Tegh Boarding Community now has Access to Irrigation

The bordering village of Tegh in Syunik province is the Urban Foundation’s next destination where it successfully concluded another project. In the spring, with the start of the irrigation season, an additional 337 hectares of previously barren land will be irrigated. As a result, 390 households – many of them displaced from Artsakh, will have the opportunity to increase their incomes by transitioning to high-value crop production.

This project is a remarkable example of productive collaboration among the donors mobilized by the Urban Foundation. The contribution from the UNDP GEF Small Grants Program helped reconstruct the regulation basin of the irrigation system and install solar panels for generating electricity to operate the pumps. Additionally, funding from the EU, received through the Embassy of Lithuania, facilitated the construction of the pumping station.

In its turn, the USAID Improved Water Management Program also contributed to the project by providing energy-efficient pumps, and flow meters.

This mobilization has enabled the community to undertake this ambitious and costly project and secure state budget contributions, which form the basis for much of the funding. The impact of the project cannot be overstated for the social and economic welfare of the bordering community of Tegh which has hosted hundreds of displaced persons from Artsakh as a result of tragic events of the recent years.