The original project rehabilitated priority infrastructure in about 340 communities, and additional financing aims to support 250 more. Rural road rehabilitation in 166 communities allowed farmers to bring 78 percent of farm products to markets themselves compared to 18 percent in non-beneficiary areas. Read More »
“Our family’s main source of income is agriculture. We were suffering from the problems of acute water shortage for irrigation. We heard about the activities of [the project] from our community. All the people of the village participated in the mobilization process. The very interesting part of that process was ‘priority problem’ definition and identification. e A large majority of the villagers voted for an irrigation water supply project as their priority number one… [As a result of the project] our farm income has increased by more than 30 percent. Thank you very much.” —Aliyev Mahir, Garamanli Village, Yevlakh Rayon |
“Community members want to realize most of their wishes, but resources are always limited. When the economic analysis shows that the priorities they selected would serve only a small number of people because of budget limitations, they often change their mind and turn to other priorities which will solve more people’s problems.” —Kamalya Agayeva, Team Leader of Project Assistance Team |
Although in the early 1990s rural Azerbaijan had relatively high levels of access to infrastructure, disintegration of state and collective farms coupled with inadequate resource allocation led to a rapid decline in rural services and infrastructure. Read More »
The Azerbaijan Rural Investment Project supports community members and municipal governments to identify priority infrastructure issues and develop Community Projects. Communities receive block grants of up to $85,000 and select vendors to implement projects. Read More »
- Rural infrastructure development can be more cost effective when communities are clustered, making it easier to maintain infrastructure. Read More »
Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Economic Development, Ministry of Agriculture, Cabinet of Ministers, State Agency of Agricultural Credit (SAAC), Project Management Unit under SAAC.
Satoshi Ishihara, Rufiz Vakhid Chirag-Zade, Mark C. Woodward, Julian A. Lampietti, Shahridan Faiez, Hiwote Tadesse, Yingwei Wu, Ahmet Gokce, Norpulat Daniyarov, Ida Nkeri Muhoho, Hannah Koilpillai, Junko Funahashi, Anarkan Akerova.
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