better brick- nepal project - igd-n

Prepared By:- For :- Submitted To:-

Integrated Green Better Brick-Nepal Global Fairness Initiative

Development Nepal

Better Brick- Nepal Project

Semi -Annual Report

(1st Dec 2017 – 1st May 2018)

2 | P a g e

TABLE OF CONTTENTS

CHAPTER

PAGE

Acronyms and Abbreviations .................................................................................................................................................... 3

Section I: Key achievement so far ............................................................................................................................................ 4

Section II: Narrative of Progress ......................................................................................................................................... 5-26

BBN Program ...................................................................................................................................................................... 5-17

a. Tripartite agreement: ................................................................................................................................................ 5

b. Kiln wise child labor and management ....................................................................................................................... 6

c. Construction of ECEC Building ....................................................................................................................................... 7

d. Stakeholder engagement for the promotion of child labor brick ................................................................................. 8

e. Workers and Naike training .................................................................................................................................. 9-14

f. Awareness Rally .................................................................................................................................................. 15

g. Financial support by Kiln management for meeting BBN standards .......................................................................... 16

h. Grievance Committee (Formation and reported grievance) ................................................................................. 17-18

i. Worker Committee (Formation and Involvement) ............................................................................................... 19-20

Bridge School Program ..................................................................................................................................................... 21-30

a. Children assessment & School linkage. ............................................................................................................... 21-22

b. Before after school program.................................................................................................................................... 23

c. School outing or learning activities for school going children .................................................................................... 24

d. ECEC Training ..................................................................................................................................................... 25-27

e. Nonformal education class ...................................................................................................................................... 28

f. Children enrolled in ECEC ....................................................................................................................................... 29

g. ECEC materials Support ........................................................................................................................................... 29

h. Food for ECEC ........................................................................................................................................................ 29

i. Extra curriculum activities for ECEC children ............................................................................................................ 30

j. Monitoring by DEO and RC ...................................................................................................................................... 30

k. school join status in source village ........................................................................................................................... 30

Section III: Cross-Cutting ............................................................................................................................................... 31-36

A. Gender Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI) ................................................................................................................ 31

B. Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning ................................................................................................................. 32-34

a. Baseline Survey ......................................................................................................................................... 32

b. IDELA survey ............................................................................................................................................. 32

c. Training Supervision................................................................................................................................... 33

d. ECEC quality Monitoring ............................................................................................................................. 33

e. Monthly data verification............................................................................................................................ 33

f. Kiln Monitoring visit ................................................................................................................................... 34

g. Board members monitor the activities ..................................................................................................................... 34

C. Communication Change ..................................................................................................................................... 34-36

Section IV: Technical Support visit ........................................................................................................................................ 37

Section V: Management .................................................................................................................................................. 37-38

Section VI: Issues or Challenges in Programme Implementation ............................................................................................ 38

Section VII: Lessons Learned .................................................................................................................................................. 39

Case/Success Stories: ............................................................................................................................................................ 40

3 | P a g e

Acronyms and Abbreviations

ABI Asmita Brick Industry

BBN Better Brick-Nepal

BJP BJP Brick Industry

BSP Bridge school Program

DCC District Coordination Committee

ECEC Early child care and education center

GBI Gorkha Brick Industry

GFI Global fairness initiative

IGDN Integrated Green Development Nepal

IOS Implementing organization

KBI Kundur Brick Industry

MA VI Secondary School

MBF Macchapuchre Brick Factory

NGF Nepal Goodweave Foundation

NI MA VI Lower Secondary school

PBI Pokhereli Brick Industry

RM Rural Municipality

TOT Training for Trainers

4 | P a g e

Semi-Annual Report (1st Dec 2017 – 1st May 2018)

Integrated Green Development Nepal (IGDN)

Section I: Key achievement so far

Section I: key achievement so far

Out of six, five kiln managed to stronghold the child labor free brick kiln

status in initial report of social audit.

All of the component listed in the CAP has been completed in MBF as

well as other kiln are making a progress in it.

Urdu class under the Non formal education program is much success.

While it plays an important role to eradicate child labor from KBI.

Province level stakeholder engagement has been conducted in Pokhara on

Better Brick –Nepal through a mega event which creates a ripple effect

among the policy maker& Province government and at least three

millions stakeholders of province 4.

A municipal level Awareness rally has been conducted in collaboration

with construction association of Nepal, Tanahun through which at least

3000people were outreached, while Myagde Rural Municipality promised

to embrace such rally as a component of their budget in upcoming fiscal

years.

5 | P a g e

Section II: Narrative of Progress

Better Brick Nepal Activities

a. Tripartite agreement

As tripartite agreement are the vital component of the Programme and it is the most important groundwork. As far as in this season altogether 641 tripartite agreement was filled within the six kilns by respective SM of the kiln. Below is the index of the tripartite agreement which is filled this season.

S.N. Industry Total Male Female Molder Transporter Firing Jhokai Bojhai Naike Other

1 Macchapuchre 112 76 36 - 60 6 5 14 - 27

2 Asmita 116 84 32 67 27 5 5 5 2 5

3 Pokhereli 81 70 11 - 41 4 9 14 3 10

4 BJP 136 110 26 75 23 4 8 10 - 16

5 Kundur 105 92 13 35 40 6 5 12 3 7

6 Gorkha Brick 91 88 3 32 24 8 6 11 2 4

641 tripartite agreement is filled and it was slightly less than expected. Here are some of the reasons due to which tripartite agreement was filled less than expected.

Due to the late fairing on the BJP kiln ., red brick carrier and another working group such as fireman and even molder were haired less then than previous estimation.

Due to early starting of the monsoon this season, production has stopped early and hence new workers did not arrive after the old one run away.

6 | P a g e

b. Kiln wise child labor and how to manage them At the beginning of the season there were three child labor cases in two industries .two of them are of Asmita and one is from Pokhereli Brick Industry. The following are the list of child labor early found in this seasons.

Management

1. Shyam Magar is an unaccompanied child who had come with the Nike Sukhal

Paswan .as he is underage to work as a worker. We tried our best to enroll him

in nearby school but he is not willing to study neither want to enroll in

vocational counseling classes.so he had return back to his source village with the

kiln manager as well as his neighbor Ramhari Shrestha after 15 days and

throughout the process, it is strictly confirmed that he reached his source village

safe and sound.

2. Jagat bdr Pariyar is also an unaccompanied child who had come with his brother

and brother in law and initially work as a molder. After our attempt, he got convinced and enrolled in class 5 of pasale Basic school and with the help of before and after class, he managed to pass out the final exam.

3. Khusnur Khatun, Ruksin Khatun, Umer Khan, Mahanur Khatun &Jayed Khan all are the children of age below 14 are found on the molding process in the social audit of NGF. After that they were enrolled in the vocational counseling education , where they were taught basic numeric and writings in Urdu language by a teacher name mahanur khan in the kiln premises.

S.N. Industry Name of the worker

Age Permanent Address Worker Type

1 Asmita Jagat bdr Pariyar

14 Hariban Municipality,Sarlahi Molder

2 Asmita Shyam Magar 12 Bagmati Municipality-11,sarlahi Molder

3 Kundur Khusnur Khatun

14 Khiri,lakhimpur,India Molder

4 Asmita Ruksin khatun 13 Khiri,lakhimpur,India Molder

5 Kundur Umer khan 10 Khiri,lakhimpur,India Molder

6 Kundur Mahanur Khatun

14 Khiri,lakhimpur,India Molder

7 Kundur Jayed Khan 8 Khiri,lakhimpur,India Molder

7 | P a g e

c. Construction of ECEC Building

Out of six kilns under the program, only three ECEC were operational .one in ABI of Tanahun district, One in BJP of lamjung district and in Kundur kiln of Gorkha district. one new ECEC building was constructed during this season.

One ECEC center of Asmita kiln was fully constructed as the previous year’s ECEC class was temporary. A total cost of NRS.50, 000 was invested out of which NRS.20, 000 was

supported by the program as ECEC renovation cost, remaining materials and labor cost were provide by the industry. One ECEC facialatator has been

appointed by the program for five months.The ECEC is in

good condition and will be operational for next season.

