ANNUAL REPORT
2006
Sustainable & Integrated Development Society
(SIDS)
Kalanki, Katathmandu
Office address
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SIDS
Kalanki, Kathmandu, Nepal
Phone: 977-1-4284759
Email: sids@mail.com.np
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Mission
Boosting up sustainable development through participatory
community action process and partnership building by promoting
gender equity and social inclusion.
Organizational Objectives
Its mission guides SIDS's activities. With an overall objective of
working in a sustainable and integrated manner, SIDS envisages
working for the following social development activities:
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Empowerment of women, children and deprived section of
the society;
Environment conservation through local efforts
contributing to improved global environment
Providing community health services including drinking
water supply and management, sanitation and hygiene
Non-formal education
Training and awareness generation for extension of
environmentally sound agriculture and infrastructure
development. And,
Study, evaluation and research.
Approaches
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Enhanced community participation and ownership
Building partnership with local NGOs/CBOs, clubs, credit
groups in programme implementation.
Top priority to sustainability components.
Information dissemination and shared learning at all
levels.
Social inclusion and rights-based programme designing and
implementation.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Message from the President
A Note from the Advisor
From The Secretary General
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SIDS, at a glance
First Year of Operation
Programme Areas
Review of Progress
 Water Supply
 Sanitation
 Health
 Non-Formal Education
 Partnerships
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WASHTA, Programme Implementation Model
Organigram
Executive Board Member
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Message from the President
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) are increasingly being looked
upon as an effective means to transfer and translate vision for
development into reality in an effective way. It has also been able to
manage to reach remotest areas and to the most secluded segment of the
community. Development works cannot be sustained without paying
attention to such segment of the society. The successes achieved over
the years have encouraged international development organizations to
increase the partnerships through NGOs. However, Nepal still lacks
NGOs, who has the vision to implement programmes through integrated
approach.
Looking at this reality that Nepal still needs NGOs to work in an "integrated" way, a group of
people with common "vision" and interest to work for the common cause has established SIDS
(Sustainable & Integrated Development Society). They all have long experiences in
development works in different fields – civil engineering, environment engineering, medical
science, sustainable development, finance management, research and capacity building, etc.
The primary objective of SIDS is to be a good partner in country's community development
process in the integrated way, which can also be termed as Balance Approach of Development.
Over the years, SIDS was busy framing for a good internal management. Hence, we could not
move ahead as swiftly as planned in expanding external relations; programme formulation and
its delivery. It is only since 2006; SIDS has taken active steps in building relationships with
national and international development partners.
SIDS is also working in establishing a database of the professional experts. This will be the
backbone for programme delivery at field. A secretariat has been established and equipped with
basic office aids. Core staffs have been attending to respond issues. Executive Committee
meetings are being held regularly. Project documents have also been prepared and shared with
the external partners.
2007 will be a challenging year for us as we are looking forward to expand our relation with
national and international development partners. I am confident that with our collective effort,
the challenge can be translated into opportunity.
I take this opportunity to thank my colleagues in the Executive Board and staff in the SIDS
Secretariat in preparing this annual report.
Thank you !
Rajendra Shrestha
A Note from the Advisor
Nepal, currently among the countries jeopardized by political turmoil,
is fighting against poverty, illiteracy and institutionalized social
discrimination over the centuries. For the first time in the history of
Nepal, the people have been able to enjoy freedom in an open society.
But there are a lot of challenges to address the needs of socially and
economically backward people specially in providing the basics of
development. Decades of experiences have shown that Government
bodies alone cannot carryout development activities and NGOs are
found to be the effective way in reaching the rural mass in Nepal.
I understand, Nepalese NGOs has a great role to play for creation of the basis for development.
SIDS, despite of being in its early stage, is currently experiencing a number of issues like
resource generation, institutional development and a stability of services of its own. Over the
short duration of my association with SIDS as an advisor, I am very happy to see the people
involved in SIDS are with good professional and academic background, management skills and
strong willingness to work for development. However, SIDS is facing required funding.
Therefore SIDS executive committee should look into ways to enhancing communication with
international development agencies in order to improve its fundraising efforts.
SIDS is certainly an emerging NGO. I do foresee that because of their strong willingness and
commitment; SIDS would be playing a key role in reaching the unreached people. I also do
believe that SIDS will soon be a known development partner for international aid agencies. I
wish all the success in the days to come.
Thank you !
Greg Whiteside
From the Secretary General
SIDS was a creation of enthusiastic people with good experience in
different development sectors. Registration of an NGO among
thousands was rather not difficult but nurturing a new born was
definitely challenging. SIDS had also been passed under the same way
where others were passed by. As rightly said by the SIDS President,
we were busy in streamlining our internal management. The time has
come to come gear up us in order to go ahead fast. The moment
finally came to us and, I am confident, we have been able to
regenerate our commitments.
