Project Manager: Lhamotso (Lily)
This project is to hold short health training for the village women, plant trees in the wasted water reservoir, building running water system and small greenhouses for 28 households in Waku Rama Village. Waku Rama Village, Wenduo Township, Xunhua County, Haidong Region, Qignhai Province.
The Canada Fund funded this project
Lhamotso is from Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, China. She graduated with an associated degree in English at Qinghai Normal University Nationalities Department English Training Program in 2005. Currently she works in Shem Women’s Group and she is one of the program directors and general financial officer of Shem Women’s Group.
What? to hold short health training for the village women, plant trees in the wasted water reservoir, building running water system and small greenhouses for 28 households in Waku Rama Village.
Where? Waku Rama Village, Wenduo Township, Xunhua County, Haidong Region, Qignhai Province.
1.BENEFICIARIES
Identify the direct and indirect beneficiaries of this project. Please include numbers of each sex (male/female) and an explanation of how each type of beneficiary has benefited.
| Type | Direct Beneficiaries | Indirect Beneficiaries | ||
| Estimated | Actual | Estimated | Actual | |
| TOTAL | 140 | 140 | ||
| Male | 55 | 55 | ||
| Female | 58 | 58 | ||
| Girls | 11 | 11 | ||
| Boys | 16 | 16 | ||
| Minorities | Tibetan | Tibetan | ||
| Other (E.g. Elderly, disabled, etc.) Provide details. | ||||
Please explain any variation (+/-) for the number of beneficiaries and include details on how many were members of minority groups.
2. LOCAL CONTRIBUTION AND PARTICIPATION
a) How were local people been involved in the design, planning, implementation and monitoring of the project? In particular, describe how women beneficiaries were involved. Describe any suggestions or feedback they made during the project that were different from the original project plan or different from the ideas of the implementing agency.
As the project beneficiaries, the local villagers fully participate in the design, planting , implementation and monitoring of the project like providing the project related information, being interviewed, attending meetings, giving ideas and thoughts, planting trees, carrying water for irrigating trees, the project committee have supervised the process of implementing the project, etc. In Waku Rarma village, they can not get very enough harvest from very poor and limited fields, so most village men go out for earning money to support their families, and only women, elders, children and some men stayed at home. In this case, all the women have fully participated from the beginning the project until now included making suggestions, attending meetings, working and etc.
b) What specific skills did they acquire from their involvement?
Since the villagers already have certain experiences with planting trees and building running water system in other villages, so they did not learn any specific skills so far but their knowledge towards planting trees are surely improved. For the village women, they should get very good ideas about what they should do and should not during pregnancy and so on.
c) Did local government made any contribution?
So far, the local government has not made any contribution financially but they gave full permission to proceed the project and assisted the local villagers and the project manager to get the formal receipts (Fapiao) because some sellers required a local government stamp in order to give formal receipts (Fapiao).
d) How has the project helped to develop the local community’s problem solving capacity? I.e. how are they more able to solve the community’s problems?
As I mentioned several times, this village did not have community sense before this project at all, everybody just tries their best to improve their own living condition; people did not come to the village meeting and participate in any village’s affairs. By involving and participating in this project, most people do get some community sense, they all come together to solve the problems which they have met during in the process of implementing the project; the villagers attend all the meetings, share their ideas and give suggestions and make comments.
3. UNEXPECTED EVENTS/CHALLENGES OVERCOME/LESSONS LEARNED
Outline any positive or negative events that have had an impact upon the project; e.g. delays, increased number of beneficiaries, matching funds form government, etc.; challenges and how they were addressed, and lessons learned in the process. This is relatively a big integrated project which contains four different activities like health training, planting trees, build running water system and greenhouses for almost one year. As the project manager, Lhamotso has not encountered any serious or big challenges but small problems can not be inevitable and unexpected. Firstly, Not familiar with the project location and the villagers lead to no trust between the project manager and the project beneficiaries: since the project manager, Lhamotso me, I am not from the project location and very new to the village which made me difficult to handle the unexpected problems like the villagers did not believe me as a outsider and stranger to help them to get drinkable and clean water, health training, plant trees and build greenhouses for them. Even I tried to explain many times they still did not trust me totally until the funds arrived and we actually started to do the different activities. At the same time, it is very tough to explain to the positive impacts of being implemented this project because this is the first project that this village ever have so the villagers did not have any ideas about the project and so on. Secondly, Lack of experiences with the big integrated project: planting trees and buying mental fence would be the main challenges during implementation of the entire project. It was bit late to plant trees because the period for planting trees is almost over but we could not find a seedling nursery to buy saplings for a reasonable price; and also it was much more difficult to purchase metal fence around Xining City. All these kinds of problems occurred but I could not deal with it either the villagers. So I asked my father to help me with buying saplings and mental fence because he has many experiences with those work, finally all the problems solved one by one and we bought a very good quality of mental fence in Huangyuan County and relatively cheap saplings in Huzhu County. This is the first time I have implemented a planting tree project, and I don’t have any ideas that planting trees have some conditions like when is the appropriate season to plant, which kind of trees can grow in certain place and if the saplings have leaves then they will not grow. For the mental fence, again I do not know which mental fence is better for settling around the village forest in order to protect from animals. All those information really stuck me at some point, but all these unknown information are mostly provided by my father, the villagers and the people who are working in their own respective companies. Thirdly, Lack of solidarity of the whole village makes the project bit difficult to carry on smoothly; there were different opinions and ideas while we needed to make decision. People preferred to receive everything from the donor and they seemed did not like to work for their own welfare and for the whole village. Fourthly, the project manager could not get the funds from Qinghai Minority Charitable Foundation on time, and they only gave the funds (70%) partially to the project manager. Because of the postponed funds, the project had to delay for some period of time which did not cause huge negative impact on the project, but due to delayed funds, we could not start the project especially plant trees since plant trees need to depend on the right season, as a result we almost did not get the saplings to plant in the village as we planned in the original project proposal. At last, the villagers did not have the sense of community and unit. At the beginning, the villagers did not participate in the village meetings which were about the project. Some villagers did not participate in public working like attending women’s health training, planting trees, carrying water to irrigate the trees and digging ditches for running water system. Later one of the project committee Pama Dorjie, who is from Waku Rarma village, very often spoke about the community sense, the project and work together to accomplish very successful project and so on. Gradually the villagers seem get some ideas and the villagers have fully participated in any kinds of community work especially the village women.