In Kundur Brick kiln Previous ECEC class was fine so

after the little renovation of the cost at about 20,000Nrs. Such as mattress and wall painting, it is fine to use. Two ECEC facilitators were haired one from the program for 6 months and another from kiln for 4 months. The ECEc is in

good conditoion and will be operational for

next season.

In case of BJP Kiln, as the construction of chimney and dough is currently in progress, kiln owner couldn’t manage to construct a new ECEC class, but they managed a rented room (NRS.1000 Per month) for this purpose. One ECEC

facialatator has been appointed by the program for four months.Kiln owner

promises to construct a new ECEC building for next season.

ECEC of KBI

Children on ABI ECEC

ECEC Construction in progress, ABI

8 | P a g e

c. Stakeholder engagement for the promotion of child labor brick On April 23, 2018, a Provincial responsible market conversation was conducted in partnership between Global Fairness Initiative-Better Brick Nepal, Pokhara Chamber of Commerce & Industries, Cottage & Small Industries - Kaski and Integrated Green Development Nepal -Tanahu, in Province No. 4 Pokhara; which was covered live by Golden Eye Television. Government officials such as Honorable Minister of internal affairs and law- Hari Bahadur Chuman, Honorable Minister of Industry,

Tourism, Forest and Environment- Bikas Lamsal, Member of Parliament, professionals from the business community and civil society attended as panelists and participants in this discussion. Everyone put forward their opinion and concern towards Behavioral change in seasonal industries/enterprises through market incentivize (Brick is Alive) and shared views with regards to policy on labor responsible enterprises. Total participant of the program are at around 140.out of which 128 were male and 12 were female. The event had reached to more than 3 million people.

The outcome of the program:-

Promotion of socially responsible brands among Local, National and International

stakeholders.

Sharing of best practices currently done by the businesses (Kiln who are producing child

labor free bricks in support of Better Brick –Nepal program.)

Providing market-driven incentive to the responsible business practices by creating the

medium to each the customer. Creates a platform to formulate the strategies creating

synergy effect for the up liftmen of Province 4.

Hr. Minister of internal affairs and law,

Hari bdr chuman, Province 4

Hr. Minister of tourism industry &

environment Bikash Lamsal Province 4

Panelist of the Event Stakeholder from the different sectors

participating on the event.

9 | P a g e

d. Workers and Naike training Worker training are the main component of BBN

Programme in Better Brick Nepal Project.in this

seasons all together at around 640 workers were trained

on nine modules addressing all of the five standards. as

per the module developed by Better Brick -Nepal which

was provided after a TOT on Sahamati Training center,

Gaindakot, Nawalparasi. Along with this, with approval

of Husna Banu Shiekh (training officer, GFI) IGDN had

developed a Hindi guideline in the basis of the official module

provided by the program to help the trainers and SM’S to

understand the module as well as delivered them to the Indian accent workers

BBN Orientation

To conduct training on BBN orientation Socio-economic aspects of the brick kiln,

Introduction of the Better Brick Nepal project, why it is important for the workers and

their children were discussed. Comparison of red and green brick in context of life was

also demonstrated. To strength the quality of training and to provide more clarity to the

worker's snake and ladder game based on the training modules were played on many

occasion. Data segregation is followed including target & Achievement.

BBN Orientation

Kiln Target Ach. Total Male Female Naike Molder

Green Brick

Red Brick

Firing Bojhai Jhokai Other

ABI 15 12 443 322 121 12 270 64 30 16 21 15 14

PBI 9 8 272 236 36 4 56 95 33 2 12 16 54

MBF 5 1 70 56 14 0 0 19 18 2 24 0 6

BJP 12 9 409 304 105 0 229 64 0 12 30 24 50

GBI 4 3 264 260 4 6 96 39 33 24 33 18 12

KBI 11 10 316 270 46 10 155 61 32 12 24 10 14

Worker training, ABI

10 | P a g e

Child Labor

To conduct training on child labor flex and banner carrying a message against child labor

were displayed; the difference between normal children & child labor was defined in

references with the age group. Two stories of

Radha & Bire were told to the workers and

asked them to figure out which one is child

labor and which is not.

Different effects of child labor on children’s

mental and physical health, provision of the

law against child labor as mentioned in the

constitution of Nepal and what our Programme

is doing to prevent child labor on brick kiln

were discussed. BSP Programme, ECEC, extra

activities and student support and their benefit

to the school going children were discussed,

Radio jingle from CCWB was also played.

Kiln Target Ach. Total Male Female Naike Molder Green Brick

Red Brick


ABI 13 10 400 290 110 11 232 64 30 16 21 15 10

PBI 9 8 272 236 36 4 56 95 33 2 12 16 54

MBF 5 1 70 56 14 0 0 19 18 2 24 0 6

BJP 12 9 409 304 105 0 229 64 0 12 30 24 50

GBI 4 3 264 260 4 6 96 39 33 24 33 18 12

KBI 9 8 288 250 38 8 129 61 32 12 24 10 14

Total 52 39 1703 1396 307 29 742 342 146 68 144 83 146

Bonded and force labor

Data segregation is followed including target & Achievement.

Kiln Target Ach. Total Male Female Naike Molder Green

Brick

Red

Brick Firing Bojhai Jhokai Other

ABI 13 10 400 290 110 11 232 64 30 16 21 15 10

PBI 9 8 272 236 36 4 56 95 33 2 12 16 54

MBF 5 1 70 56 14 0 0 19 18 2 24 0 6

BJP 12 9 409 304 105 0 229 64 0 12 30 24 50

GBI 4 3 264 260 4 6 96 39 33 24 33 18 12

KBI 9 8 288 250 38 8 129 61 32 12 24 10 14

Total 52 39 1703 1396 307 29 742 342 146 68 144 83 146

Worker training, KBI

11 | P a g e

Worker training, ABI

Focus group discussion on how much advance workers burrowed this season was asked

before the training and then the disadvantage of the advance system was explained with

the help of poster and newsprint materials. To help them to understand the key concept

properly the story of “The Elephant & the rope” was also demonstrated in references with

their own reality. Workers were encouraged not to give their original documents to the

employer as a deposit document and encourage to keep the record of earning and saving

in the record book in a weekly basis. They were also encouraged not to take too much

advances in upcoming seasons. In many occasions the video on Force and bonded labor

which was produced by Better Brick –Nepal was also projected.

Remuneration and Working Hours Pictures and pamphlet which shows a comparison of wage and working hour in BBN &

non BBN kiln were displayed. Workers were trained about what should be the perfect

working hours and what should be the minimum wages by the Labor law of Nepal.

The worker was trained to the advantage of passbook system. Data segregation is

followed including target & Achievement.


Brick

Red


ABI 13 10 400 290 110 11 232 64 30 16 21 15 10

PBI 9 8 272 236 36 4 56 95 33 2 12 16 54

MBF 5 1 70 56 14 0 0 19 18 2 24 0 6

BJP 12 9 409 304 105 0 229 64 0 12 30 24 50

GBI 4 3 264 260 4 6 96 39 33 24 33 18 12

KBI 9 8 288 250 38 8 129 61 32 12 24 10 14

Total 52 39 1703 1396 307 29 742 342 146 68 144 83 146

12 | P a g e

Workplace Safety & Health This module has four subtopics on it as an integrated

package.

1. Safety at Workplace

During this training, trainers encourage the workers to

care their health and follow the safety protocols on the

workplace for their better health. Poster and pamphlets

were used to demonstrate the importance of workplace

safety. Mainly workers were encouraged to put the

sunglasses for firing and molding process, to consume more water product to avoid

possible dehydration. To use shoes to keep their feet out of injury, infections & insects.

Data segregation is followed including target & Achievement.