In fact, as it was envisioned at the beginning, engineers of SIDS wanted to make a conjuncture
of experienced development workers, who could redesign the development modalities crossing
over the limitations and restrictions of the Organizations they were working with. This was an
opportunity too. Therefore, these people dreamed of a new perspective: putting all the
experiences together and shaping much more integrated development initiatives with adapting
proven sustainable measures that are demand driven. SIDS attempted to have a beautiful
combination of hardware and software. For all these, brainstorming and exercises were needed.
At the end, SIDS rediscovered that it is possible but a long period of time will be needed to
change the trend of separating hardware and software. No significant changes in the life of
people were evidenced but rather NGOs were blamed for political interventions due to the years
of software support practices. However, SIDS strongly favors the balance.
The year 2006 is of a year of significance for our organizational Life. SIDS has reinvented it,
revisited its past and envisioned its future. SIDS stepped for wider relationships and much
stronger collaborations. Personally I do hope that this is the corner stone which will help us for
upbringing the concrete building. I would like to thank all who contributed to nurturing the
SIDS and bringing out this document for the first time.
Thank you !
Krishna Mani Adhikary
ABBREVIATIONS
CODEC
:
Community Development Centre
CLTS
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Community Led Total Sanitation
HIV/ AIDS
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Human Immuno-deficiency Virus/ Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
NEWAH
:
Nepal Water for Health
NEWAH- CRO
:
Nepal Water for Health Central Regional Office
NGO
:
Non-Governmental Organisation
PO
:
Partner Organizations
SIDS
:
Sustainable & Integrated Development Society
SAP
:
South Asia Partnership
SLTS
:
School Led Total Sanitation
SM & FH
:
Safe Motherhood & Family Health
UNICEF
:
United Nations Children’s Fund
VDC
:
Village Development Committee
WASHTA
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Water supply, Sanitation, Health, Training & Advocacy
SIDS, At a Glance
Most NGOs in Nepal are established with the objective of Community Development in
traditional way; whereby a small physical area is selected with specific target group.
The country still lacks NGOs, which works in an integrated approach towards
community development.
This approach calls for more intersectoral and
interdependent activities, whereby each sector acts and interacts with each other and
thereby affecting the whole mechanism. This is a model which proves to be more
practical and realistic in the present context. Nepal still lacks such NGOs.
Realizing the fact, Sustainable and Integrated Development Society (SIDS) is
established in the year 2000 in Kathmandu to work with the communities and other
development partners to fill the gap of working for "integrated" community
development in order to package overall development process. Community dialogue is
an entry point to get together for participation in the process.
SIDS works in an integrated way in order to sustain the development projects. In all its
activities, priority is given to the most disadvantaged community including women and
children. It aims, through its programmes to pursue integrated efforts to improve the
overall status in the targeted areas, at paving the way to transparent development
administration, good governance and a good combination of hardware and software.
Community participation with gender equity is the basis of SIDS programmes. SIDS
emphasizes participatory community action process empowering local people to
increase access to information and services. Education is a gateway to visualization of
the essence of development. Teachers and students, because of their enthusiasm to
know and practice new things, are the best agents for catering development to the
remote area.
First Year of Operation
NGO sector is still the most effective means to carry the development activities and that it can
offer genuine collaboration with the government and international communities in accelerating
development activities closely working with the local communities.
Over the years, SIDS was busy framing to give a good shape to its internal management. It was
really a difficult task. A lot of efforts and time have been spent on this. Though it was little
slow than anticipated, SIDS made a remarkable progress. This has made possible, from 2006,
to initiate steps to move ahead in expanding relation with international development partners.
Establishment of a Secretariat with basic office aids, regular Executive Committee meetings,
visiting some of the partners, having an advisor, are certainly some of the indicators that SIDS
is moving ahead in the right direction.
Programme Areas
Boosting up development activities in an integrated way is the mission of the SIDS.
Since it aims to work in different development sectors, certainly one single approach
might not work well. Hence, different approaches for programme implementation are
being developed.
