Minutes of Meeting

Chautara, Shindhupalchowk Cluster: Food Security Date: 25 May, 2015

1. Summary Agency wise update:

 Clean Energy / Christian Aid, Pallab Regmi (9841668384) Achieved - Food package distributed including Rice 25kg, Oil 1 liter, Lito 400gm and Dal 5kg per HH (Total qty: Rice 86.0mt, Oil 3.4mt, Lito 1.4mt and Dal 17.0mt) SN VDC Wards Number of HH reached 1 Gunsatar All wards 584 2 Thulopakhar 6,7,8,and 9 260 3 Tekanpur All wards 500 4 Barahbise 1,3,4,5,6,and 7 1152 5 Pangretar All wards 927 6 Lagarcho All wards 721 (in progress) In Progress Food package distribution in Lagarcho (721 HH) is in progress and accomplished by May 27, 2015 Estimated quantity is Rice 18.0mt, oil 0.8mt, dal 0.288mt and Lito 3.6mt.

 Oxfam Nepal, KA Rume (9851102654) Distributed772kg ofrice seed in Kadambas VDC covering all wards (386 HH) providing 2kg seed/HH - Animal Feed (42mt) Distributed animal feed in Kadambas and Sangachowk VDC for 700 HHs (500+200) with 60kg rice bran/HH for livestock. In Progress

Distribution of animal feed in Kalika VDC in progress. Planned Rice seed distribution in following VDCs for current main paddy season in 13 VDC. (Pangretar, Kalika, Ramche, Barahbise, Chokati, , Nawalpur, Kiwil, Hagan, Pantang, Kunchow, )

 PHASE Nepal 17.25mt rice distributed on May 22, 2015 at Jalbire VDC covering all the wards (690 bags of 25 kg/bag) covering Planned Planned to distribute food items to VDCs (Phulpingdanda, Kadambas and Jalbire) in addition to previous and VDcs. PHASE is ready to cooperate new partners willing to provide humanitarian support in those VDCs.  CECI and Tuki association Distribute relief food package including rice, dal, wheat flour, oil, tea, salt and spice (Total

quantity: Rice 28mt, dal 6mt, oil 6mt, flour 6mt, tea 0.6mt, spice 0.5mt and salt 6mt) for 2793 HHs covering entire wards of Maneswara, Bhumthang and Ramche VDCs.

 Plan International, Puskar Binadi (9801241063) and Kalabati Chemjong (9801020269) Distributed food items in VDC for 1283HH and Lagarche VDC 615 HHs. Quantity remained unclear.  Batas Foundation, Sagun Gurung (9818700880) Distributed food package (devising rice 10kg, Dal 2 kg, Oil 1kg, Noodles 10 pkt, salt 1kg) for 990 HH in 3 VDCs (Barahbise, and Sipa Pokhari  CARE Nepal, Justus, Ekramul Kabir and Jyoti baidya (9841462863) Planning to distribute seed and cash transfer/work/grant.  Child Fund Japan Nepal Office (CFJ-NO), Document received Distributed total of rice 32mt, dal 5mt and salt 3mt for 3179 HH of 4 VDC (Petku, , Pangretar and ) covering all wards. The relief food package included rice 12kg, Dal 1.5 kg and salt 1kg per HH. Planned In the second lot the food items in the relief package will be increased rice 30kg, dal 4kg, salt 1 kg and oil 2kg for all 4 VDCs. The second distribution will start from June 2, 10, 11.

 Collective Campaign for Peace (Co-CAP), Document received Distributed food package for 1430 HH in 5 VDCs (Gorthali, Attarpu, Lisanku,Thulodhading and ), total of rice 36mt, dal 2.0mt, oil 1.2mt, salt 1.5mt and beaten rice 3mt.  Local Initiatives for Biodiversity Research and Development (LI-BIRD) and Tuki Association Sunkoshi. Distributed total of 50mt rice for 2000 HHs of 3 VDCs (Chokati, Karthali and ), providing 25 kg /HH. Additional they also provided Super Flour to 3791 children of 1000 days old with 500 gm/each.

