program for four months.Kiln owner promises to construct a new ECEC building for next season.

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c. Stakeholder engagement for the promotion of child labor brick On April 23, 2018, a Provincial responsible market conversation was conducted in partnership between Global Fairness Initiative-Better Brick Nepal, Pokhara Chamber of Commerce & Industries, Cottage & Small Industries - Kaski and Integrated Green Development Nepal -Tanahu, in Province No. 4 Pokhara; which was covered live by Golden Eye Television. Government officials such as Honorable Minister of internal affairs and law- Hari Bahadur Hr. Minister of internal affairs and law, Chuman, Honorable Minister of Industry, Hari bdr chuman, Province 4 Tourism, Forest and Environment- Bikas Lamsal, Member of Parliament, professionals from the business community and civil society attended as panelists and participants in this discussion. Everyone put forward their opinion and concern towards Behavioral change in seasonal industries/enterprises through market incentivize (Brick is Alive) and shared views with regards to policy on labor responsible enterprises. Total participant of the program are at around 140.out of which 128 were male and 12 were female. Hr. Minister of tourism industry & environment Bikash Lamsal Province 4 The event had reached to more than 3 million people. The outcome of the program:-  Promotion of socially responsible brands among Local, National and International stakeholders.  Sharing of best practices currently done by the businesses (Kiln who are producing child labor free bricks in support of Better Brick –Nepal program.)  Providing market-driven incentive to the responsible business practices by creating the medium to each the customer. Creates a platform to formulate the strategies creating synergy effect for the up liftmen of Province 4.

Panelist of the Event Stakeholder from the different sectors participating on the event. 8 | P a g e

d. Workers and Naike training Worker training are the main component of BBN Programme in Better Brick Nepal Project.in this seasons all together at around 640 workers were trained on nine modules addressing all of the five standards. as per the module developed by Better Brick -Nepal which was provided after a TOT on Sahamati Training center, Gaindakot, Nawalparasi. Along with this, with approval of Husna Banu Shiekh (training officer, GFI) IGDN had developed a Hindi guideline in the basis of the official module Worker training, ABI provided by the program to help the trainers and SM’S to understand the module as well as delivered them to the Indian accent workers

 BBN Orientation To conduct training on BBN orientation Socio-economic aspects of the brick kiln, Introduction of the Better Brick Nepal project, why it is important for the workers and their children were discussed. Comparison of red and green brick in context of life was also demonstrated. To strength the quality of training and to provide more clarity to the worker's snake and ladder game based on the training modules were played on many occasion. Data segregation is followed including target & Achievement.

BBN Orientation

Green Red Kiln Target Ach. Total Male Female Naike Molder Firing Bojhai Jhokai Other Brick Brick

ABI 15 12 443 322 121 12 270 64 30 16 21 15 14 PBI 9 8 272 236 36 4 56 95 33 2 12 16 54 MBF 5 1 70 56 14 0 0 19 18 2 24 0 6 BJP 12 9 409 304 105 0 229 64 0 12 30 24 50 GBI 4 3 264 260 4 6 96 39 33 24 33 18 12 KBI 11 10 316 270 46 10 155 61 32 12 24 10 14

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Child Labor

To conduct training on child labor flex and banner carrying a message against child labor were displayed; the difference between normal children & child labor was defined in references with the age group. Two stories of Radha & Bire were told to the workers and asked them to figure out which one is child labor and which is not.

Different effects of child labor on children’s mental and physical health, provision of the law against child labor as mentioned in the constitution of Nepal and what our Programme is doing to prevent child labor on brick kiln were discussed. BSP Programme, ECEC, extra activities and student support and their benefit to the school going children were discussed, Worker training, KBI Radio jingle from CCWB was also played.

Green Red Kiln Target Ach. Total Male Female Naike Molder Firing Bojhai Jhokai Other Brick Brick

ABI 13 10 400 290 110 11 232 64 30 16 21 15 10 PBI 9 8 272 236 36 4 56 95 33 2 12 16 54 MBF 5 1 70 56 14 0 0 19 18 2 24 0 6 BJP 12 9 409 304 105 0 229 64 0 12 30 24 50 GBI 4 3 264 260 4 6 96 39 33 24 33 18 12 KBI 9 8 288 250 38 8 129 61 32 12 24 10 14 Total 52 39 1703 1396 307 29 742 342 146 68 144 83 146

. Bonded and force labor Data segregation is followed including target & Achievement.

Green Red Kiln Target Ach. Total Male Female Naike Molder Firing Bojhai Jhokai Other Brick Brick

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Focus group discussion on how much advance workers burrowed this season was asked before the training and then the disadvantage of the advance system was explained with the help of poster and newsprint materials. To help them to understand the key concept properly the story of “The Elephant & the rope” was also demonstrated in references with their own reality. Workers were encouraged not to give their original documents to the employer as a deposit document and encourage to keep the record of earning and saving in the record book in a weekly basis. They were also encouraged not to take too much advances in upcoming seasons. In many occasions the video on Force and bonded labor which was produced by Better Brick –Nepal was also projected.

Remuneration and Working Hours Pictures and pamphlet which shows a comparison of wage and working hour in BBN & non BBN kiln were displayed. Workers were trained about what should be the perfect working hours and what should be the minimum wages by the Labor law of Nepal. The worker was trained to the advantage of passbook system. Data segregation is followed including target & Achievement.

Worker training, ABI

Green Red Kiln Target Ach. Total Male Female Naike Molder Firing Bojhai Jhokai Other Brick Brick

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Workplace Safety & Health This module has four subtopics on it as an integrated Worker training on WASH. package. 1. Safety at Workplace During this training, trainers encourage the workers to care their health and follow the safety protocols on the workplace for their better health. Poster and pamphlets were used to demonstrate the importance of workplace safety. Mainly workers were encouraged to put the Worker training, MBF sunglasses for firing and molding process, to consume more water product to avoid possible dehydration. To use shoes to keep their feet out of injury, infections & insects. Data segregation is followed including target & Achievement.

