IRSP in

2014

Message of the Executive DirectorIt is a proven fact that WATER is crucial for the human race and stands second to AIR for the survival of mankind of this PLANET. Nature has reserved sufficient water in a system known as “water cycle” and clearly revealed in the QURA’NIC injunctions. Similarly; many HADITs are available that purposefully guides the human beings for safer and intelligent use of water not only for themselves but also for other living organism including agriculture and other purposes.

Analyzing and reviewing IRSP’s fourteen years extensive experience in the field of WASH services provision and contributing in the sector reform initiatives; we have learnt that the WASH need is increasing day by day with uncontrolled and speedy population pressure. IRSP believes that WASH has become a global challenge and the world is increasingly supporting the developing and under developed countries since decades to reach the MDG’s goal set out for the sector by 2015, but still the world is far behind to reach its goal.in this scenario, if we look the situation in Pakistan; the sector is in the worst condition and the statistic shows that approximately, 40000 children die every year due to

water borne and sanitation related diseases. Resultantly, the country is spending billions

of rupees every year on diarrheal and other diseases caused by unsafe drinking water and poor sanitation. Similarly, every family is forced to spend more than 40% of its income on similar diseases.

.In general perception, in developing countries, the term WASH

(Water,Sanitation,Hygiene) is only limited to water provision and even the safe drinking water is given less attention, hence, half of the population of the country has still no access to safe drinking water. The other sub sector i.e. Sanitation and hygiene is either totally ignored or partially considered only in urban cities while in rural areas zero investment/spending can be seen in these two sub-sectors.

Thus, the world need extensive support to the countries facing challenging situation in sub sector issues and at the same time these countries need to give priorities to the sector issues by formulating

policies, sector assessment and allocating appropriate budget in ADP’s with equity services distribution.

Looking back to the previous year’s makes me a more proud person to be a part of the development processes ranging from sector reform initiatives, policy formulation, capacity building initiatives extended to govt officials, INGO’s, national NGO’s and contributing in the international and national networks like, FANSA, FAFEN,END WATER POVERTY and many more..

Reflecting on the year of 2014, I am greatly satisfied and proud with highest performances of my strong team and professional management who have successfully accomplished all the set targets and projects in the remote areas of KPK including IDP’s of south and North Waziristan settled with local communities and structured camps set ups, south PUJAB and FATA. The team, working shoulder by shoulder with the communities and partner organizations and govt line departments to overcome barriers and obstacles to achieve the targets set jointly with the funding agencies.

Here it is of highly importance that the services and efforts of IRSP have been recognized and appreciated by star impact award 2014 runner up category for WASH in Asia pacific region. The award has been granted to Mr. Shah Nasir Khisro ED/IRSP by the former US president Mr. Bill Clinton in London on December 13, for improving access to wash services and education in the most remote regions of Pakistan. The award is 50000 USD which is going to be spending in the education sector in close collaboration with education department of KPK. I, again really appreciate the ever tiring efforts of the team behind all these success and the credit goes to the team for their everlasting efforts and struggle by bring improvements in the lives of the most disadvantaged and poor communities of the Pakistanis’ society.

We are committed to continuously striving for enhanced improvements and betterment in the lives of the disadvantaged and most neglected communities of Pakistan by variety of interventions and program/project developments through establishing long term strategic partnership with reputable donor organizations and govt.

Last but not the least, I strongly appreciate and recognize all the partner organization’s contribution and believe that without their support, IRSP would have not been able to serve for the cause of communities.

My greater attributes goes to all my colleagues, communities, govt and partners.

Syed Shah Nasir Khisro Executive Director

Contents

Message of the Executive Director .........................................................................2

Poverty Alleviation through Community Empowerment Participatory Development (PACE-PD) .........................................................................................4

Rehabilitation of Drinking Water Supply after Flood 2010 Phase-II Year 2014 .....7

Addressing Water and Sanitation challenges of IDPs and host communities at District Bannu .........................................................................................................9

The Citizen Engagement for Social Service Delivery Phase-III .............................12

Community Based Disaster Risk Management in the selected union councils of district Charsadda of KP, Pakistan .........................................................................13

WASH Early Recovery for Conflict Affected Families in Bajuar ............................19

Supporting Transparency, Accountability and Electoral Processes in Pakistan- STAEP .....................................................................................................................20

Long Term Election Observation and Oversight Project (LTEOOP) ......................23

Sanitation Program at Scale in Pakistan ...............................................................26

Integrated Regional Support Program ..................................................................32

Poverty Alleviation through Community Empowerment Participatory Development (PACE-PD)

Poverty Alleviation through Community Empowerment and Participatory Development (PACE-PD) project’s major thrust is on restoring and strengthening resilience of communities through social mobilization and community empowerment. It also includes capacity building of line departments and service providers for enabling them to meaningfully contribute to the development process and to set the area on path to success.

