Phase-Out/Phase-In Activities

Project Completion Certificate
Upon completion of the proposed intervention to a JFM area and the VSS concerned, PMU will issue a completion certificate to the VSS based on field verification conducted jointly by and among the VSS and the DMU/FMU concerned. As an attachment to the certificate all the recorded activities undertaken by the VSS will be compiled in a predetermined format. The attachment will also describe status and capability of the VSS evaluated by the FMU concerned with necessary post-Project activities.

Conversion of PMU to a Training / Research Institute
As the Project ends, the PMU as an independent society will lose its Project management purpose. The majority of staff members would return to their own departments and positions from which they were seconded. A series of meetings and workships with stakeholders will be organized for the PMU to determine its function and purpose after the Project is over. Based on the agreed basic direction, PMU will formulate a specific action plan for its transformation and undertake appropriate legal procedures to legitimize its status.

Preparation of Phase-Out / Phase-In Plan of VSS
Ideally, VSSs should be self-sustaining financially and organizationally. The Project would make a significant investment during its implementation period to the VSSs, which are expected to develop adequate financial, physical, human and social capitals allowing them to carry out the activities and grow further. For the VSSs to become operational without intensive external assistance and interventions, they should prepare a plan in which the proper utilization of accumulated capital in the future would be specified. Also, resource mobilization and fund raising without the Project should be thought out during the planning process.
This Phase-Out / Phase-In planning would be facilitated by either FMU or local NGOs when available and appropriate and undertaken in a participatory manner so that the majority of VSS members could be aware of their new roles for the post-project phase of JFM activities.

Preparation of Phase-Out / Phase-In Plan of SHG
The SHG development and IGA component of the Project are designed to make the SHG a financially self-sustaining micro enterprise from the outset. However, those SHGs or micro enterprises would receive intensive technical assistance and market support from the Project. The SHG should prepare their operations without such assistance after the Project. For this to occur, a series of workshops and meetings should be organized among the SHG members to discuss their weaknesses and plan for further growth.
During this stage, the initial attempt to federate the SHGs under the Project should be seriously considered, and a long-term, viable and practical plan for the strengthening of such a federation should be formulated under the Project by the key leaders among SHG communities.