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Mid-term Evaluation Report of “Longchuan Sustainable Livelihood Project
Since 2009, BUER Consult AS has been cooperating with Long Chuan Foreign Aid Office on providing aid for community development work in Mo Shui and Lv Liang village. The assistance project has two phases – Phase One was from 2009 to 2011, mainly doing some relief work and giving free aids to build infrastructure, like building country roads and environmental friendly toilets, and installing solar-power showers, and so on. Phase Two is from 2012 to 2016, with a focus on sustainable livelihood of the local farmers. The work of Phase One has made the project staff realize that the main problem of the local community is their livelihood is unsustainable due to the singular agricultural production structure. The specific example is their livelihood has severely depended on sugarcane plantation, which relentlessly relied on the increasing employment of chemical pesticides and fertilizers. This then consequently lead to unsustainability of the eco-environment. This evaluation is the mid-term evaluation for the 2012-2016 term project, which main objective is to assess the current status of the operation of the project in terms of reaching the initial goals which were set in the beginning; furthermore, to give specific suggestions for further adjustment and implementation.