The project is implemented with financial support from the German Federal Foreign Office.

 The project: ‘Social support and protection of rights of the rural population living in the Fergana valley’

DVV International Uzbekistan jointly with the NGO Mekhrjon launches the new project ‘Social support and protection of rights of the rural population living in the Fergana valley’.

The project goal:

To support and capacitate civil society organisations to protect the social, economic and cultural rights of labour migrants, rural women and their families, through establishment of mobile services and social partnership, mitigating the negative consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in the rural areas of the Fergana valley

Concrete objectives:

• Strengthen the capacity of civil society organisations and their cooperation with the local state structures for social support and protection of social, economic and cultural rights of the rural population of the Fergana valley;
• Expand free access to quality vocational training (including life and business skills programmes), social services, psychological and medical support and consultation services for returning migrants, rural women and their families.

In order to increase the synergy between the civil society sector, government and business structures, the following activities are planned within the project: round tables, conferences, working group meetings.

Trainings on ‘Human Rights and Gender’, ‘Introduction into Adult Learning and Education’, ‘Innovative entrepreneurship’ will be delivered for civil society organizations and other interested stakeholders.

Special attention will be paid to increasing access to vocational courses for the target group in the remote areas through the creation of mobile services. Particularly, establishment of professional courses on ‘Sewing’, ‘Wicker weaving’, ‘IT Literacy’, ‘Milk processing’, as well as providing social services, psychological and medical support and consultation to mitigate negative consequences of COVID-19 in the rural areas of the Fergana Valley.

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