Red Brick


ABI 13 10 400 290 110 11 232 64 30 16 21 15 10

PBI 9 8 272 236 36 4 56 95 33 2 12 16 54

MBF 5 1 70 56 14 0 0 19 18 2 24 0 6

BJP 9 8 409 311 98 0 229 64 0 12 30 24 50

GBI 4 3 264 260 4 6 96 39 33 24 33 18 12

KBI 9 8 288 250 38 8 129 61 32 12 24 10 14

Total 49 38 1703 1403 300 29 742 342 146 68 144 83 146

2. Personal Health & hygiene


Brick

Red


ABI 13 10 400 290 110 11 232 64 30 16 21 15 10

PBI 9 8 272 236 36 4 56 95 33 2 12 16 54

MBF 5 1 70 56 14 0 0 19 18 2 24 0 6

BJP 9 8 409 311 98 0 229 64 0 12 30 24 50

GBI 4 3 264 260 4 6 96 39 33 24 33 18 12

KBI 9 8 288 250 38 8 129 61 32 12 24 10 14

Total 49 38 1703 1403 300 29 742 342 146 68 144 83 146

On this topic, workers were encouraged to consume more nutritional food, fresh

vegetables, balanced diet, Fish, meat, chicken meat, fat for protein supplements. Workers

were also encouraged to clean the cooking place by making germs free, not to allow

animals to come around the cooking place etc .alongside the materials provided on the

module, additional poster were also used to make the training more effective.

Worker training on WASH.

Worker training, MBF

13 | P a g e

3. WASH

Training on this topic focuses to develop the ability for workers to access safe water by

boiling, solar treatment & Distillation process. For sanitation, training focus to ensure access

and use of basic toilets and ways to separate human waste from contact with people. Also,

workers were encouraged to end the practice of “open defecation, “The training on hygiene

is aimed at nurturing good hygiene practices, especially handwashing with soap. Although it

sounds simple, this act is essential to prevent disease and the health of children and workers.

Live demonstration of six step hand washing was also performed and workers were

encouraged to follow these steps on a daily basis.Some of the video link used to demonstrate

this module to workers were as follows:The story of cholera- https://bit.ly/2KWRm1Z (Nepali

& Hindi Version),ODF Free India-https://bit.ly/2KX94T5(For Hindi accent workers). Data

segregation is followed including target & Achievement.


Red Brick


ABI 13 10 400 290 110 11 232 64 30 16 21 15 10

PBI 9 8 272 236 36 4 56 95 33 2 12 16 54

MBF 5 1 70 56 14 0 0 19 18 2 24 0 6

BJP 9 8 409 311 98 0 229 64 0 12 30 24 50

GBI 4 3 264 260 4 6 96 39 33 24 33 18 12

KBI 9 8 288 250 38 8 129 61 32 12 24 10 14

Total 49 38 1703 1403 300 29 742 342 146 68 144 83 146

Use & consequences of Alcohol After this training worker were aware about the different problems which can be raised due to

consumption of alcohol such as stress, anxiety, and depression, blackouts, mental issues, social

issues, relationship issues, financial issues, legal issues & physical issues as well as long-term

effect and short-term effect of alcohol as well as prevention method were also demonstrated

with the help of poster, pamphlet, videos from Better Brick-Nepal program as well as different

videos from internet. Effect of Alcohol & Tobacco on human health https://bit.ly/2rCH2Eq (For

Hindi accent workers). Data segregation is followed including target & Achievement.


Red Brick


ABI 13 10 400 290 110 11 232 64 30 16 21 15 10

PBI 9 8 272 236 36 4 56 95 33 2 12 16 54

MBF 5 1 70 56 14 0 0 19 18 2 24 0 6

BJP 9 8 409 311 98 0 229 64 0 12 30 24 50

GBI 4 3 264 260 4 6 96 39 33 24 33 18 12

KBI 9 8 288 250 38 8 129 61 32 12 24 10 14

Total 49 38 1703 1403 300 29 742 342 146 68 144 83 146

https://bit.ly/2KWRm1Z

https://bit.ly/2KX94T5

https://bit.ly/2rCH2Eq

14 | P a g e

Inhuman treatment Human & non-human act was elaborated with the help of poster as well as flex, as well as

Grievance report committee, was formed and workers were informed about the committee and

how to report issues there.


Brick

Red


ABI 13 10 400 290 110 11 232 64 30 16 21 15 10

PBI 9 8 272 236 36 4 56 95 33 2 12 16 54

MBF 5 1 70 56 14 0 0 19 18 2 24 0 6

BJP 9 8 409 311 98 0 229 64 0 12 30 24 50

GBI 4 3 264 260 4 6 96 39 33 24 33 18 12

KBI 9 8 288 250 38 8 129 61 32 12 24 10 14

Total 49 38 1703 1403 300 29 742 342 146 68 144 83 146

Achievements:-

Workers are informed about the Better Brick-Nepal.

Workers were being more familiar with the project staff.

Workers were aware of their health and safety habits.

Workers were able to express their problems and expectations to BBN staffs and kiln

management committee.

The drastic change in behavior and safety concern was seen in workers.

Challenges:-

Workers have big expectations from the program as well as training.

It is difficult to deliver the training as per action plans.

It is hard to manage the time as per workers schedule.

Rushing away of trained workers.

Learning:-

From the previous training we knew that

we should have alternative plans to

deliver the training rather than sticking

to one plan.

Use of informative videos can be more

effective to aware the workers.

M B F P B I A B I B J P K B I G B I

50

194261 263

190 17223

25

58 68

264

GENDER BASE PARTICIPENT

Male Female

15 | P a g e

e. Awareness rally Three Awareness rally competed on the 1st of

the May. The first one was held on the date of

May 1, 2018, as the day was also a workers

day.

Integrated green development Nepal in collaboration of construction association of

Nepal, Tanahun organize a rally. The rally

was the major event of the Myagde

municipality of that day as it covers the whole

rural municipality area .the rally was marched

through the Jamune bazar and covering the

distance of at about 10 KM ended as a formal ceremony in the myagde rural municipality

where the chief guest was president of the Myagde rural municipality Maya rana, vice

president Balkrishna ghimire and other major stakeholders, social activist, youth entrepreneur, women and mothers group, youth clubs and workers from the different labor sectors also

including the brick workers from Macchapuchre brick factory. Participants marched with the

banner and play card about five standards, the culture of compliance, promotion of child labor

free bricks and many more.

About 250 persons were marched on the rally. local newspaper and the FM also cover the

news at top priority.

Another rally was marched from the BJP kiln

into the premises of the Dhamilikuwa bazar,

one of the trade point and major bazar of

Rainas municipality .workers from the BJP kilns, IGDN staff and the kiln management has

been actively involved in the process. About 70

people participated on the rally.

Another rally was marched from Kundur brick

industry to the 10-kilo bazar of Gorkha

municipality, Gorkha which is also the trade

point and the major bazar on the Gorkha

highway. About 80 workers of the Kundur Brick kiln

participated in the rally.

As a result of the rally Myagde rural municipality

promises to embrace such program of May 1st on

their annual budget and plan and to celebrate this day

on a government scale. Also, public outreach about

the Better Brick Nepal has been established in all of

the community of three kilns.

Worker Rally,Tanahun

Worker Rally,Gorkha

Worker Rally,Lamjung

16 | P a g e

f. Financial (ECEC building construction, toilet construction, drinking water and food support for ECEC etc.) support by Kiln management for meeting BBN standards

In Macchapuchre Kiln, Construction of Cafeteria

&installation of Drinking water system has already

completed. Beside that provision of fire extinguisher &

safety regulation banner has been installed, wiring around

the pond has been completed. Installation of six CCTV

has been completed .agreement of Night shift worker,

update on kiln labor policy & MOU with local health post

has been completed. Beside

this recently one First Aid

Room has also been

constructed. During all these

processes the kiln has invested

at about NRS.5, 00,000 to meet the compliance.

In case of BJP, The key used for brick making "Farma" has

been improved as per the suggestion of Bhishma sir. Also, the

equipment used for inserting coal has been improved as it is

much smaller than the previous which will result in lower

consumption of fuel & soil during operation. Beside that

washrooms has been separated for male & female as well as renovated. Construction of

chimney has been completed yet an outer layer of wall is not

finished yet.50% of activities listed on CAR & CAP has been

completed.at around NRS. 1, 00,000 has been invested to meet

the compliance.