4. MONITORING & EVALUATION
a) Indicate what milestones have been reached (if not all have been reached explain)
- i. three days short training on women’s health to the village women in Waku Rarma village
- ii. plant trees in the unused and waste water reservoir nearby Waku Rarma village
- iii. build a running water system for Waku Rarma village
- iv. build 26 greenhouses for 26 households in Waku Rarma villages
b) What data were tracked during project implementation and what will be tracked in future?
During the project implementation, the project manger did not tracked with any specific data, after discussing with some local villagers, we will track with some numbers like the times of washing clothes after they have sufficient water in their yards and wash and clean their hair; the local women’s working hours and also we can observe people’s living condition like having vegetables.
c) What measures were taken to ensure quality control? E.g. pre- and post-training exams, materials testing, follow up interviews, etc.
Up to date, the intermediary organization has not monitored the progress of the project but they strongly has requested every single formal receipt (Fapiao) which was used to purchase any project related materials. However they have not monitored the process of the project, the project manager, Lhamotso provided the photos and project data during their annual board meeting.
d) What evidence suggests that the project has been successful and has achieved its purposes?
A female Tibetan doctor was invited and gave basic women’s health training for three days, in total 15 hours; the villagers purchased 30,000 saplings and planted them in the village’s unused water reservoir; the villagers have very reliable and clean water to drink after building running water system in the village and 26 households built small greenhouses next to their houses for planting some green vegetables.
e) Describe what methods were used to monitor and evaluate the project results (include relevant dates, names etc. to explain monitoring process). Describe how the project results were identified and documented.
1) On April 4th to 6th 2009, the project manager (Lhamotso) and co-project manager (Pama Dorjie) have visited the project site village and supervised and monitored the whole process of the heath training, for instance, Lhamotso and Pama Dorjie participated in the training, made suggestions about the training and encouraged the village women to participate actively in the training. 2) On April 13th 2009, Lhamotso bought mental fence, transported to Waku Rarma village and kept in the village Mani Temple. 3) On May 2nd 2009, Lhamotso and Pama Dorjie bought water pipes. Pama Dorjie was responsible to supervise the transportation of the materials and at the same time he took photos and asked the villagers about the panting trees. 4) On June 3rd 2009, Pama Dorjie visited the project site to supervise the process of the building running water system to the village. 5) On July 25th 2009, Lhamotso and Pama Dorjie went to project site to monitor the process of building running water system. 6) On October 20th 2009, Lhamotso and Pama Dorjie purchased cinder blocks, cement and red bricks and transported to the village. 7) On November 7th 2009, Lhamotso and Pama Dorjie purchased plastic sheet for covering the roof of the greenhouses. 8) On December 5th 2009, Lhamotso went to the project site to monitor the progress of building greenhouses as the last activity of the project. 9) On December 19th, Lhamotso and Pama Dorjie visited the project site for final evaluation of the project. 10）On March 18th 2010, received partial fund from Qinghai Minority Charity Fund as the intermediate organization. 11）On March 19th 2010, the project manager, Lhamotso and a village man went to see the saplings in Huzhu Shuangshu Tree Nursery to check the saplings and the price. 12）On March 26th 2010, the project manager, Lhamotso and the village leader and one of village man went to the same Tree Nursery to book the amount of saplings and decide the price for each sapling and transportation fee for transporting the saplings to the project location. 13）On April 2nd –4th 2010, the samplings were loaded on the two trucks and transported to the project location and the villagers unloaded all the saplings for the almost entire night. 14）From April 6th 2010, the villagers started to plant saplings. 15）On April 8th 2010, the project manager, Lhamotso visited the project village supervised how was planting saplings going on, interviewed the project beneficiary and took photos for the report. 16）On April 17th 2010, the villagers completed to plant the trees. 16) At the beginning of January 2011, Shem Women’s Group as a managing group will go to the project site to evaluate the project by asking prepared questions.
f) What monitoring was performed by the Intermediary? E.g. site visits, telephone calls, document reviews, etc.
The intermediary organization has not visited the project site, but we frequently reported the process of the project by providing photos, receipts, document reviews and oral report to the responsible person in the intermediary organization.
5. WOMEN’S PARTICIPATION & IMPACT
a) Describe how women have been involved in the project so far and what impact the project is having on them.
The women especially the women who are in the project management committee are very much involved in planning, designing, managing and implementing the project. At same time other village women have participated all the activities like health training, planting and watering saplings and digging ditches for burying water pipes. Regarding to the health training for the village women, it is very effective and has very positive impact on them. For example, they understand that this project is largely benefited women in terms of reducing heavy workload by building running water system, planting trees and build greenhouses; and this leads to the women is fully participating in every single activity of the project. On the other hand, the women can share and exchange openly what they have encountered being a village woman.
b) What targets were reached for women’s involvement? E.g. number on committee, beneficiary numbers, skills acquisition, etc.
There are two women are on the project management committee and those two members of the committee have very positive impact on the other village women and set the role models for the rest of the village women in Waku Rarma village by fully get involved the every process of the project. Moreover, around 58 village women can get befits from this project especially the women’s health training and building running water system to install water tap in each household. As a female project manager, I really do get very valuable experiences and skills like communication, bargaining with the sellers and lots of knowledge of planting tress and constructing running water system.
c) How did women respond to this level of involvement?
By implementing this project, the women has involved in the whole process of this project, especially labour work like planting trees, carrying water for irrigating the planted trees, digging ditches for burying water pipe for building running water system and building greenhouse. And also they actively participated three days training every day. For instance, those two female project committee members strongly encouraged other village women to attend the training punctually. At this level, they are very much enthusiastic about their involvement in this project. When the male project committee members presented at the same time, they were passive and constantly stated that the men knew better than them. They always tried to push their rights for making decisions, giving suggestions and comments to the men, and mostly agreed the men’s decision. At this level, the women were passive and they had no self-confidence make big decisions or say something since this is probably the first time the women really got involved in such a big village’s affair like implementing the project for almost entire year.
d) Identify measures that will be taken to ensure female beneficiaries’ continued enjoyment of the benefits of the project.