While passing through challenging circumstances, the project team successfully managed to implement the agreed activities within stipulated timeframe. During the reporting period (Jan-Dec, 2014) Stakeholders’ and Program Planning Workshops were conducted, the workshops were planned to seek broader support from community and stakeholders as the project methodology depends heavily on involvement of local community and lays emphasis on local ownership and providing localized solutions to the issues. In order to seek a solid understanding of pertinent local issues and overall living status of indigenous communities, necessary data was collected through secondary sources, from relevant line departments and development partner organizations like; NRSP, NCHD, SAPP etc.

Similarly, Baseline Survey (BLS) was conducted in the 4 targeted Union Councils, which provided added information to the project management about service delivery status, access of communities to basic resources, the available infrastructure and socio-economic status of the target groups etc. Based on the findings through primary and secondary sources, detailed UCs and villages profiles were developed as bench mark for future planning.

Replicating the RSP’s model, “bottom-up approach” was adopted by formation of 612 Community Organizations (COs), including 254 women COs at community level. Office Bearers

(Presidents and Managers) of each CO were nominated by the COs’ members. After formation of COs, 3-days Community Management Skills Training (CMST) was organized. A detailed Training Manual in Urdu was developed to keep uniformity in processes and equipping the SOs with required reference information. In addition, handout material was also developed for the CO members and 3-Days trainings were organized by constituting clusters of 12-15 neighboring COs.

In total, 48 CMSTs including 24 women COs’ trainings were held for enabling the participants (Office Bearers) to have clear understanding of their roles and responsibilities, mostly related to record keeping and preparation of COs’ profiles. Total 1,118 individuals participated in the trainings. The methodology used for training was,” Learning by Doing”. In consonance with the “three–tiered” project approach, the members of COs were further motivated to work on formation of Village Organizations (VOs).

women LMST.

Youngsters (both male and female) from local community were engaged in developmental and co-curricular/recreational activities. 3 volleyball matches were arranged among three UCs; Gadola, Kachi Shahani and Sial for male youngsters. In UC Dhandla cricket match was organized for young male members. For females 2 events of Millad, Quiz Programme, with stalls and cultural shows were organized in UC Gadola and Kachi Shahani.

Four Trainings for service providers on project related themes including Gender, HIV&AIDS, Natural Resource Management and Disaster Risk Reduction were conducted for improved and sustainable service delivery in the target UCs.

The project activities like regular follow-up meetings with COs, interaction with line departments, service providers and development partners are serving as driving force for the effective and efficient implementation of the project. Over the past few months, the project staff developed linkage with service providers like; NADRA, 1122 (Rescue Team), Punjab Education Foundation (PEF), Health Department Outreach Teams, Water Testing Laboratory etc.

Public function

Community’s linkages were strengthened with service providers through holding three meetings. Since the project interventions are spread over four UCs, hence three meetings with service providers were arranged at district level keeping in view the availability and accessibility of the communities and service providers.

At the inception stage it was felt that no adequate coordination mechanism exists among development partners, which possibly may lead to gaps and overlaps, both geographical as well as sector wise. Hence with the help of District Coordination Officer, NGOs Forum at district level was constituted with the basic objective of sharing information pertaining to achievements and any upcoming projects in the district. Similarly, the project engaged the local as well as national media for highlighting socio economic issues and promoting project activities.

Major Achievements of the project in 2014

Community mobilization and formation of 3-tiers mobilization system

During the reporting period, the major thrust was on soft component like raising awareness among communities for collective actions, through community mobilization as to establish and pave the way for establishing 3-tiers mobilization system. Since IRSP field team is local and well-aware of the area, ethnic groups, norms, values and to some extent the civic amenities available, hence the team members were posted in the UCs where they had some acquaintances. All teams were asked to visit each UC jointly and collect information with special reference to the influential and activists.

