Prepare a Quatifiable Project Statement

Assignment 1: Project Proposal

State the type or project and identify the business problem it will solve.

This project will be domestic in terms of service provider and service receiver. Both parties will be local Nepalese communities. The project will be charitable based on the philosophy of Humanitarian Service to alleviate the pain and suffering that poverty brings to needy orphans living in Jhin VDC (Village Development Committee) and Pakhapani VDCs of Myagdi District, Nepal without distinction of gender, race, caste, and color. This project will be a pilot project in the phase I (one), and if this project concept found really helping to those targeted orphan then will be expanded the project life in the phase II (two) in other VDCs of Myagdi District, Nepal as per the time and budget available. Social Development and research center a local based NGO will initiate the project with the support of the local government, board of school members, high school students, community based organizations CBOs), teachers, and different local political parties; will provide a lifeline for orphans in the hope that they might create a better future and better place by getting educational support.

There are 3913 VDCs (Village Development Committees) in Nepal. A VDC is further divided into wards; the number depending on the population of the district, the average is nine wards. The purpose of VDCs is to organize village people structurally at a local level and to create a partnership between the community and the public sector for improved service delivery system. A VDC has a status as an autonomous institution and authority for interacting with the more centralized institutions of governance in Nepal. Nepal's 14 administrative zones are subdivided into 75 districts (Central Bureau of statistics, 2011).

Map of Myagdi District, Nepal

Geography and Popuation: Myagdi District, Nepal a part of Dhaulagiri Zone is one of the seventy- five (75) districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia. Myadgi District is located in the hilly region, and has covered the land of 56%. The district, with Beni as its district headquarters, covers an area of 2,297 km, and a population is 113,641. It is estimated that around 650 Orphans live in Myagdi without parents support. Due to the lack of technical and budget, could not be able to provide educational support for 650 orphans. In the phase I of project, have chosen 23(age ranging 5-12) orphans from Jhi VDC and 27 (age ranging 5-12) orphans from Pakhapani VDC among the 650 orphans of Maygdi District, Nepal as pilot project (Census Buerau of Statistics, 2012). Jhin VDC has 1234 population and 283 individual households. Likewise, Pakhapani VDC has 2565 population and 533 individual households.

People and Culture: Though it is primarily magar community dominated district, but Myagdi is a home for diversified ethnics group like Gurung, Sarki, Kami, Chhetri, and Brahman. Culture is chiefly determined by the three factors, birth, death, and marriage performed. Since it is diversified, people from different ethnic group have different way of making these occasions.

Literacy status in the Myadgi District: Out of total 96372 people who are six years and above of age such as boys 11494, girls 24766 cannot read and write only 2606 boys and 3294 girls can read and write. Note: Literacy rate at the VDCs level are not available. Educational Institutions from the Nepal government in Myagdi District, there are 252 primary schools, and 874 primary teachers, involved in the education sector (Central Bureau of Statistics, 2011).

Children whose parents are dead, children who have lost both parents and something who lacks support or care or supervision are known as orphan children. Orphans do not have any surviving parent to care for him or her. However, the United Nation Children's Fund (UNICEF), Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), and other groups label any child that has lost one parent as an orphan. In this, approach, a maternal orphan is a child whose mother has died, a paternal orphan is a child whose father has died, and a double orphan has lost both parents. This contrasts with the older use of half-orphan to describe children that had lost only one parent. "Orphans" is a term generally reserved for children who lose their parents and are too young to care for themselves (www. unicef.org).

Nepal is among the poorest and least developing country in the world with 42 percent of its population living below the poverty line. Located between the huge countries of India and China, almost of all the orphan children are hoping to develop and realize their potentials by gaining knowledge to live quality life in the future. Agriculture is the main source of the economy, providing a livelihood for three-fourths of the population and accounting for about one-third of GDP. Industrial activity mainly involves the processing of agricultural products, including pulses, jute, sugarcane, tobacco, and grain (Central Bureau of Statics, 2011).

According to the government statistics, there are some 400 orphanages local NGOs in Nepal of which only about 160 are registered officially. But, in Jhi VDC and Pakhapani VDC of Myagdi found local NGOs has not registered yet. Orphans of these two VDCs are in urgent need for education support due to not having their responsibly family members. Nepal's 9.8 million children 16 years of age, about 30 percent of them are living extremely difficult conditions. Of these children, over 70 percent live in villages (country side). However, over 90 percent of children's homes are centralized in the national capital and other major city hubs (Central Bureau of Statistics, 2011).

After assessed the situation of orphan report of Myagdi, Nepal, felt to handle most touching issues of; Support 50 orphans with scholastic needs like Uniforms, reading and writing books, pen and pencil, school bag. Carryout lobby and advocacy throughout the district meeting; political parties, government agencies including Village Development Committees (VDCs), civil societies, social workers, local NGOs. Strengthen the government local system by bridging the gap, Initiate to identify and assess the orphans data and information at the VDCs level and record them in the VDCs system. In every fiscal year budget these orphans will be included in the budget and accordingly they will get support from the local government. Coordination and collaboration mechanism will be developed among the VDCS, Department of Education, Board of school, various political parties, Community based organizations, NGO (Non-profit organizations), and family members of orphans.

Determine three (3) major deliverables of the project.