Annual Learning Report (April 2018 – March 2019) Project Country: Nepal Project Title: Women, Girls and Child Rights Program (WoGCRP) Start date: (01/04/2016) End date: (31/03/2019) Reporting Period From: (01/04/2018) To: (31/03/2019) Due date: (30/04/2019) Date submitted: (13 /05/2019) Centre for Agro-Ecology and Development (Caed)/ Implementing Partner: Women, Girls and Child Rights Program (WoGCRP) Project Manager: Samita Pradhan Phone contact: 977-1-5180340 / 9851070634 Email contact: [email protected] / [email protected] Skype contact: Samitaksg ASIAN AID OFFICE USE ONLY Project server location: (sequence) Submitted by: Samita Pradhan Date: ( //2019) Reporting Guidelines Asian Aid encourages partners to take a collaborative approach to drafting the Annual Learning Report. Working through the different sections as a team provides an opportunity to openly discuss progress and gain individual staff perspectives on successes and areas for improvement. Furthermore, it’s important to remember that the report was developed to encourage further learning by both the partner offices and Asian Aid. By facilitating a learning platform, project information can be gathered about successes and potential programmatic gaps or areas for improvement, and this information will help with future project planning. In addition, it will enable Asian Aid to target ongoing support and to gain a greater understanding of the context. The template provides support information under each section to help the project team complete the report. Please don’t hesitate to contact Asian Aid if further clarification is required for any sections of the report. The support informationis written inred italics. On completing the report please delete all thered italicssections before submission. Abbreviations AAO Asian Aid Organization ANC Antenatal Care ASRH Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health ASRHR Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health Rights CAED Centre for Agro-Ecology and Development CAFs Child Activists Facilitators CAGL Child Activist Group Leaders CAs Child Activists CFCD Child Focused Community Development Program CFUGC Community Forest User Group Committees CRP Child Rising Program CSP Child School Program CWB Child Welfare Board CWC Child Welfare Committee DCWB District Child Welfare Board DHO District Health Office ECA Extra-curricular activities GBV Gender Based Violence GEP Girls Empowerment Program HFOMC Health Facility Operation Management Committees IPFC Integrated Plan Formulation Committee MCC Model Couple Campaigners MEL Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning MHM Menstrual Hygiene Management NGO Non-governmental Organization NTFP Non-Timber Forest Products POP Pelvic Organ Prolapse PTA Parent Teacher Association RM/M Rural Municipality/Municipality SEE Secondary Education Examination SLC School Leaving Certificate SMCs School Management Committee VCPC Village Child Protection Committee VCPPC Village Child Protection and Promotion Committee VDC Village Development Committee WoGCRP Women, Girls and Child Rights Program A. Stakeholder Update How many of the people in the following groups have benefitted or participated in the project to date? Stakeholder Male Female Boys Girls Total Direct 6,379 (29%) 15,834 (71%) 3,458 (39%) 5,362 (61%) 30,998 Stakeholder Indirect 12,758 (29%) 31,668 (71%) 6,916 (39%) 10,724 (61%) 61,996 Stakeholders Child Representatives Boys Girls Total Current numbers 169(28%) 331(72%) 500 New this year 82 (46%) 98 (54%) 180 Number who left the 17 (45%) 21 (55%) 38 program this year B. Project Achievements B.1 Contribution towards Target Outcome Areas Target Outcome Major Project Achievements Relate Outcome Area Story Areas to the Target Outcome Areas Survival: Children Among the four target outcome Human Interest Focus Story: have improved areas, WoGCRP has been designed Bal Krishna Bishwakarma is 13 years old Child access to health and executed on survival theme Activist. He lives in Simta Rural Municipality-6, services and based on CFCD approach. Rakam, Surkhet, studies in grade five in Shree increased Bageshwori Secondary School. He lives with his knowledge of This year, WoGCRP covered 500 CAs father, mother, two sisters and a brother. He health and and 250 Peer Educators (70% girls) likes to play and study. His family is very poor lifestyle choices in 5 schools. The major beneficiaries and his father has migrated to India to work as of the projects were CAs, peer a seasonal wage labourer. Many people of his educators, adolescents, parents, community go to India for seasonal work due to pregnant and post-natal mothers, extreme poverty. Most of the children and newly married young couples, POP women of this area are malnourished. Girls Survivors, teachers religious leaders, leave