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Lighting up the Remotest Villages of Patala, Tsirang to be implemented by the Samdrup Tshogpa (ST) to focus on the provision of solar lanterns with a minimal cost sharing and in return the communities to carryout the plantations in the degraded areas. The communities would also strive towards protecting their water source for increased volume of water supply for the Patala Community.

Patala is a remotest Geogs under Tsirang Dzongkhag with 260 households and it has a difficult terrain and has an area of 137 square kilometers with elevation ranging from 400 metres to 2000 metres above mean sea level.

The people are too dependent on the forest and the natural vegetation for their livelihood for eg. firewood, fodder, lightings during the night. There is high cases of forest fires caused mainly by night travellers using the fire-ball torches (indigenous).

The main objective of the project is to conserve the local natural resources by using solar energy on one hand and taking up the plantation on the other.

Nursery Creation and Maintenance:
The objective of nursery creation were to produce seedlings for plantation in the areas identified for plantation;
To produce quality seedlings (since seedlings of quality trees are not available with Patala area).

Five-day long training was conducted by resource person from National Resource Training Institute (NRTI) on

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Project Snapshot

Grantee:

Samdrup Tshogpa

Country:

Bhutan

Area Of Work:

Climate Change Mitigation

Operational Phase:

Phase 3

Grant Amount:

US$ 31,030.00

Co-Financing Cash:

US$ 1,820.00

Co-Financing in-Kind:

US$ 9,771.00

Project Number:

BHU/OP3/Y1/05/03

Start Date:

5/2005

End Date:

4/2008

Status:

Satisfactorily Completed

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Project Characteristics and Results

Policy Influence

Alternative to renewable energy and rural electrification to poor households.

Significant Participation of Indigenous Peoples

Both local and indigenous people would participate significantly in the project implementation.

Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods

Inorder to ensure the sustainability of the project, regular meetings will be held amongst the community members to evaluate their progress. If the plantation does not do well, the beneficiaries will not be provided with solar lamps, hence the survival rate of 70% will be taken care of by the beneficiaries.

Policy Impact

It is the policy of the Royal Government of Bhutan to protect and conserve its natural resources at every level.

Promoting Public Awareness of Global Environment

One of the main activities of the project includes the Environmental Awareness Workshop and the fixing of signboards with environmental messages.

Inovative Financial Mechanisms

The community house holds are in agreement to contribute US $ 7 each from 260 households amounting to total of US $ 1820.00

Notable Community Participation

The community members will be fully involved in this project. All the activities in the project require community participation. Moreover the solar lamp will be provided only after the community members fully participate in other activities such as the creation of the nursery, plantation in the degraded areas and the protection of water source.

Capacity - Building Component

The project would enable the Samdrup Tshogpa to build their capacity in carrying out this kind of projects and create awareness and their vulnerability and try to over come them in the future. The project would also teach them how community/ies can help themselves for a better living.

Gender Focus

This project will try to focus on the gender issues at a later part of the project.

Project Results

Participatory Project Monitoring Visit by RR, UNDP, NC, SGP and Relevant Project staff on 10-14 Dec 07.

During the visit, solar lanterns were distributed to the community people (1st phase distribution) and technical briefing was contucted by the supplier (DSB Solar Private Ltd.)

So far, the community people have obtained certain environmental awareness such as environmental conservation and sustainable management of local resources benefiting from the training. They are ready to shift from kerosene users to solar lanterns and eagerly raised questions to the supplier not only about how to handle but, also the maintenance. Basic maintenance and repair training will be conducted in due course. This is in line with the lessons learnt from another similar project.

Most of the project activities have been completed, however, to realize the objectives of the project a longer time is required, to see the impact of the project.

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