Green Red Kiln Target Ach. Total Male Female Naike Molder Firing Bojhai Jhokai Other Brick Brick

2. Personal Health & hygiene

Green Red Kiln Target Ach. Total Male Female Naike Molder Firing Bojhai Jhokai Other Brick Brick

ABI 13 10 400 290 110 11 232 64 30 16 21 15 10 PBI 9 8 272 236 36 4 56 95 33 2 12 16 54 MBF 5 1 70 56 14 0 0 19 18 2 24 0 6 BJP 9 8 409 311 98 0 229 64 0 12 30 24 50 GBI 4 3 264 260 4 6 96 39 33 24 33 18 12 KBI 9 8 288 250 38 8 129 61 32 12 24 10 14 Total 49 38 1703 1403 300 29 742 342 146 68 144 83 146 On this topic, workers were encouraged to consume more nutritional food, fresh vegetables, balanced diet, Fish, meat, chicken meat, fat for protein supplements. Workers were also encouraged to clean the cooking place by making germs free, not to allow animals to come around the cooking place etc .alongside the materials provided on the module, additional poster were also used to make the training more effective.

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3. WASH

Training on this topic focuses to develop the ability for workers to access safe water by boiling, solar treatment & Distillation process. For sanitation, training focus to ensure access and use of basic toilets and ways to separate human waste from contact with people. Also, workers were encouraged to end the practice of “open defecation, “The training on hygiene is aimed at nurturing good hygiene practices, especially handwashing with soap. Although it sounds simple, this act is essential to prevent disease and the health of children and workers. Live demonstration of six step hand washing was also performed and workers were encouraged to follow these steps on a daily basis.Some of the video link used to demonstrate this module to workers were as follows:The story of cholera- https://bit.ly/2KWRm1Z (Nepali & Hindi Version),ODF Free India-https://bit.ly/2KX94T5(For Hindi accent workers). Data segregation is followed including target & Achievement.

Green Red Kiln Target Ach. Total Male Female Naike Molder Firing Bojhai Jhokai Other Brick Brick

Use & consequences of Alcohol After this training worker were aware about the different problems which can be raised due to consumption of alcohol such as stress, anxiety, and depression, blackouts, mental issues, social issues, relationship issues, financial issues, legal issues & physical issues as well as long-term effect and short-term effect of alcohol as well as prevention method were also demonstrated with the help of poster, pamphlet, videos from Better Brick-Nepal program as well as different videos from internet. Effect of Alcohol & Tobacco on human health https://bit.ly/2rCH2Eq (For Hindi accent workers). Data segregation is followed including target & Achievement.

Green Red Kiln Target Ach. Total Male Female Naike Molder Firing Bojhai Jhokai Other Brick Brick

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 Inhuman treatment Human & non-human act was elaborated with the help of poster as well as flex, as well as Grievance report committee, was formed and workers were informed about the committee and how to report issues there.

Green Red Kiln Target Ach. Total Male Female Naike Molder Firing Bojhai Jhokai Other Brick Brick

 Workers are informed about the Better Brick-Nepal.  Workers were being more familiar with the project staff.  Workers were aware of their health and safety habits.  Workers were able to express their problems and expectations to BBN staffs and kiln management committee.  The drastic change in behavior and safety concern was seen in workers. Challenges:-

 Workers have big expectations from the program as well as training.  It is difficult to deliver the training as per action plans.  It is hard to manage the time as per workers schedule.  Rushing away of trained workers.

Learning:-

 From the previous training we knew that we should have alternative plans to GENDER BASE PARTICIPENT deliver the training rather than sticking Male Female to one plan. 58 68  Use of informative videos can be more 25 26 effective to aware the workers. 4 261 263 194 190 172 23 50

MBF PBI ABI BJP KBI GBI

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Worker Rally,Tanahun e. Awareness rally Three Awareness rally competed on the 1st of the May. The first one was held on the date of May 1, 2018, as the day was also a workers day. Integrated green development Nepal in collaboration of construction association of Nepal, Tanahun organize a rally. The rally was the major event of the Myagde municipality of that day as it covers the whole rural municipality area .the rally was marched through the Jamune bazar and covering the distance of at about 10 KM ended as a formal ceremony in the myagde rural municipality where the chief guest was president of the Myagde rural municipality Maya rana, vice president Balkrishna ghimire and other major stakeholders, social activist, youth entrepreneur, women and mothers group, youth clubs and workers from the different labor sectors also including the brick workers from Macchapuchre brick factory. Participants marched with the banner and play card about five standards, the culture of compliance, promotion of child labor free bricks and many more. About 250 persons were marched on the rally. local newspaper and the FM also cover the news at top priority. Worker Rally,Lamjung Another rally was marched from the BJP kiln into the premises of the Dhamilikuwa bazar, one of the trade point and major bazar of Rainas municipality .workers from the BJP kilns, IGDN staff and the kiln management has been actively involved in the process. About 70 people participated on the rally.

Another rally was marched from Kundur brick industry to the 10-kilo bazar of Gorkha municipality, Gorkha which is also the trade point and the major bazar on the Gorkha highway. About 80 workers of the Kundur Brick kiln participated in the rally. As a result of the rally Myagde rural municipality promises to embrace such program of May 1st on their annual budget and plan and to celebrate this day on a government scale. Also, public outreach about the Better Brick Nepal has been established in all of the community of three kilns.

Worker Rally,Gorkha

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f. Financial (ECEC building construction, toilet construction, drinking water and food support for ECEC etc.) support by Kiln management for meeting BBN standards

In Macchapuchre Kiln, Construction of Cafeteria &installation of Drinking water system has already completed. Beside that provision of fire extinguisher & safety regulation banner has been installed, wiring around the pond has been completed. Installation of six CCTV Canteen of MBF. has been completed .agreement of Night shift worker, update on kiln labor policy & MOU with local health post has been completed. Beside this recently one First Aid Room has also been constructed. During all these processes the kiln has invested at about NRS.5, 00,000 to meet the compliance.

In case of BJP, The key used for brick making "Farma" has First Aid Room of MBF. been improved as per the suggestion of Bhishma sir. Also, the equipment used for inserting coal has been improved as it is much smaller than the previous which will result in lower consumption of fuel & soil during operation. Beside that washrooms has been separated for male & female as well as renovated. Construction of chimney has been completed yet an outer layer of wall is not finished yet.50% of activities listed on CAR & CAP has been completed.at around NRS. 1, 00,000 has been invested to meet the compliance. Before After class of MBF. In case of Kundur brick, Installation of Water purifier is currently in progress. Besides that minor improvement such as young worker agreement & Advance, Reduction has been implemented. One ECEC Facilitator has been supported by the kiln for Better Brick-Nepal Program .total investment is near NRS.40, 000.CAR, CAP &TAP monitoring were conducted on the direct supervision of GFI.