Exposure visit to Swabi

This exercise geared them up to motivate the communities for getting organized in the form of CO. The role of activist was very pivotal. Corner meetings were held through activists that were followed by mass meetings both in male and female segment of the communities. The meetings were generally organized for 25-30 households. It was explained to the communities that CO is the first tier which would lead them to VO and LSO. The communities were motivated and convinced to form the CO. Once the consensus was developed among the community members for collective action, CO was formed. Since future development depends on the homogeneity and uniformity of the members of the CO, hence repeated visits, discussions motivation are the integral parts of the process. By no means is the process compromised.

Therefore, there is no hard and fast timeframe to constitute one CO; however, the underlying principal is to follow the process. The composition of CO was adult members of 20 to 25 households residing in the same Hamlet/ Mohallah. The members of CO were encouraged to elect/select their President and Manager on their own. Same approach was adopted throughout the target UCs. As per project design IRSP was required to constitute 600 COs (roughly 150 COs per UC) however IRSP constituted 612 COs. The reason being that there are certain communities who move out for labour (cotton

Rehabilitation of Drinking Water Supply after Flood 2010 Phase-II Year 2014

The project ‘Reduction in water borne diseases through Rehabilitation of Drinking Water Supply in Khyber- Pakhtunkhwa applied a two- pronged approach which included i) providing access to safe drinking water and ii) creating awareness amongst the community about basic sanitation and hygienic water use and storage practices. The project was funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and implemented by Integrated Regional Support Program (IRSP) and by Jobs International Private Limited (JIPL).

Training of health staff at Bannu.

The project targeted different groups at all levels of the community with its sensitization program me and maximized use of funds by reaching a wide group of beneficiaries. Young children and their parents were the primary target audience, while religious leaders, teachers, parent teacher councils (PTCs), Lady Health Workers (LHWs), hospitals/Basic Health Unit (BHU) staff, community support persons, shopkeepers

and medical store owners/managers were the secondary target audience. In the behavior change (‘soft’) component, the team targeted the neighbors of the well owners (one participant per HH) in addition to the well owners. The training of other community members, such as shop keepers, LHWs, BHU staff, religions people and community resource persons (CRPs), was conducted in order to ensure the sustainability of the project messages beyond the end of the project.

At the school level, teachers of classes 3 and 4 at the public and private primary schools were targeted. They conducted interactive sessions with their students in order to promote water safety and hygiene. This multi-pronged approach ensured that various effective channels were utilized appropriately to reinforce key messages related to well protection, water treatment, water storage, handling and hand washing, for each targeted population.

In the rehabilitation activities, 2,000 domestic dug wells were rehabilitated along with improvement of household latrines in order to reduce fecal contamination of wells from latrine and septic tank. Pre and post water quality analysis was performed to identify the effectiveness of the intervention.

Project Impact

Survey results indicate that medical expenditures of households significantly decreased at the end of the project. Sharp increase in access to clean drinking water was reported by 83% of the communities –from a mere 2% at the inception of the project.

The number of protected dug wells increased to 73% from a starting level of 4%. A similar, marked increase was observed

picking, wheat harvesting or for manual labour to Jhang and Faisalabad). Out of 612 COs there are 254(42%) women COs. Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) were signed with COs. The roles of President and Manager was clearly defined and provided to them in written form.

The process for forming the VOs has also been completed during the reporting period however these organizations will be constituted during the month of January 2015. The VOs will get trainings and the LSO will be formed till mid of the April 2015 and their registration process with social welfare department will be initiated.

Facilitate experience sharing among community-based organizations through arranging Manager Conferences

For experience sharing among communities four Managers’ Conferences were held representing all the four UCs. UC Gadola organized this event at Conference Room of Government Post Graduate College Bhakkar on 18th November 2014. There were 22 Managers/Activists from Union Council, while from the Government Sector representation from Livestock, Public Health Engineering Department, Health Sector (Outreach Teams) and Irrigation Department was made. Representatives from COs (Managers and Activists) had major concerns about livestock, Sanitation and Irrigation Channels. Dr. Mohammad Aamir from livestock responded to many queries of the participants especially the reduction in the number of available livestock due to certain prevalent diseases. Responding to questions regarding irrigation channels the Agriculture Extension Department’s officer Malik Muhammad Riaz told that presently no budget in available for the construction of irrigation channels.