We are happy to finalise an approach for implementation of Water & Sanitation
programmes. This structure will be the basic approach for program implementation. In
addition, this forms the basis of our long-term strategy. SIDS calls this outline as
WASHTA. The word WASHTA also means ‘concern’ which certainly matches with
the goal of the organization that has to address the concerns of disadvantaged, low
empowered and marginalized sections of the society. Here, WASHTA contains five
basic components of community development reflected in the diagram:
TRAINING
The diagrammatic form of WASHTA
SANITATION
WATER SUPPLY
ADVOCACY
HEALTH
TRAINING
COMPONENTS OF WASHTA
WATER SUPPLY
Gravity flow
Tube well
Rain water harvesting
Spring protection
Pond conservation
Small Irrigation
SANITATION
School Latrine
Domestic/ Community Latrine
CLTS
SLTS
Sulav Latrine
HEALTH
Smokeless Stove
Kitchen Gardening
Reproductive HE
SM & FH
NGO Facilitators
Community health promoters
Sanitation technicians
Caretaker/ junior mechanics/ construction
workers
Child to Child (C2C)
Community Health & Awareness
Committee (CHAC)
Project Management Committee (PMC)
Non-governmental Organization
management
Micro Financing
Financial & management account
Women empowerment
Resource mobilization
Working with the communities
NGO capacity building
Training Facilitation Skills
IDP support
ADVOCACY
Human Rights
Women Rights
Dalit & Indigenous Rights
Gender & Social Inclusion
Voices of the common people
Good Governance
Empowering women & children
Quality education
Child education sponsorship
Child Awareness
REVIEW OF PROGRESS
Despite we were busy in streamlining our internal management, SIDS managed to achieve a
good progress in programme delivery. Following are the summary of achievements made during
the years of implementations:
Water Supply
CODEC is a local NGO based in Nuwakot and
has been affiliated with SIDS since its inception.
SIDS has been playing a pivotal role in
providing technical guidance for the programme
formulation and implementation in Nuwakot
district.
SIDS has implemented four drinking water
projects with the financial aid from SAP- Nepal
and one with the assistance of NEWAH. About
2500 people of Budhasing VDC have been
benefited from the project.
Sanitation
SIDS, with the funds provided by NEWAH CRO has
implemented a school sanitation and hygiene education
programme in Narayan Jana Madhyamik Vidhyalaya,
Machhegaun VDC-5 Kathmandu. Under this
programme, SIDS built a school latrine and drinking
water taps in the school. Total 374 people including 135
boys, 216 girls, 23 teachers and other staffs are
benefited from the programme. Prior to handover of the
latrine to the school, a child club was formed. Basic
knowledge on health and sanitation awareness was also
provided through the child club.
Health
Family welfare programme was conducted with the financial assistance of CEDPA Nepal since
July 1992 to June 1996 and since June 1996 to December 1996, with the financial assistance of
CODEC itself. The programme was launched in two VDCs, Taruka and Budhasing. 5,000 people
have been directly benefited. The main programme conducted was clinical services, mobile
clinics, income generation activities, nutrition, women education, family planning and MCH
programme etc. CODEC is also helping sick people providing them with some medical expenses
and advocacy.
Non-Formal Education Programme
Non-formal education programme have been implemented in four VDCs 10 from the financial
assistance of UNICEF, 56 from PACT, 46-post literacy and continuing education from World
Education and 8 from CEDPA Nepal.
Various other income generating activities have been implemented in Budhasing VDC -3, of
Nuwakot. Eighty people participated in income generation activities. They purchased goats, pigs,
and cocks for earning money. CODEC has provided funds in the recommendation of women
saving groups and has also provided funds in its own initiation in the community. CODEC has
circulating funds of Rs 50,000.00 and is trying to increase more funds.
Partnerships
As envisioned in its mission, SIDS intends to establish long term partnerships will all partners at
all level, which include donor community, partner organizations, local NGOs, community and
various saving and credit groups. SIDS believes that this is the basis to produce synergic results
in order to sustain the development activities.
CODEC is the first local NGO based in Nuwakot who have established partnership with SIDS
and became the first local organization to be affiliated with SIDS. SIDS has already extended
technical guidance to CODEC in some of the projects. Both SIDS and CODEC have been
benefited with the partnership. Some other NGOs are in touch with SIDS for affiliation with
SIDS and to establish partnerships. SIDS has also approached various donor agencies for
partnership.
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR’S REPORT
ORGANOGRAM
B O A R D
Advisor
Director
Programme
Manager
Technical
Manager
Training &
Advocacy
Manager
Admin/Finance
Officer
SocioTechnicians
Training &
Advocacy
Facilitator
Admin/Finance
Assistant
Office Assistant
Programme
Supervisor
Field Assistant
Junior
Programme
Officer
(Volunteer)
EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBERS
Mr. Rajendra Shrestha
President
Er. Devendra Gauchan
Vice-President
Ms. Sushila Adhikari
Executive Member
Mr. Krishna Mani Adhikary
Secretary General
Dr. Sunil Pradhan
Executive Member
Mr. Dasarath Pd. Rimal
Treasurer
Er. Sushila Maharjan
Executive Member
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Sustainable & Integrated Development Society
Krishna Marga-85, Kalanki -14
Kathmandu, Nepal
P.O.Box: 9329
Tel: 977-01-4284759
Email: sids@mail.com.np