SA Tool orientation to Local reps.

Okhaldhunga: SOCH Nepal organized Social Accountability tools orientation on Molung Gaunpalika of Okhaldhunga on September 13, 2018. The orientation was chaired by chair of Molung Gaunpalika Mr. Maniram Rai. On the orientation the Administrative Officer Krishna Hari Poudel, ward chairs, the Principals of Secondary schools, teachers and chair of Management Committee of Secondary School participated. On the orientation, the facilitator facilitated Public Hearing, Social Audit, Public Audit, PETs, and Rights to information. Importance of applying Social Accountability Tools and policies and procedures were oriented...

SA tools orientation to people representatives

SOCH Nepal and Gorkha Municipality jointly organized two-day long orientation program on Social Accountability (SA) tools in Gorkha district on 2-3 September 2018. The orientation was targeted to all representatives of the Gorkha Municipality, civil society and team of District Coordination Committee of Gorkha. A total of 36 participants including Mayor and Deputy Mayor, Ward chairs and members, representatives of PPWG and CA, chair of Health Shakha of Shahid Lakhan Gaunpalika also participated in the orientation program. The orientation was concentrated on...

Orientation to Peoples’ representatives

SOCH Nepal facilitated an orientation program to the elected members of entire Okhaldhunga district on May 4-5, 2018. SOCH Nepal together with District Coordination Committee(DCC) of Okhaldhunga  organized one and half day orientation among 1  Federal member of parliament, 2 provincial parliamentarians, 7 Palika’s chairs, 8 Palika’s vice-chairs, 63 ward chiefs, media persons, NGOs and local people. Bureaucrats, leaders of local political parties, media persons and other CSO members also joined the program. The secretary of Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development (MoFALD)...

orientation on Local Level Planning and Budgeting

On February 16, 2018, SOCH Nepal organized an orientation program inviting 86 participants including Mayor, ward chiefs, ward members, and members of the Coalition (known as Sushan ko lagi Nagarik Samaj) of CA: MAP. on local level planning and Budgeting at Kageshwari Manohara Municipality in Kathmandu in collaboration with Kageshwari Manohara Municipality. The Mayor was the chief guest of the program. The Mayor highlighted on the importance of organizing the event before the planning and budgeting of the Municipality. Uttam...

Memorandum to the CDO of Gorkha concerning reconstruction

Gorkha, Magh 21, Sthaneswor Duwadi, Advocate and the Coordinator of Public Private Working group (PPWG) submitted a memorandum to Jitendra Basnet, the Chief District Officer (CDO) of Gorkha, highlighting the concern over the delaying in aftermath reconstruction work, missing name on the beneficiaries' list, encroachment of agriculture market area and poor management of transportation of reconstruction materials. After the submission of the memorandum, Jitendera Basnet made his commitment to address the public concern as soon as possible. Most of the houses...

SOCH Nepal’s Capacity Enhancement through OCA

SOCH Nepal conducted the 2nd OCA on May 01-05, 2018 facilitated by NEPAN which evaluated the organizational capacity in seven domains: Organization, Governance, leadership, management, Human Resource Management, Administration and finance, Resource mobilization and sustainability and External Relations. SOCH Nepal’s board members, key staffs, and advisor actively participated during the OCA meet. Altogether 14 participants participated on the assessment including four female. The second OCA has reviewed the progress of the last year Institutional Improvement Plan (IIP) and rescored on 7 domains on 39...

Common Assembly initiates to improve Health post

The Common Assembly meeting of Shahid Lakhan Gaunpalika-7 raised vivid problem faced in Bungkot public Health Post. The Citizen Charter was not posted in the health post. Then, Common Assembly (CA) members conducted meeting with Management Committee and Health-post in-charge. CA members demanded to establish Citizen Charter in Nepali language. Finally, the Health post Management Committee agreed for printing and displaying the Citizen Charter. One of the beneficiaries, Ms Urmila Ranamagar said the newly established Citizen Charter made easy to get information about the services available...

CA assists for local justice

The CA of Shahid Lakhan Gaupalika of Gorkha received a complaint that local residence of ward no. 7 could not get the delivery allowance assured by the law. Anju Thapa gave birth to her child in Bungkot Health post of Shahid Lakhan Gaunpalika-7 in Gorkha in 2073 B.S but she did not get the allowance but she was asked to sign a document which claimed that she received Rs. 1500 as the delivery allowance.  She demanded the allowance but denied several...

LDAG initiation for budget analysis for the target group

SOCH Nepal provided orientation about the 7 step planning to the LDAG members of Jyamire, Okhaldhunga on April 22, 2018. SOCH Nepal's District coordinator Mr. BN Shrestha oriented on the benefits of taking part in the planning as well as 7 steps of planning process on LDAG meeting. It is often complained that the local level do not ensure the participation of marginalized people on the planning process however I was lucky to got the opportunity to participate on the...

SOCH Nepal conducts 2nd ARI

SOCH Nepal conducts the second phase of Advocacy Readiness Index (ARI) Assessment  between May 30 to June 1, 2018 in Kathmandu. NEPAN facilialiate to conduct the ARI for 2018. NEPAN. ARI made a detail assessment on institutional capacity development of SOCH Nepal.SOCH board and staff members actively participated on the assessment. On the first day of the assessment, the facilitators had an interview with the President, Executive Director, Project Coordinator, and Admin/Accounting Officer of SOCH Nepal. Interview was intended to understand...