However, when the budget would be allocated, the desirous community would have to organize themselves and contribute their share. Most of the participants were having basic awareness on safe sanitation. When the PHED’s Sub Divisional

Officer Chaudhary Abdul Ghafoor told that certain schemes of sewerage and drainage are allocated through MPA/MNA. He warned the communities that open defecation is the major threat for health and safety of the local community. One of the participants said that construction of household latrines is very expensive and every household is unable to construct it. He further requested the PHED’s officer that if they could assist the community in designing certain low cost household latrines. PHED representative responded that low design varies from area to area depending on the soil and water table. He promised that one of their representatives would visit them and design the HH Latrine according to the time available.

Engage youth in the development process by arranging co-curricular/recreational activities

In the project area, IRSP organized 6 events of recreational activities for the local young generation. Although youth participated in mass meetings and CO/VO formation, yet well thought out exclusive co-curricular activities for youth were planned. In the rural communities the most popular game is volleyball, therefore, for male youngsters, volleyball matches were arranged in three UCs while in UC Dhandla a cricket match was organized. Announcements were made through loudspeakers, posters and displaying banners projecting EU Logo. At the same time the commentator repeatedly projected EU support for this event and appreciated to bring together youth for some health activities. For the winning team shields, souvenirs and cash prizes were awarded

In the rural set up, females are confined only to family gathering or some religious festivals. It is very rare that they get an opportunity for any other social gathering. When our female staff shared with the women for arranging certain recreational activity, it was highly commended by the female segment. In consultation with females 2 events of Millad, Quiz Programme, tableaus and sort of completion in establishing different stalls and cultural shows were organized in UC Gadola and Kachi Shahani.

No. UC NameNumber COs

Total COs Percent of Total COsMale Female

1 Gadola 93 63 156 25.49

2 Sial 85 65 150 24.51

3 Kachi Shahani 90 64 154 25.16

4 Dhandla 90 62 152 24.84

Total 358 254 612 100

Addressing Water and Sanitation challenges of IDPs and host communities at District Bannu

In order to ensure the availability of safe drinking water to the IDPs and hosting communities, 378 water sources were cleaned and shock chlorinated during the project. 20 water sources were tested prior to the process while 80 were tested after shock-chlorination. A total of 13,293 IDPs and 13,998 individuals from hosting communities were benefited in the target district.

75 household water treatment and hygiene sessions were conducted in the community where 791 members from IDPs and 783 from hosting communities were trained.

118 technical staff members from WASH cluster, PHED, TMA and FDMA were trained on disinfection in emergencies and use of WATA kit for chlorine production. The training was very useful to enable service providers to perform disinfection in emergencies.

4,000 copies of IEC materials regarding household water treatment, safe storage of drinking water and best hygienic practices were developed and distributed among the target audience at district Bannu.

Objectives of the project:The objectives of the project were as follow:

• Cleaning, disinfection and testing of water sources at IDPs hosting communities

• Capacity building of IDPs and host communities on household water treatment and safe storage

• Capacity building of Service providers working on water disinfection in emergencies

• Target Area: The project was implemented at three union councils of district Bannu where the prime target was IDPs while hosting population was also benefited directly through the intervention.

Project Outputs: • 378 Communal, household, water sources at schools, IDPs

households and public water supply schemes in hosting areas cleaned and disinfected. 100 sources out of them were tested, (20 pre and 80 post-tests).

• 75 Hygiene promotion sessions carried out highlighting water quality, storage and safe consumption

• 1,574 Community members trained on household water treatment techniques and hygienic practices

• 118 PHED and TMA staff on water quality testing and disinfection of water sources in emergencies and involved in shock chlorination

• The public water supply schemes were chlorinated by involving PHED and TMA staff

Project Activities: To achieve the project objectives following activities were carried out during the project period;

Disinfection and cleaning of water sources:

The community members were sensitized on the process of shock chlorination before starting the activity. During the project, 378 water sources were cleaned and shock chlorinated at household as well as community level. HTH was used for the disinfection and shock chlorination while the dewatering

for usage of safe containers (cooler) where prevalence rose from 8% to 65%. At the start of the project only 25% of the people believed that it was necessary to treat water to make it safe for drinking, whereas by the end of the project 74% reported that they believed it was necessary to purify water prior to drinking. About 93% of the respondents in the survey have claimed to have started using soap after project interventions and 86% claimed awareness of the benefits of air-drying. Improvement in water quality was one of the main indicators of the project; and the data show that the ratio of safe water sources increased from 17.52% (before rehabilitation) to 52% within seven to nine months after rehabilitation.