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g. Grievance Committee ( Formation and reported grievance )

Altogether six grievance committee was formed during these season one committee per kiln on all six kilns.

Objectives

The objective of the committee is to inform the grievance collected from the workers of the kiln whereas the committee is also responsible for addressing of that problem as per the nature of the problems. Grievance committee meeting, KBI Formation process

Grievance committee One/ one member from the meeting, MBF different worker type of the kiln workers such as Pathera, Represent from cycle toli, green brick carrier, represent of red brick carrier group Naike, ECEC teacher, SM, Kiln staff & Field coordinator were also included in the committee.

Grievance Reported

1. One grievance has been reported on ABI as the two drunken Pathera (Kailash Majhi & Ramesh Pariyar) has been fighting over small issues and takes up in the fight. The grievance has been verbally reported to the grievance committee and in presence of the president of the committee Ramhari Shrestha, as well as another committee member such as Naike Sukhal majhi, Shanta majhi & Sudip sedhain a meeting has been arranged and both parties come to the agreement that they will never fight again.

2. Another grievance has been reported on MBF as a shop inside the kiln premises (Name can’t be disclosed) has been selling the alcohol and other beverage products. During the training on the alcoholism, one of the worker inside the kiln reported the issue verbally to Sudip sedhain. One of the member of grievance committee, with the help of the kiln owner, Harka bdr Gurung, after a few days that shop has been stopped to sell the alcoholic beverages inside the kiln premises.

Three meeting in each kiln has been conducted during the season.

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Following is the kiln wise committee with work type and designation.

Name of the Name of the Committee Designation Committee Designation in S.N. Member Work Type in Committee S.N. Member Work Type Committee Macchapuchre Brick Asmita Brick Industry Factory

1 Ramhari Shrestha Manager President 1 Raesham Sijwal Supervisor President

Vice- 2 Sudip Sedhain FC president 2 Sudip Sedhain FC Vice-president

3 Sukhal majhi Naike Secretary 3 Manu Sapkota SM Secretary

4 Aajad wosta Green Brick Carrier Member 4 Bishnu Lama Cart Member

5 Bir bdr Roka Red Brick carrier Member 5 Sita Chaudhary Hook Member

6 Rita pariyar Molder Member 6 Misan Pun Cart Member

7 Dhansari Gharti Red Brick carrier Member 7 Indira Pariyar Mechine Worker Member

Pokhereli Brick Industry Kundur Brick Industry

1 Kamal Kumhal Electrician President 1 Dhanraj Kumhal manager President

Vice- 2 Sudip Sedhain FC president 2 Sudip Sedhain FC Vice-president

3 Kalpana kumhal Naike Secretary 3 Ganga Sangarula SM Secretary

4 Harikala Shrestha setting Member 4 Sanumaya Thapa ECEC Faffcilatator Member

Mohammad 5 Saukat Fairing Member 5 Shanta Bhujel Coal Member

6 Sushila Gurung Green Brick Carrier Member 6 Balkumari Kuwar Counter Member

7 Purna bdr Majhi Green Brick Carrier Member 7 Ram bdr Pariyar Naike Member

BJP Brick Industry Gorkha Brick Industry

1 Prakash Timilsina Manager President 1 Padam Shrestha Manager President

Vice- 2 Sudip Sedhain FC president 2 Sudip Sedhain FC Vice-president

3 Murari Poudel SM Secretary 3 Ganga Sangarula SM Secretary

4 Sabina Bisural ECEC Faffcilatator Member 4 Kamala Sunar Counter Member

5 Bindu B.K. Molder Member 5 Bhagnaran Paswan Firing Member

6 Suntalimaya Gole Molder Member 6 Mo.Raja Khan Molder Member

7 Keshab Gole Loader Member 7 Kshetra pal saha Green Brick Carrier Member

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h. Worker Committee ( Formation and Involvement)

Altogether six worker committee was formed during these season one committee per kiln on all six kilns.

Objectives

The objective of the committee is to motivate workers and engage in various activities like training, campaign etc. To meet the compliances of Better brick Nepal as well as to prepare a worker-friendly industry. Worker committee of MBF. Worker committee of KBI. Formation process

One member from the different worker type of the kiln workers such as Pathera, Represent from cycle toli, green brick carrier, represent of red brick carrier group Naike, were included not exceeding 5 Worker committee of ABI. Worker committee of GBI. people out of which two female members were selected.

Achievements  Due to the involvement of worker committee, the worker training and coordination has been a whole lot easier.

 Worker committee of KBI has organized a campaign to make the residential area waste-free and they also established many sack dustbin to collect wastage around the residencies.

 Worker committee of MBF organizes a program to plant flowers around the kiln premises for decorative purpose as well as motivates workers to Worker committee of PBI. prepare a pit to collect wastage. Worker committee of BJP.

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Following is the kiln wise committee with work type and designation.

Name of the Designation in S.N. Committee Member Work Type Committee Contact No Asmita Brick Industry 1 Sukhal Majhi Naike President 9844070714 2 Ajad Wosta Green Brick Transporter member 3 Bir bdr Roka Red Brick Transporter member 4 Dhansari Gharti Red Brick Transporter member 5 Maya Kusuwar Molder member Pokhereli Brick Industry 1 Kamal Kumhal Electrician President 9846084972 2 Purna Bdr Majhi Green Brick Transporter member 9819878529 3 Prem Rana Red Brick Transporter member 9824617223 4 Harimaya Shrestha Setting member 9819135024 5 Kalpana Kumhal Naike member 9825173096 Macchapuchre Brick Factory 1 Shovit bdr Thapa Driver/mechanic President 9805885929 2 Soni Ale Green Brick Transporter member 9816613640 3 Ramji Nepali Setting member 9825157317 4 Pushpa Ale mechine member 9866000648 5 Jit bdr Chaudhary Red Brick Transporter member BJP Brick Industry 1 Tahir Khan Molder President 2 Janga bdr Saha Cycle member 3 Chet bdr Ghimire Molder member 4 Dil Kumari Rai Molder member 5 Parbati BK Molder member Gorkha Brick Industry 1 Purna Gurung Accountant President 9817248215 2 Diya Kumhal Counter member 3 Parmananda Saha coal member 9819279755 4 Dhermendra Patel Cycle member 5 Ramprasad Kori Molder member 9800527003 Kundur Brick Industry 1 Unus Khan Molder President 9812128056 2 Ramita Roka Cook member 9822969243 3 Kishori Mahato Cycle member 9807217894 4 Siraj Khan Molder member 9826181171 5 Khuma Pariyar Naike member

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Bridge School Program a. Children assessment & School linkage. Altogether there were 137 students were enrolled in the schools during the season. Following are the numbers of students per kiln. Students from MBF & PBI are the students from the previous years but ABI, BJP & KBI students were new.

