Demonstration of best practices to local communities on cultivation, reproduction and marketing of wild-growing Medicinal Herbs
The Project?s objective is to improve conservation of endemic species and reduce the risk of extinction of rare valuable medicinal herbs and plants on the Khovaling rayon?s territory, piedmont of the Vakhsh Range, through establishment of a demonstration plot, 3 ha, for the planting of medicinal herbs, and a 12-month educational programme.
Project Tasks are to:
2. Make, in the beginning of the Project, a project presentation at the local level involving stake-holders, such as rayon and jamoats? local administration, Leskhoz, target dekhkan farms, Rayon Committee for Environmental Protection, and local Mass Media.
3. Work with 10 target dekhkan farms to detect priorities of biodiversity conservation; organize, on the basis of the needs found out, educational courses and trainings (master classes on the demonstration plots, release of information material on best practices);
4. Prepare, in parallel, a demonstration plot on 3 ha of a fenced meadow landscape, and select endemic varieties of medicinal herbs, such as mountain onion (Allium oreoprasum),garlic (Ailium sativum), caraway (Carum), jeera (Bunium persicum), foalfoot (Tussilágo fárfara), black currant (Rí?bes ní?grum), wormwood (Artemísia absínthium), Petilium Eduarda, Paeonia anomala and Tangutic rhubarb (Rhéum tanguticum), to plant them on the prepared plots involving local spe-cialists, Leskhoz and Academy of Sciences of the RT;
5. Publish in the national Mass Media, such as Safina TV Channel, Sadoi Dushanbe Radio Station, Asia Plus newspaper, an article on project?s achievements, i.e. its success story, project?s socio-economic and environmental benefits and project sustainability, and prepare a film about the project;
6. Conduct final presentation and round table related to the assessment of the project outcomes at the local level, and adopt, at the Session of the Majlis of Khovaling rayon, a Resolution to establish a dialogue on and lobby problems of biodiversity conservation (endemic varieties of medicinal herbs) among the rayon Khukumat, Leskhoz, GEF-UNDP, international and local NGOs and Mass Media.
7. Conduct information workshops (on the Tax Code, legislative documents and requirements to the collection, use and selling of medicinal herbs (patent, individual entrepreneurship, etc.) in-volving the Committee for Environmental Protection; create conditions for the local communities and dekhkan farms engaged in the collection of wood herbs and berries to process (with tradi-tional and new methods) and sell the collected herbs and plants on the markets.
8. Evaluate and document the lessons learned; prepare a compendium of best practices and prov-en experiences of the growing of medicinal herbs on the household plots of local communities and farmers, and a reference guide on biological and curative qualities of medicinal herbs.
Project Tasks are to:
2. Make, in the beginning of the Project, a project presentation at the local level involving stake-holders, such as rayon and jamoats? local administration, Leskhoz, target dekhkan farms, Rayon Committee for Environmental Protection, and local Mass Media.
3. Work with 10 target dekhkan farms to detect priorities of biodiversity conservation; organize, on the basis of the needs found out, educational courses and trainings (master classes on the demonstration plots, release of information material on best practices);
4. Prepare, in parallel, a demonstration plot on 3 ha of a fenced meadow landscape, and select endemic varieties of medicinal herbs, such as mountain onion (Allium oreoprasum),garlic (Ailium sativum), caraway (Carum), jeera (Bunium persicum), foalfoot (Tussilágo fárfara), black currant (Rí?bes ní?grum), wormwood (Artemísia absínthium), Petilium Eduarda, Paeonia anomala and Tangutic rhubarb (Rhéum tanguticum), to plant them on the prepared plots involving local spe-cialists, Leskhoz and Academy of Sciences of the RT;
5. Publish in the national Mass Media, such as Safina TV Channel, Sadoi Dushanbe Radio Station, Asia Plus newspaper, an article on project?s achievements, i.e. its success story, project?s socio-economic and environmental benefits and project sustainability, and prepare a film about the project;
6. Conduct final presentation and round table related to the assessment of the project outcomes at the local level, and adopt, at the Session of the Majlis of Khovaling rayon, a Resolution to establish a dialogue on and lobby problems of biodiversity conservation (endemic varieties of medicinal herbs) among the rayon Khukumat, Leskhoz, GEF-UNDP, international and local NGOs and Mass Media.
7. Conduct information workshops (on the Tax Code, legislative documents and requirements to the collection, use and selling of medicinal herbs (patent, individual entrepreneurship, etc.) in-volving the Committee for Environmental Protection; create conditions for the local communities and dekhkan farms engaged in the collection of wood herbs and berries to process (with tradi-tional and new methods) and sell the collected herbs and plants on the markets.
8. Evaluate and document the lessons learned; prepare a compendium of best practices and prov-en experiences of the growing of medicinal herbs on the household plots of local communities and farmers, and a reference guide on biological and curative qualities of medicinal herbs.
Project Snapshot
Grantee:
CSO 'Sadoi Kuhsor'
Country:
Tajikistan
Area Of Work:
Biodiversity
Biodiversity
Biodiversity
Grant Amount:
US$ 25,698.00
Co-Financing Cash:
US$ 12,260.00
Co-Financing in-Kind:
US$ 23,338.00
Project Number:
TJK/SGP/OP5/BD/CORE/12/05
Status:
Satisfactorily Completed
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Project Characteristics and Results
Project sustainability
After project financing by SGP/GEF ends, the project sustainability will be ensured in the following way:
1. After the Project completes, seeds of medicinal herbs will be grown on the demonstration plots and planted in other mountainous areas suited for recovery of raw materials for the pharmacologic sec-tor. In its budget, the Rayzrdav Department (Rayon Health Department) will include a separate line item to allocate money for the recovery of medicinal herbs and plants in Khovaling rayon.
2. Economic benefits: dekhkan farms will receive extra revenues from the growing, collection and sell-ing of valuable endemic medicinal herbs and plants; pharmacologic institutions will have access to cheap and environmentally friendly raw materials required for the production of drugs; a basis for the production of high-quality drugs and their export to the external pharmacologic market will be established. Environmental benefits: valuable endemic medicinal herbs and plants will be recovered on the Khovaling rayon?s territory; demonstration plots for the growing of valuable endemic medicinal herbs and plants will be established; 100 members of dekhkan farms will obtain skills and experience in the growing of medicinal herbs and plants and will get knowledge of technologies for the collection and drying of valuable pharmacologic raw materials; a basis for the expansion of the Project?s experience to other mountainous rayons of the region will be established.
3. Social benefits: material well-being of the members of dekhkan farms will increase owing to the growing of valuable endemic medicinal plants; new jobs will be created for the employable popula-tion of the project target communities; the local population will use valuable medicinal herbs and plants to treat various ailments; selling of the herbs and plants and biodiversity conservation will serve as an economic incentive to continue the initiative in both Khovaling rayon and other rayons in the east of Khatlon.
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