Zerhusen, Dirk, 2014, Sustainable Poverty Reduction and Food Security through Climate Change-Adapted Potato Production in Zerafshan Valley (Tajikistan)

2.1 ENABLING ENVIRONMENT

2.1.11 Coordination and sustainability planning

Recommendation: 5. Work with governments to strengthen coordination between relevant ministries at national and/or subnational level (as appropriate)on the subject of the IE. Ensure that relevant government entities are involved from the project design and initiation phase. This may be accomplished through advocacy for the establishment of permanent coordinating committees and capacity strengthening of responsible persons/groups.

Reference: Zerhusen, Dirk, 2014, Sustainable Poverty Reduction and Food Security through Climate Change-Adapted Potato Production in Zerafshan Valley (Tajikistan), Final project/Program report, Welthungerhilfe, Bonn.

Evidence sample: the evaluation concluded that more value should be placed on the strengthening of the organizational structures on vertical and horizontal levels within the network to ensure the active participation and the closer ownership of associated members.

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2.1.11 Coordination and sustainability planning

Recommendation: 12. Begin embedding project activities into community structures from the earliest project phase. This should be clearly indicated in project design (and, when assessing proposals) points reduced in cases where this is not apparent in the proposal).

Reference: Zerhusen, Dirk, 2014, Sustainable Poverty Reduction and Food Security through Climate Change-Adapted Potato Production in Zerafshan Valley (Tajikistan), Final project/Program report, Welthungerhilfe, Bonn.

Evidence sample: the evaluation noted that community-based projects must work quickly towards fully embedding activities into the community structure in order to strengthen sustainability.

The project underestimated the importance of a grassroots organisation at village level in form of Small Villages Groups (SVG’s) as members to the association.