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Small and Medium

Infrastructure

LACIPCase Studies

Livelihood Support & Promotion of Small Community Infrastructure Project

A single drop gives life tothe earth

Background and Identification

The village of Kooz Shah Alam Jor Union Council Mandani is located in Charsadda. It

comprises of 85 households which translates to around 600 people. The Major crops

grown and harvested in the area are wheat, maize, sugarcane and tobacco. The entire

village somehow is engaged with agricultural activities but lack proper irrigation sys-

tems in spite of the availability of water for agriculture elds through canal system. A

make-shift arrangement of irrigation system had been developed by the people but

hardly any water reached the tail end. Moreover, the channel was ooded away by

the devastating ood of 2010 which further aggravated the irrigation problems. Due

to the bad condition of local irrigation system, people were not cultivating all of their

lands and agriculture produce has been reduced to the minimum.

Process

Community physical infrastructure is a major component under the BMZ funded Project

LACIP (Livelihood Support and Promotion of Small Community Infrastructure Project)

through KfW that is implemented by PPAF through Partner Organizations. Sarhad Rural

Support Program (SRSP) is a partner organization of PPAF, and their eld teams made a

number of visits to the village Kooz Shah Alam Jor to survey and assess the local com-

munity problems regarding infrastructure. They introduced the local community about

the LACI-Project. When the people of village Kooz Shah Alam Jor learnt that some of

the villages in the union council have managed to lift themselves out of the rut of pov-

erty through self-help schemes initiated by the villagers themselves, they started to

think about the possibilities that could lead them to improve their living conditions.

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