Consortium past performance
The Counterpart Mahalla Imitative
Location Uzbekistan
Performance period January 1999 - March 2003
Partner Counterpart International
Budget $692,000
Donor/Client
Contract 122-0007-A-00-9019-00
The Mahalla Initiative Program (MIP) promotes and provides opportunities for grassroots citizen empowerment by strengthening and establishing linkages between NGOs and mahalla committees and catalyze the development of social partnership among these stakeholders. Counterpart is working in four communities - Bukhara, Samarkand, Kokand and Nukus – to deliver results in three intermediate objectives: (1) increase the constituency for NGOs as acknowledged representatives of public opinion and effective partners with local communities in addressing self-defined community needs; (2) foster the transformation of mahalla committees and other local administrative structures into effective two-way conduits for dialogue between citizens and government; and (3) establish sustainable collaborative linkages between NGOs and mahalla committees in the framework of social partnership.
• Over 450 Mahallas have gone through Participatory Community Appraisals. 108 community action grants have been funded with $261,614 to support projects generating results such as the rebuilding of water pipelines to provide remote mahallas with access to water. Twenty-five percent of the community projects funded supported water related issues including access to drinking water, irrigation, drainage, and sanitation.
• A suburban Nukus mahalla committee and the NGO Public Research Center, together with the community, repaired and reinstalled a broken water pump for irrigation and a seven-member committee was formed to maintain and manage the project. As a result, 75 families are assured weekly income from vegetable cultivation.
• Through PCAP exercises, Bedarak organized community members and raised 1,000,000 soums (about $900) to purchase 450 meters of pipe. Leading the construction efforts, community members succeeded in providing access to clean drinking water for 134 families.
• Margillan Mahalla residents of each of the 230 houses in the mahalla contributed 1000-1500 soums to buy the necessary construction materials. The residents themselves laid the 500-meter-long main water line, to which every plot was connected thus providing drinking water to all 230 households.
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