The analysis of bacteriology after wells rehabilitation revealed that 80% of sources were safe after two months of rehabilitation. However, the ratio decreased to 62% after 4-6 months and 52% after a 7 to 9-month period following rehabilitation. This indicates that community members had not completely adopted the practice of protecting wells and safe handling of water sources at levels sufficient to maintain the status of water quality. This was one of the indicators that would likely have benefitted from longer-term project duration. Overall, a greater number of projects focusing on WASH-related behavior change should be designed and implemented all over Pakistan to help to save lives and achieve MDGs.

Individuals Trained in Awareness Activities in Year 2014:

No. ActivitiesYear 2014

Targets Achieved

1. Teachers 81 125

2. Students 1,345 2,524

3. Schools 35 71

4. WWDs & GHWDs 4 4

5. PTAs oriented 35 35

6. Schools follow ups 35 35

7. SODIS video dis 35 25

8. Religious leaders 61 61

9. CRPs 40 43

10. Female sessions 100 120

11. Male sessions 50 55

12. Shopkeepers 134 136

13. LHWs 40 43

14. HH follow ups 200 200

15. Medical Stores 31 32

Rehabilitation Activities Completed in Year 2014:

S.# Activities Target Achieved in Year 2014

1 Wells rehabilitated 2,000

2 Well cleaning and chlorination 2,000

3 Latrines repaired/constructed 129

4 Water quality tests conducted before rehabilitation 450

5 Water quality tests conducted after rehabilitation 975

6 Community meetings/sessions conducted 65

was performed after 8-24 hours. Water sources at community, schools and common places have been given priority due to their importance.

After shock chlorination, dewatering was carried out and free residual chlorine level was analyzed. The sources were handed over to the community and the owners after making sure that the free residual chlorine level has dropped down to 0.2-0.5 mg/l.

Social Mobilization and Hygiene Promotion:

The community was trained on household water treatment and adaptation of best hygienic practices. 75 community sessions were conducted in the target areas where 791 IDPs and 783 participants from hosting community. 4,000 Booklets regarding best hygienic practices and household water treatment were distributed during the community sessions.

Pre and Post Bacteriological Analysis:

Pre and post bacteriological analysis were also performed in order to analyse the improvement of water quality in the target area. During the project, 20 water sources before and 80 after cleaning and shock-chlorination were tested for bacteriological analysis.

During the analysis it was observed that 60% of water sources were contaminated before cleaning and shock chlorination while the ratio reduced to 7.5% after shock chlorination.

Training of Service Providers:

To ensure the provision of safe drinking water, technical staff of PHED and TMA was trained on water disinfection in emergencies and use of WATA kit for chlorine production. Three trainings were conducted at Bannu where 91 participants were trained while a 2-days TOT was also arranged at Peshawar a total of 27 participants were trained. The training in Peshawar was arranged for the sub engineers and sub divisional officers of PHED and TMA, technical staff of NGOs. The main purpose of the TOT was to enhance the capacity of the participants to further perform the activities in practical and train other technical staff as well.

One-day training on chlorination and use of WATA kit was for the tube well operators of PHED and TMA in order to use WATA Kit in the field for chlorine production and perform chlorination.

WATA kits were already provided to PHED by the TMA so the training was very helpful to them in order to use the kits in the field for chlorine production.

Outcomes achieved

The project intervention aimed to minimize the ratio of water borne diseases in the IDPs and host communities at district Bannu. For achieving the desired goal, IRSP with the financial support of SDC started the project by improving access to WASH facilities in the target area. The project

was implemented in two pronged approach of hard and soft intervention. Provision of water and sanitation facilities in schools, communities and health facilities were followed by training of community members, school teachers, health staff and PHED officials on water quality and disinfection. For the successful execution of the project, PHED, Health and education department were involved in the activities.

To ensure the sustainability of the project, the community members, school teachers and health staff was trained on the operation and maintenance of the installed water sources.

Unlike other developmental and long term projects, it is hard to observe the overall impact of the project due to the short period of intervention, however pre and post KAP survey was performed to analyse the efficiency of the intervention.

Project impact:

The post KAP survey shows that medical expenditures of households significantly decreased at the end of the project. Sharp increase in access to safe drinking water was reported by 89.3% of the communities –from a mere 38.9% at before the project.

At the start of the project only 39% of the people believed that it was necessary to treat water to make it safe for drinking, whereas by the end of the project 79% reported that they believed it was necessary to purify water prior to drinking. About 71% of the respondents in the survey have claimed to have started using soap after project (56% hand washing practices before the project). Improvement in water quality was one of the main indicators of the project; and the data show that the ratio of safe water sources increased from 20% to 94% after the intervention (the season may also affect water quality, the project was started in monsoon and ended in winter).