It is not necessary to take any measures to ensure female beneficiaries’ involvement in all aspects of the project because all the village women are fully and very actively engaging, involving and participating in every single activity of the project and they will surely get involve in the continued activity of the project since most of the village men are doing work outside of the village in order to earn family cash income.
6. ENVIRONMENT
a) What effect upon the natural environment, both positive and negative (if any) has the project had so far?
There are not any negative effect upon the natural environment, but planting saplings really bring positive impact upon the natural environment like beautify the village surroundings and because of planting trees, more plants can be grown in the unused water reservoir.
b) How any negative impacts have been addressed? By implementing this project, there is no any negative effect upon the natural environment.
c) What future impacts are expected? In the future, there would be positive impact upon the village environment, like trees can be a huge resource to beautify the village surrounding, and different plants and grass can be grown well because water can be sufficient to irrigate the trees and grass more often.
7. AGREEMENT POSTING
a) Describe how the Agreement, including detailed budget was posted publicly (i.e. location), how long it was posted for, and how it was explained/translated into local languages, (if this was required)
In Waku Rarma village, the most villagers can only read Tibetan but do not understand the content, so Pama Dorjie translated the contract into Tibetan and we posted the contract and detailed breakdown actual cost in the Mani temple on July 12th 2009. Later Pama Dorjie explained all the content of contract one by one as well as the detailed actual cost during the meeting.
b) How did local people respond to the public posting of the Agreement and detailed budget?
Local people are very satisfied with posting the contract in Tibetan and detailed actual cost and most of them expressed this was the good way to maintain the villagers’ active participation in the project and trust between the project manager, the project management committee and the villagers.
8. KEY PROJECT RESULTS AND OUTCOMES
a) Was the project a success? Why?
The project was a success because all the activities are accomplished, all the village women attended the training, 90% of the saplings are grown well, the villagers have sufficient water to drink and the greenhouses are completely finished to implement.
b) What did the project accomplish? (Note: this relates to results, not simply activities or outputs.) The project accomplished the following four things:
1) By the village women’s active participation in the health training, the village women are very much inspired and really get involved in the process of implementing the project. At the same time, the village women eagerly like to share their ideas and thoughts regarding to gender and women’s health. 2) Most of the saplings are grown very well and it would be the village forest for the villagers can use the tree branches for fuel in the future and also the village forest would be a nice place to hold village picnic and other village activities. 3) After building running water system, the villagers have clean water to drink and the women do not need spend any time on carrying water, in this case the women’s workload is greatly reduced. The villagers can also water the trees and the greenhouses. 4) The villagers can plant some green vegetables in the greenhouses and can feed themselves.
c) What changes resulted? Discuss how the project has affected the community.
As I mentioned several times, this village did not have community sense before this project at all, everybody just tries their best to improve their own living condition; people did not come to the village meeting and participate in any village’s affairs. By involving and participating in this project, most people do get some community sense, they all come together to solve the problems which they have met during in the process of implementing the project; the villagers attend all the meetings, share their ideas and give suggestions and make comments. Therefore, this could be a very positive change within the village because of implementing this project. If the whole community has formed a firm solidarity then it would be good for the village’s future development and the villagers might concern about the problems of the village.
d) How the change has been measured (surveys?)
This change has been measured by randomly talked to some villagers and observed the behaviours of the villages, especially many conversations with the co-project manager Pama Dorjie since he is from Waku Rarma village, the project site.
e) What future results are expected as a result of the project?
As stated in the original project proposal, It is expected that the project will have wide-ranging and a profoundly positive impact upon the local community: economically, household income is expected to rise somewhat as a result of the time saved collecting water being reinvested in agriculture, animal care and potentially paid labour activities. Health is also expected to improve as people will be able to drink and bathe using safe water throughout the year. Similarly, households will be able to wash clothes, dishes and provide water to animals, vegetable gardens and trees. Currently clothes are only washed every few months in winter and bathing in winter usually only occurs sporadically. The elderly in the village will also benefit from easy access to fresh water for tea and cooking, even when family members are away from the village. Water combined with small greenhouses will allow villagers to improve their diets with vegetables such as cabbages, leek, carrot, garlic, peppers and the like, thus strengthening their health though provision of vitamins and micronutrients. Villagers will be able to conserve time and energy while reducing deforestation and erosion through the maintenance of the village forest, thereby providing them with a valuable source of fuel and timber.
9. EXAMPLES/CASE STUDIES
Please provide some typical examples or case studies of the impact of the project on beneficiaries; i.e. how has the project changed their lives in some way? Include photos of interviewees if possible.
She is one of the project beneficiaries and her name is Lhalungyi. In this photo, she was participating in planting trees. She is thirty-seven year old village woman and there are seven people in her family. Her family is mainly depended on working in the fields, digging caterpillar fungus and working as migrant worker like building roads and houses. On April 13th 2010, the project manager, Lhamotso briefly interviewed her about the impacts of this project. She mentioned several times that she was so happy that they can plant trees in this wasted land and even her generation may not get much benefits from those trees but she was pretty sure that her next generation will get benefits from those trees like collect branches of the trees as fuel. She said that she as a woman had very heavy workload like collecting fuel, carrying water, doing all the housework, taking care of children and so on, so the woman in this village shouldered very heavy work, especially about carrying water, she stated that during busy period like harvest time, the women needed to carry water from valley for more than three times in per day, in this case carrying water was a big task for them. However, because of this project, they did not need to carry water any more and they could wash their clothes whenever they were free from working, and she said jokingly that she became lazy because she did not need to carry water any more.
10. PROJECT MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
a) How was the project management committee selected?
