| ID: | 86232 |
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| Country: | Tajikistan |
| Title: | Tajikistan - Community-based Agricultural Support Project (CASP) - October 2023 |
| Description: |
Halima Jumaeva, 54 years old, is the chief of the Mohinav Village Organization (VO) in the Dusti district of southwestern Tajikistan’s Khatlon Region. Halima, the accountant and other VO officers, all of whom have received technical trainings from CASP, used to keep files in their homes, making it a challenge to be well organized or to host community meetings. Any time they needed to print a document or make a photocopy, they had to travel to the city. “In the past, we did not have an office for our village organization. CASP provided us with a mobile office and everything we need - printer and computer, furniture. It's very convenient.” Once the VO was established, Halima and the nine board members met with the community to identify their community development priorities. Because accessing tractors and other agricultural machinery and operators had always been such a challenge for them, the villagers agreed that procuring agricultural machinery should be a top priority for them. Establishing women’s income generating groups was another. CASP provided tractors of different sizes, and also helped the women get started with peanut and poultry production, with vegetable production in greenhouses, and with fruit and vegetable canning. In the past, even if or when they could find a tractor in a neighbouring community, they would come with delay and charge a high price. Now, the VO has the tractors they need and ready to provide services to people whenever they need them. With the income earned from the agricultural machinery and contributions paid into the village organization’s budget by the women’s income generating groups, the village organization has been able to support some new activities. For example, it helped a group of women set up an income-generating activity weaving traditional rugs. The village organization bought yarn and tools and paid young men from the community to craft the weaving looms. The village organization has also sponsored a young woman with disability to start a handicraft business making and selling crocheted items. The Community-based Agriculture Support Project (CASP) stimulates inclusive economic growth and poverty reduction in rural Tajikistan. Its activities help communities and dehkan (smallholder) family farmers access productive infrastructure and services, leading to sustainable agricultural production, equitable income-generating opportunities, and improved living standards. CASP works with village organizations (VOs) to develop community-driven action plans that define their own improvement initiatives. Village-level participation in decision making is critical to the success of these plans and helps establish a sense of community ownership and cohesion. |
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| Show more details: | Didor Sadulloev |
| Copyright: | © IFAD/ Didor Sadulloev |
| Categories: | New from Near East, North Africa, Europe and Central Asia |
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