FINAL REPORT

19. Recommendations
For the different aspects of development the following recommendations are made:
A. ASPECTS CONCERNING PARTICIPATION
Existing and potential new farmers should be involved in the planning and
implementation process of a development program from the very beginning in
order to reach transparency of its objectives and make the people understand that
the activities are going to help them to improve their livelihoods. Special attention
should be given to small-scale farmers and poor people in order to contribute to
reduce the high rate of poverty among the aimag population.
It has to be ensured that marginalized groups have equal access to fertile land (at
least 1 ha) and sufficient irrigation water, that they will be enabled to market their
products for favourable conditions, and will have priority to be employed for a fair
wage in labour intensive project activities such as channel and road rehabilitation,
and other construction works. For agro-pastoralists a size of two ha would be more
suitable in order to enable them to produce sufficient hay for the livestock. New
irrigable land of good quality is mainly available in the northern part of Ulaan
buraa bag in Khovd sum. North of Tsagaan Khudag near Ulaanburaa bag center of
Khovd sum would be a suitable location to establish an irrigation scheme for new
farmer (see Annex V / Map 16).
The project should support smallholders to get access to low interest loans.
Another option is that a co-financing fund could provide the resources, for
example to a water channel user group or another informal or formal grouping.
The groups could be asked to contribute a certain amount of money per capita to
an account of their own and the project would match this amount with a matching
percentage to be determined.
B. ASPECTS CONCERNING IRRIGATION
The existing irrigation system is characterized by a large number of small channels
and dams built by the farmers themselves. Water is often wasted because of
inappropriate water use and users at the end of a channel are often deprived in an
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