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Project Preparation & Project Appraisal

Forum Report of Module (MPA -512)

Group 07 N.P.Koralage M.A.K.N Gunawardena R.M.T.B. Hatieldeniya R.A.Chulananda P.H.Colambage MPA/10/146 MPA/10/137 MPA/10/138 MPA/10/130 MPA/10/131

Master of Public Administration Postgraduate Institute of Management University of Sri Jayewardenepura

Introduction
Kohomporuwa one of the remote Villages situated in Katuwana Divisional Secretariat in Hambantota district. The population is around 750 and there are 217 Families. From That 117 Families are Samurdhi beneficiaries. This is around 54% of the total families in the village. That reflects the low income level of the villagers. Since this is a pottery village from ancient time the villagers majorly depend on pottery industry. Over 75% of all population is involving in pottery making industry. But they are doing this as domestic industry with out using any machinery, or equipments. Due to using of traditional technologies for there industries, their out put is very low and they have problems when finding suitable market for selling their products. And also the variety of products is low and they have to compete with other high quality pottery products in the area. Along with the low income those people are treated as segmented society in the area. Therefore they are socially discriminated people and upgrading their livelihood is very important. Negligence of the relevant authorities has aggravated their poverty and social discrimination up to now. Due to above problems their children do not continue education and the dropout rate of the village school is high. The problem statements Upgrade the living condition of 217 families in Kohomporuwa village in Katuwana Divisional secretary area, who has very low income due to involving traditional pottery work for their livelihood. The project is designed to improve their income through livelihood development project in 2011, in order to alleviate poverty of the villagers. Expected project impacts Expected impact 1 upgrade living conditions of the people 2 Make social recognition on villagers 3 increase contribution to DGP When expected to be realized 3-5 years 3-5 years 3-5 years

Expected projects outcomes stakeholder group Family increase family income Reduce dropout rate of children Society Improve related industries Improve infrastructure facilities Government Reduce number of Samurdhi receiving families Increase government revenue Expected out comes When expected to be realized one year 1-2 years 1-2 years 1-2 years 1-2 years 1-2 years

Expected projects output Expected out put with measures 1 Trained pottery workers 2 Employment opportunities. 3 sales outlets 4 machineries and equipments distributed when expected to be realized 6 months 6 months 6-9 months 3 months

Project objectives 1 To increase family income from RS 3000.00 to 10,000.00 in 2012 2 To conduct training seasons to transfer new technology for villagers by 6 months 3 To improve road network, provide electricity in the village within one year 4 To reduce Sumurdhi receivers by 50% within two years 5 To reduce dropout rate by 75% within two years

Projects deliverable 1. skilled villager with new technology 2. Training programmes 3. Sales outlets 4. machineries and equipments 5. Roads 6. Electric supply Project title Kohomporuwata Arunalu (A new sunshine to Kohomporuwa)

Project conditions
Political conditions According to the existing policy frame work of the country, the overall vision for the plan is a country in which people are empowered to develop and sustain their livelihoods and improve their standards of living. Along with that the government hope to pay special cares on vulnerable people of the country who left behind in the process of development, so that poverty, hungers deprivation. Therefore existing policy frame work of the country support the project concept. Economic conditions Population Male Female No of families No of Samurdhi receiving families No of Families doing pottery work 758 374 384 217 117 206
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Since the village situated near to the Hambantota town, there is a great privilege to have market access. Hambantota is a town who visit local and foreign visitors passed during pilgrimage there for those people can sell their product easily. Review of social conditions Since those are segmented population it is very important to give them a social Recognition. Specially women of the village are highly involve in the industry, the project aims to upgrade the women participation in economic activities. Technical conditions The villagers have traditional knowledge of pottery working there for the need is transferring new technology to improve their products and to go for value additional products. Physical environmental conditions The major row material is early foe the industry the soil of the village is rich with that clay material but the need is introducing sustainable excavation of clay. Legal conditions With the new amendment of the national environment act, the villagers have to pay for obtaining license to extra day. But with the current income they cannot pay such amount of money for license

Competencies Required competencies Technical Availability Locally available comments on sourcing Can conduct through

"VIDATHA" centers. Managerial Locally available Make community base

association allow them to manage the project. Monitoring Evaluation Locally available M and E should be done by a team headed by Assistant Director (Planning) in the divisional secretariat

Strategic option Strategy for achieving objective 01 What How when who to increase family income By increase production introducing modern technologies in order to increase the production to the villagers from March 2011 - March 2012 Through the project will be done secretariat divisional

Strategy for achieving objective 02 What How when who to conduct by training sessions through VIDATHA centre of the divisional secretariat once in two months interval fro march 2011 Resource persons attached with VIDATHA centre- Katuwana.

