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Promotion of Community Managed Rural Energy Development Project

Okhaldhunga is recently made accessible district as it is connected by the rough road from Katari to Okhaldunga. But the road is not accessible during monsoon as landslide and flood is frequent phenomena. The district lies in Sagarmatha zone and is 114 Km away from the World?s highest peak-the Mount Everest. The project VDC Betini is three hours walk from district headquarters. Streams such as Molung, Nigale and Andheri flowing through Betini VDC provide ample opportunity in generating electricity. These streams are the tributaries of the Sunkoshi River.Regarding the service facility, there is one sub health post and one post office. Along with the SGP other UNDP assisted programmes such as Community-owned Primary Education (COPE), Rural Energy Development Programme (REDP) and Sustainable Community Development Programme (SCDP) have been working in the VDC. REDP and SCDP have already formed the Community-based Organisations (CBOs) and joint workplan has already been prepared which has helped in sharing the responsibilities and resources. Preliminary feasibility study has already been carried out and the report showed that the VDC has capacity of generating 30 KW electricity through microhydro power.

A 9.05 kilowatt micro-hydro plant from the Andherikhola (stream) has been successfully established with the support from various agencies benefiting 94 households. The success has been achieved from supports from DDC, VDC, REDP and of course the communities. With the success of the Andherikhola, people from Dhamala village were also inspired and with their active participation 9.5 KW Devishthan Micro-hydro plant has been constructed benefitting 141 households.

The project has also constructed 20 cipaulin plastic water harvesting tank with gravity sprinkle system. This has helped in promoting off-seasonal vegetables in the VDCs. Likewise, with the project initiation, 4 biogas and 67 ICS have been constructed in the project sites.

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Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Support Activities for Poor Producers of Nepal

Country:

Nepal

Area Of Work:

Climate Change Mitigation

Operational Phase:

Phase 2

Grant Amount:

US$ 50,000.00

Co-Financing Cash:

US$ 10,690.00

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 21,615.00

Project Number:

NEP/01/01

Start Date:

2/2001

End Date:

8/2003

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

Project Characteristics and Results

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

55% of the total budget (US $ 27,500) is made available for the support of communities in purchasing micro-hydro power plants and installation of the machine and also for the formation of endowment fund which is known as community environment trust (CET) fund. This fund along with community fund would be made available to the villagers without any collateral for micro enterprises and/or sustainable livelihoods.The construction of low cost water harvesting tank with cepaulin plastic lining has been very popular in the VDC. The water tanks collect water from the village tap and the vegetable farm is irrigated with gravity sprinkle system. Thus the project has aimed to develop the area as vegetable pocket area. After the construction of 20 cipaulin plasting lininig water harvesting plants, with the capacity of irrigating 18.75 ha, 178 households have been benefiteed. Likewise the project has also facilitated in complestion of 4 drinking water scheme benefitting 125 households

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples

Brahmins and Magars are main dwellers of the Betini VDC. Magars are maginalised and underprivileged caste which forms 43% of the total population.

Capacity - Building Component

Capacity building activities such as Leadership development, financial management, peltic set operation, housewiring form the integral parts of the project. Producing village specialist in operating the turbine is the top priority of SGP. Study tour and field visit in Butwal hydro electricity plant have already been convened. A village level technician has been trained to operate the micro-hydro. Likewise 77 members were given orientation to plant off-seasonal vegetables. Leadership and social mobilisation training to grantee as well as local NGO have also been convened to mobilise the community.

Gender Focus

The Community based organisations (CBOs) are of three types- men women and mixed with both men and women. Formation of such groups is solely depended upon the interest and decisions of the community members.The light has benefited the community which include the women membes as well. They do not have to cook food in the dark. Likewise, the children can read in for a longer hour during the evening.

Notable Community Participation

The project applies the process of social mobilisation. The formation of settlement level groups with at least 80% coverage of households, weekly meetings and savings are the major thrusts which ensure the community participation to a significant level. High level of community participation has been seen in the project. The Magar communities take turn to carry out the water turbine from Ghurmi (the road head) to the project site. Likewise the participation in construction of power house and digging of the water harvesting tanks has been encouraging

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

This project is of demonstration type and other UNDP assisted programme such as SCDP, REDP and COPE would also contribute equally in disseminating the information thereby promote generate the awareness of global environment.

Project Results

The project has successfully installed 2 microhydro plants with the capacity of 18.55KW benefitting 236 HH. The project has also constructed 20 cipaulin plastic water harvesting tank with gravity sprinkle system. This has helped in promoting off-seasonal vegetables in the VDC. Likewise, with the project initiation, 4 biogas (where the altitude is more than 1100m) and 67 ICS have been constructed in the project sites.

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