SCOP is now in its sixth year of implementation. The program has incorporated various strategies and approaches: social mobilization to promote social solidarity and harmony in the community; organizational development to help institutionalize the development process and democratic practices at the grassroots; networking to promote co-operation and collaboration and a mutual development banking process aimed to make funds accessible at the grassroots for economic projects.

Promotion of sector village

The establishment of model villages by promoting sector specific agro-based micro enterprises is a main thrust of this program. For this purpose 25 village development committees of 10 districts have already been selected. The major commodities for the sector village: have been identified as ginger, goat and vegetable. Mutual Development Groups (MDGs) of the respective villages have started increasing their production. However, not much progress has yet been made in the market linkage process.

Promotion of Cooperative and Investment Scheme Development

SCOP also supported some like-minded cooperative societies who are provided a small amount of credit facilities. During this reporting period some cooperatives repaid their loan instalments. The main purpose of the investment scheme development is to promote the of marketing of sectoral village products. Since this work has already been incorporated in the sectoral village scheme there has not been any separate intervention made.

Youth Mobilization:

SAP-Nepal has realized that youth leaders can play a vital role in social and resource mobilization, conflict resolution and policy influencing. Youths of 16- 25 years are energetic and have the desire to do something for their community or nation. Thus, SAP-Nepal is trying to tap the innovative-energy of the youth for community development. SAP-Nepal has organized two big campaigns to select youth leaders from the SCOP district of EDR, CDR and WDR through multi-stage samplings of their intelligence, sincerity, hard work and commitment.

This year, four youth camps of different nature and magnitude were conducted to create an enabling environment for youths to bring out their leadership qualities for the betterment of their respective villages. Some follow up activities of the camps were also conducted.
These camps have increased the level of participation of the youths in the community development activities in their respective villages. It was also noticed that there was an increase in the voluntary work of youths in social mobilization programs