Implementing Agency:
Department For International Development (PAND)

Managing Institute:
Jeunesse en Mission Entraide et Developpement

YWAM Relief and Development Services

Project Code: 047-680-002	Start Date: 01-Apr-92	End Date: 01-Mar-95
Commitment: £127,295	Status: Completed	Type of Funding: Bilateral - JFS

Project Background:
The direct beneficiaries are all of the Touareg ethnic group. The touareg are semi-nomadic pastoralists, and live in a semi-arid environment. They have lost most of their animals in recent droughts, and they now desire to practice some agriculture, in addition to raising some livestock, with a view to maintaining a permanency and self-sufficiency in food production and livestock rearing.

Project Objectives:
The specific objectives of the project are the education, by animation, of the local population (and in particular the local organisations and community leaders) into sustainable natural resources management/use practices and sustainable agricultural practices. Three local people will be trained in animation techniques in connection with this activity the construction of four new wells to a maximum depth of 80 metres, and the improvement of two already existing wells. The construction will be in a traditional manner already practiced in the area, the regeneration of 140 hectares of degraded land (soils), through the construction of 4 rainwater harvesting dykes. The regenerated land will be suitable for agricultural or pastoral purposes, the training and equipping of 248 families to allow them to cultivate sorghum, cowpeas and other crops. In addition, the cultivation by these people, of 280 hectares of land in sorghum,cowpeas and Panicum laetum (the 140 hectares of regenerated land mentioned above, are included in these 280 hectares), the provision of 15 animals (goats,sheep and one donkey) to each of 90 families (30 per cent of the total families) chosen according to their degree of need, by the direct beneficiaries of the project. These animals will be loaned and not given. The loan to be repaid in three years, the development and implementation of a natural forest and pasture management plan for the project area, the construction of 15 community buildings using woodless construction techniques. Three local masons will be trained in these techniques, in connection with this activity.

Intended Outputs:
The intended outputs are the construction of 4 new wells and the improvement of 2 existing wells, construction of 4 rainwater harvesting dykes, regeneration of 140 hectares of arable/pasture land construction of 15 Buildings, implementation of a forestry/pasture management plan, total of 280 hectares under cultivation and reconstitution of animal flocks via livestock loan scheme