While 61 children were enrolled in the ECEC class. In this season only three kiln has a function ECEC.

KILN WISE ECEC CHILDREN

Students

16 8 0 0 0 M B F P B I A B I B J P K B I G B I ECEC ECEC ECEC ECEC ECEC ECEC

Support to school going children There were three events organized to distribute Student of KBI after the instructional material distribution the instructional materials to the students until this month. First of event was organized on 22 January ,2018 at the ABI brick kiln and No. Of Student during that time 23 students S.N. Kiln Supported Male Female were provided instructional 1 Asmita 24 12 12 materials like copy, textbook, 2 Pokhereli 11 6 5 school uniform ,school bags as 3 Macchapuchre 73 44 29 per the need of the students 4 BJP 5 5 through a ceremony in which 5 Kundur 24 14 10 chief guest was Maya Rana, 6 Gorkha Brick 0 0 0 president of Myagde Rural Total 137 81 56 Municipality, as well as vice president Balkrishna Ghimire, Resource person Narayandatta poudel kiln owner and another major stakeholder from RM & district stakeholders were present at the event. On the same day, another event was held at KBI Brick Kiln. During that time 24 students received instructional materials including copy, textbook, school uniform, shoes & Sweaters. Chief Guest of the ceremony was President of Ward No.12, Gorakha municipality Dil bdr Thapa, while Represent of school authorities and kiln were also present on the event. 21 | P a g e

On 14th March an event was held at BJP Brick Kiln. During that time 5 students received instructional materials including copy, textbook, school uniform, shoes & Sweaters. Kiln owner, workers, and parents were present at the event.

Another event was held on Macchapuchre brick kiln on 8 Baishak to distribute textbook, Uniform, stationery & other instructional materials for Radha MA VI & Pasale Basic school students. As the students were the regular students textbook were distributed at the beginning of the new academic year. During the event sanitary pad was No. of S.N. School Student Male Female also distributed to the 21 girl students 1 Megadaha Boarding School 6 4 2 from class 7 to 10. Chief Guest was 2 Shree mahendra jyoti Praa bi 5 5 0 Maya Rana, president of Myagde Shree MahendraJyoti Rural Municipality & Hom Raj 3 secondarySchool 2 1 1 Acharya, country director, GFI. 4 Shree Pasale Basic Home School 40 22 18 During that time 73 student was 5 Shree Radha MA VI 62 36 26 6 Shree Shanti Praa Bi 22 13 9 supported. Grand Total 137 81 56 School support program Total two schools were supported as these two were the main school where, BSP students were enrolled to study from four kilns. Student support and school support ceremony was jointly organized at the month of March. Sports materials (Two volleyball, Two football, Three badminton & one air pump for each school) for Pasale Basic school & Radha MA VI, were supported during the events. As distributed materials were suitable from the lower level to higher level at around 600 students of Radha MA VI & around 140 students of Pasale NI MA VI were directly benefited from school support. Two more schools has been yet to support.

Student of MBF after the instructional material distribution

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b. Before after school program. As in the month of January, two mobile teacher was appointed for the mobile teaching classes, from the month of January the classes are started as well up to the month of August. Currently, there were about 109 students who were benefited from the mobile teaching. Currently, there were two classes running as mobile teaching one is at Macchapuchre brick industry which has 69 students on BSP Programme and another one is at Pasale School which includes both ABI& PBI students and has 40. Classes are running after 4 PM to 5 PM regularly on both venues from January except public holidays. It has been paused after Baishak due to the beginning of the new academic year. There were 41 male and 28 female students on Macchapuchre before after classes,where as 22 male and 18 female werebenifited from the class of pasale school.the class mainly help students to do their homework ,students were divided in to two groups one is the studetns of 1-5 and another for above six.before after class teacher manage the students simulteniously and help them to finish their homework.

Achievements:

 Seven students of before after school class scores higher position in the annual exam. S.N. Students Name class Position School Kiln 1 Sumin Majhi 5 2nd Pasale Macchapuchre 2 Asmita Nepali 6 3rd Pasale Macchapuchre 3 Apsara Gurung 7 1st Pasale Pokhereli 4 Suniita Nepali 7 3rd Pasale Pokhereli 5 Prajwol Kumhal 8 3rd Pasale Pokhereli 6 Bina Lama 2 3rd Radha Macchapuchre 7 Gita Chaudhary 10 2nd Radha Macchapuchre

 Despite the shortage of enough time for preparation of school exam & in a new environment, 40% of the students admitted at Pasale NI MA VI passed the exam with the help of mobile teaching,

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c. School outing or learning activities for school going children On the day of Chaitra 3rd, Saturday an outing & Picnic programme was organized for the students of Macchapuchre, Asmita & Pokhereli brick industries at the Akala Temple which is one of the famous temples of Tanahun district. It is situated at the distance of 10 KM from Maygde rural municipality and also had the picnic spot facilities thus it was the suitable place for the outing and Tour to Akala temple. picnic. The main attraction of the temple was the “Akala Devi” temple situated in the top of a hill and with a beautiful view of surrounding from where you can spot the beautiful view of Macchapuchre Mountain as well. Total 120 Numbers of people were present at the event including the student's kiln representatives, Parents representatives and Nikes, school representatives and IGDN Staff. The event lasted from 7 AM to Tour to Bandipur for 24 students of KBI. 5 PM.

Another outing program was organized for the students of KBI brick industries from Gorkha to Bandipur, one of the most exotic places of the Tanahun District, Also known as the queen of hills, 24 students from KBI were present as well as the two Nikes, Two parents and IGDN staffs were present at the outing. Student visits the infamous Thani Mai Temple, Bazar area (Mostly famous for its cultural and natural infrastructure) &View tower hill. (from where beautiful scenes of Tanahun,lamjung & Gorkha can be seen. )

Achievements

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d. ECEC Training

A three-day residential ECEC training under Better Brick –Nepal has been conducted by Integrated Green Development Nepal in collaboration with Seto Gurans Balbikash Sewa, Tanahun from 2074/Chaitra 9 to Chaitra 11.ECEC Facilitator from Dhading, Tanahun, and Gorkha was present at the training. Assistant Program Manager Hari Poudel and Senior Program officer Samyukta Bhandari were also present at that training. Altogether 9 ECEC Facilitator from three districts has been present at the event.

