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Dr. Hrang Kil
Fri, 9 Sep 2011 01:25 EDT
Avocacy
CARD ( Community Association for Rural Development) is one of Local Non
government organizations, a forerunner for the Chin Community. The
Policy of the card is no discrimination of race, skin, religiousness.
CARD looking for a donors and partner with both abroad and inland.

Background
Chin State is Located in the North –West of Myanmar and low
population of density is 39 inhabitants per square miles in 2010. The
total populations of Chin State are 545430 with 1389 villages, and
formulate 9 townships. Total the land use is, (13906.97) square miles
with (89000460) hectares and 78.2% populations are great risk of being
poor living in remote area. The agricultural activities risk 90% out of
total populations.

Constraint: High mountains steepness making bad communication access to
markets; traditional way of shifting agriculture brings more
deforestation, barren fertilizers and degradation of soil; Extinct
animals and fowls; increase malnutrition and illiterate among children,
Insufficient resources both person and raw material, lack of knowledge,
lack of awareness environmental care, wrong attitude and lack of
Capital.

II. Formation of CARD Program and Cope
CARD was organized by those who are interesting rural people,
eradication and alleviation of poverty in Chin State since 1998. At
present, the activities of CARD covered with Rezua sub-township,
Thantlang township, Hakha township, and Gangaw township in Sagaing
Division. The selected villages are 173 out of 1389 with covered 40
thousand populations and will extend programme in the whole Myanmar
steadily and systematically as possible as we can.

III. Developing 10-Years Framework Programmes

Core Value: Abundant life Rural Community

Goal: Contribute significant impact knowledge of technology to promote
livelihood in order to alleviate and eradicate poverty of community on
grass root level.

Vision: CARD as a model organization concern on integrated sustainable
livelihood program from rural community development through the
convergence of resources from the CARD organization, local government,
local people, NGOs and private sectors compiled with effective and
efficient management.

Mission: Implement socially acceptance scientific sustainable
agricultural technologies both of on farm and off farm practices with
full community participation, partners, stakeholders, and to produce
environmental communication materials based on natural resources
research and provide opportunities/training/capacity building to
translate knowledge into positive action and social change for the
benefit of the rural communities.

General Objective:
• Institute democratization systems and deconcentration
strategies to manage sustainable local development.
• Implementing concrete programmes and projects with democratized and
deconcentrated on national, regional, and local commune levels.
• Provide efficient and effective services and loan and grant provide
for local development.
• Contribute to the improvement of policy and regulations for
democratization and deconcentration and poverty alleviation.

IV. The Role of CARD Organization and Management Form CARD
organizational structures as follows;
• Board of Management, Executive Committee, Board of Planning, Board of
Administration, Board of Taskforce, and

Board of Finance:
1. Board of Planning: (Research identifies basic needs and priorities
for sustainable consumption and production. Plan Long-term and short
term project to move conduct monitoring and evaluation. For Social
service; Health care, Education and Women empowerment shall be under it.
2. Board of Administration: to support democratization and
deconcentration organization & management base on community with
approach grass root level from bottom to up decision making.
Infrastructure or capacity building department was under it

3. Board of Task Force; Research and extension, Technician Support
staff, Agriculture Department, Animal Department, Aquatic Department,
Environmental Department, Marketing and Communication Department. This
Board is trajectory of CARD program.

4. Board of Finance will support the capital of loan to the farmers
through Rural Cooperative Bank. Scholarship and disasters program will
be also handled by Finance Board.

V. CARD WORK DONE 1998 - 2010
In 1998, CARD has initiated enabling to give awareness training (eco-
agri- technology) in four townships from 1998 – 2009. The bio-farming
technology adapted from ARI (Japan), SEARSOLIN and CLSU (Philippine) CAP
(Thailand), GSM (Thailand), ECCD (Thailand), KARAMOSIA (Japan).
Small amount Grant: CARD assisted sanitation to 6 villages, made 80
miles virgin car roads digging, 9 pharmacy store; 4 villages for food
bank, day cares 10 out of 173 villages. To assist Nargis and famine in
the Chin State 2009 - 2010
Publication: CARD published in Title of (Farmer’s Hand book) Agriculture
assistant technologies volume I, II, III and Future Disease, today’s
food; CARD had public 4 series of VCD for ecological awareness song
avocation. Japan embassy grant us Lungcuaipi Water supply in Thantlang
township, Chin State 2000. And Lautu Minihydro Electric production.

V. FUTURE CARD TEN YEARS PLANNING 2012 - 2022

The Category and scheme of the project Term and Services; First Term
2012 – 2017:
1. Practically, identify to emphasize needs and priorities integrated
sustainable consumption and production to promote poverty livelihood in
2012.
2. CARD program: Transform and demonstrate poverty life in on farm and
off farm technology training program start on Demo farm 2012 – 2015 yrs.
3. Reduce shifting agriculture program, and environmental concern will
extend in Chin State from 2015.
4. Promote activities of networking initiate strongly from 2012.
5. Loan or Micro credit fund raising strongly handles for implementing
Farmers project and grant fund moderately.
6. Marketing; Information, education, communication and advocacy
development: media, News, TV, Video, and Advertisement promote marketing
inland and out land institution for farmer cooperative.
7. In 2012 - 2017, the CARD will reach the operational self sufficiency
and local capacity team building participation group will have
developing sufficient competencies on the farmer organizational
activities in human right promotion on grass root level.
8. Second Term 2018 – 2022: CARD will establish small business plan
(Cooperative) for Food Processing; Democratic orientation of Finance,
Technology transfer empowerment community to actively involve and
elaborate in CARD implementing of organization and management.

a. Implementation of Local Organization called village Loan and grant
scheme responsible to the management of funds, and the decision making
for democratized financial technology extension services.

b. Self management committee and Loan committee are appointed by Board
of Management and extend to regional and Commune level

c. This program will have opportunities Social Institute to continue
third term beyond 2022.