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 WFP WFP distributing food items via airlift to remote VDCs of both the district Sindhupalchowk and Dolkha as planned for First phase. Planning Second phase planning for distribution in all VDCs prioritizing 9 remote VDCs, HH coverage in coordination with cluster partners to avoid overlap.

2. Challenges

i. Seeds of suitable rice varieties (Makawanpur-1 and Khumal-4) is not available, ii. VDC level households data: HH data is higher by about 20% compared to 2068 census, iii. Information on accessibility remained hazy particularly to the remote VDCs and within wards as well. 3. AOB Partner organization also raised the possibility of initiating cash for work relief strategy if possible provided available of appropriate guideline, DDRC’s decision and experience of other agencies in the district. For this, FSC needs field assessment information from respective agencies. 4. Decisions Made

 Maintain consistency as in the past;  Reporting agency wide update in writing and send the updates through mail to Tara Lama ([email protected]) or DADO ([email protected]);  DADO will ensure coordination to facilitate food security issues in the current crisis among the partners;  Continue meeting days as usual on Monday and Friday (2 days per week) at 10:30 AM and is subjected to reschedule on next upcoming meeting based on the field situation if required;  DADO office should explore source of seed at local level.  Explore the status of cash transfer/grant with organizations concerned.

Next Meeting

Friday May 29, 2015 at same venue at 10:30 AM

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Food item distributed in Sindhupalchok district by type and quantity as reported by FSC partners, May 25, 2015 Food items in relief package (mt)

Food items Rice Dal Oil Flour Salt Lito Tea Super Beaten Spice flour rice QTY 258 30 11 6 11.0 1.4 559 2 3 0.6

SN VDC Wards Number Agency of HH 1 Petku All wards 490 Child Fund japan Nepal Office (CFJ NO) 2 Tauthali All wards 911 3 Pangretar All wards 802 4 Dhuskun All wards 976 5 Gunsatar All wards 584 Clean Energy Nepal/ Christian Aid 6 Thulopakhar 6,7,8,and 9 260 7 Tekanpur All wards 500 8 Barahbise 1,3,4,5,6,and 7 1152 9 Pangretar All wards 927 11 Maneswara All wards 941 Canadian Center for International Studies and 12 Gumthang All wards 852 Cooperation (CECI) and Tuki association Sunkoshi 13 Ramche All wards 1000 14 All wards 230 Collective Campaign for Peace (CO-CAP) and Tuki 15 Attarpu All wards 300 Association Sunkoshi 16 Lisanku All wards 300 17 Thulo Dhadiing All wards 300 18 Pangtang All wards 300 19 Chokati All wards 670 Local Initiativves for Biodiversity research and 20 Karthali All wards 650 Development (LI-BIRD) collaborating Tuki 21 Marming All wards 680 association Sunkoshi 22 Jalbire All wards 611 PHASE 23 Kadambas All wards 500 OXFAM 24 Sangachowk All wards 200 25 Barahbise 3,5, 7 490 Batas Foundation 26 Bhimtar 2, 3,5 185 27 Sipa Pokhari 2,3,4 315 28 Bhotsipa All wards 1283 29 Lagarche All wards 615 Total 17024

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Cluster Coordination Meeting: Food Security- Date: 25 May 2015

Name Organization Phone Bed Pd. Chaulagain DODO 9851200125 Olivia Kemp WFP 9855092105 Manoj Kemer Sah WFP 9841373743 Chunu Shrestha WFP 9801083526 KA Rume OXFAM 9810114692 M. Bustamante 9808943998 Jaggu Chaudhary CARITAS, Nepal 9741415968 Sagon Gurung BATAS International 9818700880 Katy Attfield IFRC 9803916271 Madhusudan Karki CECI 9841478154 Puskar Binadi Plan International 9801241063 Kalawati Changbang Plan International 9801020269 Jyoti Baidya CARE Nepal 9841462863 Ekramul Kabir CARE Nepal 9810173736 Tara Lama FSC 9849487387

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