their school education and marry off at community leaders, health workers very young age. and stakeholders such as school, women networks, child clubs and Bal Krishna’s sisters and brother also go to local government. school; it is often a problem to manage stationery for them as their family is poor. Bal During the period, peer educators Krishna had to miss the school sometime due were provided with life skills training to lack of basic stationeries. It is also difficult and were mobilized for peer for the parents to manage nutritious for Bal education in and out of school. The Krishna and his siblings. project also provided with life skills training to out of school adolescents Bal Krishna was selected as CA. Child Activist encouraging them to continue their Facilitator (CAF) visited his house regularly and school education and delay child discussed with him and his parents. CAF often marriage. There were regular meet him in school and guide him. WoGCRP discussions with adolescents in and also supported him with basic stationary for out of school mainly on girls him attend school regularly. Along with other empowerment issues such as parents, his parents were provided with good unequal gender relations, parenting skills training and kitchen gardening consequences of child marriage, training with some seasonal vegetable seeds child rights, ASRHR issues, support to the family by the project. The importance of formal education, project also discussed about importance of myths and consequences of nutrition for children’s development. chhaupadi practices (banishment during menstruation) and girl He attends classes regularly in school and has friendly environment at school, been participating in various activities such as adolescent friendly reproductive group meeting, extra-curricular activities. He health services and various life skills maintains his personal hygiene and encourages to make decisions for their career other children to come to school neat and and healthy life. clean. He also studies at home which helped him to improve performance and progress in CAs was provided with orientation his study at school. His parents grow seasonal on child rights issues, carried out vegetables in their kitchen garden round the regular discussion on child rights. year. He is very happy getting selected as CA. CAs and adolescent age peer His family thank WoGCRP whenever CAF and educators were given responsibility other team members visited his house. to monitor and report the practices of corporal punishment at school, Children/Young People's Involvement in child friendly teaching and learning Activities Example 1: practices, school attendance of Krishna Kumari Khatri, 17, is a peer educator, friends during menstruation, child studies in grade nine at Panchabhayar marriage in their community, Secondary school, Jajarkot. She was interested menstrual isolation practices, birth to take part in games such as long jump, high registration of their friends, their jump and running and actively took part in kitchen garden with number of almost all the extra-curricular activities vegetables and fruits grown, study organized in school. This year she took part in and play time at home and other Inter- Municipality running shield competition activities related to child rights and held in Nalgadh Municipality, Jajarkot and ASRH. secured first and second position at 100 meter and 200 meter race respectively. She was very CAFs conduct meeting and happy, she said “thanks to WoGCRP, School discussions with CAs every weekend, and teachers for providing me opportunity and dividing them in smaller groups, motivating me boost my good confidence.” selecting group leaders on a monthly rotational basis in order to Children/Young People's Involvement in be able to talk to each of them Activities Example 2: Umesh BK, 15, a Child closely. CAF organised meeting with Activist, studying in grade seven at Shree CAs and The group leader monitored Jeevan Jyoti Secondary School, Gutu, Surkhet. school attendance of CAs every day His parents are subsistence farmer with poor and reported to CAF. economic condition. He was good in drawing (art) but was hesitant to perform in front of They monitored school attendance others and take part in the competition. After and learning progress of CAs, child being selected as CA, he participated in various friendly environment, hygiene and meetings, trainings and discussions. He was sanitation facilities in school as a motivated by CAF to take part in drawing part of child rights. They meet competition organized jointly by school and the parents of CAs through household project. He won prize getting second position visits and discuss with parents for in the competition. He thanked CAF and providing enough study (atleast two WoGCRP for motivating