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ANNEX E

GEF Small Grants Programme-India COMDEKS

Mid Term Review Report
1. Grantee Partner
Name of the Organization : Parivartan Grameen Samaj Sevi Sanstha
Grant Recipient Address : Village Kanda, Patti-Sitonsyun, PO - Buransi, Kot block, Pauri Garhwal,
Uttarakhand.
Telephone : 01368 229039
Fax/ Email : parivartan.uk@gmail.com / parivartan@pgsss.org
Person in-charge of
Mid Term Report : Chandra Shekhar Juyal

2. Identification of the Project

Project Name : Empowering the poor and marginal farmers of 10 hilly villages &
Sustainable Conservation of natural resources of Pauri Garhwal, UK
Project Number : One
GEF Thematic Area : Conservation of Biodiversity
Location of Project : 10 villages of Kot block, Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand.
Project Start date as MoA : 01.01.2016
Project End date : 31.10.2016
Changes (if any)
in start or End dates : No
Period covered by the Report : 8 month (January 2016 to August 2016)

3. Financial Summary

FUND UTILISATION & DISBURSEMENT REQUEST Amount (Rs.)

SGP Grant amount USD $ 26779 Rs.1787781

SGP Funds received to date 16/04/2016 Rs. 893916

SGP Funds spent to date Rs. 991332.18

Funds balance Rs. 0

SGP Grants disbursement requested Yes

4. Project Co-Financing Received

Sources (s) Type Amount (Rs.)

(In kind or cash)

Parivartan Grameen Samaj Sevi In kind 30000

Sanstha
For village meetings, SHG
promotion and general
information etc. about the
approved project

SHGs In kind
Preparation of land for spices 200000
chili, turmeric, zinger 200
beneficiaries approx.
Rs.10000 each
Manures 200x500 100000
Fencing and other protection 60000
works
Animal Shed preparation and 450000
renovation & other
equipments
10x45000 = 450000

Total 810000

Forestation Contour trenches, pits for Nil

plantation. Work is in
progress in village Kanda and
Saldang but other
beneficiaries are also being
motivated to prepare contour
trenches on those fields
where spices are to be
sowed.

Water Conservation Four gabion masonry check 100000

dam has been constructed to
protect the water availability
to villagers as well as the
water conservation of the
stream.

Conventional Energy Excess Fabrication of Low Smoke 50000

Chulla
5. Progress Report
a. Project Goal and Purpose.
 The proposed project area is hilly and people have no sources of income other than agriculture,
horticulture and allied activities like animal husbandry and labour work if available in different govt.
schemes i.e. MNREGA etc. The water sources are dependent only on monsoon which is not certain
every year so mostly drought like conditions prevails. The wild animals like swine and monkeys have
been damaging yielded crops of the dwellers. Now people are compelled to leave the agriculture or
horticulture activities. Water sources are decreasing year by year which were perennial during one or
two decade before so viewing this to keep the rain water in trenches a small patch of only one hectare
land has been proposed in this pilot project to make a model of a forestation under sustainable water
conservation because there is severe water crisis during summer season and habitants face problem
for drinking water also. The upside contour trenches will increase the underground water table this year
as expected. There were some gabion check dams also proposed and constructed for water
conservation to minimize soil erosion and deepening stream bed. This also could be helpful in irrigation
to nearby land. In this project we have set a goal to develop a little change in economic conditions of
the marginal farmers by changing some pattern of farming, animal husbandry and other allied activities
with cooperation among the farmers. The farmers of the area usually use forest wood and cow dung for
their cooking fuel and result health problems so a low smoke chulha is kept in the project in which
some quantity of fire wood be reduced to save forests and their health also.
 The basic purpose of the project is to develop such expectation among native farmers to stay in their
respective village and use natural resources with sustainable way for increasing their socio-economical
condition. The villages of the area becoming barren every year because people have been migrating to
cities and towns in search of a better and safe life leaving behind their respective land and blood
relations which in turn increasing the number of destitute old parents waiting for something to happen.
b. Expected outputs.
 Water Conservation: We have constructed four gabion check dams on three separate water channels
to minimize soil erosion of the area. Out of these, two have concrete RCC wall inside to store and raise
water level so that the water could be used for irrigation and also increase underground water for lower
ground level areas.