In case of Kundur brick, Installation of Water purifier is

currently in progress. Besides that minor improvement such as

young worker agreement & Advance, Reduction has been

implemented. One ECEC Facilitator has been supported by

the kiln for Better Brick-Nepal Program .total investment is

near NRS.40, 000.CAR, CAP &TAP monitoring were

conducted on the direct supervision of GFI.

First Aid Room of MBF.

Before After class of

MBF.

Canteen of MBF.

17 | P a g e

g. Grievance Committee ( Formation and reported grievance ) Altogether six grievance committee was formed during

these season one committee per kiln on all six kilns.

Objectives

The objective of the committee is to inform the grievance

collected from the workers of the kiln whereas the

committee is also responsible for addressing of that

problem as per the nature of the problems.

Formation process

One/ one member from the

different worker type of the kiln workers such as Pathera,

Represent from cycle toli, green brick carrier, represent of

red brick carrier group Naike, ECEC teacher, SM, Kiln

staff & Field coordinator were also included in the

committee.

Grievance Reported

1. One grievance has been reported on ABI as the two

drunken Pathera (Kailash Majhi & Ramesh Pariyar) has

been fighting over small issues and takes up in the fight.

The grievance has been verbally reported to the grievance committee and in presence of

the president of the committee Ramhari Shrestha, as well as another committee member

such as Naike Sukhal majhi, Shanta majhi & Sudip sedhain a meeting has been arranged

and both parties come to the agreement that they will never fight again.

2. Another grievance has been reported on MBF as a shop inside the kiln premises (Name

can’t be disclosed) has been selling the alcohol and other beverage products. During the

training on the alcoholism, one of the worker inside the kiln reported the issue verbally to

Sudip sedhain. One of the member of grievance committee, with the help of the kiln

owner, Harka bdr Gurung, after a few days that shop has been stopped to sell the

alcoholic beverages inside the kiln premises.

Three meeting in each kiln has been conducted during the season.

Grievance committee

meeting, KBI

Grievance committee

meeting, MBF

18 | P a g e

Following is the kiln wise committee with work type and designation.

S.N.

Name of the

Committee

Member Work Type

Designation

in Committee S.N.

Name of the

Committee

Member Work Type

Designation in

Committee

Asmita Brick Industry

Macchapuchre Brick

Factory

1 Ramhari Shrestha Manager President 1 Raesham Sijwal Supervisor President

2 Sudip Sedhain FC

Vice-

president 2 Sudip Sedhain FC Vice-president

3 Sukhal majhi Naike Secretary 3 Manu Sapkota SM Secretary

4 Aajad wosta Green Brick Carrier Member 4 Bishnu Lama Cart Member

5 Bir bdr Roka Red Brick carrier Member 5 Sita Chaudhary Hook Member

6 Rita pariyar Molder Member 6 Misan Pun Cart Member

7 Dhansari Gharti Red Brick carrier Member 7 Indira Pariyar Mechine Worker Member

Pokhereli Brick

Industry Kundur Brick Industry

1 Kamal Kumhal Electrician President 1 Dhanraj Kumhal manager President

2 Sudip Sedhain FC

Vice-


3 Kalpana kumhal Naike Secretary 3 Ganga Sangarula SM Secretary

4 Harikala Shrestha setting Member 4 Sanumaya Thapa ECEC Faffcilatator Member

5

Mohammad

Saukat Fairing Member 5 Shanta Bhujel Coal Member

6 Sushila Gurung Green Brick Carrier Member 6 Balkumari Kuwar Counter Member

7 Purna bdr Majhi Green Brick Carrier Member 7 Ram bdr Pariyar Naike Member

BJP Brick Industry Gorkha Brick Industry

1 Prakash Timilsina Manager President 1 Padam Shrestha Manager President

2 Sudip Sedhain FC

Vice-


3 Murari Poudel SM Secretary 3 Ganga Sangarula SM Secretary

4 Sabina Bisural ECEC Faffcilatator Member 4 Kamala Sunar Counter Member

5 Bindu B.K. Molder Member 5 Bhagnaran Paswan Firing Member

6 Suntalimaya Gole Molder Member 6 Mo.Raja Khan Molder Member

7 Keshab Gole Loader Member 7 Kshetra pal saha Green Brick Carrier Member

19 | P a g e

h. Worker Committee ( Formation and Involvement) Altogether six worker committee was formed during these season one committee per kiln

on all six kilns.

Objectives

The objective of the committee is to

motivate workers and engage in various

activities like training, campaign etc. To

meet the compliances of Better brick Nepal

as well as to prepare a worker-friendly

industry.

Formation process

One member from the different worker type of the kiln workers

such as Pathera, Represent from cycle toli, green brick carrier,

represent of red brick carrier group

Naike, were included not exceeding 5

people out of which two female

members were selected.

Achievements

Due to the involvement of worker

committee, the worker training and

coordination has been a whole lot easier.

Worker committee of KBI has

organized a campaign to make the residential area waste-free

and they also established many sack dustbin to collect wastage

around the residencies.

Worker committee of MBF

organizes a program to plant flowers

around the kiln premises for decorative

purpose as well as motivates workers to

prepare a pit to collect wastage.

Worker committee of GBI. Worker committee of ABI.

Worker committee of MBF. Worker committee of KBI.

Worker committee of PBI. Worker committee of BJP.

20 | P a g e

Following is the kiln wise committee with work type and designation.

S.N. Name of the Committee Member Work Type

Designation in Committee Contact No

Asmita Brick Industry

1 Sukhal Majhi Naike President 9844070714

2 Ajad Wosta Green Brick Transporter member

3 Bir bdr Roka Red Brick Transporter member

4 Dhansari Gharti Red Brick Transporter member

5 Maya Kusuwar Molder member

Pokhereli Brick Industry

1 Kamal Kumhal Electrician President 9846084972

2 Purna Bdr Majhi Green Brick Transporter member 9819878529

3 Prem Rana Red Brick Transporter member 9824617223

4 Harimaya Shrestha Setting member 9819135024

5 Kalpana Kumhal Naike member 9825173096

Macchapuchre Brick Factory

1 Shovit bdr Thapa Driver/mechanic President 9805885929

2 Soni Ale Green Brick Transporter member 9816613640

3 Ramji Nepali Setting member 9825157317

4 Pushpa Ale mechine member 9866000648

5 Jit bdr Chaudhary Red Brick Transporter member

BJP Brick Industry

1 Tahir Khan Molder President

2 Janga bdr Saha Cycle member

3 Chet bdr Ghimire Molder member

4 Dil Kumari Rai Molder member

5 Parbati BK Molder member

Gorkha Brick Industry

1 Purna Gurung Accountant President 9817248215

2 Diya Kumhal Counter member

3 Parmananda Saha coal member 9819279755

4 Dhermendra Patel Cycle member

5 Ramprasad Kori Molder member 9800527003

Kundur Brick Industry

1 Unus Khan Molder President 9812128056

2 Ramita Roka Cook member 9822969243

3 Kishori Mahato Cycle member 9807217894

4 Siraj Khan Molder member 9826181171

5 Khuma Pariyar Naike member

21 | P a g e

Bridge School Program

a. Children assessment & School linkage.

Altogether there were 137 students were enrolled in the schools during the season.

Following are the numbers of students per kiln. Students from MBF & PBI are the

students from the previous years but ABI, BJP & KBI students were new.

While 61 children were enrolled in the ECEC class. In this season only three kiln has a

function ECEC.

Support to school going children There were three events organized to distribute

the instructional materials to the students until

this month. First of event was

organized on 22 January ,2018

at the ABI brick kiln and

during that time 23 students

were provided instructional

materials like copy, textbook,

school uniform ,school bags as

per the need of the students

through a ceremony in which

chief guest was Maya Rana,

president of Myagde Rural

Municipality, as well as vice

president Balkrishna Ghimire, Resource person Narayandatta poudel kiln owner and

another major stakeholder from RM & district stakeholders were present at the event.

