ACHHAM DISTRICT

Achham District
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Background of District

   

1

District

Achham

2

Headquarter

Mangalsen

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Total no. of VDCs

75

4

Area of District (sq.km)

1692

5

Total Population

224,186

6

Literacy rate

24.50%

Male

41.00%

Female

8.00%

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Political constituencies:
  

2

II

Management Support Unit:

   

1

Programme Sections Established

    

HRD Section

Established

Information Section

Due to lack of human and financial resources seperate sectors are not being established but responsiblities of all sections are carried out through programme unit of DDC

Infrastructure and physical development section

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Social development section

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Forest, environment, Agri & Industries

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2

Participatory Planning Process

Periodic plans

prepared and endorsed by DDC Council held in Feb 2001

District development plans prepared in:

DDP for FY 2000/2001 is in operation and preparation of DDP FY 2001/2002 is underway

Implementation of plans in Redbook:

In the red book more than 90% projects were selected from the DDP of FY 2000/2001

3

Coordination and Linkage

NGO Coordination Committee:

Formed

4

Information and publication

Bulletins

published

District profile

Old profile was published in 1996 and publication of new profile with updated information is underway

NGO profile

prepared in 2000

Profile of resource persons

updated publication is underway

Sectoral situation analysis reports

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Institutional reports

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Financial reports

published

GIS maps

not published but can be prepared as per need

Resource maps

preparetion is underway

III

Village Development Programme

1

Programme initiation year

1996

2

No. of VDCs covered

23

3

No. of wards covered

95

4

Number of total settlements in covered VDCs

170

5

Covered settlements

160

6

Number of total households in covered VDCs

5578

7

Covered households

4909

8

population coverage

88% of covered is settlements

9

DDC contribution in LTF:

250,000

10

VDC contribution in LTF

1,260,700

11

Total COs

169

12

Total savings of COs

1,714,501

13

Total investment

2,275,876

14

Total credit capital disbursed

5,226,198

15

No. of completed seed grant projects

31

16

No. of beneficiaries
   

1126 Households

IV

People to contact:

   

DDC chairman

Krishna Prasad Jaishi
(097-20149/20144/
20127)

LDO

Man B. Khatri
(097-20133)

SRM

Krishna B. Bhandari
(096-20174)

DDA
  

Bishow Raj Bhatta
(097-20127/20144)

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Other involved agencies:

HIV/AIDS/UNDP,
DPCP/UNICEF,
REDP/UNDP,
COPE/UNDP,
RCIW(FFW)/GTZ+WFP,
LLINK-Helvetas
RHP/GTZ,CARE/
Nepal(ALSP)
CODE/UMN, LWF,
SSSP/DFID, SC/UK

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