 Spice Farming: The traditional farming has become uneconomic because no suitable consumer is
there to buy the local food grains produced here e.g. Mandwa, Jhangora, Bajra so that a family could
earn its living for a year and also there are wild animals which usually destroy these crops therefore by
this project spices are introduced for cultivation through mini seed kits of chili, turmeric and ginger
which have been provided to the marginal farmers to start and judge the value of traditional farming
with spice farming. In this programme the Horticulture department of Pauri has provided us the seeds of
turmeric and ginger at 50% cost from Rampur and Kashipur districts of Uttarakhand. The crops are
standing in the fields of 12 villages.
  A forestation: Under this programme one hectare land of village Kanda Khalsa is selected upside of
the village where contour trenches have been dug and plantation of deodar, acacia, white oak and
other available plants of broad leafs have been planted. The expectation is to increase drinking water
sources of the related village and humidity to downward land.

 Mini Dairy: People of the area have low milk yielding animals which do not fulfill the necessity of the
farmers so under this project a group of 10 beneficiaries from Gram Panchayat Kanda Khalsa and
Buransi is been created among which six beneficiaries have been supported through the project so far
who have started earning through their mini dairies by selling milk to nearby areas. The result of total
earning will be judged in the last of October 2016. All the Beneficiaries have constructed/maintained
sheds for rearing of animals.

 Conventional Energy Excess: Under this programme we have decided to fabricate such clay bricks
so that one could easily transport them to different places and assemble them at every house with no
wastage of time but could not baked those due to heavy rain during rainy season. Now we have
changed the way of fabricating these chulhas to house to house. The work is in progress.

c. Participants/Beneficiaries.
 Number of Females : 245
 Number of Males : 200
 Number of Children : 60
d. Capacity Building/Training.
 Number of Females : 100
 Number of Males : 20
 Number of Children : 15
e. Detailed Summary of activities.
Sl. No. Activities as approved in Progress as on Date Remarks
MoA

1 SHG formation and 10 SHG The SHGs are working in the project.
strengthening They have been given trainings. The mini
savings are being done regularly. All the
SHGs are of women and given training of
various agro based techniques. They are
also given the training of dairy.

2 Water Conservation Work Completed In this project 4 gabion check dams have
been constructed. Out of these two have
RCC wall inside to store water and uplift
the ground level. It is supposed to support
irrigation also.

3 A Forestation and Work Completed In the project 1000 tree plants of deodar,
Plantation acacia, Kachnar, amla, pomegranate,
mango, guava and white oak have been
planted. During winter the plants of apple,
peach, apricot, walnut etc. will be planted
in village Kanda Khalsa.

4 Mini Dairy On Progress In village Buransi 5 and Kanda 1

beneficiaries have purchased cross bred
cow and managed the cow shed for the
dairy purpose. All the beneficiaries are
selling their milk to nearby town Pauri.

5 Spices Production Work Completed In the project chili seed, turmeric and
ginger have been provided to the
marginal farmers and given proper
trainings to them and motivated them to
compare the production and expectation
with their traditional agriculture. This year
there was heavy rain fall in this region so
production of chili could not as expected
but turmeric and ginger is expected good.

6 Value Addition On Process The organization is giving training of

making pickle of chili to the villagers so
that they could earn more money from
their own home products.

7 Conventional Energy On Progress We have fabricated designed size clay

Excess bricks but due to heavy rain these could
not be get baked and almost damaged
now the work is in progress and soon will
get its speed.
f. Results.
 Under this sustainable proposed project the organization has completed water conservation, a part of
forestation and mini dairy, spices production and conventional energy excess. Due to heavy rain chulha
making got some hindrance but now the work is in progress. The time of the project has been curtailed
so the activities have been accomplished but result is awaited.
 Water conservation: We tried to add some new features with gabion dams so that the irrigation could
be done to related agriculture land in future when the stream bed will raise up. Out of 4 gabion dams
two have included RCC work to inside to raise stream bed.
 Unplanned achievement: Most of the villagers have left their land barren but under this project in those
barren fields turmeric and ginger is being grown this year. Even some land is fully irrigated. This is a
tremendous change.
 We are giving training to the marginal farmers for the value addition to their products. We are availing
the knowledge of making pickle, paneer from the milk etc. A mini dairy of 6 cows have been set up so
far. The beneficiaries are selling their products to the market and getting Rs. 5000 to 6000 monthly as
assessed so far. Low smoke chulha has been demonstrated to the farmers which one they liked.
 Shortfall: The time period set in this project is very short. The fund for the project received four month
late from the start date. The required seed was very costly and availability of seed was also not in easy
approach.
g. New Activities, Unexpected difficulties/problems and Action taken to solve them.
 Value Addition to the Products:
The organization is encouraging the beneficiaries to learn making pickle of the products they have
produced. They agreed for this. They are also encouraged selling their products to the market. If they
cannot do so they may come to the organization to get help. We purchased green chili and red chili
from the beneficiaries.