Rehab latrines RHC Domail

According to the end line KAP survey, 89.3% of the target IDPs families were satisfied with the quantity and quality of water. The increase in quantity of water further lead to better sanitation and improved hygiene as 15% increased observed in the hand

washing practices in the target communities (56% hand washing practices before while 71% after the project).

The end line KAP survey reveals that 89.9% of IDPs and host families were disposing-off human excreta safely by provision and rehabilitation of hygienic toilets in the targeted areas. 72.68% of the population was not using latrine and practicing open defecation.

The incidence of water and sanitation borne diseases were minimized by educating IDPs and host families, according to health data the ratio of water borne diseases decreased by 17% observed in the target areas by the end of the project. The ratio of water borne diseases was 27.4% before the project which reduced to 10.5% at the end of the project.

44% of the target population was practicing household water treatment methods while the ratio was 10.7% before the project. 71% were practicing hand washing and improved hygiene.

The services providers were also trained on water quality,

treatment of water and cleaning of storage tank by using chlorine compounds. During the project 200 of the TMA and PHED staff was trained while 12% of them were practicing chlorination in the field.

The project intervention not only facilitated men but also women in the communities at district Bannu. The software and hardware intervention in the schools of both genders, health facilities and in the community facilitated men, women and children equally.

The improvement in the sanitation facilities at girl’s schools was highly appreciated by the community as the access to this facility was very poor in the targeted schools before.

The rehabilitation of water supply schemes not only increased access to safe water at door steps for women but also saved time which they were spending for fetching water from neighbours. In this way the women can spend more time to maintain personal and domestic hygiene to take better care of their families.

Following are the figures of well cleaning in different villages of the above districts;

S# District Union CouncilNo. Of Villages

# of Sources Chlorinated

# of Sources Pre-Tested

# of Sources Post-Tested

Beneficiaries (IDPs)

Beneficiaries (Hosts)

1

Bannu

Domel 8 120 7 30 6,357 6,885

2 Kakki Khel 4 198 6 41 3,292 2,168

3 Mamash Khel 8 60 7 9 3,644 4,945

Grand Total 3 20 378 20 80 13,293 13,998

Beneficiaries from hygiene sessions:

S# District Union Council No. Of Villages # of Sessions Conducted Beneficiaries (IDPs) Beneficiaries (Hosts)

1

Bannu

Domel 8 25 280 230

2 Kakki Khel 4 35 418 405

3 Mamash Khel 8 15 193 148

Grand Total 3 20 75 891 783

The Citizen Engagement for Social Service Delivery Phase-III

The Citizen Engagement for Social Service Delivery (CESSD, Phase III project), operating in 11 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Province works at the community, district, and provincial levels to strengthen service delivery across KP in the education, health care, and water supply sectors. The project’s goal is to improve the quality of basic social services in KP and increase access to and use of these services, particularly by girls and women.

CESSD project progress FY 2014-15:• One-day PTCs orientations were held with each PTC

on government mandated roles and responsibilities of PTCs for 176 Parent Teacher Councils in selected PTCs in consultation with district education department. (Girls Schools were 87 & Boys Schools were 89).

• Total 13 Mothers’ groups were formed in boys’ primary schools in the light of the PTC guidebook.

• 44 events of Four-days trainings on roles and responsibilities, financial management, PTC record keeping, School Improvement Plan (SIP), Primary Education Quality Standards (PEQS), raising awareness of the PTCs on corporal punishment for 89 male PTCs & 87 female PTCs were held.

• 80 General Body Meetings of 80 different PTCs were conducted in which progress, planning and challenges to PTCs were discussed and action plan were developed.

• 18 events of two-day training on Gender and education for male PTCs & female PTCs were conducted in which total of 176 PTCs were trained.

• 18 events of Two-Day trainings on Social Accountability (Right to public service, right to information) for newly

selected 87 female PTCs and 89 male PTCs.

• Conducted a six-month adult literacy course for 21 mothers’ groups.

• Facilitated and coached 80 PTCs for the preparation and implementation of School Improvements Plans (involving mother groups).

• 76 UC level PTCs Networks were developed and 10 circle level PTC Networks were established through PTC election.

• Best PTCs Annual conference were conducted in Islamabad.

• Community Forum were conducted through networks at district level.

