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| KAILALI
DISTRICT In 17 July 2000, His Majesty Government of Nepal abolished the system of keeping bonded agricultural labour called Kamaiya. This initiative approximately, 15,000 households of the bonded labour had released after the declaration of freedom. However, the freed Kamaiyas became highly food insecure. Access to food, work, shelter and land had become the key problems for freed Kamaiyas after the declaration of freedom. To address those priority needs of the freed Kamaiyas the "Freed Kamaiya food Security Project" (FKFSP) has been re-initiated and is in operation since November 2000 as component of RCIW and partial financial assistance is also provided from DFID of the British Government. The overall development goal of the programme is "to improvement the livelihoods of the ex-Kamaiyas". The expected contribution from the programme is to improve the nutritional and income situation of food deficit ex-Kamaiyas. Therefore, the major objectives of the programme are to improve the accessibility to food for ex- Kamaiyas, to improve their basic infrastructure and self-help capacity. This is the second FY implementing Freed Kamaiya Food Security Project in Kailali district. For this FY the DPMC and DDC Kailali finally approved 13 projects (10 RR and 3 RT) and DPMC Kailali is also approved to implement 23 Kitchen ponds, 229 House construction support, 1 School building, 1 model house and school toilet projects and 7 PLAP classes according to the allocated budget. At the end of this working season 34 km RR 0.123 km RT, 23 Kitchen ponds, 229 house construction, one model house, one toilet and 7 PLAP classes have been implemented. 388.811 MT rice, NRs. 312,056 ITSH and NRs. 1,548,707 material cost have been spent. In this working season 1,948 worker of 1,422 households worked 77,715 PD, among them 26,184 PD were female. The average earning per worker was 216 kg rice and average earning per labour per day was 4 kg rice. 35 % of all UC members and 37 % of all workers were women, 30 self-help (Saving and Credit) groups are formed, out of them 2 are women only self-help group. Income generation activities, settlement process support, awareness and negotiation skills are also supported by the programme (for detail see annexes). Different types of planning, coordination & sharing meeting with different line agencies and like-minded organizations are also conducted for the effectiveness of the programme. In July 2000, the Nepal government finally abolished the Kamaiya system of bounded agricultural labour. This initiative left more than 15,000 Freed Kamaiya families, who had been bounded laborers, suddenly without home, jobs or land. As a consequently, they became highly food insecure. Initially, the situation was most adverse in the district where thousands of Kamaiya families were immediately driven out from the landlords' houses. Since the ex- Kamaiyas had no space to stay they were compelled to stay in camps. The situation there became the worst because the Kamaiyas were left without any basic needs and moved constantly from camp to camp for seeking food, land and shelter. With the support of different organization and LRO provided food, blankets and plastic sheets to same of the freed Kamaiya families as immediate relief, but this was insufficient to meet the needs of remaining thousands of ex-Kamaiyas. So the FKFSP began operation in Nov. 2000 as one of the earliest organized
interventions. The project aims to reduce immediate food deficiency to
supporting ex- Kamaiya for their basic infrastructure development and
to improve the long - term food security through complementary activities
and inputs such as awareness, saving and credit, income generating activities,
agriculture support and skill development trainings. The overall development
goal of the programme is to improvement the livelihoods of the ex- Kamaiyas.
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