Challenges and Lesson Learned

Challenges

1.Target villages locates mostly in mountainous and remote areas and difficult assessable.

2.Language barrier for communication with communities is remaining.

3.SHG leaders and VSMC has insufficiency capacities in managing and monitoring.

4.Seed grant value per SHG member may not sufficiency for  livelihood activity, especially in village type 1.

Lesson Learned

1.Building capacity to SHGs, VSMCs and VFs is significantly required to ensure activities’ implementation and to sustain CLEAR’s development’s goals.