Tajikistan programs / Water user association support program (WUASP)
USAID's Water User Association Support Program (WUASP) has been successful in Tajikistan. It has met its objectives to help farmers establish water user associations (WUAs), support them to clean and rehabilitate irrigation… DEC abstract (PD-ACX-191)
Key nam:water user association support program
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USAID's Water User Association Support Program (WUASP) has been successful in Tajikistan. It has met its objectives to help farmers establish water user associations (WUAs), support them to clean and rehabilitate irrigation infrastructure, and improve their productivity through training in business, water management, and good governance and democratic principles. Thanks to this training, WUAs are, in general, institutionally and financially sustainable organizations that are responsive to their constituencies, and can resolve water management issues. By overcoming the limiting factor of irrigation water, farmers have opened up more land, grown more crops and diversified their on-farm activities. In many ways, the role and responsibilities of WUAs are expanding. Given the lack of a functioning extension service in Tajikistan, the WUAs are becoming more like farm associations that look at the entire farm management cycle and tackle the problems that hinder agricultural growth. Many challenges remain. For example, farmers are under-capitalized, interest rates on loans are high, relations with district water departments can be strained due to w
Source: DEC abstract, PD-ACX-191 (2010). This is the source's own text, not a cited summary of the documents.
Operated in: Tajikistan.
Districts, regions and facilities the program's own documents name, with what the document says it did there. Source: sentences in the program's documents
not in the map yet: no district, region or facility is named for this program yet; only Malawi and Guatemala have place data so far
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Operated in Tajikistan, 2010 1 source
Scope: country: Tajikistan. Set by the countries the program's documents name most often. Medium confidence.
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Sector profile (computed): Agriculture: crop production, inputs, pests, irrigation 42%; Natural resources and biodiversity (forests, wildlife, water resources) 29%; Good governance 6%
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| Title | Year | Document | Why listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment of water user association support program (WUASP) : report | 2010 | PD-ACX-191 | linked as an evaluation of this program |
Not recorded yet: support mechanisms, money rows. A missing record is not a finding. USAspending records start in FY2007; earlier obligations are missing, not zero.
Every document that cites this program, grouped by a stage label from a weak classifier. Source: document library
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| USAID. Bur. for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade. Ofc. of Natural Resources Management | 2010 | Stated in a document read from a record field | 1 source |
| Name | Years | Basis | Evidence |
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| Tajikistan | 2010 | Stated in a document read from a record field | 1 source |