Dinara Eshimbetova is a wife and mother of five who lives in the south of the Kyrgyz Republic. Her eldest son has just turned 20, while her youngest child is only 3 years old.

The job market is very limited in rural Kyrgyzstan, so both Dinara and her husband work as subsistent, smallholder farmers. However, their land plot was originally too small and their crop too limited to meet the immediate needs of their rapidly growing family. Even when Dinara applied for a pro-poor state-provided cash benefit, she was still not certain of her family’s tomorrow.