S.N. Name of the Participant Organization Post 1 Hari Poudel GFI Vice-Program Manager 2 Samyukta Bhandari GFI Senior Program Officer 3 Bhaskar Adhikari GFI Enterprise Engineer.

4 Ramnath Bhattrai Seto Gurnas,Tanahun president 5 Sarita Bhandari Seto Gurnas,Tanahun Trainer 6 Indra Thapa Seto Gurnas,Tanahun Trainer 7 Sita Pandit Seto Gurnas,Tanahun ECEC Facilitator 8 Ram Datta Poudel IGDN Vice president 9 Sudip Sedhain IGDN Program Coordinator 10 Manu Sapkota IGDN Social Mobilizer 11 Rajendra Mishra IGDN Social Mobilizer 12 Barsha Gurung IGDN Intern 13 Sovita Khadka IGDN Accountant 14 Mina Shrestha IGDN ECEC Facilitator 15 Kalpana lamichane Prayas Nepal ECEC Facilitator 16 Bandana Pandit Prayas Nepal ECEC Facilitator 17 Sabina Sedhain IGDN ECEC Facilitator 18 Sanumaya Thapa IGDN ECEC Facilitator 19 Pramila ThapaMagar IGDN ECEC Facilitator 20 Sumita Pandey Prayas Nepal ECEC Facilitator 21 Rachana Sedhain Prayas Nepal ECEC Facilitator 22 Laxmi Ranabhat Sedhain Prayas Nepal ECEC Facilitator

During the three day interval, participants learn the various aspects of the ECEC operation and the component on it. Below is the detailed schedule of the three-day training. Out of them 16 Participants were female whereas 6 participants were male.

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S.N. Topics /Subtopics Facilitated By Duration First Day 1 Breakfast 8:00-9:00 2 Opening Ceremony Ram Datta Poudel 9-9:15 3 Welcome Speech Hari Poudel 9:15-10:00 4 welcome Speech Ramnath Bhattarai 10:00-10:15 5 Pre-Test Team 10:15-10:45 6 Expectation Collection Team 10:45-11:30 7 Tea Break 11:30-12:00 8 Introduction Hari Poudel 12:00-12:30 9 ECEC and Its Component Sarita Bhandari/Indra Thapa 12:30-1:30 10 Lunch Break 1:30-2:00 11 Child-Friendly Environment Sarita Bhandari/Indra Thapa 2:00-2:30 12 Classroom Management Sarita Bhandari/Indra Thapa 2:30-3:30 13 Tea Break 3:30-3:45 14 Learning Corners and ECEC Materials Sarita Bhandari/Indra Thapa 3:45-4:30 15 Daily lesson Plan Sarita Bhandari/Indra Thapa 4:30-5:00 16 Instructional materials preparation Sarita Bhandari/Indra Thapa 5:00-6:30 Second Day 1 Breakfast 8:00-8:30 2 Revision of First Day Sarita Bhandari/Indra Thapa 8:30-9:30 3 Story Telling Sarita Bhandari/Indra Thapa 9:30-11:30 4 Tea Break Song & Rhymes Based on the Lesson, Proper Use of them and 5 preparation Sarita Bhandari/Indra Thapa 11:30-1:30 6 Lunch Break 1:30-2:30 Instructional Materials Based on the Lesson, Proper Use of them 7 and preparation Sarita Bhandari/Indra Thapa 2:30-6:00 Third Day 1 Breakfast 8:00-8:30 2 Revision of First Day Sarita Bhandari/Indra Thapa 8:30-9:30 3 Health ,Security and Nutrition in ECEC Sarita Bhandari/Indra Thapa 9:30-10:00 Behavioral Management (Multigrid, Multilinguistic, Multiethnic 4 Management) Sarita Bhandari/Indra Thapa 10:00-11:30 5 Tea Break 11:30-12:00 6 Role of ECEC Facilitator in Parent Education Sarita Bhandari/Indra Thapa 12:00-1:00 7 Lunch Break 1:00-2:00 8 IDELA & Attendance Sudip Sedhain 2:00-2:30 9 ECEC Curriculum Introduction & Distribution Sudip Sedhain 2:30-2:45 10 Evaluation of the Training (Post Test) Team 2:45-3:15 11 Closing Ceremony & Certificate Distribution Team 3:15-4:00

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Achievements:-

 Nine ECEC Facilitators from eight ECEC centers were trained on the basic operation of the ECEC.

 ECEC and Its Component, Child-Friendly Environment, Classroom Management, Learning Corners and ECEC Materials preparation of Daily Lesson Plan, Instructional materials preparation, Storytelling techniques Story Telling, Proper use of Song & Rhymes Based on the Lesson, Participants of ECEC Trainings. Proper Use of them and prepare.  One of the huge achievement is that ECEC facilitators develop the knowledge and get the idea to build ECEC materials by using local resources which are relatively cheap in comparison to the readymade ECEC materials.

 ECEC facilitators gain the clear knowledge on the importance of Health, Security and Nutrition in ECEC classes, Behavioral Management (Multigrid, Multilinguistic, and Multiethnic Management), Role of ECEC Facilitator in Parent Education.  ECEC facilitators also gain the knowledge of the IDELA test & Attendance sheet. IGDN also provide ECEC curriculum to help in IDELA test which is based on ECD curriculum -2054 issued by Curriculum Development Centre, Sanothimi Bhaktapur.

Local Instructional materials prepared from clay (kalimati)

Local Instructional materials preparation.

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e. Non-formal education class On KBI kiln at the beginning of the season there are numerous cases of the child labor and after the announce inspection by NGF, five children have been found who were never admitted to the school and being underage, under 14 of them all originally from the remote village of Khiri, Non formal education class of KBI. Lakhimpur India and are with their parents at the kiln as a helper in molding process. After the inspection, a meeting was held in presence of IOS, Kiln owner, Naike and the parents of those children and decide to open a nonformal education center within the kiln premises to conduct an Urdu language class. Mahanur khan was appointed as a salaried facilitator for the program with the monthly salary of Nrs.15, 000 by the meeting as the language teacher while the five children found on the inspection were enrolled to the Centre. From the day of 2074/11/28(March 12, 2018) to the end of Baishak(until may)before the children return to their source village. The class was operated at about 20 weeks excluding the public holidays. The nonformal class has been operated from 10 AM to 4 PM each day, six day in a week and the children were taught basic numeric and reading writing in Urdu. Five books related to the Urdu curriculum were provided by the Nike, Yunus Khan and other stationary materials were provided by the program. Below is the name of the children who were enrolled in the nonformal education classes.

