SAMBAD: Dialogue for Peace Project BASELINE SURVEY REPORT Submitted to: CARE Nepal Regional Office Bharatpur, Chitwan Submitted by: Bijay Kumar Singh, Ph.D. Kathmandu, Nepal Email: [email protected] January 2014 Study Team Bijay Kumar Singh, Ph.D. Team Leader (Consultant) Mr. Santos Kumar Shah Statistician SAMBAD/CARE Nepal Team Ms. Nirmala Sharma Program Coordinator. CARE Nepal Mr. Madhav P. Dhakal Project Manager, SAMBAD/ CARE Nepal Ms. Bimala Puri Community Dialogue Officer, SAMBAD/ CARE Nepal Mr. Bishnu Nepali Monitoring and Evaluation Office, SAMBAD/ CARE Nepal Mr. Amleshwar Singh Impact Measurement and Learning Manager, CARE Nepal Partner NGO Team Ms. Mibusha Ghimire District Project Coordinator, LARC Mr. Madan Prajapati Field Supervisor, NAMUNA Ms. Chandani Chhetri Finance Assistant, NAMUNA Mr. Rajesh K. Chaudhary Finance Assistant, LARC Field Data Collectors LARC, Nawalparasi Ms. Sarita Adhikari Ms. Phoolmaya Paswan Ms. Menka Shree Rajkumari Mr. Ramhari Dusadh Mr. Ravi Shanker Harijan NAMUNA, Rupandehi Ms. Sonika Shrestha Mr. Jeewan B.K. Mr. Mukunda Paudyal Ms. Bindramati Chaudhary Mr. Dinesh Aryal Special Contribution in the Baseline Survey for Data Collection Mr. Prem Nath Gyawali - LPC Secretary, Rupandehi Ms. Anjana Acharya - LPC Secretary, Nawalparasi Acknowledgements The Team Leader would like to express his gratitude to CARE Nepal for the opportunity given again to serve the organization. He would like to extend his sincere thanks to Officials of CARE Nepal Mr. Madhav P. Dhakal, Ms. Nirmala Sharma, Mr. Amleshwar Singh, Ms. Bimala Puri, Mr. Bishnu Nepali and Mr. Chuda Basnet for their kind cooperation and hearty support in successfully completion of the assignment on time. He would like to earnestly extend his special gratitude to Under Secretary Mr. Bharat Acharya and Section Officer Mr. Durga Bhusal of the Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction for their valuable inputs and information of peace process policies, strategies, guidelines and other related documents. He would like to highly appreciate for the hearty cooperation of LPC Secretaries Mr. Prem Nath Gyawali of Rupandehi and Ms. Anjana Acharya, Nawalparasi. Likewise, he is grateful to the LPC coordinators and members of Rupandehi and Nawalparasi for their valuable inputs and information in the baseline survey. He is thankful to Ms. Mibusha Ghimire of LARC and Ms. Nirmala Singh, Ms. Chandani Chhetri and Mr. Madan Prajapati of NAMUNA and all the facilitators and team members for their hard work in data collection in shivering cold in Terai. Similarly, he would like to thank to the board members of LARC and NAMUNA for keenly monitoring the baseline activities of their staff. Special thanks go to the Statistician Mr. Santosh Kumar Shah and Data Entry Person Ms. Mamata Shah for their hard work to complete the assignment in short period of time. Last but not the least, he is very thankful to VLPC Office-Bearers and conflict affected people and others who selflessly provided information. Bijay Kumar Singh, Ph.D. Team Leader SAMBAD Project Baseline Survey i Abbreviations and Acronyms CDO Chief District Officer FGD Focus Group Discussion GESI Gender Equality/Equity and Social Inclusion HHs Households LARC Legal Aid and Research Center LDO Local Development Officer LPC Local Peace Committee MOPR Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction NAMUNA NAMUNA Integrated Development Council NRs Nepali Rupees SQ Structured Questionnaire TOR Terms of Reference USAID United States Agency for International Development VAW Violence against Women VDC Village Development Committee VLPC Village Level Peace Committee ii Table of Content Acknowledgements ................................................................................................................................ i Abbreviations and Acronyms .............................................................................................................. ii Table of Content ................................................................................................................................... iii Executive Summary ............................................................................................................................. vi 1.0 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................ 1 1.1 Objectives of the Baseline Survey ....................................................................................... 1 1.2 Target Groups ......................................................................................................................... 2 1.3 Rationale of the Baseline Survey ......................................................................................... 2 1.4 Approaches ............................................................................................................................. 2 2.0 METHODOLOGY ....................................................................................................................... 4 2.1 In-Depth Literature Review of the Secondary Information ............................................... 4 2.2 Primary Data Collection Methods ........................................................................................ 4 3.0 RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS .............................................................................................. 7 4.0 LESSONS LEARNED AND CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS ................................................24 5.0 CONCLUSIONS .......................................................................................................................24 6.0 GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS .......................................................................................25 BIBLIOGRAPHY..............................................................................................................................27 List of Figures Figure 1: Types of Incidence of the conflict-affected household in sampled households ......... 8 Figure 2: % of people perceive reduction in conflict ........................................................................ 9 Figure 3: % of People perceive reduction in conflict by types ....................................................... 9 Figure 4: Conflict victim HHs reported about MOPR relief ...........................................................13 Figure 5: Explain the peace building policy, mechanisms and programs ..................................13 Figure 6: Conflict victim HHs reported about MOPR service .......................................................15 iii List of Tables Table 1: Population of the Conflict-affected People in Rupandehi and Nawalparasi................. 5 Table 2: VDCs-wise sample household selection............................................................................ 5 Table 3: Types and number of incidences between Asadh to Paush 2070 (six months) .......10 Table 4: % of households' response on their participation in social, religious & local development ........................................................................................................................................10 Table 5: % of households' response on their participation in social, religious & local development by caste and ethnicity .................................................................................................11 Table 6: % of respondent received the types of relief provided by MOPR ................................13 Table 7: % of respondent explain about the policy of MOPR ......................................................14 Table 8: % of respondent explain about the mechanisms of MOPR ..........................................14 Table 9: % of respondent explain about the programs of MOPR................................................15 Table 10: % of HHs received Services from MOPR ......................................................................15 Table 11: People reporting they have been provided safe space for dialogue .........................16 Table 12: HHs visited LPC and VLPC by types of work (in %)....................................................16 Table 13: % of the respondent express their feeling while participated/visited in PCs ...........17 Table 14: % of community participating in dialogue for peace and reconciliation during the last six months .....................................................................................................................................17 Table 15: % of conflict-affected people receiving livelihood support ..........................................18 Table 16: % of Conflict affected HHs received services different from MOPR .........................18 Table 17: % of HHs responded about contribution of support .....................................................19 Table 18: Description of Expenditure of Conflict-Affected Households .....................................19 Table 19: Description of expenditure by Districts ..........................................................................20 Table 20: % of HHs expenditure lies in different quintile group by districts ...............................20 Table 21: % of HHs expenditure lies in different quintile group by caste ethnicity ...................20 Table 22: Description of income of conflict-affected households ................................................21 Table 23: Description of income of conflict-affected households by caste ethnicity (in %) .....21 Table 24: Description of income district-wise .................................................................................22