On the same day, another event was held at KBI Brick Kiln. During that time 24 students

received instructional materials including copy, textbook, school uniform, shoes &

Sweaters. Chief Guest of the ceremony was President of Ward No.12, Gorakha

municipality Dil bdr Thapa, while Represent of school authorities and kiln were also

present on the event.

S.N. Kiln No. Of Student Supported Male Female

1 Asmita 24 12 12

2 Pokhereli 11 6 5

3 Macchapuchre 73 44 29

4 BJP 5 5

5 Kundur 24 14 10

6 Gorkha Brick 0 0 0

Total 137 81 56

M B F E C E C

P B I E C E C

A B I E C E C

B J P E C E C

K B I E C E C

G B I E C E C

0 0

168

37

0

KILN WISE ECEC CHILDREN

Students

Student of KBI after the instructional material distribution

22 | P a g e

On 14th March an event was held at BJP Brick Kiln. During that time 5 students received

instructional materials including copy, textbook, school uniform, shoes & Sweaters. Kiln

owner, workers, and parents were present at the event.

Another event was held on Macchapuchre brick kiln on 8 Baishak to distribute textbook,

Uniform, stationery & other instructional materials for Radha MA VI & Pasale Basic

school students. As the students were the regular students textbook were distributed at the

beginning of the new academic year.

During the event sanitary pad was

also distributed to the 21 girl students

from class 7 to 10. Chief Guest was

Maya Rana, president of Myagde

Rural Municipality & Hom Raj

Acharya, country director, GFI.

During that time 73 student was

supported.

School support program Total two schools were supported as these two were the main school where, BSP students

were enrolled to study from four kilns. Student support and school support ceremony was

jointly organized at the month of March. Sports materials (Two volleyball, Two football,

Three badminton & one air pump for each school) for Pasale Basic school & Radha MA

VI, were supported during the events. As distributed materials were suitable from the

lower level to higher level at around 600 students of Radha MA VI & around 140 students

of Pasale NI MA VI were directly benefited from school support. Two more schools has

been yet to support.

S.N. School No. of Student Male Female

1 Megadaha Boarding School 6 4 2

2 Shree mahendra jyoti Praa bi 5 5 0

3 Shree MahendraJyoti secondarySchool 2 1 1

4 Shree Pasale Basic Home School 40 22 18

5 Shree Radha MA VI 62 36 26

6 Shree Shanti Praa Bi 22 13 9

Grand Total 137 81 56

Student of MBF after the instructional material distribution

23 | P a g e

b. Before after school program. As in the month of January, two mobile teacher was appointed for the mobile teaching

classes, from the month of January the classes are started as well up to the month of

August. Currently, there were about 109 students who were benefited from the mobile

teaching. Currently, there were two classes running as mobile teaching one is at

Macchapuchre brick industry which has 69 students on BSP Programme and another one

is at Pasale School which includes both ABI& PBI students and has 40. Classes are

running after 4 PM to 5 PM regularly on both venues from January except public

holidays. It has been paused after Baishak due to the beginning of the new academic year.

There were 41 male and 28 female students on Macchapuchre before after classes,where

as 22 male and 18 female werebenifited from the class of pasale school.the class mainly

help students to do their homework ,students were divided in to two groups one is the

studetns of 1-5 and another for above six.before after class teacher manage the students

simulteniously and help them to finish their homework.

Achievements:

Seven students of before after school class scores higher position in the annual

exam.

S.N. Students Name class Position School Kiln

1 Sumin Majhi 5 2nd Pasale Macchapuchre

2 Asmita Nepali 6 3rd Pasale Macchapuchre

3 Apsara Gurung 7 1st Pasale Pokhereli

4 Suniita Nepali 7 3rd Pasale Pokhereli

5 Prajwol Kumhal 8 3rd Pasale Pokhereli

6 Bina Lama 2 3rd Radha Macchapuchre

7 Gita Chaudhary 10 2nd Radha Macchapuchre

Despite the shortage of enough time for

preparation of school exam & in a new

environment, 40% of the students admitted

at Pasale NI MA VI passed the exam with

the help of mobile teaching,

The result of the Radha MA VI shows that

60% of students attending Mobile teaching

classes get passed in exam while some of

them did quite well in comparison with

previous exams.

Before and after class going on MBF.

24 | P a g e

c. School outing or learning activities for school going children On the day of Chaitra 3rd, Saturday an

outing & Picnic programme was

organized for the students of

Macchapuchre, Asmita & Pokhereli brick

industries at the Akala Temple which is

one of the famous temples of Tanahun

district. It is situated at the distance of 10

KM from Maygde rural municipality and

also had the picnic spot facilities thus it

was the suitable place for the outing and

picnic. The main attraction of the temple

was the “Akala Devi” temple situated in

the top of a hill and with a beautiful view

of surrounding from where you can spot the beautiful view of Macchapuchre Mountain

as well. Total 120 Numbers of people were present at the event including the student's

kiln representatives, Parents representatives and Nikes, school representatives and IGDN

Staff. The event lasted from 7 AM to

5 PM.

Another outing program was

organized for the students of KBI

brick industries from Gorkha to

Bandipur, one of the most exotic

places of the Tanahun District, Also

known as the queen of hills, 24

students from KBI were present as

well as the two Nikes, Two parents

and IGDN staffs were present at the

outing. Student visits the infamous

Thani Mai Temple, Bazar area

(Mostly famous for its cultural and natural infrastructure) &View tower hill. (from where

beautiful scenes of Tanahun,lamjung & Gorkha can be seen. )

Achievements

After short gap students got familiar again with the programme which will help in

further activities & classes.

Students were able to learn about the teamwork.

Students get the opportunity to think outside their environment.

Parents were also very happy about the Programme

Tour to Bandipur for 24 students of KBI.

Tour to Akala temple.

25 | P a g e

d. ECEC Training

A three-day residential ECEC training under Better Brick –Nepal has been conducted by

Integrated Green Development Nepal in collaboration with Seto Gurans Balbikash Sewa,

Tanahun from 2074/Chaitra 9 to Chaitra 11.ECEC Facilitator from Dhading, Tanahun,

and Gorkha was present at the training. Assistant Program Manager Hari Poudel and

Senior Program officer Samyukta Bhandari were also present at that training. Altogether

9 ECEC Facilitator from three districts has been present at the event.

S.N. Name of the Participant Organization Post

1 Hari Poudel GFI Vice-Program Manager

2 Samyukta Bhandari GFI Senior Program Officer

3 Bhaskar Adhikari GFI Enterprise Engineer.

4 Ramnath Bhattrai Seto Gurnas,Tanahun president

5 Sarita Bhandari Seto Gurnas,Tanahun Trainer

6 Indra Thapa Seto Gurnas,Tanahun Trainer

7 Sita Pandit Seto Gurnas,Tanahun ECEC Facilitator

8 Ram Datta Poudel IGDN Vice president

9 Sudip Sedhain IGDN Program Coordinator

10 Manu Sapkota IGDN Social Mobilizer

11 Rajendra Mishra IGDN Social Mobilizer

12 Barsha Gurung IGDN Intern

13 Sovita Khadka IGDN Accountant

14 Mina Shrestha IGDN ECEC Facilitator

15 Kalpana lamichane Prayas Nepal ECEC Facilitator

16 Bandana Pandit Prayas Nepal ECEC Facilitator

17 Sabina Sedhain IGDN ECEC Facilitator

18 Sanumaya Thapa IGDN ECEC Facilitator

19 Pramila ThapaMagar IGDN ECEC Facilitator

20 Sumita Pandey Prayas Nepal ECEC Facilitator

21 Rachana Sedhain Prayas Nepal ECEC Facilitator

22 Laxmi Ranabhat Sedhain Prayas Nepal ECEC Facilitator

During the three day interval, participants learn the various aspects of the ECEC operation

and the component on it. Below is the detailed schedule of the three-day training. Out of

them 16 Participants were female whereas 6 participants were male.