h. Lessons learned.
(Guidance notes: Lessons learnt during project implementation; Request for additional technical assistance.
Links and resources accessed including in cash and kind). This time all the villagers are busy in their traditional
agriculture and animal husbandry. As we noticed people of the area are very poor so cannot afford cash
support in the project but they supported themselves as in-kind support as preparation of fields for sowing the
seeds and arranging manures, arrangement of cow shed and related necessities. The organization provided its
infrastructure and human skills and support to the project.

i. Additional Information.
We need more time to achieve the desired goal of the project as we did not receive our first installment
on time due to which work could not be done in the prescribed time frame.
5. Financial Report
c. Utilization Certificate for First Installment: Sent
d. Expenditure Report
Number and date Cost (Rs.)
Sr. Description of
No
of Budget Head / A/c Receipts Expenditure
Expenditure
Invoice/ receipt
1 02/1/16 R.No. -1 Loan Received Loan 10000
2 02/1/16 V.No.-1 Tour and Travel 4000
3 30/1/16 V.No.-2 Project Introduction Village Meetings 6000
4 04/2/16 R.No.-2 Loan Received Loan 20000
5 04/2/16 V.No.-3 Chilli Seed Mini Seed kits spice production 13310
6 30/3/16 R.No.-3 Loan Received Loan 20000
7 30/3/16 V.No.-4 All 12 villages SHG formation & Strengthening 7000
8 30/3/16 V.No.-5 Chilli Seed Mini Seed kits spice production 19200
9 02/4/16 R.No.-4 Loan Received Loan 35000
10 02/4/16 V.No.-5 A Contour and Plant pits Aforestation 35000
11 26/4/16 R.No-4 A Grant In-Aid 893916
12 07/5/16 V.No.-6 Unnat Chulha Conventional energy excess 10000
13 07/5/16 V.No.-7 Travis fabrication Travis 25000
14 10/5/16 V.No.-8 Moulds preparation Conventional energy excess 8000
15 10/5/16 V.No.-9 Village Facilitator Salary 2500
16 10/5/16 V.No.-10 Village Facilitator Salary 2500
17 10/5/16 V.No.-11 Village Facilitator Salary 2500
18 10/5/16 V.No.-12 Village Facilitator Salary 2500
19 10/5/16 V.No.-13 Village Facilitator Salary 2500
20 10/5/16 V.No.-14 Village Facilitator Salary 2500
21 10/5/16 V.No.-15 Village Facilitator Salary 2500
22 13/5/16 V.No.-16 Turmeric Mini Seed kits spice production 10955
23 13/5/16 V.No.-17 Labour works Conventional energy excess 5000
24 13/5/16 V.No.-18 Loan Return Loan 85000
25 23/5/16 V.No.-19 Material Gabion Dams Water Conservation 21166
26 23/5/16 V.No.-20 Labour works Conventional energy excess 10000
27 23/5/16 V.No.-21 Labour works Conventional energy excess 5000
28 23/5/16 V.No.-22 Labour works Conventional energy excess 10000
29 23/5/16 V.No.-23 Coordinator Salary 30000
30 23/5/16 V.No.-24 Material Gabion Dams Water Conservation 3700
31 25/5/16 V.No.-25 Material Gabion Dams Water Conservation 26700
32 26/5/16 V.No.-26 Contour and Plant pits Aforestation 20000
33 30/5/16 V.No.-27 Labour works Conventional energy excess 10000
34 30/5/16 V.No.-28 Material Gabion Dams Water Conservation 3650
35 31/5/16 V.No.-29 Material Gabion Dams Water Conservation 12000
36 31/5/16 V.No.-30 Bank Charges 69
37 31/5/16 V.No.-30A Bank Charges 69
37 31/5/16 R.No.-5 Bank Interest 3102
38 01/6/16 V.No.-31 Contour and Plant pits Aforestation 20000
39 08/6/16 V.No.-32 Labour Gabion Dams Water Conservation 50000
40 18/6/16 V.No.-33 Turmeric and Ginger Mini Seed kits spice production 72435
41 18/6/16 V.No.-34 Labour works Conventional energy excess 6000
