Internal Capacity Building 

The Director V. Kireev participated in environmental monitoring training conducted by the 

environmental NGO Tree of Life and in Financial Management training conducted by Global 

Training for Development. 

The Financial Manager N. Yumakaeva participated in TOT in Advocacy conducted by NDI. 

Based on materials received at these workshops, Director and Financial Manager conducted 

internal workshops for staff on environmental monitoring and advocacy. The staff and volunteers 

improved their knowledge and skills in conducting environmental monitoring and holding 

advocacy campaigns. 

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1. NGO Saodat 

Eight members of the NGO Saodat  have attended training workshops conducted by the Khujand 

CSSC on Strategic Planning, Volunteer Management, and Financial Management. After attending the 

Volunteer Management workshop Saodat  established an initiative group to promote volunteerism 

among secondary school students in the Sughd Province. The group has developed a two month 

workplan, which included special training workshops for children in summer camps. NGO Saodat has 

developed a proposal on working with three communities of in the district of Ghonchi to assist them 

in addressing social problems. The proposal was submitted for review to Counterpart as a NGO 

Support Grant.   

2. Development Fund 

Five members of the Development Fund have participated in a series of Counterpart's training 

workshops in April June. According to them the workshops were very useful and they learned how to 

develop strategic plans, manage volunteers and practice their facilitation skills. These trainings have 

helped them to increase their organizational capacity and be more efficient managers of projects. The 

Development Fund has completed three community mobilization projects in the district of Rasulov. 

All three projects were  funded by Counterpart Tajikistan. In each of the targeted communities they 

conducted a PCA activity, arranged roundtables on social partnership on district level as well as 

conducted trainings on farming, micro financing and small business development. With Development 

Fund's assistance the communities developed three Community Action Plans and two Community 

Action Grant projects.  

3. NGO Yosuman 

The NGO Yosuman  continued providing services to NGOs located in the district of Mastcho as a 

representative of the Khujand CSSC in this district. As a result of the work of Yosuman's the number 

of NGOs in Mastcho has increased to six. The members of Yosuman  provided the members of the 

new NGOs with information about NGO registration, organizational charter development and so on. 

Yosuman has convened a meeting of Mastcho NGOs regarding the Social Partnership and cooperation 

among NGOs. Yosuman has developed a proposal to create an NGO Resource Center in Mastcho and 

has submited it to a number of international donor organizations for funding. Yosuman has completed 

its its NGO Support Grant Program. Within the grant Yosuman has targeted three communities that 

have conducted PCA activities. Under this project a number of roundtables were conducted to identify 

problems, especially problems relating to gender issue. They conducted three seminars on the topic 

The  Role of Initiative Groups in Problem Solving,  Community Participation in Decision Making 

Process, and Community Mobilization.  

4. NGO Yovar  

After attending a number of Counterpart's training workshops the members of the local NGO Yovar's 

members revised their strategic plan, including their fundraising plan and actions to strengthen the 

institutional capacity of the organization. After attending the Counterpart's workshops on PCA/PRA 

Yovar's members conducted a survey among their target communities in the district of Istaravshan to 

identify their common problems. When doing that they used their newly learned methodology. The 

NGO Yovar has applied to Counterpart for funding for a NGO Support Grant.  

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