Two years ago, the project manager, I had a meeting with the villagers, talked about the urgent problem and consent to propose a running water project for their village. During the meeting some village men and women talked very actively and passionately and also during interviewing and talking to them individually, I realized those people are very suitable to be the project committee at the same time the rest villagers agreed that those people can help the rest of the villagers to complete the project very well. In this way, the project management committee was selected without any objections.
b) How were major decisions made?
People have different ideas and disputes towards a very small things as well as it takes time therefore the major decisions in this project are mostly made by the project manager and the project management committee. One more reason is that the project management committee members are from this village so they can more or less represent the villagers’ thoughts and opinions.
The process of making decision:
- Meeting with the villagers and talked about the issue.
- Talked about the positive and negative aspect of making certain decisions
- Analyze the feasibility of the decision, the villagers’ thoughts, ideas, suggestions and comments.
- Make the most reasonable decision with the project manager and the project management committee.
c) How were women, not only organizational leaders but also local women such as farmers, included in the project management process and encouraged to participate and provide their input?
In Waku Rarma village, they can not get very enough harvest from very poor and limited fields, so most village men go out for earning money to support their families, and only women, elders, children and some men stayed at home. In this case, all the women have fully participated from the beginning the project until now included making suggestions, attending meetings, working and etc.
KEY PROJECT IMPLEMENTERS
List the key project implementers’ names, positions and sex.
| Name | Position | Sex |
| Lhamotso | Financial Officer in Shem Women’s Group/project manger | Female |
| Pama Dorjie | Report in Qinghai Daily/ co-project manager | Male |
| Hawuzhou | the project committee | Male |
| Lhamojia | the project committee | Female |
| Hawutai | the project committee | Male |
| Limojia | the project committee | Female |
| Zhoujiakelao | the project committee | Male |
11. PROJECT SUSTAINABILITY
a) Describe what measures have been taken to continue the project’s activities and/or outputs in the future.
The villagers as the project beneficiaries themselves collected 50rbm from each household to purchase the necessary material if the running water system is broken in the future. At the same time, the villagers will take turn to look after the village forest to protect the trees from stealing by the nearby villagers. Since each family has their own small greenhouse and they will be responsible for their own greenhouse.
b) Identify potential challenges to sustainability such as recurrent and maintenance costs, personnel change or other potential risks.
As the villagers mentioned that there may have some potential challenges to sustainability such as natural disaster flood which may destroy the parts of the running water system. If the flood happens then the villagers will repay the running water system by themselves. Regarding the trees, as I mentioned in the last section, the local villagers concern that the trees most likely will be stolen by other villagers so three families as a group take turn to take care the forest in each month. If the trees or the mental fence are stolen or broken then those families need to repay them without any excuses. The project committee will responsible fro making some rules for that.
c) How will the program continue after Canadian support ceases?
Since this is the first development project in Waku Rarma Village and they have not implemented any government projects either. However if there is a chance then the villager will organize to have a very local and simple health training if the financial condition is positive and also they strongly eager to collect some money from each family and buy more trees to plant in the forest trees in order to expand the village forest.
d) What arrangements have been made for the training of community members to be responsible for the control and maintenance of the program, if applicable? (E.g. does the community possess the technical skills for maintenance and repair of equipment and who will be responsible for follow-up and/or maintenance?
Actually the villagers themselves are very capable with repairing the running water system, greenhouses and take care of the village trees. Therefore it is not necessary to have training for the villagers in order to learn skills of maintain the project outputs.
12. PROJECT FINANCE
| Budget ( RMB) | Actual ( RMB) | ||||
| Item/Type of Activity |
Canada Fund | Local Contri bution |
Item/Type of Activity |
Canada Fund |
Local Contri bution |
| I. Water system parts, transport &design | I. Water system parts,transport &design | ||||
| Plastic Pipe#63 | 42,500 | Plastic Pipe#75 | 6,600 | ||
| Plastic Pipe#50 | 19,500 | Plastic Pipe#63 | 54,000 | ||
| Plastic Pipe#32 | 11,000 | Plastic Pipe#50 | 16,900 | ||
| Plastic Pipe#25 | 22,500 | Plastic Pipe#50 | 1,620 | ||
| Connections | 2,000 | Connections | 65 | ||
| Black Plastic Pipe | 1,800 | Black Plastic Pipe | 90 | ||
| Iron wire #22, #8 | 300 | Iron wire #22, #8 | 85 | ||
| Shut -off valves | 600 | Shut -off valves | 480 | ||
| Taps/Fitments (set) | 420 | Taps | 95 | ||
| Iron Bar #4, #6 | 4,000 | Iron Bar #4, #6 | 2,000 | ||
| Cement (/bag) | 5,940 | Cement(bags) | 1,600 | ||
| Water Test | 1,000 | Water Test | 150 | ||
| From Xining City, Xunhua County to Waku Rarma Village | 10,200 | From Xining City, Xunhua County to Waku Rarma Village | 2,000 | ||
| Sand | 4,000 | Sand | 4,600 | ||
| Design Fee (Water) | 4,000 | ||||
| Labour | 132,300 | Labour | 90,000 | ||
| Hiring machine | Hiring machine | 30,000 | |||
| Skilled workers | 12,000 | Skilled workers | 7,000 | ||
| II. Hygiene promotion activities | |||||
| Training fee | 450.00 | Training fee | 450 | ||
| Document/file fee | 300.00 | Document/file fee | |||
| Transportation fee | 500.00 | Transportation fee | 288.2 | ||
| Accommodation fee | 300.00 | Accommodation fee | 150 | ||
| Meal costs | 90 | Meal costs | 45 | ||
| Soap | 98 | Soap | 87.75 | ||
| Tooth brush & paste | 560 | Tooth brush& paste | 516 | ||
| Nail clipper | 120 | ||||
| Period Paper | Period Paper | 225 | |||
| Hand-washing basin & hand towel | 450 | Hand-washing basin Hand& hand towel | 453 | ||
| Washing powder | Washing powder | 136.5 | |||
| Plastic bags | Plastic bags | 1.65 | |||
| III. Staff capacity training(pm)with SDA | |||||
| Training Fee | 200 | Training Fee | |||
| Training Materials | 50 | Training Materials | |||