• 2 Events of One-day training on revised role & responsibilities of PTCs were conducted for old selected 15 male PTCs & 15 female of years 2011-12

Community forum at GPS Mir Akbar killi Mardan

Community Based Disaster Risk Management in the selected union councils of district Charsadda of KP, Pakistan

Community Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) was an innovative project, implemented by Concern Worldwide Pakistan through funding by OFDA, in flood affected provinces of Pakistan (2011-2013.)

In the province of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa (KPK), Concern Worldwide-Pakistan (CWW-lead partner) & Integrated Regional Support Program (IRSP- Implementing Partner) implemented the Community Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) program aimed at improving the disaster risk management capacities and strategies of poor and vulnerable communities and other key stakeholder in 16 flood affected union councils of district Charsadda through sustainable preparedness and increased institutional capacity. Major activities completed under the CBDRM project:

• Participatory risk analysis and development of 16 Union Council (UC) level DRM Plans,

• Community mobilization,

• Awareness raising and capacity building,

• Provision of emergency contingency stocks,

• Advocacy for the integration of DRR in development processes.

Training and capacity building of the local human resource is an essential part of the CBDRM program at all levels i.e. beneficiaries, partners and program staff.

Advocacy events were held with the government, community and CSO. Under the project build capacities of stakeholders ranging from community mobilization & awareness raising on CBDRM/DRR to the trainings of CBDRM facilitators & 286

members of 16 union councils level DMCs and 814 members of 16 union councils level ERTs members on specific skills based on the needs. Trainings of the 805 local school teachers on DRR/CBDRM were also held to ensure disaster risk management at the school level. Particular emphasis was given to the capacity building of all the DRM structures/stakeholders (DMCs, ERTs, teachers etc.) on disaster management, group dynamics, conflict resolution and leadership skills to ensure their longer term sustainability and development.

243 flood mitigation schemes were completed under CBDRM (135 De-siltation schemes, 56 protection walls & Protection walls, 42 RCC culverts & 10 new drains). These are benefiting 249455 people ( 49891households). Cash for work (PKR 2622844) was provided to total of 2083 local skilled and unskilled labours, total of 6382 men-day of temporary employment were generated locally.

The mitigation measures increased the safety of beneficiaries and infrastructures. It also facilitated them in easy and timely carriage of housing reconstruction materials from city/nearby markets at their villages. Technically the schemes designs and construction met quality standard and local needs. The local community was involved in all stages of physical work etc.

IRSP exit strategy was developed for CBDRM and final meetings with the DMCs, DCO, other concerned departments and NGOs working in the area were held and list of schemes and list of DMC & ERT members were provided to relevant government counterpart.

Activities:

Community Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) Training for CBDRM Facilitators:

Concern Worldwide arranged two weeks training for 5 IRSP facilitators. The training was facilitated by Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre (ADPC) because NDMA recommended and certified their trainings for the CBDRM programming in Pakistan.

Development/Adaptation of training/IEC materials on DRM:

IEC materials were designed to provide information about the disasters risks, disaster risk reduction measures and used as a tool for the community awareness raising. The IEC materials were developed in the local language and keeping in view the local culture and hazard situation of district Charsadda.

Community Mobilization and Awareness Raising Sessions on DRR/CBDRM:

Community mobilization and awareness was an integral part of the CBDRM program to sensitize and prepare the local communities to actively participate in DRR/CBDRM activities in their respective villages/UCs.

There were 60 mobilization meetings conducted in different locations of 16 union councils.

Participatory risk analysis and development of UC level DRM plans:

The activity of Participatory risks was carried out in 16 union councils to determine the nature, scope and magnitude of negative impacts of hazards on the community and locations that were most vulnerable. The methodologies and tools used were hazard/risk mapping, historical timelines, seasonal calendars, focus group discussions, analysis, observation, transect walk, action planning tables. Those DRM plans were handed over to Disaster Management Committees (DMCs) & District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA).

Following the risk assessment, the facilitators facilitated the communities in developing 16 UC level DRM plans.

The steps that were followed in developing a UC level DRM

plan are as follows:

• Listing of identified hazards (during risk analysis) according to priority and listing of problems associated with the identified hazards

• Discussion on priority problems and setting of objectives to address each problem

• Identification of risk reduction measures/activities and persons/groups responsible to address these problems

• Identification of resource requirements for the implementation of preparedness and risk reduction measures (from available resources of community and required from external sources)

• Setting the timeframe for the completion of activities

• Setting up the monitoring mechanism to track progress on activities.

