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Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development Office District Development Committee, Solukhumbu and Dudhkunda Municipality Local Governance and Community Development Program II Narrative Report Fiscal Year 2071/072 SUBMITTED BY: SUBMITTED TO: SOLUKHUMBU DDC OFFICE LOCAL GOVERNANCE AND COMMUNITY DUDHKUNDA MUNICIPALITY OFFICE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME SALLERI, SOLUKHUMBU (LGCDP)II REGIONAL COORDINATION UNIT( RCU) HETAUNDA Narrative Report Solukhumbu Page 1 Table of Contents S.No Contents Page No. 1.0 Executive Summary 1-2 2.0 Introduction 3-4 3.0 Output wise Progress Status (Output 1-7) 5-20 4.0 Problems and issues (Output 1-7) 20-22 5.0 ANNEXES 22 ANNEX 1. A) LIVLIHOOD IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (LIP) 22-24 SOLUKHUMBU DDC OFFICE B) LIVLIHOOD IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (LIP) 24 DUDHKUNDA MUNICIPALITY ANNEX 2. A) SMALL INFRASRUCTURE PROGRAM (SIP) 25-26 SOLUKHUMBU DDC OFFICE B) SMALL INFRASRUCTURE PROGRAM (SIP) 27 DUDHKUDNA MUNICIPALITY OFFICE ANNEX 3. Success Stories 28-31 ANNEX 4. Details about result based management RBM data 31-40 4. A) Solukhumbu DDC Office Annual RBM Report 4. B) Dudhkunda Municipality Office Annual RBM Report 40-43 ANNEX 5. PFM of infrastructure projects (From Online Reporting) 44 5. A) PFM prepared by DDC 5. A) PFM prepared by Municipality 44-45 ANNEX 6. Details about ICT 45 ANNEX 7: Detail Financial report 10. A) DDC 465-47 10. B) Municipality 47 ANNEX 8. LSP Details with VDC cluster 48 ANNEX 9. Details about Social Mobilisation 49-51 ANNEX 10. Information of social mobilizers 52-53 Narrative Report Solukhumbu Page 2 1. Executive Summary Local Governance and community Development Programme (LGCDP) is a national flagship programme in the area of local governance and community development. With the national goal to contribute in poverty reduction through better local governance and community development, the GoN and 13 LGCDP Development Partners launches the first phase of the program in all the then 75 DDC, 58 Municipalities and 3955 VDCs Local Bodies nation wide from 16 July 2008 to 17 July 2013. The LGCDP I activities were planned to achieve thee overarching outcomes related to citizen empowerment, local government operations and local government policy making and execution making significant improvement in the capacity of local government to manage and access to resources and deliver services in an inclusive and equitable manner. After the end of first phase LGCDP was continued as a local cost extension for the period of one year and continue to deliver the goal and objectives of LGCDP phase I. LGCDP opted for basket fund / sector wide programme approach to utilize all DPs budget through one door approach. Given the success that has been achived in the implementation of LGCDP I , the importance of this programme in ensuring the accountable delivery of local services through established institutions and systems and the commitments being expressed for the continuation, the GoN and the LGCDP development partners have decided to continue the programme into a second phase. And second phase of LGCDP was implemented for the period from 16 July 2013 to 15 July 2017. LGCDP II will provide the systems, procedures, structures, tools and capacities for facilitating the transformation Narrative Report Solukhumbu Page 1 of LBs into local government entities. It will enable local bodies to coordinate local governance actors for effective and efficient service delivery and community development in line with citizens’ priorities. The overall vision has a number of noteworthy elements as it moves forward into the LGCDP II programme. From 1st phase till continuation of 2nd phase the program have been running effectively in the Solukhumbu district inorder to contribute towards poverty reduction through better local governance and community development by supporting to improve the local governance for effective and efficient service delivery and citizen empowerment. Narrative Report Solukhumbu Page 2 2. Introduction Solukhumbu District a part of the Sagarmatha Zone is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia. As the name suggests, it consists of the subregions Solu and Khumbu. The district, with Salleri as its district headquarters, covers an area of 3,312 km² and had a population 107,686 in 2001 and 105,886 in 2011. Mount Everest is located in the northern part of this district, within Sagarmatha National Park. Indigenous ethnic Rai and hill Caste Chhetri are the main groups living in the mid-hills, while Sherpas occupy high mountains. There is a notable hiking trail in this district known as the Solukhumbu Trail. It is famous in world for Mountain tourism. The main attraction of this district is Mount Everest(8,848m). UNESCO has listed