Trail Bridge Sub Sector Program (TBSSP), Kavrepalanchok District

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 bridges construction.
Activate the user committees.
Facilitate for public hearing, public review and public audit.
Assist for social inclusion, transparency and livelihood building.
Overall construction supervision work during construction and erection of the bridge.
• Oriented community on the Trail Bridge Program and Approaches; fill-out community application from.
Facilitate Detailed Survey, Design, Estimation of Trail Bridge and Still Truss Bridge.
Mobilize UCs members for the implementation of bridge building activities.
Conduct Bridge Construction supervision, Monitoring.
Supported for the technical and social organizational activities conduction in community.

Major Achievements

Date	Title
	Formation of 17 Users Committees.
	Construction of 14 suspended bridges completed.
	Maluwabesi Trail Bridge Twin Replacement Completed.
	Major maintenance of 2 suspended bridges completed.
	Support to Users Committees in management and mobilization of NRs.40,469,234.87 funds provided directly from DDC and VDCs.
	Support and facilitation to Users Committees in allocation of community contribution and volunteering equivalent to NRs.829,411.70
	24,732 population of 4,355 households have directly benefited from the completion of Trail Bridge, including 12,154 males and 12,578 females.
	1,216.3 meters of Trail Bridge has been added in the district after the completion of the Construction of Trail Suspended Bridges construction.

Project information

Geographic coverage Kavrepalanchok District
Project duration 36 months (24th August, 2015-23rd August, 2018)
Project Location 3 Municipalities and 87 VDCs of Kavrepalanchok District
Budget 1,750,935.00 (Only NGO service charge, other bridge construction materials costs and UCs support part are paid directly by the DDC)
Funding partner's Office of District Development Committee (DDC)/DTO/TB SWAp, Kavrepalanchok
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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