S.N. Name of the Age Name of Guardian Address Parent’s children work type 1 Khusnur 14 Dirsad Khan/Maisar Khiri,lakhimpur,India Molder Khatun Khatun 2 Ruksin khatun 13 Ekbal Khan/Akbar Khiri,lakhimpur,India Molder Khatun 3 Umer khan 10 Estiyad Khan/Mabiya Khiri,lakhimpur,India Molder Khatun 4 Mahanur 14 Estiyad Khan/Mabiya Khiri,lakhimpur,India Molder Khatun Khatun 5 Jayed Khan 8 Dirsad Khan/Maisar Khiri,lakhimpur,India Molder Khatun

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f. How many children are enrolled in ECEC and how many children Completed the season Kiln wise ECEC class of KBI has been operated from Nov 15 till date which has 37 children. BJP ECEC has 8 children and operated from January to April. ABI ECEC has been operated from November to April and has 17 students. All 61 of them completed the season. Number Number Number Age of Age of Age of Number of students students students Kiln students Male Female 1 8 3 7 7 1 Asmita 16 7 9 1.5 1 4 6 8 6 BJP 8 3 5 2 6 5 14 9 2 Kundur 37 14 23 2.5 1 6 4 10 2 12 2 12 item of materials purchased from Seto Gurans. g. ECEC materials Support In all of the three ECEC Drawing copy, color pencil and One All in one book for each child have been supported for each kiln. Besides that 12 item of Handmade ECEC materials worth, Nrs.5000 has been purchased from the Seto Gurnas Balbikash Sewa, Tanahun for three kilns. h. Food for ECEC Day Food Course Day 1 Haluwa(suji) Day 2 Chiura Tarkari(Beans) Day 3 Jaulo(Mix dal+Rice) Day 4 Jam & Bread Day 5 Chiura Vuteko Day 6 Chiura Tarkari(Vegetables) Children were provided a nutritional meal each day. A person to make a nutritional meal was provided by the kiln in ABI for six months and the nutritional food was prepared as per the food menu which includes balance diet and different items each day for six days of the week and vice versa. In Case of KBI & BJP ECEC center, ECEC facilitator themselves prepare the nutritional food.66.592%budget has been spent on nutritional food.

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i. Extra curriculum activities for ECEC children Drawing and recreational activities were arranged on a weekly basis for ECEC children. Beside that recreational activity such as dancing and singing were usually arranged. j. Monitoring by DEO and RC Monitoring by DEO & RC were done various time including on those formal instructional Material distribution ceremony. Recorded three visit were conducted during the instructional materials distribution program. k. school join status in source village Like previous year, it was not possible to track down every of them individually like previous year. While the new academic year begins we contact the kiln manager Ramhari Shrestha and confirmed whether all of the students from ABI were admitted to respective classes or not .we also contacted Naike Sukhal Majhi and confirmed that 17 students were regularly going school.

In case of KBI, we contact naike, Yunus Khan to lakhimpur Khiri India & request to track down the students whether they were going to the school or not.as far as he knows out of 21 students 12 students has been enrolled to the respective classes in their source village. All together out of 48 students 29 students were enrolled to respective classes.

Before returning all of the students of both kiln has been provided transfer certificate from school and mark sheet.

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Section III: Cross Cutting A. Gender Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI)

What were the significant effort taken to enhance the capacity of women, poor, Dalit, Indigenous groups, marginalized Janajatis, Madhesi, remote area residents, person and other socially excluded groups this year?

The significant effort to enhance GESI under brick kilns following activities methods were performed:- 1. Promoting informal discussions about menstrual hygiene and household decision making processes for women while training on Occupational safety and health. 2. Same wages system for men and women were practiced. 3. Avoiding stereotypes that reinforce gender inequality and social exclusion were strongly followed during the training and conducting activities means they were not discriminated in basis of their cast, religion, gender & appearance. 4. While forming the Grievance and Worker committee, Women, Dalits, Muslims, Madhesi and Janajati’s has been given same priorities as others. Even in some committee they were in the decision making position.

 What efforts have been taken for creating enabling environment for workload sharing and increasing access

 Discouragement of working for late hours and carrying overweight by means of training were done to create enabling environments for workload sharing and increasing access.

 In all of the six kiln, in comparison to the previous years, human transporting has been replaced by the pulling cart.

 Worker were not discriminate in term of wages and remuneration as well in term of the opportunity to participant in different program and committee.

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B. Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

This section should basically include following things .Achievement/ progress of M&E activities a. a. Baseline Survey kiln Baseline Tripartite Remaining In comparison to the tripartite data only 78.32% Name completed Data Baseline baseline survey has been completed till date. ABI 117 116 0 Following are the reason for the variance. PBI 58 81 23  Almost all of the Baseline form was filled MBF 109 112 3 up with the workers. Yet some data has yet to be finalized by the enumerator, thus the variance BJP 57 136 79 occurs. GBI 62 91 29  In case of some workers as the tripartite KBI 99 105 6 agreement has been filled as soon as the worker arrive in the kiln. Some of the workers left before the season and some of them also run away before completing baseline form. Hence the number of baseline will be slightly less then tripartite agreement.  The enumerator was provided with a name list of the worker of all six kiln and was supervised many times while collecting the data. b. IDELA Baseline survey In total 22 IDELA baseline has been completed within the month of May. IDELA end line of these children will also be finalized soon. IDELA Baseline was conducted by the trainers (Sudip sedhain & Manu Sapkota) who has been participated in the MTOT of IDELA conducted by save the children in Kathmandu. Nearly 35-40 minutes time was needed to conduct a test for a single child. Test was conducted within the base of 22 activities and using same amount of resources and techniques taught during the MTOT. Total 20 IDELA test were conducted during the season. Out of which 12 children of age 3.5-5.5 of Kundur brick industry and 8 children of ae 3-5-5.5 were participated on the test.

