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EC partners
- UNDP
- Ministry of Economy
- 3 local Governments of Fergana Valley
FACTS AND FIGURES
Duration: 2005-2010
EC Contribution: EC Contribution -€7.5 million
Beneficiaries: 600,000 people in 231 communities
(additional 500,000 expected by end of 2010)
- 173 Community development plans reflecting local needs
- 235 community projects (e.g. water, gas medical points)
- 17 local resource centres supporting infrastructure and rural development
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Water supply and sanitation
Enhancement of Living Standards Programme in Fergana Valley: Improving well-being of rural population
Context
 As part of the decentralization process in Uzbekistan local governments and communities are increasingly challenged to mobilize local resources to maintain basic infrastructures. Particularly vulnerable are many rural areas where the main challenge for local governments and communities is to deliver basic public services, notably drinking water, and for the population to generate income.
Objective: Human-centered development
- Increase the capacity of local governments to support policies that provide incentives for local development and greater self-sufficiency of the rural population
- Support communities to develop comprehensive community development plans and self-help schemes for improved access to basic services
- Support rural extension services, training and know-how for improved rural development and income generation
Impact:
- Stronger commitment of local governments to support and work together with communities to address and solve water problems and share the costs and maintenance of improved infrastructure.
- 17 Resource Centres have mobilized people to install 81 artesian wells, more than 120 km of water pipelines systems and 455 hand pumps and apply participatory rural development approaches.
- More than 295.000 people can now drink clean piped water (about 20 % of the population of the project districts).
| Khujaarik (Andijan region) is one of the 200 rural communities in Uzbekistan that has benefitted from the ELS, an EU funded project, implemented by UNDP that supports the government to improve people’s living standards. The brand new water system in Khujaarik is a great achievement for the 3,000 people who have volunteered their services and contributed 60% of its cost. Volunteering has not only helped to save money. It has improved people’s self confidence for a better future, a priceless project outcome.
To make the new water system work, the community has installed water meters, set up a committee of trained volunteers to check the water quality and report problems to the village regularly.
In Khujaarik village, people decided that it was important to talk about water and do something together with the local government. By communicating with one another and making their voices heard, the people in Khujaarik are an example of how a project can work in a way that people can see, touch and feel.
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