26 | P a g e

S.N. Topics /Subtopics Facilitated By Duration

First Day

1 Breakfast 8:00-9:00

2 Opening Ceremony Ram Datta Poudel 9-9:15

3 Welcome Speech Hari Poudel 9:15-10:00

4 welcome Speech Ramnath Bhattarai 10:00-10:15

5 Pre-Test Team 10:15-10:45

6 Expectation Collection Team 10:45-11:30

7 Tea Break 11:30-12:00

8 Introduction Hari Poudel 12:00-12:30

9 ECEC and Its Component Sarita Bhandari/Indra Thapa 12:30-1:30

10 Lunch Break 1:30-2:00

11 Child-Friendly Environment Sarita Bhandari/Indra Thapa 2:00-2:30

12 Classroom Management Sarita Bhandari/Indra Thapa 2:30-3:30

13 Tea Break 3:30-3:45

14 Learning Corners and ECEC Materials Sarita Bhandari/Indra Thapa 3:45-4:30

15 Daily lesson Plan Sarita Bhandari/Indra Thapa 4:30-5:00

16 Instructional materials preparation Sarita Bhandari/Indra Thapa 5:00-6:30

Second Day


2 Revision of First Day Sarita Bhandari/Indra Thapa 8:30-9:30

3 Story Telling Sarita Bhandari/Indra Thapa 9:30-11:30

4 Tea Break

5 Song & Rhymes Based on the Lesson, Proper Use of them and preparation Sarita Bhandari/Indra Thapa 11:30-1:30


7

Instructional Materials Based on the Lesson, Proper Use of them

and preparation Sarita Bhandari/Indra Thapa 2:30-6:00

Third Day


2 Revision of First Day Sarita Bhandari/Indra Thapa 8:30-9:30

3 Health ,Security and Nutrition in ECEC Sarita Bhandari/Indra Thapa 9:30-10:00

4 Behavioral Management (Multigrid, Multilinguistic, Multiethnic Management) Sarita Bhandari/Indra Thapa 10:00-11:30

5 Tea Break 11:30-12:00

6 Role of ECEC Facilitator in Parent Education Sarita Bhandari/Indra Thapa 12:00-1:00


8 IDELA & Attendance Sudip Sedhain 2:00-2:30

9 ECEC Curriculum Introduction & Distribution Sudip Sedhain 2:30-2:45

10 Evaluation of the Training (Post Test) Team 2:45-3:15

11 Closing Ceremony & Certificate Distribution Team 3:15-4:00

27 | P a g e

Achievements:-

Nine ECEC Facilitators from eight ECEC

centers were trained on the basic operation of the

ECEC.

ECEC and Its Component, Child-Friendly

Environment, Classroom Management, Learning

Corners and ECEC Materials preparation of Daily

Lesson Plan, Instructional materials preparation,

Storytelling techniques

Story Telling, Proper

use of Song & Rhymes

Based on the Lesson,

Proper Use of them and

prepare.

One of the huge achievement is that ECEC facilitators

develop the knowledge and get the idea to build ECEC

materials by using local resources which are relatively

cheap in comparison to the readymade ECEC materials.

ECEC facilitators gain the clear knowledge on the

importance of Health, Security and Nutrition in ECEC classes, Behavioral

Management (Multigrid, Multilinguistic, and Multiethnic Management), Role of

ECEC Facilitator in Parent Education.

ECEC facilitators also gain the knowledge of the IDELA test & Attendance sheet.

IGDN also provide ECEC curriculum to help in IDELA test

which is based on ECD curriculum -2054 issued by

Curriculum Development

Centre, Sanothimi Bhaktapur.

Participants of ECEC Trainings.

Local Instructional materials preparation.

Local Instructional materials prepared from clay (kalimati)

28 | P a g e

e. Non-formal education class On KBI kiln at the beginning of the season there are numerous cases of the child labor and after

the announce inspection by NGF, five children have been found who were never admitted to

the school and being underage, under 14 of them all

originally from the remote village of Khiri,

Lakhimpur India and are with their parents at the

kiln as a helper in molding process.

After the inspection, a meeting was held in presence

of IOS, Kiln

owner, Naike and

the parents of

those children

and decide to

open a non-

formal education

center within the

kiln premises to

conduct an Urdu language class.

Mahanur khan was appointed as a salaried facilitator for the

program with the monthly salary of Nrs.15, 000 by the

meeting as the language teacher while the five children

found on the inspection were enrolled to the Centre. From

the day of 2074/11/28(March 12, 2018) to the end of

Baishak(until may)before the children return to their source

village. The class was operated at about 20 weeks excluding the public holidays.

The nonformal class has been operated from 10 AM to 4 PM each day, six day in a week and the

children were taught basic numeric and reading writing in Urdu. Five books related to the

Urdu curriculum were provided by the Nike, Yunus Khan and other stationary materials were

provided by the program. Below is the name of the children who were enrolled in the

nonformal education classes.

S.N. Name of the

children

Age Name of Guardian Address Parent’s

work type

1 Khusnur

Khatun

14 Dirsad Khan/Maisar

Khatun

Khiri,lakhimpur,India Molder

2 Ruksin khatun 13 Ekbal Khan/Akbar

Khatun


3 Umer khan 10 Estiyad Khan/Mabiya

Khatun


4 Mahanur

Khatun

14 Estiyad Khan/Mabiya

Khatun


5 Jayed Khan 8 Dirsad Khan/Maisar

Khatun


Non formal education class of KBI.

29 | P a g e

f. How many children are enrolled in ECEC and how many children Completed the season Kiln wise

ECEC class of KBI has been operated from Nov 15 till date which has 37 children. BJP

ECEC has 8 children and operated from January to April. ABI ECEC has been operated

from November to April and has 17 students. All 61 of them completed the season.

Age Number of students



1 8 3 7 7 1

1.5 1 4 6 8 6

2 6 5 14 9 2

2.5 1 6 4 10 2

12 2

g. ECEC materials Support In all of the three ECEC Drawing copy, color

pencil and One All in one book for each child

have been supported for each kiln. Besides that

12 item of Handmade ECEC materials worth,

Nrs.5000 has been purchased from the Seto

Gurnas Balbikash Sewa, Tanahun for three

kilns.

h. Food for ECEC

Children were provided a nutritional meal each

day. A person to make a nutritional meal was

provided by the kiln in ABI for six months and the nutritional food was prepared as per

the food menu which includes balance diet and different items each day for six days of the

week and vice versa. In Case of KBI & BJP ECEC center, ECEC facilitator themselves

prepare the nutritional food.66.592%budget has been spent on nutritional food.

Kiln Number of students Male Female

Asmita 16 7 9

BJP 8 3 5

Kundur 37 14 23

Day Food Course

Day 1 Haluwa(suji)

Day 2 Chiura Tarkari(Beans)

Day 3 Jaulo(Mix dal+Rice)

Day 4 Jam & Bread

Day 5 Chiura Vuteko

Day 6 Chiura Tarkari(Vegetables)

12 item of materials purchased from Seto Gurans.

30 | P a g e

i. Extra curriculum activities for ECEC children Drawing and recreational activities were arranged on a weekly basis for ECEC children.

Beside that recreational activity such as dancing and singing were usually arranged.

j. Monitoring by DEO and RC Monitoring by DEO & RC were done various time including on those formal instructional

Material distribution ceremony. Recorded three visit were conducted during the

instructional materials distribution program.

k. school join status in source village Like previous year, it was not possible to track down every of them individually like

previous year. While the new academic year begins we contact the kiln manager Ramhari

Shrestha and confirmed whether all of the students from ABI were admitted to respective

classes or not .we also contacted Naike Sukhal Majhi and confirmed that 17 students

were regularly going school.

In case of KBI, we contact naike, Yunus Khan to lakhimpur Khiri India & request to

track down the students whether they were going to the school or not.as far as he knows

out of 21 students 12 students has been enrolled to the respective classes in their source

village. All together out of 48 students 29 students were enrolled to respective classes.