the Sagarmatha National Park in World Heritage sites. The Sherpa culture, famous Tengboche Monastery are the highlights of Everest. Namche Bazaar is the entrance gate of Everest. The flora and fauna of this region is of alpine type. It is the land for adventure travel holidays. Mount Everest Expedition, Everest Base Camp Trek, Everest View Trek, Island Peak Climbing are the popular trekking trail in Everest of Solukhumbu. It is border with Tibet to the North, Sankhuwasava and Bhojpur to the East, Okhaldhunga and Khotang to the South and Ramechap to the West. The district has 30VDCs and 1 Municipality named Dushkunda Municipality. According to the National Census 2011, the total population of the district is 105,886 comprising 54,686 female (51.65%) and 51,200 male (48.35%) residing in 23,785 households. It has a multi ethic composition with Sherpa, Magar, Tamang and other. The district is famous for Mount Everest, Sagarmatha National Park, Jwala mai temple, Dudh Kunda , Solu khola, Dudhkoshi, Likhu khola, Sisha khola with beautiful places , mountains , the important tourist spots. The major economic activity of Narrative Report Solukhumbu Page 3 the people of the district depends on agricultural production, animal husbandry, business and tourism. Since the establishment of district headquarters as Salleri , the government has made a significant investment to improve basic services in Solukhumbu. Only small number of local people has been employed in government services. District Development Committee Solukhumbu has 30 VDCs with "Tourism, Agriculture and infrastructure, Solukhumbu's main development concept" is the working theme of the DDC Solukhumbu. DDC have been successful in developing mini and micro hydropower linking roads to most of the villages and providing basic necessities like water supply, irrigation etc to all . DDC has been successful in declaring Solukhumbu district as generating the highest tourism royalty of Nepal. Recently for the development of district, DDC has prepared and implemented transportation master plan. and Periodic Plan of 070/071 to 074/075 has also been prepared and implemented. The major problem of the DCC are less working period in field due to climatic condition, problem in regularity of programs in field due to migration of people in winter, lack of human resource in DDC and VDC's , very low internal income of LB's etc. The office has its own official website ddcsolukhumbu.gov.np and is up to date. In all 30 VDC , Social Mobilization has been implemented with 29 CAC (community awarness centre) working actively. Total WCF Ward Citizen Forum are 270 which are working actively and most of the planning and infrastructure projects are implemented from WCF. This DDC office is the first DDC Office from Eastern Region to implement 35% projects for targeting groups. Recently one Municipality is announced with merging 4 VDCs in fiscal year 071/072 named Dudhkunda Municipality with 9 Wards having WCF in all wards and 4 CAC working actively. Narrative Report Solukhumbu Page 4 3. output wise progress Status Output 1: Citizens and Community organizations are empowered to actively participate and assert their rights in local governance For strengthening the social mobilization program DSMC has been formed as per sm guidelines 069 and three local service providers are selected as per the requirement of the district and one LSP in Municipality and are performing satisfactory. For capacity development of the social mobilizers various orientations and trainings related, social mobilization , CFLG , GESI , Rural Technical training were organised. Altogether 270 WCF formed in the district. 29 CAC (community awarness centre) established in the district where REFLECT classes are conducted regularly. Among 29, 10 CAC received SPMP Last year and 14 CAC have recived SIP (Small Infrastructure Project) in year 071.72. Livelihood improvement program (LIP) has been started from Last year 070/071 in 3 VDC's (For detail see Annex) During the local level planning process last year almost all the projects were forwarded by the WCF and the needs of women, childrens and disadvantaged groups were well incorporated. Meetings with social mobilizers and coordinators are held regularly to review progress and provide feeback and monitoring of social mobilization activities was carried out by DSMC and MSMC. And for the CAC expansion CAC graduation and UCPA assessment has been completed and UCPA is completed in all VDC's of district. Narrative Report Solukhumbu Page 5 Table:1 Dudhkunda VDC's SM S.N. Activities Mun's SM Remarks Status Status 1 Total No. of WCF formed 270 9 2 Total No. of WCF - Male Members 4113 157 Total No. of WCF - Female 3 86 Members 2097 4 Total No. of WCF Members 1531 243 5 Total No. of CAC formed 29 4 6 Total No. of CAC - Male Members 30 Total
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