Kyrgyzstan: Creating local capacity for improved rural living standards via sustainable energy and sanitation
Reduce poverty via sustainable development, specifically through improved access to basic resources such as energy and safe sanitation
| Countries: | Kyrgyzstan |
| Donors: | European Commission with the additional aid of Natracare and Sjef Jorritsma & Hanzehogeschool Groningen |
| Partners: | KAWS, ALGA, Camp Alatoo |
| Issues: | Water & Sanitation and Energy & Climate |
| Duration: | 01/2011 - 12/2012 |
The project is funded by the European Commission with the additional aid of Natracare and many thanks to Sjef Jorritsma's fund at the Hanzehogeschool Groningen.
The brochure on the project can be found here
The project is demand driven and strengthens local capacity. The focus is on access to energy and safe sanitation for marginalized people without depleting natural resources, preserving dung for use as fertilizer, avoiding the burning of unsafe fuels and groundwater pollution of wells from pit latrines (MDG3). The action empowers women through gender training and ensuring that benefits to women as well as men are included throughout the project cycle (MDG 7). An actor-oriented approach links NSAs from the EU and Kazakhstan and engages local water committees, women’s groups and authorities to cooperate on sustainable rural development while increasing their capacity to implement poverty reduction measures. Lessons learned, policy recommendations and dialogue with stakeholders will be fostered via links with WECF’s network of 100 NGOs in 40 countries. Partner NSAs will be supported and CBOs will be empowered to work independently.
Activities:
- Raising awareness and building capacity of 9 local communities - start-up stakeholder meetings (one in each village), and village seminars about UDD toilets, solar collectors, energy efficient stoves and micro credit information
- Develop and pilot a gender and healthy environment training programme in 9 local communities: 5-day training for NSA partners as multipliers, training of villagers (60% women) as healthy environment facilitators (HEF)
- Build capacity of 9 Community Drinking Water Users Unions (CDWUUs), Women’s Clubs, KAWS project NGOs to ensure sustainable sanitation, community management of rural water supply and improved livelihoods – about UDD toilets and re-use of nutrients, construction and maintenance of solar collectors and energy efficient stoves using local materials and 3 alternative technology resource centres set up within the CDWUUs.
- Implementing 54 demonstration projects on sustainable sanitation and alternative energy in 9 communities – adjusting the technology to local situation, solar collector, energy efficient stove and build UDD (ecosan) toilets.
- Creating sustainable access to affordable alternative technologies and develop a plan for up-scaling and replicating via enhancing business opportunities and community based financing mechanisms - Feasibility study for up-scaling alternative energy devices and safe sanitation technologies, train 60 people (at least 50% women) for 2 days on using community based financing mechanisms, such as micro credit and revolving funds.
- Children water, sanitation and energy activities for increased youth participation
- Awareness raising, policy and recommendations to local and national decision makers
Contact:
Claudia Wendland, claudia.wendland@wecf.eu
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