Before returning all of the students of both kiln has been provided transfer certificate

from school and mark sheet.

31 | P a g e

Section III: Cross Cutting A. Gender Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI)

What were the significant effort taken to enhance the capacity of women, poor, Dalit,

Indigenous groups, marginalized Janajatis, Madhesi, remote area residents, person and

other socially excluded groups this year?

The significant effort to enhance GESI under brick kilns following activities methods were performed:-

1. Promoting informal discussions about menstrual hygiene and household decision

making processes for women while training on Occupational safety and health.

2. Same wages system for men and women were practiced.

3. Avoiding stereotypes that reinforce gender inequality and social exclusion were

strongly followed during the training and conducting activities means they were not discriminated in basis of their cast, religion, gender & appearance.

4. While forming the Grievance and Worker committee, Women, Dalits, Muslims,

Madhesi and Janajati’s has been given same priorities as others. Even in some committee

they were in the decision making position.

What efforts have been taken for creating enabling environment for workload sharing and increasing access

Discouragement of working for late hours and carrying overweight by means of

training were done to create enabling environments for workload sharing and

increasing access.

In all of the six kiln, in comparison to the previous years, human transporting has

been replaced by the pulling cart.

Worker were not discriminate in term of wages and remuneration as well in term of

the opportunity to participant in different program and committee.

32 | P a g e

B. Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

This section should basically include following things .Achievement/ progress of M&E

activities a. a. Baseline Survey

In comparison to the tripartite data only 78.32% baseline survey has been completed till date. Following are the reason for the variance.

Almost all of the Baseline form was filled up with the workers. Yet some data has yet to be finalized by the enumerator, thus the variance occurs.

In case of some workers as the tripartite agreement has been filled as soon as the worker

arrive in the kiln. Some of the workers left before the season and some of them also run away before completing baseline form. Hence the number of baseline will be slightly less then tripartite agreement.

The enumerator was provided with a name list of the worker of all six kiln and was supervised many times while collecting the data.

b. IDELA Baseline survey

In total 22 IDELA baseline has been completed within the month of May. IDELA end line

of these children will also be finalized soon. IDELA Baseline was conducted by the

trainers (Sudip sedhain & Manu Sapkota) who has been participated in the MTOT of

IDELA conducted by save the children in Kathmandu. Nearly 35-40 minutes time was

needed to conduct a test for a single child. Test was conducted within the base of 22

activities and using same amount of resources and techniques taught during the MTOT.

Total 20 IDELA test were conducted during the season. Out of which 12 children of age

3.5-5.5 of Kundur brick industry and 8 children of ae 3-5-5.5 were participated on the test.

Challenges:-

1. it’s hard to get the attention of the child for a long time period to conduct test.

2. Most of the indian child encounter difficulties to understand the term used during the

test.

3. Emotional activities such as the understanding of feelings and understanding of the

story was quite difficult for most of the children.

Achievements

1. IDELA Baseline survey provides the exact habit and habitual of a child.

2. It creates a better opportunity for a child to learn.

3. It also point out that what was lacking on our treating methods to them and how an

ECEC teacher can improve her performance to create a better learning

environment.

kiln

Name

Baseline

completed

Tripartite

Data

Remaining

Baseline

ABI 117 116 0

PBI 58 81 23

MBF 109 112 3

BJP 57 136 79

GBI 62 91 29

KBI 99 105 6

33 | P a g e

c. Training Supervision Five training were supervised by GFI team including training officer Husna Banu Sekh..

Achievements of the training supervision are as follows:-

1. Training supervision point out the loophole and weak point while delivering the training such as sitting arrangement, proper use of resource materials, way of

communication etc. which help us to correct them and to deliver effective training

afterward.

2. Supervision provide feedback to proper use of module provided during TOT.

3. Supervision provides feedback to proper use the materials and references to the

workers accordingly as mentioned in the module.

4. Many behavior of the worker such as handwashing practices and sanitation health has

been significantly improved in both workers and the children.as well as in some

workers consumption of alcohol and tobacco products has been decreased compared to the pervious consumption.

d. ECEC quality Monitoring

ECEC quality monitoring was performed in numerous occasion and its achievements are as

follows:-

1. Quality monitoring shows us exact reflection of our ECEC and that help us so much to

correct those things in time such as management of the materials. Sanitation health and

hygiene has been improved after the monitoring. Formal monitoring was never conducted

.ECEC was monitored during the various occasions by the GFI Team, IOS Team and stakeholders in each and every kiln.

2. After quality monitoring was done Condition of ECEC has drastically improved as it shows

the loophole to improve such as necessary kitchen supplies, instructional materials, learning

techniques of the students, materials arrangement of the ECEC class and many other thing.

e. Monthly data verification Data were verified each month at the near end of that month before the submission of monthly

data. Data was double checked and also verified through other references, e.g. If a training

data has been received from the field, first it was analyzed through the attendance, minutes

and the cross references of the previous database. If any inconstancy or variance was found during the process, it was cross checked with other means and then the actual data will be

stored. Feedback on the data was incorporated every time the suggestion made.

Achievements

1. Quality and uniformity occurs on data due to the verification which help in better

reporting every month.

2. Verification provides us strong feedback and suggestion which help us a lot to create

real and trustworthy database.

34 | P a g e

f. Kiln monitoring Visit Achievements

Kiln monitoring has been conducted in many occasion from GFI team, Ios board and as

well as from the stakeholders during different programs. During the initial phase of the

season, there have been the findings of Child and Young labor cases in many kilns and

after the feedback from monitoring team these issues have been improved in time.

1. Due to the coordination and monitoring kiln owner were more positive towards the

program and also had a clear idea about the technical assistance.

2. Due to coordination it was easy to implant CAP in industry.

g. Board members monitor the activities President Kamal Hari GC, Vice President Ram Datta Poudel and Board member Shreekrishna Acharya monitored the kiln in many occasion .initial visit point out the child labor issues in the kiln whereas later visit improves the coordination with kiln owner, worker committees and Naikes ,participation of board member on worker rally and other program has a huge positive impact towards the stakeholders and the workers .

1. Due to Board member monitoring it helps us to perform activities more efficiently.

2. Guidance of Board member on some activities made it whole lot easier to complete that

activities.

C. Communication Change What is the progress and impression of Radio Jingle, interview, TV program etc.?

During 2017-2018, our efforts featured often in the news articles, radio and television programs. Our works was noted with keen interest through the seasons. We have raised interest to the issues, spotlighting our work in many news features and regular inviting organization and staff as expert Commentators on news programs dealing with forced, bonded and child labor, ethical development, and post-quake reconstruction. We are excited about the way that, this coverage also spreads the word about Better Bricks-letting buyers of bricks, from homeowners to businesses, know how they can be part of the ethical business. Total media outreach is at about more than 3 million people through the live coverage of Golden Eye Television.

35 | P a g e

News published

S.N. Date Topic of News Media Event of

1 1/9/2074 strong impact of child labor free program

Pradeshik Khabar Instructional material distribution

2 1/9/2074 Instructional material distribution Smart FM

3 1/9/2074 Instructional material distribution news

Radio Bhanubhakta

4 23/02/2074 Four brick kiln of Tanahun are child labor free

Madiseti prabaha national daily

Media Engagement

5 23/02/2074 Role of media to make child labor free initiation

Aahwan Dainik national daily

Media Engagement

6 23/02/2074 Role of media in promotion of child labor free industry.

pradeshik Khabar Media Engagement

7 23/02/2074 Interaction program completed Bhyanjyang National Daily

Media Engagement


Damauli FM Media Engagement


Radio Bhanubhakta Media Engagement


Smart FM Media Engagement

11 29/02/2074 Speech contest completed in Radha Ma Vi

Bhyanjyang National Daily

ECA

12 15/02/2074 Three brick industry of Tanahun are child labor free

Bhyanjyang National Daily

13 15/02/2074 Three brick industry of Tanahun are child labor free

Pradeshik khabar Editorial

14 15/02/2074 Better Brick-Nepal is being effective in Tanahun

Pradeshik khabar

15 8/8/2074 Interaction program on the challenges of brick industry.

