1. 1.         Introduction of Organization:                                                                                                  

1.1    General Introduction :

Social service centre (SOSEC), Dailekh is one of the non-political and non-profitable social organization which has been funded in 2054 B.S. with the goal of serving the backward people in the remote and undeveloped communities of Dailekh district. The organization tries to play the vital role in the social cultural and economic development of the community. SOSEC is the result of the ambition and enthusiasm some adventures Dailekh youth who are always dedicated in the prosperity of community. by analyzing the fact that only governmental offices cannot do all the of developmental work, and some efforts should be done by the civil society for the development of the community the organization has been performing different activities related to human right health, education, sanitation & agriculture with the partnership of different bilateral, Multilateral and other donor agencies that launch the program only for the disadvantage and back warded communities. SOSEC considers that the community should be active and cleaver for their development. The development of a community depends on the activeness of the community now there are 1 Dalit female, 4 dalit male,  2 Janajati female 3 other female and 1 other male all 11 together member in the executive committee of the organization. SOSEC has 62 General Member and 47 Life Member.

1.2   Legal status of the organization:

SOSEC has been registered in DAO Dailekh with the registration No-59-054/055 on 11^th Bhadra 2054 with in institutional organization registration Act. 2054. Similarly it has been affiliated in social welfare council with the affiliation no-6099-054/055 and registered in NGO Federation Dailekh write reg. no.-03. SOSEC has also been registered in PAN with no 300965292.

1.3   Vision:

To constructed the equitable society with the establishment of empowered organization to play effectives & vital role in the integrated development of the community.

1.4    Mission:     

To improve the educational, health, economic and Right aspect of the women, Dalit, Janajaties, Children and poor with the help of social mobilization and peoples participation.

1.5   Goal:

To improve the educational, health and economic condition of the target groups by centralizing the social inclusion.

To access the people in the aspect of right who have no access in their right.

To increase the institutional capacity of the organization by emphasis on human resource development.

1.6   Objectives:

• Increase income through mobilization of local fund.
• Development of agriculture & forestry, livestock and small enterprises for the welfare of society.
• Protection of environment, local resources and local indigenous knowledge.
• With the co-ordination of different line agencies, development of need based local infrastructures.
• Sustainable capacity building of human resources.
• Promote institutional development and raise public awareness among people for collective action & self help.
• Improvement of community health and reproductive health of rural people through mobile health camp, health campaign, training and public awareness programmes.
• Increase employment opportunities through enhancement of local skill and technical know-how.
• Support people that are suffer from conflict.
• Publication of leaflets, booklets and establishment of community radio.
• Aware the rural people about the present burning issues of HIV/AIDS, girl trafficking child labor, domestic violence etc.
• Networking with the CBOs/NGOs/INGOs.

1.7    Value & Norms        

• Social Equality
• Peoples participation
• Transparency
• Neutrality

1.8    Target Group/Right holders

SOSEC considers the following communities, the target communities

• Women, Dalit, Janajati, Poor & Children

2.   Program Background:

Dailekh is one of the poor and back-warded districts in mid-western development region of Nepal. Major problems of the district are social beliefs, illiteracy, traditional farming system, low industrial and skill development. Social Service Centre (SOSEC), which is working in the community since 2054 got the opportunity to work in the poorest, back warded and remote VDCs, Salleri, Bindhyabasini, Peepalkot, Rakamkarnali and Singhsain of Dailekh district with the co-ordination to FAF, Nepal. Integrated Community Development Project (ICDP) is a project conducted by SOSEC with the financial support of PAF since Baishakh 2063 with following goals and objectives.

2.1     Goal:

• Poverty reduction of the target people of the proposed area through integrated community development project.

2.2     Objectives:

• Motivate target people for group formation which helps in income generation activities operation through saving and credit facilities.
• Provide access of the target people to the employment activities, service and facilities utilizing local resources through social mobilization for sustainable community development.
• Develop different networks like agricultural groups, cooperatives, saving and credit groups etc.
• Run community responsible support program based on community demand and priority for integrated community development.

