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French: associations d’usagers

English translation: users' associations



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French term or phrase:associations d’usagers
English translation:users' associations
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Social Sciences - International Org/Dev/Coop
French term or phrase: associations d’usagers
La contribution de la FAO pourrait être requise pour permettre la prise en charge des aspects relatifs à l’amélioration qualitative et quantitative de la production, à la formation et l’accompagnement des exploitants / **associations d’usagers** et des jeunes aux techniques culturales, fourniture des intrants, etc.; au suivi et évaluation de la production / des rendements /des prix, à la gestion des ressources en eau et à l’appropriation de l’ensemble du processus par les exploitants/associations des bénéficiaires, étant en majorité des jeunes.

Context: creating jobs. I'm a bit confused with this one in the context of the sentence. Later in the para there is exploitants/associations des bénéficiaires..
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juliebarba
United Kingdom
users' associations
Explanation:
Could be water users' associations (as there is a mention of water in your sentence) or it could be more general. The idea is that it is an association of people who use a particular service (there's a Rail Transport Users' Association in the UK, for example).
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Angela Dickson
United Kingdom
Note from asker to answerer
thanks for this. I double checked on the internet and found various example within the context. Thanks for the other answers too.
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Summary of answers provided
3 +7users' associations
Angela Dickson
4consumers' associations
Diane de Cicco
3user communities
Michael Tovbin


  

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user communities

Explanation:
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Michael Tovbin
United States
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in RussianRussian
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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +7
users' associations

Explanation:
Could be water users' associations (as there is a mention of water in your sentence) or it could be more general. The idea is that it is an association of people who use a particular service (there's a Rail Transport Users' Association in the UK, for example).


    Reference: http://www.southernrailway.com/main.php?page_id=129
    Reference: http://www.wca-infonet.org/servlet/CDSServlet?status=ND0xMjQ...
Angela Dickson
United Kingdom
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Note from asker to answerer
thanks for this. I double checked on the internet and found various example within the context. Thanks for the other answers too.
Notes to answerer
Asker: ah thanks for the suggested explanation. I couldn't quite see what it was doing there, but it's true that there's plenty of talk of various infrastructures in the text...


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Alana Quintyne
3 mins

agree suezen
42 mins

agree AllegroTrans
1 hr

agree jeny
1 hr

agree rufinus: or 'user associations', depending on the country.
2 hrs

agree sporran
8 hrs

agree sktrans
8 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
consumers' associations

Explanation:
more usual than users' association,I think

Diane de Cicco
France
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 12
Notes to answerer
Asker: Hi Diane. I did think of this one after the other answers, although it feels odd given a setting of extreme poverty...but thanks. I think this would normally be more correct, although I'm not sure for this case

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