8 dec 2010

Meetings with representatives of partner organizations

On December 2, 3, 4, 2010 in the Kurgantyube and Dushanbe towns were held meetings with the representatives of partner organizations of Dushanbe, Khatlon region and DRS and their Public analysts to assess the project activities under the project ACT CA / DFID « Promotion of civil society participation in implementation and monitoring of development programs in Tajikistan".

A similar meeting on evaluation of project activities was carried out with the representatives of partner organizations of CG of Sughd region and their Public analysts in late November of this year. This assessment was carried out under the project on three levels – with the representatives of target communities, partner organizations, as well as the staff of the project to determine the future strategy of the project activity.

In general 35 people took part at the meeting. During the meetings the following issues were discussed: cooperation of local communities with authority, citizens' appeals to authorities and the successful approaches used by communities to solve community problems. Participants gave unanimous positive assessment to the project activity and stressed that this project contributed greatly to the development of potential, as partner organizations and their Public analysts by allowing them to understand better the needs of target communities in the targeted areas and to develop new projects based on identified needs of target communities.