Madiseti Prabaha DCM meeting


Smart FM DCM meeting


Damauli FM DCM meeting


Pradeshik khabar DCM meeting

36 | P a g e

19 8/10/2074 instructional materials distribution Pradeshik khabar Student support

20 8/10/2074 instructional materials distribution Bandipur FM Student support

21 4/12/2074 Picnic and tour completed Pradeshik khabar ECA

22 4/12/2074 Picnic and tour completed Damauli FM ECA

23 4/12/2074 Picnic and tour completed Bandipur FM ECA

24

25 4/12/2074

interview of Homraj Acharya on Culture of compliance and development modality in federal parliament system

Tanahun TV Media Engagement

26 4/12/2074

interview of Homraj Acharya on Culture of compliance and development modality in federal parliament system

Bandirpur FM Media Engagement

27 11/12/2074 ECEC training has been completed

Pradeshik Khabar ECEC Training

28

29 24/12/2074 Picnic and tour for the children of brick kiln has completed

Pradeshik Khabar ECA

30 24/12/2074 Picnic and tour for the children of brick kiln has completed

Bandipur FM ECA

31

32 8/1/2075 instructional materials distribution on Macchapuchre kiln

Pradeshik khabar Student support

33 8/1/2075 instructional materials distribution on Macchapuchre kiln

Tanahun TV Student support

What is the progress and impression of Social and behavior communication change

Community people and even kiln owner in the past has a suspicious view about the

project. Slowly reaching so far community residents, Parents, workers and kiln owner

were very positive towards the Project and they realize that the Programme is in favor of

kiln workers and their childrens.as well as kiln owner has embraced the project as their

part of the industry. Major stakeholder form the local level, district level as well as

province level shows a keen interest in the program and they are willing to support the

program to be sustainable.

37 | P a g e

Section IV: Technical Support visit (This section should list out all the important internal and external technical assistance provided to the partner organization to support the planned activities. Please note that important visit should only be mentioned here)

Dates Place Institution

Involved

Persons

Involved

Key Feedback / Suggestion / Recommendation

ABI

Brick kiln.

GFI, IGDN Bhaskar

Adhikari

Shyam

Maharjan

Need of dough modification has been suggested by the

specialist which was also the keen interest of the kiln to

upgrade the kiln from straight chimney to Zig Zag

chimney in ABI.

Suggestion has been made to comply the standards of

the chimney and technical team of GFI also promise to

help in the construction process.

One vendor contact has been also suggested as the kiln

owner want to purchase the excavator for the kiln

operation.

Suggestion has been provided to reduce the fuel

consumption while making bricks.

PBI Brick

kiln

GFI,IGDN Bhaskar

Adhikari

Shyam

Maharjan

Heat lost has been significantly high in the kiln and it

has to be fixed.

Although the chimney and dough is based on the zig

zag system, straight Bojhai system has been followed

which has a huge drawback and that needed to be

fixed.

During the making of green brick the brick has been

misshaped by the hard hitting on the fence.it can be

fixed with a simple solution and the owner has agreed

to do so.

Section V: Management This section should include brief narrative on achievement/progress of activities regarding Staff hiring

Meeting with kiln management committee Meeting with kiln management occurs in many occasions but formal meeting were not conducted. Instead of that kiln management was involve in various activities like Materials distribution and Trainings. Which help us to maintain smooth and healthy relationship with

kiln management committee.

38 | P a g e

Monthly staff meeting

Staff meeting were conducted every last Friday of each month including all staff as well as at

least one board member. Achievements of staff meeting were as follows:-

1. Many time sharing of problems in staff meeting, managed to solve the problems and run

activities in smooth way. Such as way of communication in the training delivery, preparation

of the different documents and minutes,

2. Monthly action plan, which is the server of activities for a month was developed in each

monthly staff meeting which results the consistency and uniformity in terms of program, data

and expenses of same programs in many districts/kilns.

3. Staff meeting help us to get feedback from Board and it also help to develop new strategies

and effective team management for better implementation of Programme. IOS board

sometimes fix a time frame for activates to be carried out. Also IOS coordination and

management has been always vital to conduct major activities.

Meeting with IOs board IOs evolve in each monthly staff meeting thus no separate meeting with IOs board was conducted regarding Better Brick-Nepal Project.

Section VI: Issues or Challenges in Programme Implementation and Proposed Solutions to address the Challenges. Key Challenge Proposed Solutions

Discontinuation of the worker of one season to another.

Workers could be encourage to work on same kiln.

Kiln workers were not able to reach better access of healthcare in nearby health agencies.

MOU could be signed with health agencies for better access of health services to kiln workers.

Lack of Textbooks for seasonal BSP students.

Workers and children could be highly encouraged to bring text book & uniform with them, while coming to work on brick kilns.

Hard to manage enough time to conduct training according to module.

Training can be conducted in off hours and individual counseling methods.

39 | P a g e

Section VII: Lessons Learned Using of Audio Visual methods in training highly motivates the workers to use safety

measures as well as workers were more interested to participate in trainings.

Student tracking in source village help children a lot to continue their school

accordingly.

Before after class help students to cover course that was missed to attend classes due to late admission.

Exposure visit for owners make them even more positive towards the project.

Technical assistance from program encourage the kiln owners to comply the standards mentioned in CAR & CAP.

Section VII: Recommendation for improvement.

Planning of activities should match with the working mechanism of federal

governance and local government.

Training materials should include enough audio & visual materials.

Better activities needed for tracking of students and source district follow up plan and

budget should be managed for this activities.

IOs Board member should be included in TOT & other trainings.

40 | P a g e

Case/Success Stories:

Report Prepared by Approved By

Name Sudip Sedhain Name

Ram Datta Poudel

Position

Field coordinator Position

Executive Director

Signature Signature

Date 2018/May/20 Date

2018/May/20

Better Brick-Nepal: through the eye of a worker working more

then a decade in a brick kiln.

This is the story of Tulsi & Goma Gurung a hardworking couple running on mid-50 and worker of the Pokhereli brick

industry. And how she sees the Better Brick-Nepal throughout all these years on the brick kiln. Originally from Dhanauri

Dang, one of the districts of far western Terai region. They have been working in the Pokhereli brick kiln for more than 12

years. During all these years they have been working in the Pokhereli brick kiln to fulfill their needs and earn some money to

secure the future of their three kids. And it’s only been six months they have been sifted to their own home from their own

earning after residing 12 years in a jhyauli of Pokhereli Brick Kiln.

Though they were working before the implementation of Better Brick Nepal programme in her word

“After the implementation of BBN Programme in this kiln there has been a drastic change in remuneration, working hours

and record keeping. Before the BBN Programme the kiln mainly depends on human labor and non-mechanized traditional

way of manufacture bricks and moreover, there was no systematic process for tracking the advance, wages and working

hours.

Due to this most of the workers used to be uncertain about their earning and advance deduction. Moreover, a large amount of

Advance and unlimited working hours are the main problems that used to occur those days. After the implementation of

Better Brick-Nepal, there has been a proper agreement between the kiln and the workers as well as the remuneration and

piece rate were fixed before the season. There is also a significant change in the rate of advance taken by the workers as it is

decreasing day by day.”

She further added:-“After the Better Brick-Nepal Programme one of the reasons we feel secure to work here is they form a

grievance report committee, I am also the member of the committee and this is really helpful in addressing inhuman and

bonded treatment. Also, the training they provide has a significant effect on reduction of forced and bonded labor. Moreover,

there has been the provision of labor law in the kiln which address all type of forced and bonded labor situations.”

41 | P a g e

©2018

Integrated Green Development Nepal

Main office: Kathmandu metropolitan city-16, Banasthali Kathmandu,

Contact Office: Vyas Municipality-10, Tanahun,

Contact No: 9840067068, 9856063410,

Email: [email protected]

Website: //http:igdn.org.np//

better brick- nepal project - igd-n

Documents