VI. THE STRATEGIES:
Board of Taskforce; Main goal as social change: Slowly reduce
traditional way of shifting agriculture to replace permanent Terrace
system ensure proofing life and food security for long year and
Technology transfer, Capability Development, Institution Building,
Community Resources.

On Farm: Land Extensive;
1. Train farmers, formal or informal technology of agriculture, domestic
animal, aquatic, vocational workshop and tissue culture in
demonstration farm.

2. Irrigation management, soil management, bio-fertilizer management
techno guide.

3. Cereal ; Corn, millet, rice, wheat, tomatoes, peanut, sesame flowers,
potatoes, sweet potatoes, sweet sorghums, kinds of vegetables, onion,
garlic, pine apple, Banana etc.,

4. Beekeeping project: Plant native Cheery, orange, and memu for the
food of Bee or honey production.

5. Grafting project; Grape, Mangoes, Orange and tomatoes and Apple,
others, etc.

6. Agawood for long terms planning project

7. Tissue Culture Project: kinds of orchid, trees and mushroom etc.,
8. Teak plantation project

Off farm:
1. Agro-industries and Agro - Service

Environment
1. Protect topical forest, replanting valuable and precious trees etc.

2. Preserve animals, fishes and birds in forest and rivers.

3. Bio-fertilizer project: Conduct waste management both urban and
rural,
(recycling, Boghasi, verming, backyard compost, Carbon liquid, Juice
fertilizer and Gas from decompose of farm and animal waste; recreation,
reduce water and air pollution, and promote tourism. Against Chemical
Antiseptic.

Capacity Building & Infrastructure
1. Domestic Vocational Training Programme; eg: Food security &
food saving, mineral shampoo & soap, wine & Juice , Social
service, Enterprise & entrepreneurs of business plan workshop,
small building of road, bridge, sanitation, pharmacy store, school
repair, small mini-hydro and small inorganic fertilizer factory and,
others

Animals & Aquatic
1. Dairy farm for milk and meat production etc.
2. Piggery farm, Goat farm and Mythun farm etc.
3. Poultry & quail etc.
4. Fish pond & others etc.

Marketing:
1. Cherry Co-limited: Promote marketing for the farmer.
2. Information, Education, Communication and Avocation,
3. Audiovisual and publication, Media, News, advertising

Rural Bank
1. Loan for Micro credit through Rural bank system is the best strategy
of CARD approach to significantly empower and strengthen farmer’s income
and economic energy improving projects.

2. Promote student education through loan,
3. To Assist natural crisis and disasters

VII. At Present Processing Project
CARD processing project under the following:
1. CARD process register to the Government.
2. Cherry Cooperative L.td registers process.
a. Shampoo and Soap production
b. Grape wine production
c. Environmental Awareness VCD volume IV.
d. Plan Bio-fertilizer factory project
e. Plan Demonstration farm project
f. Plan Phaphe virgin plain soil 800 hectares project
g. Raise fund for Rural Bank

Continues Strategies of Good Seedling Contribution
a) Good Seedling for Nursery bed: Menu, Cherry, Orange, Agawood, Teak,
Wa Oa, (Kinds of Orchids.
b) Plant Tissue culture include mushroom
c) For Grape planting (Good seed) support
d) Biogas plant from manure and every waste
e) Grafting Tomatoes and other trees
f) Give awareness of Natural Pest management.

VIII. SOCIO-ECONOMIC STUDY

 CARD will highly contribute the development of community acceptable
science of (environmentally, socially and economically).
• To promote bio food security and processing.
• To promote living standard of marginal Poverty
• To Promote good seed: (agriculture and animals)
• To facilitate raw materials for Agri-business
• To promote marketing feasibility.
• To enhance global Warming reduce program.
• To reduce deforestation and soil degradation.
• To reduce incidence of hunger and malnutrition
• To promote Education among the Chins.
• To promote employee and income and GNP
• To improve clean and green environment
• Keeping standard nation’s dignity.

IX. CONCLUTION:
• Strong issues: Research, Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and feedback
within handle strict policy.
• Bio-fertilizer factory Project.
• Rural bank or Micro credit loan for local farmers’ fund.
• Train farmers, technology of ecological agriculture and Domestic
livelihood vocational programme and workshop.
• Promote Marketing (Cherry Co.ltd)
• Promote from Agriculture to agri-business beyond 2022.

CARD Looking for net working, Linkage, Partner and Donors:

I request you application form of Japan Embassy aid for rural development in Myanmar


Sincerely

Dr. Hrang Kil
Director
CARD.
Hrang Kil
Fri, 26 Aug 2011 06:41 EDT
Project
Dear Sir regard this we are the organization of Community Association for Rural development. Humbly request to you If you will with us to eradicate poverty in Myanmar we are a agency of the community. Office address is No. 347 Boyoke streed , Yethyit Hakha in chin state. I want to know your assist global aid Myanmar. I am happy that to know your program. I will waiting your information and with project form for aid.

sincerely

Hrang kik
Director
CARD

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