| Travel: Xining to Guanting (RT) | 200 | Travel: Xining to Guanting (RT) | |||
| Food& Accommodation in Guanting |
150 | Food & Accommodation in Guanting |
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| IV. Household greenhouse & village forest | IV. Household greenhouse & village forest | ||||
| Greenhouses | 75,000 | Greenhouses | 87,986.92 | ||
| tax for getting Fapiao | tax for getting Fapiao | 4,131.9 | |||
| Labour | 21,000 | Labour | 24,000 | ||
| Trees | 63,000 | 27,000 | Trees | 101,550 | 36,000 |
| V. Forestry consultant | V. Forestry consultant | ||||
| Village Forest Plan Assessment | 500 | Village Forest Plan Assessment | |||
| Basic Forestry Training for Villagers | 1,000 | Basic Forestry Training for Villagers | |||
| Travel and Accommodation | 400 | Travel and Accommodation | |||
| Metal fence | 8,140 | Metal fence | 5,280 | ||
| Concrete pole | 2,565 | Concrete pole | 3,060 | ||
| Steel door | 400 | Steel door | 170 | ||
| Miscellaneous | Miscellaneous | 3,695 | |||
| Transport for Seedlings (trees) and associated materials | 4,500 | Transport for Seedlings (trees) and associated materials | |||
| Transport for Greenhouses and associated materials | 4,500 | Transport for Greenhouses and associated materials | 1,800 | ||
| VI. Project management M&E |
VI. Project management M&E |
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| Communications | 675.00 | Communications | 1,450 | ||
| Transportation | 6,480 | Transportation | 3,621 | ||
| Food | 2,880 | 1,440 | Food | 2,269 | 3,200 |
| Accommodation | 2,880 | 2,160 | Accommodation | 1,253 | 3,840 |
| Stationery | 225 | Stationery | 440 | ||
| Photocopying (surveys, IEC, etc) | 300 | Photocopying (surveys, IEC, etc) | 157 | ||
| Canada Fund Recognition | 200 | Canada Fund Recognition | 110 | ||
| Other (tax for getting formal receipts) | 1,000 | Other (tax for getting formal receipts) | |||
| Running water system maintenance fee | 1,500 | Running water system maintenance fee | 1,400 | ||
| TOTAL | 314,873 | 190,400 | 311,819 | 193,235 | |
Notes: after all the activities of the project are completely done, there still 3,053.68rmb left from the funds, and the donor requests to send back to them.
13. PUBLIC AWARENESS & CANADIAN IDENTITY
a) What measures were taken to inform the beneficiaries and the general public of the contribution of the Canada Fund and the commitment made by the implementing agency?
1) having meeting with the project beneficiaries and introducing the donor and the project 2) explain the contract 3) randomly talk to the villagers while mentoring the project 4) displaying the plaque which is written about the project name and the donor
b) How has the contribution been recognized at the project site?
1) The representatives from Canada Fund have visited the project site and talked to the project beneficiaries twice. 2) The project manager made clearly announcement to the villagers about the Canada Fund’s contribution to this project. 3) Randomly talked to the villagers about the donor. 4) Paste the contract on the wall of the public place, the village Mani Hall.
c) List all media coverage of the project. Provide copies of any print media.
1) Posted on the managing group, Shem Women’s Group’s website (www.shemgroup.org)
Appendix: some photos of the project
All the village women, who have participated the women’s health training, are in the photo with the project manager and doctor, Wuxiuji; and they are very happy to receive all kinds of hygiene related stuff like the period paper, tooth brush, washing powder and etc.
The both village women and men are carrying water to irrigate the saplings before building running water system.
The workers are uploading the metal fence in the truck in Huangyuan County.
The cement for building water box is stored in the village’s public house, Mani Hall.
Some of the water pipes are kept in the Mani Hall. The saplings are become green tress in water reservoir. The villagers have sufficient water to drink and also do some constructions work. The villagers are removing the cinder blocks from the truck. The project manager is comparing the quality of the plastic sheet which is used to cover the roof of the greenhouse. This is well-built a greenhouse in one of the project beneficiaries’ yard. This is the plaque with three languages in it.
Original Project Proposal
Project location
This project will be located on a mountain, Waku Rarma Village, Wen Duo Tibetan Township, Xunhua Salar Autonomous County, Haidong Region, Qinghai Province. Waku Rarma Village is the southwestern part of the Xunhua County and is approximately 217 km from the provincial capital, Xining.
Background
All families in Waku Rarma Village historically moved from a neighboring village called Waku Village, both of which are located at the bottom of the same mountain.. There were lots of families in Waku Village with very insufficient farmlands, so the local people did not have enough land. This meant they did not have enough food. Therefore, in 1973, all the new families in Waku Village were sent to a new place, which was on the top of the mountain. Those new families composed a new village called Waku Rarma Village. As a result Waku Rarma is economically and materially very poor which is sated in the following sections.
Population
In Waku Rarma Village, all the villagers are Tibetan. There are 30 households consisting of 140 residents in the target village. There are 58 women, 55 men and 27 children.
Education
The majority people in Waku Rarma Village are illiterate. Currently there is only one college student, a girl, and one middle school student who is a boy. Also, there are two girls and eleven boys attending Jieku primary school in neighboring Waku Village. In total, there are only 15 children attending school.
There are several reasons for such inadequate education conditions. Firstly, college school tuition is about 3,000 rmb to 5,000 rmb per semester. For a high school student, the school expense is over 1,000 rmb. In this case the local people cannot afford to send their children to continue further studies in high school or college. That is why there are very few students who have education higher than the middle school level. Secondly, the neighboring primary school is 5 km away from Waku Rarma Village, which means that the little children are unable to go to school without being accompanied by adults. In addition, there is a river with no bridge between the neighboring school and Waku Rarma Village. When there are heavy rains the river becomes very strong and the students need to walk in the river with their bare feet no matter if it is summer or winter. An additional reason for the poor education conditions is that the children have lots of housework to do such as carrying water, clean houses, feed pigs, and work on the fields and herd livestock. All of these factors cause the overall education level in Waku Rarma Village to be very low.
