A Case Article by Basan Shrestha
Capacity building coupled with the financial support helps develop entrepreneurship. Chandra Bahadur Thapa, a young resident of Amarbasti, Basisebichawa-9, Kanchanpur is busy these days in his carpentry workshop and providing service to the communities. This has been possible with the entrepreneurship training he attended and the loan he received from Mohana Laljhadi Area Saving and Credit Cooperative Ltd., Baisebichawa. He earns two to three hundreds per day for his support to the households in the community. Income from his workshop is extra. He has hired two trainees to support him in his workshop and pays one hundred rupees per day to each of them.
In 2007, Western Terai Landscape Complex Project (WTLCP) had organised the entrepreneurship development training for the poor community members to develop their knowledge and skill on entrepreneurship. The training was conducted with the expectation that entrepreneurship will help increase income and reduce dependency of communities on forest resources contributing to biodiversity conservation and sustainable livelihoods. Mohana Laljhadi Area Coordination Committee had selected the participants of the training based on the outcomes of participatory well-being ranking.
After receiving training, Chandra received a loan of seven thousand rupees from Mohana Laljhadi Area Cooperative at the interest rate of eight percent per year so long as the loan has to be paid back within two years. Chandra purchased carpentry tools such as driller and saw with that sum of money, which had been helpful to scale up his profession. He has already payed back the money lent from the cooperative within the stipulated time. "I am encouraged to well equip my workshop. For that purpose, I have requested Mohana Laljhadi Area Cooperative for second loan", says Chandra. He is a member of Amar Gokul proposed Community Forest User Group and actively participates in forest conservation as well.
On the whole, building capacity is necessary but not sufficient to develop entrepreneurship. Community people adopt a profession if it is suitable to one's interest and skill and rewarding economically, socially and environmentally. The entrepreneurship that is based on mobilising local resource persons and materials will be more sustainable.
Capacity building coupled with the financial support helps develop entrepreneurship. Chandra Bahadur Thapa, a young resident of Amarbasti, Basisebichawa-9, Kanchanpur is busy these days in his carpentry workshop and providing service to the communities. This has been possible with the entrepreneurship training he attended and the loan he received from Mohana Laljhadi Area Saving and Credit Cooperative Ltd., Baisebichawa. He earns two to three hundreds per day for his support to the households in the community. Income from his workshop is extra. He has hired two trainees to support him in his workshop and pays one hundred rupees per day to each of them.
In 2007, Western Terai Landscape Complex Project (WTLCP) had organised the entrepreneurship development training for the poor community members to develop their knowledge and skill on entrepreneurship. The training was conducted with the expectation that entrepreneurship will help increase income and reduce dependency of communities on forest resources contributing to biodiversity conservation and sustainable livelihoods. Mohana Laljhadi Area Coordination Committee had selected the participants of the training based on the outcomes of participatory well-being ranking.
After receiving training, Chandra received a loan of seven thousand rupees from Mohana Laljhadi Area Cooperative at the interest rate of eight percent per year so long as the loan has to be paid back within two years. Chandra purchased carpentry tools such as driller and saw with that sum of money, which had been helpful to scale up his profession. He has already payed back the money lent from the cooperative within the stipulated time. "I am encouraged to well equip my workshop. For that purpose, I have requested Mohana Laljhadi Area Cooperative for second loan", says Chandra. He is a member of Amar Gokul proposed Community Forest User Group and actively participates in forest conservation as well.
On the whole, building capacity is necessary but not sufficient to develop entrepreneurship. Community people adopt a profession if it is suitable to one's interest and skill and rewarding economically, socially and environmentally. The entrepreneurship that is based on mobilising local resource persons and materials will be more sustainable.
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