Empowerment & Local Action (ELA) Kazakhstan
Building the capacity of poor local communities in rural areas in Kazakhstan
19.04.2010
| Countries: | Kazakhstan |
| Donors: | Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MinBuza), The Netherlands; Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), Germany |
| Partners: | Public Association Mountain Club Jabagly-Manas |
| Issues: | Energy & Climate, Water & Sanitation |
| Duration: | 01/2008 - 12/2010 |
For more information about the Empowerment & Local Action programme, click here.
Project proposals
Organisation: Public Association Mountain Club Jabagly-Manas
City: Taraz
Project title: Promotion of Sustainable Development of Rural Communities around Especially Protected Natural Areas in Kazakhstan
Issues & short description:
- Conservation of biodiversity and natural resources
- Realization of social-economic and ecological programs, development of ecotourism and others environmentally friendly mountaineering sports.
Protected Territories
Kazakhstan is rich of protected territories:
game reserves, national parks, located at the most picturesque places
rich with natural resources. In mountain areas such
as, for instance, the Aksu-Zhabagly game reserve, rivers are formed, on which the life of millions of inhabitants of mountains, foothills, steppes and
desert zones are dependent, and which fill in large water bodies such as the Aral Sea. Due to the ongoing economic crisis the paradoxical
situation has been created in Kazakhstan, that rural communities, living in areass rich with natural resource, turned out to be in the worst position, than the rest of the country. Poverty of the rural population, poor awareness,
backwardness - causes disease and high mortality rate, particularly of women
and children.
Water Resources
Sustainability of rural communities is mainly
connected with the condition and use of water resources, in particular, with
drinking water. The deficit of clean drinking water, contamination of surface
and ground waters with wastes of human life activity, results in infectious and
other diseases of the population, and it is an overall problem on all
territories regardless of natural conditions. Absence of warm toilets in rural
schools is a chronic problem of the whole Kazakhstan and it causes catarrhal
diseases of children, particularly of girls. Absence of comfortable toilets is
one of the factors, which restrains development of ecotourism on the
territories of the republic rich with natural resources.
Project objectives:
- Improvement of health of the population, living on the territories, adjacent to EPNT of Kazakhstan, in particular around Aksu-Jabagly and Naurzum game reserves.
- Decreasing of poverty and contribution to sustainable development of the communities, living on the territories of Kazakhstan adjacent to EPNT.
Activity on awareness raising will be implemented on
the territories (project sites) around 23 EPNTs. Education - at five of them.
To demonstrate efficient approaches in practice, which are based on experience
of the projects of WECF, GEF and the
other organization, two project sites with different typical natural
conditions: around mountain Aksu-Jabagly reserve in the south and steppe
Naurzum reserve in the north of Kazakhstan,
have been selected.
The key role in this project will be played by local NGOs
and EPNTs, who are declared, according to the resolutions of the World
Congress in Durban,
to become initiators of sustainable development of local communities. 250
thousand people will be involved into awareness raising activity of the
project.
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