Our objective is to improve the social and economic position of the rural population in Sugd Province towards sustainable development.

 

MISSION STATEMENT

“It is not correct to give a fish to the poor, it is also not enough to hand over a fishing rod and teach them how to catch the fish, if in most of the cases they do not have access to the river".

 

STRATEGIES FOR ACTIVITIES

-Human institutes: Self Help Groups, Mahalla Committees, Jamoats, Committees and other target groups, clearly identified group – located in project focus.

- providing special knowledge on capacity and institute building, transparency, accountability, advocacy on local level (formation of promoters’ network – engines of new ideas – effect of regular presence of organization and its ideas)

- services, resources, finance as a tool that passes authorities, skills of management and disposal

NGO is not to perform as “benefactor”; it must pass resources as intermediary as well as authorities for resource management. Resource management by community institutes (passing of resources in СВЕD for businessmen from community for BDS formation as a model of structures for community support on sustainable basis)

- resources, finance and services for initiative support like Entry Point Activity, brief, starting, that do not form the habit for dependency, not destroying (resources for the support of local social institutes, for example creation of water pipe – strengthening of SHG and formation of positive image for implementation of new ideas)

- expectation that developed human institutes can solve their problems independently, manage investment and resources, expand links with supporting institutes, protect community interest to government and be responsible to the poorest.

- assisting in establishing links and interaction of target human institutes with other organizations (government, business and NGO) which provide loans, services, education and etc.

- work with traditional human institutes (in some cases stimulation for the creation of alternative systems) for the increase of their legitimacy, transparency, accountability and responsibility to the poorest, including rights of women and vulnerable people

- advocacy approaches – solution of the problems of the poor and their legitimate institutes via allotment of authorities and tools “empowerment and advocacy for people”. The poor is ahead – organization is behind.

- researches of poverty with community efforts via employees’ facilitation for understanding and analysis of situation (reasons and consequences) by community itself for better understanding of the context and acceptance of realistic decisions by community as a basis for advocacy on local level.

 

SELECT PROJECTS

-Program for the Creation of the Rural Poor People Support Structures  (PCRPPSS) implemented via support of NOVIB

-Social Progam in Spitamen district “Food for Work” via the support of World Food Program of the United Nations (WFP UN)

-Project directed at rendering technical assistance (agricultural processing of farmland and rented lands) to families who lost supporter in Spitamen district via the support of Canadian Embassy Kazakhstan.

-Project “Mosquito Fish against Malaria” was implemented from June to October 2001 via the financial support from ISAR, USAID

-Project  “Development. First Steps” supported by the World Bank Dushanbe has the goal to create conditions for building democratic civil society via providing fair access to information on development projects of NGO and IO to rural people in Sugd Province.