Strategy for achieving objective 03 what How to improve road networks electricity By providing funds to Katuwana Pradeshiya Sabha in order to improve roads and electricity when who from March 2011 to September 2011 Pradeshiya Sabha- katuwana

Logical Framework Hierarchy of Objectives Impact Upgrade conditions people Out come Increase income 1% of increased surveys High participation of of 1% of Indicators Means of Verifications increased Field surveys Risk and Assumptions High participation of

living income the

commitment villagers

family income

commitment villagers

Reduce dropout rate dropout of children school

rate

of Records of schools

village providing

school all

necessary assistants there are teachers as required Improve industries related No of new outlets Registration records opened of Pradeshiya Sabha - Katuwana

Improve infrastructure facilities

no

of

roads records Pradeshiya Sabha

of Funds are released on time

developed

No of transformers records of Electricity Funds are released install. board on time

Reduce number of no

of

samurdhi records of samurdhi samurdhi Branch of divisional beneficiaries secretariat express income their real

Samurdhi receiving receivers families

Out put Trained workers sales outlets

Number of trained Training records of All pottery persons VIDATHA centre

the

training are

programs conducted

Number

of

sales Records of Business Villagers registrations Pradeshiya Sabha in production with the

start along training

outlets opened

programmes

Review for Project Feasibility Factor Technological feasibility Feasibility The villagers already have the competency for pottery making. Therefore transferring new technologies will not difficult. VIDATHA centre has the experience of transferring technical know lade for small and medium scale industries and they have resource persons, too. Economic feasibility The project plan to create new employment opportunities. Specially women participation is high in his industry and the project improve women entrepreneurs. The project aims rural development and reduces social disparities. Operational feasibility The village already has a community centre. Therefore can form an organization based on that. All the trainings and other project related activities will be done though that organization
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Financial feasibility

Estimated cost of the project is around 5 million. This can be taken from the finance commission under Regional Initiative funs in Provincial Specific Development Grants (PSDG).

Environmental feasibility

The product or by products of the industry do not harmful to the environment. But the excavation of clay should be done according to the environmental friendly manner.

Legal feasibility

The only legal problem may arise when excavating and transporting the clay. That should be done according to the rules and regulations of the National Environmental Act.

Project Description
General Methodology Collect information of income and other basic requirement of the villagers. Along with that make a community base organization. Then families are categorized according to their income into 3 groups as low, medium and high income. Trainees are selected from those groups. Start training and provide necessary equipments for the production. The large machineries are provided to the organization and they have to locate those machineries in a common place such as community hall. Purchasing and transportation of clay should be purchased through the organization. To that they should obtain a permit for that. Necessary funds are given to the organization. The organization should find the market and potters should hand over their products to the organization. The organization should fond transport facilities and required facilities for transportation and sales. Along with that Katuwana Pradeshiya Sabha has to improve road network and electricity supply. The project target to empower the villagers, to carryout the above procedure without any collaboration of the project executing agency after one year of the starting.

Major Tasks Task A Task B Task C Task D Form a community base organization and identify training needs Conduct training programmes Provide necessary machineries and equipments Improve road network and electricity facilities

Major Collaborators 1. Southern Provincial Development Authority 2. Southern Provincial Industrial Development Board 3. Divisional Secretariat Katuwana Project Team 1. Divisional Secretary- Katuwana 2. Assistant Director (Planning) Katuwana 3. Science and Technology officer VIDATHA centre, Katuwana 4. Technical Officer Pradeshiya Sabha, Katuwana 5. Programme assistant - Southern Provincial Development Authority 6. Programme assistant - Southern Provincial Industrial Development Board

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