42 18/6/16 V.No.- 35 Labour works Conventional energy excess 5300
43 21/6/16 V.No.-36 Material Gabion Dams Water Conservation 13430
44 25/6/16 V.No.-37 Coordinator Salary 5000
45 26/6/16 V.No.-38 Office expenditures Contingencies 5165
46 27/6/16 V.No.-39 Turmeric and Ginger Mini Seed kits spice production 5688
47 29/6/16 V.No.-40 Dairy Visit Capacity Building/Exposure Visit 15000
48 29/6/16 V.No.-41 Data entry Operator Salary 25000
49 30/6/16 V.No.-42 Village Facilitator Salary 3000
50 1/7/16 V.No.-44 Internet Bill Contingencies 1165
51 1/7/16 V.No.-45 Transportation Contingencies 2000
52 1/7/16 V.No.-46 Transportation Contingencies 2000
53 1/7/16 V.No.-47 Labour for plantation A forestation 6500
54 1/7/16 V.No.-48 Labour for plantation A forestation 5000
55 4/7/16 V.No.-49 Stationary Contingencies 2060
56 4/7/16 V.No.-50 Labour for Contour A forestation 5000
57 5/7/16 V.No.-51 Labour for Contour A forestation 10000
58 10/7/16 V.No.-52 Labour for Contour A forestation 2100
59 10/7/16 V.No.-53 Labour for plantation A forestation 10000
60 10/7/16 V.No.-54 Labour for plantation A forestation 6300
61 20/7/16 V.No.-55 Material iron mesh Conventional energy excess 29100
62 20/7/16 V.No.-56 Transportation Contingencies 5995.68
63 20/7/16 V.No.-57 Bank Charges 2.50
64 22/7/16 V.No.-58 Cow Purchase Mini Dairy 45000
65 30/7/16 V.No.-59 Cow Purchase Mini Dairy 40000
66 1/8/16 V.No.-60 Cow Purchase Mini Dairy 40000
67 2/8/16 V.No.-61 Cow Purchase Mini Dairy 45000
68 5/8/16 V.No.-62 Training Capacity Building 10000
69 5/8/16 V.No.-63 Communication Contingencies 3100
70 6/8/16 V.No.-64 Cow Purchase Mini Dairy 45000
71 8/8/16 V.No.-65 Cow Purchase Mini Dairy 40000
72 19/8/16 R.No.-7 Loan Received Loan 3500
73 19/8/16 V.No.-66 Internet Contingencies 3246
74 19/8/16 V.No.-67 Electricity Contingencies 966
75 19/8/16 R.No.-8 Loan Received Loan 10000
76 19/8/16 V.No.-68 Plants purchase A forestation 2420
77 20/8/16 R.No.-9 Loan Received Loan 10000
78 20/8/16 V.No.-69 Plants purchase A forestation 5040
Total (Rs.) 1005518 991332.18
Cash Balance 439
Bank Balance 13746.82
Grand total 1005518 1005518
b. Cumulative Expenditure Report
Budget Head Approved Expenditure Cumulative Balance Co-
Budget this period Expenditure (Rs.) Financin
(Rs.) (from (Rs.) g
above) (Rs.) accessed
Village Meetings 10000 6000 6000 4000
Formation and strengthening of SHGs 20000 7000 7000 13000
A Forestation 184593 127360 127360 57233
Water Conservation 128688 130646 130646 -1958 1958
Mini Dairy 452500 255000 255000 197500
Fodder grasses introduction 10000 10000
Animal Husbandry practices
Installation of Travis 27000 25000 25000 2000
Mini Seed Kits 120000 121588 121588 -1588 90666
Conventional Energy Excess 240000 98400 98400 141600
Value addition to the turmeric and chili
in the form of grinders and expellers at 60000 60000
the SHG levels
Capacity building 45000 25000 25000 20000
Consultants/ Resource persons 16000 16000
Monitoring & Evaluation
Documentation & Reporting 10000 10000
Travel Costs of 10 Villages & others 10000 4000 4000 6000
Salary 414000 85665 85665 328335
Communications and Administration 10000 10000
Contingency 30000 20673.18 20673.18 9326.82
Loan Received & Expenditure 99185 99185
Total 1787781 1005517.18 1005517.18 881448.82 92624
Report submitted by:
Name : Chandra Shekhar Juyal
Designation : President
Signature :
Date : 30 September 2016