Community Bridge Building at the Local Level (BBLL)

Objectives:

To contribute towards poverty reduction through improvement of access to social and basic services and economic resources and opportunities of the local people by building trail bridges within one hour detour.

Key Activities:

Community mobilization and facilitation in bridge construction.
Activate the user committees.
Conducted DMBT Training.
Facilitate for public hearing, public review and public audit.
Prepare the detailed design of suspended type bridge.
Assist for Social inclusion, transparency and livelihood building.
Carry out the overall construction and supervision of the works.
Support the Community in technical and social organizational activities conduction.

Major Achievements:

Date	Title
	Formation and mobilization of 20 bridges construction committee with participation of 74 female and 110 male including 13 dalit, 148 janajati and 23 Brahmin/Chhetri/Thakuri.
	Two 8 days Demonstration Model Bridge Training (DMBT) conducted for the UCs and bridge builders.
	Facilitated the User Committee in construction completed, 20 bridges, Public Audit (PA) and Final Technical Check and Assessment (FA).
	Formation of 20 Bridges Routine Maintenance Committee (RMC) and 20 bridge supervisors were selected.
	Supported the User Committee in construction completion of the 20 bridges through technical and social organizational support in utilizing the following funds: DDC NPR. 2,155,853.27, VDCs NPR. 842, 109.95.95, RRRSDP NPR. 28,731,534.75, Public Work Contribution NPR. 650,418.79, Trail Bridge Support Unite (TBSU) NPR. 3,563,071.71 With a sum of NPR. 35,942,988.47.
	Total beneficiaries from Completion of 20 bridges construction are 7928 households with a total population of 43991 including 23315 female and 20676 male from 2859 dalit, 33830 janajati and 7302 Brahmin/Chhetri/Thakuri.
	Addition of 1367.6 meters of bridges in Dolakha district through construction completion of the 20 bridges.

Project information

Geographic coverage Dolakha District
Project duration 56 months (May, 2009-December, 2013)
Project Location 1 Municipality and 51 VDCs of Dolakha District
Budget 1,819,040.00 (Only NGO service charge, other bridge construction materials costs and UCs support part are paid directly by the local bodies)
Funding partner's DDC, DTO, RRRSDP, TB-SWAp, Dolakha and TBSU/Helvetas
Implementation Partner User Committees (UCs)
Target groups All the citizens of a community that takes more than an hour to cross the river to get from one place to another

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