Challenges:- 1. it’s hard to get the attention of the child for a long time period to conduct test. 2. Most of the indian child encounter difficulties to understand the term used during the test. 3. Emotional activities such as the understanding of feelings and understanding of the story was quite difficult for most of the children.

Achievements

1. IDELA Baseline survey provides the exact habit and habitual of a child. 2. It creates a better opportunity for a child to learn. 3. It also point out that what was lacking on our treating methods to them and how an ECEC teacher can improve her performance to create a better learning environment.

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c. Training Supervision

Five training were supervised by GFI team including training officer Husna Banu Sekh.. Achievements of the training supervision are as follows:-

1. Training supervision point out the loophole and weak point while delivering the training such as sitting arrangement, proper use of resource materials, way of communication etc. which help us to correct them and to deliver effective training afterward. 2. Supervision provide feedback to proper use of module provided during TOT. 3. Supervision provides feedback to proper use the materials and references to the workers accordingly as mentioned in the module. 4. Many behavior of the worker such as handwashing practices and sanitation health has been significantly improved in both workers and the children.as well as in some workers consumption of alcohol and tobacco products has been decreased compared to the pervious consumption. d. ECEC quality Monitoring

ECEC quality monitoring was performed in numerous occasion and its achievements are as follows:-

1. Quality monitoring shows us exact reflection of our ECEC and that help us so much to correct those things in time such as management of the materials. Sanitation health and hygiene has been improved after the monitoring. Formal monitoring was never conducted .ECEC was monitored during the various occasions by the GFI Team, IOS Team and stakeholders in each and every kiln.

2. After quality monitoring was done Condition of ECEC has drastically improved as it shows the loophole to improve such as necessary kitchen supplies, instructional materials, learning techniques of the students, materials arrangement of the ECEC class and many other thing. e. Monthly data verification Data were verified each month at the near end of that month before the submission of monthly data. Data was double checked and also verified through other references, e.g. If a training data has been received from the field, first it was analyzed through the attendance, minutes and the cross references of the previous database. If any inconstancy or variance was found during the process, it was cross checked with other means and then the actual data will be stored. Feedback on the data was incorporated every time the suggestion made. Achievements

1. Quality and uniformity occurs on data due to the verification which help in better reporting every month.

2. Verification provides us strong feedback and suggestion which help us a lot to create real and trustworthy database.

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f. Kiln monitoring Visit Achievements Kiln monitoring has been conducted in many occasion from GFI team, Ios board and as well as from the stakeholders during different programs. During the initial phase of the season, there have been the findings of Child and Young labor cases in many kilns and after the feedback from monitoring team these issues have been improved in time.

1. Due to the coordination and monitoring kiln owner were more positive towards the program and also had a clear idea about the technical assistance. 2. Due to coordination it was easy to implant CAP in industry.

g. Board members monitor the activities President Kamal Hari GC, Vice President Ram Datta Poudel and Board member Shreekrishna Acharya monitored the kiln in many occasion .initial visit point out the child labor issues in the kiln whereas later visit improves the coordination with kiln owner, worker committees and Naikes ,participation of board member on worker rally and other program has a huge positive impact towards the stakeholders and the workers . 1. Due to Board member monitoring it helps us to perform activities more efficiently. 2. Guidance of Board member on some activities made it whole lot easier to complete that activities.

C. Communication Change  What is the progress and impression of Radio Jingle, interview, TV program etc.? During 2017-2018, our efforts featured often in the news articles, radio and television programs. Our works was noted with keen interest through the seasons. We have raised interest to the issues, spotlighting our work in many news features and regular inviting organization and staff as expert Commentators on news programs dealing with forced, bonded and child labor, ethical development, and post-quake reconstruction. We are excited about the way that, this coverage also spreads the word about Better Bricks-letting buyers of bricks, from homeowners to businesses, know how they can be part of the ethical business. Total media outreach is at about more than 3 million people through the live coverage of Golden Eye Television.

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News published

S.N. Date Topic of News Media Event of Instructional strong impact of child labor free 1 1/9/2074 Pradeshik Khabar material program distribution 2 1/9/2074 Instructional material distribution Smart FM Instructional material distribution 3 1/9/2074 Radio Bhanubhakta news

Four brick kiln of Tanahun are Madiseti prabaha Media 4 23/02/2074 child labor free national daily Engagement Role of media to make child Aahwan Dainik national Media 5 23/02/2074 labor free initiation daily Engagement Role of media in promotion of Media 6 23/02/2074 pradeshik Khabar child labor free industry. Engagement Bhyanjyang National Media 7 23/02/2074 Interaction program completed Daily Engagement Role of media to make child Media 8 23/02/2074 Damauli FM labor free initiation Engagement Role of media to make child Media 9 23/02/2074 Radio Bhanubhakta labor free initiation Engagement Role of media to make child Media 10 23/02/2074 Smart FM labor free initiation Engagement

Speech contest completed in Bhyanjyang National 11 29/02/2074 ECA Radha Ma Vi Daily

Three brick industry of Tanahun Bhyanjyang National 12 15/02/2074 are child labor free Daily Three brick industry of Tanahun 13 15/02/2074 Pradeshik khabar Editorial are child labor free Better Brick-Nepal is being 14 15/02/2074 Pradeshik khabar effective in Tanahun

Interaction program on the 15 8/8/2074 Madiseti Prabaha DCM meeting challenges of brick industry. Interaction program on the 16 8/8/2074 Smart FM DCM meeting challenges of brick industry. Interaction program on the 17 8/8/2074 Damauli FM DCM meeting challenges of brick industry. Interaction program on the 18 8/8/2074 Pradeshik khabar DCM meeting challenges of brick industry.