Cash income
People who live in Waku Rarma Village really have very difficult economic conditions.
Traditionally, Waku Rarma Village is an agricultural village. They seldom make money from the livestock. Therefore, the villagers earn money by the following two ways: as a migrant construction workers and digging caterpillar fungus every April and May in other places, some as far as 500 kilometers to 700 kilometers. Caterpillar fungus is a kind of medicinal herb, which mostly grows on high mountains. Several years ago the local villagers could make a fair amount of money from digging caterpillar fungus. Specifically, most villagers could earn over 1,500 rmb within two months of digging caterpillar fungus after they paid about 100 rmb to 200 rmb tax for use the pastureland. But recently, to protect the ecological balance, a new law was passed that forbids people from digging for caterpillar fungus.
As a result, people do not want to take a risk to go to such far places to dig caterpillar fungus without knowing whether it will be worthwhile. Because of this fact, more and more local people are working as migrant construction workers in Xunhua County or Xining City. Basically the villagers build roads because they do not have any skills to do other work that could be a good source of making money. By building roads, they can make around 500 rmb to 600 rmb each month, and usually they are able to work about three months. In total they can make about 1,800 rmb.
Villagers spend on average between 600-700 rmb on purchasing tea, salt, other daily necessities, fertilizer and clothes. People spend about 300-400 rmb per year buying fertilizer in the form of urea and amino acids. Each 100g bag of urea is 95 rmb and each 100 g bag of amino acid is 150 rmb. In addition, few families need to pay averagely 500 rmb for school tuition fee. Most families need to spend about 800 rmb on buying food because their lands cannot produce enough food. According to the villagers, 95% of families have to take out loans because they need to buy food and support their children. It is often very difficult for people to take out loans from the local banks because they are poor and the banks do not trust that they can pay back their loans when the time of the loans are due.
Agriculture
Waku Rarma Village is the smallest village within a bigger village, Waku. Without access to irrigation, the villagers are dependent on nature for good harvests. If there is a lot of rain that means they will have a prosperous harvest. However, the fact is that in recent years, there have been fewer rains, which has made the people’s lives even harder. Another reason for getting bad harvests from is that many villagers do not have money to afford fertilizer in the form of urea and amino acids. People grow barely, wheat, rapeseed, beans and potatoes on their fields; usually, 1 mu of land can only produce between 300 and 400 jin of wheat. Even though Waku Rarma Village is an agricultural village, villagers still have to buy a portion of food every year.
Herding
Waku Rarma Village is not a nomadic village therefore, on average, each household has 2 donkeys, 1 cow and 20 sheep. Even though the local villagers can not make money from livestock they usually use donkeys to transport grass and grain during the harvest time. Cows and sheep are used for milking and meat for themselves. As a result, the local people have no way to make any money from livestock.
Project Objectives
The project aims to address several of the major causes of illness and environmental damage in the village, namely the lack of potable water, limited supply of local wood for heating and cooking, lack of vegetables and resulting nutritional deficiencies, and limited local knowledge of health and hygiene related concepts. The lack of local potable water and fuel supply particularly affect local women and children’s lives as they are typically responsible for the regular collection of water and fuel for household needs from distant sources.
2. Beneficiaries:
Direct:
• 140 villagers including 58 women, 55 men and 27 children will benefit from four-season access to potable water, improved hygiene and better nutrition
• Provision of greenhouse materials will allow villagers to grow vegetables and saplings for their own use and for sale
• Establishment of a village forest will provide villagers with a long-term solution to their current reliance on dung and unsustainable forest practices; the forest will directly and indirectly reduce erosion and provide a long-term source of renewable energy, fruit, and building materials, benefiting affected households and the local environment more generally
Indirect:
While the entire population of Waka Rarma Village will benefit directly from core activities, villagers in the surrounding area will also indirectly benefit from knowledge and skills shared and possibly from products produced by direct beneficiaries.
3. Expected Results (Outputs):
• A reliable fully functioning water system that delivers water to villagers’ homes throughout the year
• Basic health training, including hygiene and women’s reproductive health, provided to villagers to complement access to water
• Greenhouses constructed to allow villagers to develop kitchen gardens, thereby extending the short growing season
• Fast growing and fruit producing trees planted to supplement fuel supply, reduce erosion and provide fruit for food and income
Expected Results (Outcomes):
It is expected that the project will have wide-ranging and a profoundly positive impact upon the local community: economically, household income is expected to rise somewhat as a result of the time saved collecting water being reinvested in agriculture, animal care and potentially paid labour activities. Health is also expected to improve as people will be able to drink and bathe using safe water throughout the year. Similarly, households will be able to wash clothes, dishes and provide water to animals, vegetable gardens and trees. Currently clothes are only washed every few months in winter and bathing in winter usually only occurs sporadically. Educationally, the burden on children, notably girls, will be reduced, so it is possible that school attendance rates might increase, as they will no longer be obliged to stay home to collect water for their families’ needs. The elderly in the village will also benefit from easy access to fresh water for tea and cooking, even when family members are away from the village.
Water combined with small greenhouses will allow villagers to improve their diets with vegetables such as cabbages, leek, carrot, garlic, peppers and the like, thus strengthening their health though provision of vitamins and micronutrients.
Villagers will be able to conserve time and energy while reducing deforestation and erosion through the maintenance of the village forest, thereby providing them with a valuable source of fuel and timber.
4. Implications for Women:
The economic benefits that will be appreciated by women are perhaps the most substantial; as the many hours formerly spent collecting water can be put to other, more profitable uses. Moreover, the project could increase the likelihood that girls will be able to attend school and ultimately find better jobs. Women will also benefit directly from a women’s health training to be provided by a female Tibetan doctor from the Qinghai Tibetan Hospital. Training topics will include women’s reproductive health, basic hygiene and disease prevention.
That the project is designed by a woman and will be managed and implemented by village women is also quite progressive, by local standards. The role of the project manager also sends an important message to local women and young girls: that woman and girls can accomplish very useful and important projects and play an important role in their communities.
