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Project
dedicated to silkroadbybike.
NGO:
Public organization
“Asol”
(Общественная организация «Асоль»)
Location: Dushanbe
(Varzob district)
Income
generation area:
sewing,
gold-embroidering and cooking
Goals:
Engage
rural girls in the age of 15-23 years in
entrepreneurial activities by giving them the skills and means to
successfully
run their small businesses, and enhance employment opportunities for
them.
Objectives:
- Conducting
seminars on human rights;
- Conducting
seminars on leadership;
- Conducting
vocational training courses on sewing, gold-embroidering
and cooking;
- Creating
new jobplaces in the centre of the Public
Organization Asol on sewing, gold-embroidering and cooking
Proposed
Activity:
- Providing
seminars on human rights and leadership;
- Conducting
series of training sessions on creation of
small business;
- Conducting
vocational training courses in sewing, gold-embroidering,
and cooking;
- Establishing
a small library with no less than 100
materials and textbooks in Tajik and Russian languages on the national
and
international laws, policies and programs relating to business,
especially
women's participation in economic processes;
- Creating
30 new job places with the establishment of
workshops on sewing, gold-embroidering and cooking products;
- Publishing
booklet about the project activity with
pictures of products produced by the project beneficiaries for
Output/Outcomes
- Enhanced
knowledge and skills of 60 young women on the
organization and development of small business;
- at
least 40 high quality business plans are prepared;
- Girls
are ready to realize their business ideas;
- 90
girls have obtained new skills;
- Girls
used regularly the knowledge and skills obtained
by them during the project in order to develop their businesses and
access to micro-credit;
- Improved
girls’ knowledge on financial issues;
- Raised
awareness of relevant organizations and
individuals on the Center's activities and products of the girls;
- Increased
sales of products for girls and their level
of income;
- Raised
awareness of important individuals and
organizations about the problems of vulnerable young girls and the
level of
participation in their decision;
- Brought
additional resources to address the economic
problems of girls.
Beneficiaries:
120
rural girls from vulnerable groups in Varzob
district, which is near Dushanbe
Average
income per month: $ 100.
Duration: 9
months
Estimated
project budget:
Requested amount
from the EFCA - $ 10000
Contribution
of
the NGO - $ 4700
NGO:
Public
Organization «Center of
UCA Alumni”
(Общественная Организация «Центра
Выпускников Университета Центральной Азии»
Location:
Sokhcharv jamoat (village), Shugnan Disrict,
Gorno-Badakhshan (Eastern Part of Tajikistan)
Income
generation area: Bee-farming
Goals:
Reduce
poverty in jamoat Sokhcharv of Shugnan district
in Gornno-Badakhshan (Pamir)
Objectives:
- Establish
a bee farm (consisting of 25 bee families);
- Train
five representatives of poor families to keep a bee farm and run small
business;
- Arrange
marketing of product (honey) in jamoat Sokhcharv and outside it.
Proposed
activities
- Establishing
the bee-farm
- 3
trainings on bee-keeping
- Ongoing
consultations during the project
- 5
day seminar on doing business
Output/Outcomes
- Farm
of 25 bee-families established
- 5
people from 5 poor families acquire knowledge on bee-farming
- Marketing
of the product arranged
- 5
poor families have increased their income for 70%
Average
income
$150
US per month for each family. In total there will
be five families. This project will bring about 750 USD for all direct
beneficiaries each month.
Beneficiaries:
5
poor families in jamoat Sokhcharv of Shugnan
discrict
Duration: 8
months
Estimated
project budget:
Requested
amount from
the EFCA $7,000
Contribution
of the
NGO: $326
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