2.3     Working Area:

Five VDCs of Dailekh district

• Salleri
• Bindhyabasini
• Rakamkarnali
• Singhsain
• Peepalkot

2.4     Project Strategy:

• Social Mobilization: Social mobilization work will be conducted in the field of group formation of economic and social sector. Saving and credit groups, women and Janajati agricultural groups, skill oriented groups formation will be done as needed.
• Capacity building in terms of group strengthens: Training on groups’ management, leadership, development, cooperative formation, accounting and record keeping and gender will be given, as per demand training on skill development, agriculture work and others will be given.
• Technical assistance as when needed (on the basis of demand): Technical assistance will be taken from District Domestic and Small Industry Development Committee, District Technical Office, District Agriculture Development Office, District Health Officer, District Drinking Water and Sanitation Office, Rural Energy Development Office, District Women Development Office. Prior to sub project proposal conducted to identity strength, weakness opportunity and threats of the project areas which will help on demand determination, Prioritization of demand and for feasibility study of the sup projects proposed by community as well as action work later. This PRA and group discussion with farmers will help on sup proposal preparation and there will be active facilitation of the social mobilizer of SOSEC on this work.
• Linkage & Coordination: Conduction interaction workshop, settlement, ward, village, VDC, DDC, DADO, DHO, DCO & PAF.

2.5     Social Inclusion:

Social Inclusion is one of the major factors of Community Mobilization in this era, so our program ICDP has specially focused the excluded community with keeping the social harmony in the community. The communities who have been led behind since years must be led forward for the construction of equitable society. ICDP program’s major social inclusion strategies are as below:

• The CO members (Target Community) are from poor, Dalits & Janajaties Community.
• At least 80 percent of CO members are Females.
• The Key Positions in the CO are hold by Dalits Janajaties & Females.

2.6     Operational Modality

ICDP Program’s Operational modality is as bellow:

• Community Mobilization
• Social Assessment
• Selection of Cluster
• Community Organization Formation
• Sup- Project Proposal Preparation
• Demand Driven Approach
• Participatory Planning
• Bottom up Approach
• Direct Agreement between CO & PAF
• Capacity Development
• Income Generation
• Community Infrastructure Development
• Regular Monitoring & Evaluation

3         Social Mobilization:

Integrated community development project conducted by SOSEC Dailekh with the financial support of poverty alleviation fund (PAF), Nepal with the goal of reducing poverty that is hidden in the rural areas. Integrated community development project covers the remote and backward VDCs of Dailekh, Salleri, Bindhyabasini (in the first Phase), Rakamkarnali, Singhsain and Peepalkot (in the second Phase). The project has aimed to reduce the poverty in the concerning VDCs by social mobilization, income generation and infrastructure development.

3.1  Human Resources Mobilization:

Human Resources Mobilization is one of the main part of Social and mobilization and accomplishment of targeted achievements. Qualified and experienced human Resources have been mobilized in the working areas for the better implementation of the program and to provide qualitative services in the community to the target groups. The detail of the mobilized human resources is given below:

3.2     Community Organization (CO) Formation

Community Organizations (COs) can be called the backbone of our program. So it is necessary to form the CO in Local level. Community Organization has been considered as the institution in local level. All of the activities done in the working area must be done through CO. For the best implementation of the program CO facilitation is the most COs members are assisted in performing different activities as meeting conduction, revolving fund mobilization, saving collection and mobilization, livestock caring, agricultural promotion etc. by the staffs mobilized in the concerning duty station. After the VDC level and ward level interaction workshops we went to the settlement and interacted with the people from every household. Then we completed the social assessment form and analyzed it. After that we categorized the people in the community in to 4 groups and submitted the people having life standard “A, B, C” in our CO but we didn’t submit the people of D group in our CO. Among these people we prioritized the people of “A” group. Mainly women, dalit and janajaites have been enabled to take the responsible position in the CO. The detail of COs formation has been given below:

3.3     Saving collection and Mobilization         

In each COs each member of the CO saves the fixed amount of money as per the decision made by CO. The saving fund has been mobilized in any productive activities like agriculture promotion, livestock rising, trade ect. The details of the saving collection up to now have been mentioned below:

3.4     Status of Dalits, Females and Janajaties in the key Position of Community Organization:

According to the goal and objectives of PAF Nepal, SOSEC and our program ICDP we have encouraged females, Dalits and Janajaties to be involved in the CO. According to the program norms dalits, janajaties and females must be encouraged to hold the key position in the CO, so females, Dalits and Janajaties have been encouraged to hold the key position of the COs as much as possible.  The detail status of females, Dalits and Janajaties in the key position of each COs has been mentioned below:

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