In parallel, the project managers will acquire valuable new skills and experience dealing with local government and suppliers, and will be able to use these skills to implement projects in the future.
Implications for the Environment:
While initially digging the trenches for pipes and constructing the water reservoir will slightly alter the environment, this will be temporary and will be mitigated by using the least damaging methods (e.g. conserving and replacing topsoil, turf and ground cover). Villagers will plant trees to further improve the local microclimate and encourage water filtration (increase surface permeability and decrease erosion). Villagers will also establish a village forest and will plant trees in their village providing an additional source of leaf litter (fodder) for animals, thus reducing the need to allow animals to roam the village grazing on vegetation.
Currently villagers must spend a great deal of time collecting wood in the winter, usually after dark since wood collection has been banned by the government (without providing alternate means) and the forests are guarded. Cow dung is also collected, which requires time, energy and denies the land of the nutrient value of the manure. The establishment of the village forest will provide a long-term solution to this problem and will have additional benefits as villagers will no longer need to rely on burning manure, an inefficient and unhealthy practice due to the smoke and hygiene issues.
Access to a modest amount of water coupled with greenhouses will allow the villagers to continue to grow trees for local planting (using the greenhouses as nurseries following training), with individual households responsible for their own section of trees within the forest. The village forestry component will contribute to a reduction of the amount of trees currently harvested elsewhere and represents the best, most viable long-term strategy for carbon-neutral energy self-sufficiency.
Implementation Plan and Method
| Sequence | Activities |
| Project Month 1 | 1)Baseline survey of key indicators 2)Organizational meeting held by Shem to organize the Water Committee, to organize village labour and begin other planning for the project 3)Meetings held with skilled workers and contracts signed as necessary 4)Purchase materials from Xunhua County and Xining 5)Transportation of sand and stone for water boxes (reservoirs) by villagers 6)Construction of the water boxes by villagers and skilled workers |
| Project Months 1- 2 | 1)Collection of maintenance fees by water management committee 2)Digging of trenches and burial of pipes 3)Purchase of greenhouse materials and saplings 4)Completion of water delivery to each household |
| Project Months 3-4 | 1) Basic health and hygiene training 2)Construction of greenhouses 3)Tree planting and forestry training 4) Planting of saplings; fencing of trees and other protection measures 5) Mid-point monitoring & evaluation |
| Project Months 4 – 6 | 1) Project completion and celebration; 2)Villagers plant trees around water sources, springs and reservoir |
| Project Months 8 – 9 | 1) Follow up monitoring and problem solving 2)Post-project survey 3)Preparation of final report written |
Detailed Budget
| Budget 预算 (元 RMB) | |||
| Item/Type of Activity | Details | Canada Fund | Local Contribution |
| I. WATER SYSTEM PARTS, TRANSPORT & DESIGN |
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| Plastic Pipe#63 | 2,500m x 17 元 /m | ￥42,500.00 | |
| Plastic Pipe#50 | 1,500m x 13/m | ￥19,500.00 | |
| Plastic Pipe#32 | 1,000 m x 11/m | ￥11,000.00 | |
| Plastic Pipe#25 | 1,500m x 10/m | ￥22,500.00 | |
| Connections #63, #50, #32, #25 | ￥2,000.00 | ||
| Black Plastic Pipe | 100 m米 x 18元/m | ￥1,800.00 | |
| Iron wire #22, #8 | ￥300.00 | ||
| Shut -off valves | 4 sets套 x 150元 | ￥600.00 | |
| Taps/Fitments (/set) | 60 taps x 7 元/tap | ￥420.00 | |
| Iron Bar #4, #6 | 1 ton x 4,000元 | ￥4,000.00 | |
| Cement (/bag) | 18 ton x 330/ton | ￥5,940.00 | |
| Water Tests | 1 test次 x 1000元 | ￥1,000.00 | |
| From Xining City, Xunhua County to Waku Rarma Village |
6 trips x 1700元 | ￥10,200.00 | |
| Sand | 200 m3 x 20/m3 | ￥4,000.00 | |
| Design Fee (Water) | ￥4,000.00 | ||
| Labour | 63 天 x 60 人 x 35 元 / 人 / 天 | ￥132,300.00 | |
| Skilled workers | 15 天 x 10 人 x 80 元/人/ 天 | ￥12,000.00 | |
| Subtotal | ￥137,760.00 | ￥136,300.00 | |
| II. HYGIENE PROMOTION ACTIVITIES | |||
| Female Tibetan doctor training | 3 天x 1人x150 元/天 | ￥450.00 | |
| Document/file fee | 300 | ￥300.00 | |
| Transportation fee | 500 | ￥500.00 | |
| Accommodation fee | 3 天x 1 人x100 元/天 | ￥300.00 | |
| Meal costs | 1 人x3 天人x30元/天 | ￥90.00 | |
| Soap | 35 块 x 2.8元 | ￥98.00 | |
| Tooth brush & paste | 140份 x 4元 | ￥560.00 | |
| Nail clipper | 30 pieces个 x 4元 | ￥120.00 | |
| Hand-washing basin & hand towel | 30 pieces个 x 15元 | ￥450.00 | |
| Staff Capacity Training (PM) with SDA | |||
| Training Fee | 200元 / 人 | ￥200.00 | |
| Training Materials | 50元 / 人 | ￥50.00 | |
| Travel: Xining to Guanting (RT) | 200元 / 趟 | ￥200.00 | |
| Food & Accommodation in Guanting | 50 元/天 x 3 天 | ￥150.00 | |
| Subtotal | ￥3,468.00 | ￥0.00 | |
| III. HOUSEHOLD GREENHOUSE & VILLAGE FOREST |
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| Greenhouses | 2500元 x 30 户 | ￥75,000.00 | |
| Labour | 30 天, 20 人 x 35 元 / 人 / 天 |
￥21,000.00 | |
| Trees | 3元 / 树 x 700 树/户 x 30 户 |
￥63,000.00 | ￥27,000.00 |
| Forestry Consultant | |||
| Village Forest Plan Assessment | 1 天 | ￥500.00 | |
| Basic Forestry Training for Villagers | 2 天 | ￥1,000.00 | |
| Travel and Accommodation | 200 元交通 + 200 元住宿 | ￥400.00 | |
| Metal fence | 11 网围栏辊子 x 740 元 / 个 | ￥8,140.00 | |
| Concrete pole | 135 根 x 19 元/根 | ￥2,565.00 | |
| Steel door | 1 扇 x 400元/扇 | ￥400.00 | |
| Transport for Seedlings (trees) and associated materials |
3 趟 x 1500 元 | ￥4,500.00 | |
| Transport for Greenhouses and associated materials |