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Student 19 8/10/2074 instructional materials distribution Pradeshik khabar support Student 20 8/10/2074 instructional materials distribution Bandipur FM support

21 4/12/2074 Picnic and tour completed Pradeshik khabar ECA 22 4/12/2074 Picnic and tour completed Damauli FM ECA 23 4/12/2074 Picnic and tour completed Bandipur FM ECA 24 interview of Homraj Acharya on Culture of compliance and Media 25 4/12/2074 Tanahun TV development modality in federal Engagement parliament system interview of Homraj Acharya on Culture of compliance and Media 26 4/12/2074 Bandirpur FM development modality in federal Engagement parliament system

ECEC training has been ECEC 27 11/12/2074 Pradeshik Khabar completed Training 28 Picnic and tour for the children 29 24/12/2074 Pradeshik Khabar ECA of brick kiln has completed Picnic and tour for the children 30 24/12/2074 Bandipur FM ECA of brick kiln has completed 31 instructional materials distribution Student 32 8/1/2075 Pradeshik khabar on Macchapuchre kiln support instructional materials distribution Student 33 8/1/2075 Tanahun TV on Macchapuchre kiln support

 What is the progress and impression of Social and behavior communication change Community people and even kiln owner in the past has a suspicious view about the project. Slowly reaching so far community residents, Parents, workers and kiln owner were very positive towards the Project and they realize that the Programme is in favor of kiln workers and their childrens.as well as kiln owner has embraced the project as their part of the industry. Major stakeholder form the local level, district level as well as province level shows a keen interest in the program and they are willing to support the program to be sustainable. 36 | P a g e

Section IV: Technical Support visit (This section should list out all the important internal and external technical assistance provided to the partner organization to support the planned activities. Please note that important visit should only be mentioned here) Dates Place Institution Persons Key Feedback / Suggestion / Recommendation Involved Involved ABI GFI, IGDN Bhaskar  Need of dough modification has been suggested by the Brick kiln. Adhikari specialist which was also the keen interest of the kiln to upgrade the kiln from straight chimney to Zig Zag Shyam chimney in ABI. Maharjan  Suggestion has been made to comply the standards of the chimney and technical team of GFI also promise to help in the construction process.  One vendor contact has been also suggested as the kiln owner want to purchase the excavator for the kiln operation.  Suggestion has been provided to reduce the fuel consumption while making bricks. PBI Brick GFI,IGDN Bhaskar  Heat lost has been significantly high in the kiln and it kiln Adhikari has to be fixed.  Although the chimney and dough is based on the zig Shyam zag system, straight Bojhai system has been followed Maharjan which has a huge drawback and that needed to be fixed.  During the making of green brick the brick has been misshaped by the hard hitting on the fence.it can be fixed with a simple solution and the owner has agreed to do so.

Section V: Management

This section should include brief narrative on achievement/progress of activities regarding Staff hiring  Meeting with kiln management committee Meeting with kiln management occurs in many occasions but formal meeting were not conducted. Instead of that kiln management was involve in various activities like Materials distribution and Trainings. Which help us to maintain smooth and healthy relationship with kiln management committee.

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 Monthly staff meeting

Staff meeting were conducted every last Friday of each month including all staff as well as at least one board member. Achievements of staff meeting were as follows:-

1. Many time sharing of problems in staff meeting, managed to solve the problems and run activities in smooth way. Such as way of communication in the training delivery, preparation of the different documents and minutes,

2. Monthly action plan, which is the server of activities for a month was developed in each monthly staff meeting which results the consistency and uniformity in terms of program, data and expenses of same programs in many districts/kilns.

3. Staff meeting help us to get feedback from Board and it also help to develop new strategies and effective team management for better implementation of Programme. IOS board sometimes fix a time frame for activates to be carried out. Also IOS coordination and management has been always vital to conduct major activities.  Meeting with IOs board IOs evolve in each monthly staff meeting thus no separate meeting with IOs board was conducted regarding Better Brick-Nepal Project.

Section VI: Issues or Challenges in Programme Implementation and Proposed Solutions to address the Challenges. Key Challenge Proposed Solutions Workers could be encourage to work on same Discontinuation of the worker of one season kiln. to another. Kiln workers were not able to reach better MOU could be signed with health agencies access of healthcare in nearby health for better access of health services to kiln agencies. workers. Lack of Textbooks for seasonal BSP students. Workers and children could be highly encouraged to bring text book & uniform with them, while coming to work on brick kilns. Hard to manage enough time to conduct Training can be conducted in off hours and training according to module. individual counseling methods.

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Section VII: Lessons Learned  Using of Audio Visual methods in training highly motivates the workers to use safety measures as well as workers were more interested to participate in trainings.  Student tracking in source village help children a lot to continue their school accordingly.  Before after class help students to cover course that was missed to attend classes due to late admission.  Exposure visit for owners make them even more positive towards the project.  Technical assistance from program encourage the kiln owners to comply the standards mentioned in CAR & CAP.

Section VII: Recommendation for improvement.

 Planning of activities should match with the working mechanism of federal governance and local government.  Training materials should include enough audio & visual materials.  Better activities needed for tracking of students and source district follow up plan and budget should be managed for this activities.  IOs Board member should be included in TOT & other trainings.

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Case/Success Stories:

Better Brick-Nepal: through the eye of a worker working more

then a decade in a brick kiln.

This is the story of Tulsi & Goma Gurung a hardworking couple running on mid-50 and worker of the Pokhereli brick industry. And how she sees the Better Brick-Nepal throughout all these years on the brick kiln. Originally from Dhanauri Dang, one of the districts of far western Terai region. They have been working in the Pokhereli brick kiln for more than 12 years. During all these years they have been working in the Pokhereli brick kiln to fulfill their needs and earn some money to secure the future of their three kids. And it’s only been six months they have been sifted to their own home from their own earning after residing 12 years in a jhyauli of Pokhereli Brick Kiln.

Though they were working before the implementation of Better Brick Nepal programme in her word

“After the implementation of BBN Programme in this kiln there has been a drastic change in remuneration, working hours and record keeping. Before the BBN Programme the kiln mainly depends on human labor and non-mechanized traditional way of manufacture bricks and moreover, there was no systematic process for tracking the advance, wages and working hours.

Due to this most of the workers used to be uncertain about their earning and advance deduction. Moreover, a large amount of Advance and unlimited working hours are the main problems that used to occur those days. After the implementation of Better Brick -Nepal, there has been a proper agreement between the kiln and the workers as well as the remuneration and piece rate were fixed before the season. There is also a significant change in the rate of advance taken by the workers as it is decreasing day by day.”

She further added:-“After the Better Brick-Nepal Programme one of the reasons we feel secure to work here is they form a grievance report committee, I am also the member of the committee and this is really helpful in addressing inhuman and bonded treatment. Also, the training they provide has a significant effect on reduction of forced and bonded labor. Moreover, there has been the provision of labor law in the kiln which address all type of forced and bonded labor situations.”

Report Prepared by Approved By Name Sudip Sedhain Name Ram Datta Poudel

Position Field coordinator Position Executive Director

Signature Signature

Date 2018/May/20 Date 2018/May/20

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Integrated Green Development Nepal

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