Purpose: To promote accountability and Transparency in local service providers in 13 palikas in Kavre district
Budget: NPR 8510585
Program duration: 13 months (running)
Funding Agency: The Asia Foundation
Key person: Ashray Bikram Pandey
Highlights of the project:
Purpose: To promote mutual accountability, transparency and good governance in Kavre and Sindhupalchok district.
Budget: NPR 22,000,000.00
Program Duration: 46 Months (running)
Funding Agency: USAID through FHI360
Key Person: Sajana Maharjan
Highlights of the Project:
Common Assembly
Sajhedari Munch
Head Coalition
Good Governance Barrow Meter(GGB)
Purpose: To increasing community resilient and develop critical mass for aquatic life and freshwater biodiversity conservation.
Budget: NPR 6,200,000.00
Program Duration: 12 months
Funding Agency: USAID through DAI
Key Person: Bhaskar Bhattarai
Location: Bardiya district
Highlights of the Project
Purpose: To aware people and stakeholders on women leadership and general mass to combat human trafficking.
Budget: NPR 3600000.00
Program Duration: 9 Months
Funding Agency: UNWOMEN through Equal Access
Key Person: Binata Shrestha
Location: 8 districts out of 75 districts in Nepal (Sindhupalchok, Kavrepalanchok, Dhading, Sunsari, Makwanpur, Nawalparasi, Banke and Kailali)
Highlights of the Project:
Purpose: To increase the capacity of local women leaders on local resource mobilization for disaster preparedness.
Budget: NPR 2600000.00
Program Duration: 24 Months
Funding Agency: DFID through The Asia Foundation (TAF) and National
Key Person: Dr. Sagar Prasain, The Asia Foundation
Tel.: 9851043448, Email: sagar.prasain@asiafoundation.org
Location: 2districts, Sunsari and Saptari
Partner Organizations: Center for Social Research (CSR), India
Highlight of the Project:
Aftermath of the Gorkha Earthquake, Samudayik Sarathi has carried following relief and reconstruction activities:
A. Relief work
i) SS helped Christian Aid Ministry (CAM), a Berlin, Ohaio, USA based organization, distribute tarps to 1600 households in Sindhupalchowk district.
ii) SS distributed relief package that included tarp and food items to 450 households in Sindhupalchowk district. The relief packages were purchased using financial assistance provided by the Asia Foundation and other individuals.
B. School Support Project: Christian Aid Ministry (CAM) with Samudayik Sarathi as local partner completed constructing 19 new school buildings including one for deaf pupil in Sindhupalchowk district (Maneshwara, Ghorthali and Choketi VDC) using GI sheets as primary construction material. SS provided local support (Coordination) and extended its expertise in social mobilization, and participated in the designing and planning of the program and provided logistic support.
Purpose: To support in increasing people participation in law making process, to promote rule of law, to strengthen democracy and political accountability through legislative discourse.
Budget: NPR 27,247,758.00 (Approx. US$ 400,000)
Program Duration: 54 Months (Dec 2010–June 2015)
Funding Agency: USAID through The Asia Foundation (TAF) and National
Democratic Institute (NDI)
Key Person: Dr. Sagar Prasain, The Asia Foundation
Tel.: 9851043448, Email: sagar.prasain@asiafoundation.org
Location: 66 districts out of 75 districts in Nepal
Partner Organizations: WomenAct
Agenda Discussed
1. Bills related to voter list, CA Election, Local Election for Good Governance, 2nd CA Election, Local Body Election Amendment 2013;
2. Bills related to Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Disappearance Commission, and
Witness and Victim Protection;
3. Bills on Domestic Violence, Social and Gender Inclusion, and Witchcraft;
4. Bill on Electricity;5. Bills on Labor and Land Acquisition;
6. Bills on Social Security and Private Security; and
7. Bills on Procedure Regarding Administrative Authority and Contempt of Court.
Highlights of the Program
1. Performed 855 (19 issues x 45 districts = 855) youth and women focused legislative town hall meetings;
2. 43210 individuals participated altogether;
3. Participants included youth from political parties and their sister organizations, youth clubs, NGO activist, CBOs, journalist, local stakeholders and other issue related organization;
4. 15 moderators and 15 reporters were mobilized for each town hall meeting.
5. Informal meeting among 50 youths is conducted in each district and their views were collected;
6. Meetings involved collecting opinion/recommendation through group discussion, group presentation, open floor (comments) using audio/video recording, note taking and meta-card collection etc.;
7. The recommendation and suggestion were documented and analyzed, and submitted directly to the concern stakeholders and to the public through press release/conference;
8. Report publication.
Purpose: To reduce corruption and malpractices and increase accountability and transparency in local service delivery by identifying the effectiveness of the social accountability tools such as participatory planning, public audit, Public Expenditure Tracking (PET), revenue monitoring, Right to Information (RTI), and media mobilization.
Budget: NPR 7,319,889.00 (Approx. US$ 75,000)
Program Duration: 9 Months (March–Dec 2013)
Funding Agency: AUSAID through The Asia Foundation
Contact Person: Dr. Sagar Prasain, The Asia Foundation Tel.: 9851043448, Email: sagar.prasain@asiafoundation.org
Nature of Assignment: Action research
Partners/Collaborators: This project was operated jointly in the leadership of Samudayik Sarathi (Leader), Freedom Forum, Nepal Forum for Environment Journalist (NEFEJ), Municipality Association Nepal (MuAN), and Institute for Integrated Development Studies (IIDS).