3 趟 x 1500 元 | ￥4,500.00 | |
| Subtotal | ￥160,005.00 | ￥48,000.00 | |
| IV. PROJECT MANAGEMENT / M&E | |||
| E.g. transportation, communication, photographs, Canada Fund Recognition, stationery, etc. |
如交通、通信、照相和加方确认标志物制作、文具等 | ||
| Communications | 75元/月 x 9 月 | ￥675.00 | |
| Transportation (Xining – Xunhua; Xunhua-Village; return) | 180元/ 趟 x 2人 x 2 趟/月 x 9 月 | ￥6,480.00 | |
| Food (Xunhua) | 40元/天 x 2人 x 2天/趟 x 2 趟/月 x 9 月 | ￥2,880.00 | |
| Food (Waku Rarma Village) | 20元/天 x 2人 x 2天/趟x 2趟/月 x 9 月 | ￥1,440.00 | |
| Accommodation (Xunhua) | 80元/天 x 2人 x 1 宿/趟 x 2 趟/月 x 9 月 | ￥2,880.00 | |
| Accommodation (Waku Rarma Village) | 30元/天 x 2人 x 2 宿/趟 x 2 趟/月 x 9 月 | ￥2,160.00 | |
| Stationery | 25元/月 x 9 月 | ￥225.00 | |
| Photocopying (surveys, IEC, etc) | 3 次 x 100元/元 | ￥300.00 | |
| Canada Fund Recognition | Plaque标牌/匾额 | ￥200.00 | |
| Other | ￥1,000.00 | ||
| Running water system maintenance fee |
￥1,500.00 | ||
| Subtotal | ￥13,640.00 | ￥6,100.00 | |
| Grand Total | CANADA FUND CONTRIBUTION | ￥314,873.00 | |
| LOCAL CONTRIBUTION | ￥190,400.00 | ||
| GRAND TOTAL | ￥505,273.00 | ||
Monitoring
Throughout project implementation the project manager (PM) will monitor the quality and progress of the project work; the PM will be supported by other Shem staff and by the five member project committee. Following project completion, the PM and Shem staff will inspect project outputs and interview beneficiaries to determine the effectiveness of the project and obtain lessons learned for future projects.In terms of impact level assessment, the evaluation (to take place several months after completion of the core project activities), will focus on the impact of the project on villagers; e.g. changes in work load and time use for women and children, changes in hygiene-related habits such as hand-washing, changes in diet, income and fuel use. Oral interviews will be corroborated by in situ observation.
Sustainability
Project sustainability will be assured by the direct involvement of villagers – notably women – in the design and implementation of the project and their later role as managers of all project outputs. The use of high quality building materials (pre-tested on other projects) and active monitoring during construction will ensure that construction adheres to the highest standards. Provision of basic tools and training will allow villagers to conduct annual maintenance and make repairs as needed. The collection of a modest annual water maintenance fee to be managed by the water committee will provide the necessary financial means for any repairs that may be required.
Greenhouses and forest sections will be maintained by individual households, and thus will be looked after by family members and protected from damage (from weather, livestock, children, etc.) It is hoped that some revenue will be earned through the sale of fruit and vegetables, some of which will be devoted to upkeep of the greenhouses.
Here are some photos of the villagers who will benefit from this project
Villagers join in a meeting to discuss problems.
This is one of the beneficiaries (with a piece of red cloth in left hand) who has two children, one is standing beside her and other one is a middle school student. She told us that one of her elder son’s was almost blinded because she carried water when she was pregnan. Therefore, her son cannot see very well now and she truly wishes for a running water system.
Her name is Lhamojyi (b.1967) and there are five people in her family. She has three children and one of the children is attending primary school, which is 5 km away. She mentioned that water is their most urgent and serious problem in Waku Rarma Village. In the village, if you borrow one bucket of water from another family, afterwards you have to give back one bucket of water. It seems very strange to pay water back but their water condition is really poor. She said a common saying in her village about how precious water is: “You can ask for oil, but not for water.”
Nyimatashixi (b.1971,) who is wearing a yellow jacket, is another beneficiary of this project. Originally there were four people in his family but unfortunately his elder daughter was very sick in the spring 2007and they did not have money to take her to see the doctor. As a result, his elder daughter died and now his wife is sick. He told us that his family is in a very bad condition now. He hopes that this water project will really bring lot of extra time for all the villagers and solve water problem, and they will have enough water everyday.
Additional information
Past experience of doing development projects
Lhamotso (Lily), the project manager, has already successfully completed five small-scale development projects.
The first was a solar cooker project, funded by The Canada Fund in the summer of 2004, which provided 20 solar cookers for the village where the village clinic project is located. During the same year, in the winter Lhamotso managed another solar cooker project funded by the Canada Fund, which provided 30 solar cookers for Huoluoshi.
Lhamotso also successfully completed two second-hand clothes projects in 2004 and 2005. These clothes were provided by the British Consulate in Shanghai. There were two boxes of second-hand clothes that included shirts, trousers, bags, shoes, hats, toys, sweaters and other things.
Moreover, Lhamotso completed a greenhouse project last October, funded by the Australian Embassy. Now the project is completely and successfully finished. The whole project cost about 60,000 rmb, not including the local contribution.
In addition, Lhamotso completed a solar cooker project in December of 2006, funded by The Shambala Connection. The whole project cost about 14,300 rmb, not including the local contribution. In 2007, Lhamotso also completed a village clinic project proposal for Huoluoshi Gongma village.
The map of the project location