Location: Five Municipalities (Dharan, Dhulikhel, Byas, Narayan and Bhimdatta)
Highlights of the program
1. Base line survey;
2. Key informant interviewees were from political parties, one key executive office/leader from each political party from each municipality;
3. Perception survey was conducted in 3 wards in each municipality on monthly basis.
Participants included 10 members of Ward Citizen Forum (WCF), 15 service receivers, and 5 municipality staffs from each municipality;
4. Time survey of executive officers;
5. Prepared and published training manual;
6. Provided training to Ward Citizen Forum (WCF), Municipalities, and Community Awareness Center (CAC) on social accountability tools such public audit, budget monitoring, Public Expenditure Tracking (PETS), etc.;
7. Case studies of three major projects run by each municipalities to identify whether these projects were implemented because of public demand or guided by political actor’s interest;
8. Other activities included town hall meetings on public awareness campaign on local governance system and compliance, media mobilization and right to information (RTI);
9. Social and media mobilization;
10. Human resources for the program involved five district coordinators, five researchers, five assistant coordinators, five assistant researchers, 45 RTI activists, 20 journalists and 5 Program coordinators;
11. Publication and submission of final report;
Purpose: To collect public opinion on proposed policies on issues such as national interest (security focus), form of government, federalism, and judiciary as prepared and collected by Constitutional Assembly Committees.
Budget: NPR 1,603,100 (Approx. US$ 30,000)
Program Duration: 3 Months (Jan–March, 2010) Funding Agency: The Asia Foundation
Contact Person: Sagar Prasain
Contact Tel: 9851043488, Email: sagar.prasain@asiafoundation.org
Partners: WomanAct, Rural Community Development Service Council (RCDSC) Location: 45 out of 58 existing municipalities and six Village Development Committees
Highlights of the program
Altogether 141 programs were conducted in 45 districts and interacted with 7050 youth on the given issues. Fifteen moderators, fifteen reporters and coordinator were mobilized for this project.
Purpose: To make a dossier on members of the First Constituent Assembly so that people, non/governmental organizations and international community could easily access information about all 601 members and their expertize, their party based association, and their current involvement.
Budget: NPR 720,100.00 (Approx. US$ 14,000)
Program Duration: 3 Months (Oct-Dec 2008)
Funding Agency: Enabling State Program (ESP) / Alliance for Social Dialogue (ASD)
Key Persons
Ms. Bandana Risal, (Organization Collapsed)
Tel: 977-01-5555766, Email:bandana@espnepal.com and
Deepak Thapa, ASD
Tel: 4472807, Email: asd@soscbaha.org
Highlights of the program
1. The dossier is titled “Members of the Constituent Assembly” and contains 652 pages;
2. The dossier is reported to be very handy by the public, non/governmental organizations officials and international community.
Purpose: To provide support to slum habitants so that they can live more humane life.
Budget: NPR 4,031,246.52 (Approx. US$ 57,000)
Program Duration: 35 Months (April 2011–March 2014) Funding Agency: INCLUDED Nepal
Contact Person: Sneh Rajbhandari,
Tel: 9851024008, Email: neh.rajbhandari@included.org
Highlights of the program
1. Provide support to community member in their search for employment;
2. Provide support to the children, women and youths in their quest for better and meaningful life;
3. Support building a common platform where community members can share their resources including skill, experience and knowledge;
4. Campaign to make community members aware about the drawbacks of violence, drug use, and prostitution;
5. An early childhood development (ECD) center where 30 children of age 3-5 get opportunity to play, rest, learn, and feed: they are provided breakfast and day-meal;
6. After school program (ASP) that provides children with their homework and other co-curricular activities for 50 children;
7. A pre-school that caters to 10 children;
8. A mothers’ club with 25 members that provides mothers opportunity to rest, talk and share their experience: they are also provided family education;
9. A youth club that has 35 members conducts various capacity building activities for the youths;
10. Altogether there are 10 personnel working in these centers: they are focal person, center manager, caregivers, After School Program (ASP) coordinator, ASP teacher, dance training teacher, etc.
Purpose: The primary purpose of the survey is to assess living condition in slums and draw public, non/governmental organizations and international community’s attention to the problems.
Budget: NPR 1,000,000.00 (Approx. US$ 13,000)
Program Duration: 9 Months (Oct 2013–June 2014) Key Person: Tara Bahadur Bhandari
Tel: 9841460197; Email: ssamudayik@yahoo.com
Highlights of the program
1. Questionnaire design and orientation to the enumerators;
2. Rapid survey in the 55 slums and collection of data regarding tentative numbers of households, facilities like public school, public toilet, health clinic, community center, drinking water, road etc.;
3. Compiled and analyzed data and produce report.
Purpose: To identify children below five years, available professions in the slum, and slum-people’s living condition.
Budget: NPR 150000 (Approx. US$ 200,000)
Program duration: 3 months (January to March 2011) Funding support: INCLUDED Nepal
Contact person: Sneh Rajbhandari
Contact telephone: 9851024008, Email: sneh.rajbhandari@included.org
Highlights of the program
1. The household survey was conducted in Manohara slum settlement, 4 km east of Kathmandu: there were altogether 416 households in this settlement.
2. Thirty-two volunteers were mobilized for 3 days for survey purpose.
3. The findings are compiled in the Urban Dabali.
Purpose: To assess problems faced by internal manual migrants in Kathmandu.
Budget: NPR 550,000.00 (Approx. US$ 7000)
Program Period: 2 Months (May–June 2012)
Key Person: Tara Bdr.Bhandari, Tel: 9841460197, Email:ssamudayik@yahoo.co
Highlights of the program
1. The survey included 138 respondents residing and working in 63 different locations in
Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur.
2. Questionnaire was constructed around migrants’ job, income, work environment, living condition, access to information technology, family size, etc.
3. Seven volunteers and staffs were mobilized to conduct the survey and data.
4. The final findings/report was presented in a seminar in the presence of non/government officials, journalists, professionals, labor activists, and international communities in Kathmandu.