16 UC DRM plans were printed, and copies were provided for dissemination among the DMCs and relevant government stakeholders. The hazard map of each UC was displayed (on a metal signboard) at a prominent place within the UC for sensitisation of communities.

UC level DRM plans were linked with tehsil/district level DRM plans of the government. Linking of the UC level DRM plans with the tehsil/municipal/district DRM plans for institutionalization of the UC level DRM planning and link the communities with the tehsil/district/provincial and national authorities. For further speedup of information flow to the community level (particularly early warnings), the DMCs were provided mobile phones, pocket radios (FM/AM) and megaphones for the UC level DMCs, as part of the stockpiles.

The program aimed to strengthen linkages between government institutions (NDMA/PDMAs/DDMAs, District Governments, and Tehsil Municipal Administrations etc.) and UC level DMCs to help increase disaster preparedness at the local level. Linking of UC DRM plans with the upper tiers (tehsil/district) will also help UC’s to access external resources to carry out the risk reduction measures identified during DRM planning.

Formation and training of UC level Disaster Management Committees (DMCs) in basic disaster management skills:

During the UC level DRM planning, communities in the target 16 UCs were facilitated to establish 16 UC level DMCs for DRM related responsibilities in their respective UCs. Each of the 16 UC level DMC had 15 members, with representation from all the villages in the UC – including CBOs and local government representatives present at the UC level. At the very outset of the program, DMCs members were provided CBDRM training. This enabled them to carry out essential risk management tasks in their respective UCs. IRSP facilitators build the capacity of the UC level DMCs on topics such as coordination and communication during emergencies, basic damage and need assessment, relief distribution, DRM planning including evacuation and early warning mechanisms. DMCs were responsible to disseminate weather updates/flood early warnings (from NDMA/PDMAs/DDMAs, PMD & local government administration) to their respective communities.

In 19 trainings total 286 (including 86 female members and 220 male) members of 16 DMCs were trained under the program on the above mentioned topics.

Trainings were coordinated with relevant government line departments and local DDMA representatives were involved in the process.

Training of UC level Emergency Response Teams (ERTs) in basic emergency response skills:

During the UC level DRM planning communities were facilitated to establish 16 UC level Emergency Response Teams (ERTs) to undertake primary emergency response activities in case of any disaster within the UC. Each of the UC level ERT consisted of 50 members with representation from all the villages in the UC including representatives from the UC level local government and CBOs. These ERTs were trained on first aid, search and rescue, damaged need assessment (DNA) and emergency response, relief distribution for the ERTs to equip them with the essential skills to respond in case of emergencies. In total 814 members (including 80 females & 734 males) of 16 ERTs were trained.

Training of local school teachers on disaster preparedness/ DRM:

IRSP’s CBDRM facilitators provided training on disaster risk management to the school teachers in the 16 target UCs. From each target UC, 50 teachers were trained - in total 805 (303 female teachers & 502 male teachers) in 16 DRM trainings were trained under the program. Teachers’ trainings were coordinated with the education department, school management and DDMA of district Charsadda.

243 schools were targeted in Disaster Risks Managements trainings across 16 union councils of district Charsadda.

Provision of emergency contingency stocks (tools and equipment) at the UC level:

Essential tools and equipment were provided to 16 targeted DMCs in order to equip communities to undertake emergency response and mitigation activities. The contingency stock items were useful for search & rescue, first aid, firefighting and receiving / dissemination of information/early warnings. DMCs were assisted to ensure proper documentation and record keeping of the emergency contingency stockpiles. Details of the stockpiles were shared with district authorities and DDMA.

Advocacy (workshop/meetings/seminars) for the integration of DRR in development processes at district level:

Advocacy events (meetings, workshops and seminars) were arranged at UC, tehsil and district levels to highlight the importance of integrating DRR in the district level development programs.

Flood Mitigation Schemes:

The mitigation schemes included De-siltation of blocked drains; Culverts, retaining walls & protection wall. Those mitigation schemes were requested by community through proper resolutions followed by technical & social feasibility. The progress was regularly shared with district government in soft and hard copies.

135 schemes of de-siltation of blocked drains were completed in different locations of 16 union councils. these De-siltation schemes were coordinated with TMA of Charsadda and other related organization to avoid duplication of schemes.

243 mitigation schemes were completed in CBDRM (135 De-siltation schemes, 56 protection walls & Protection walls, 42 RCC culverts & 10 new drains). These are benefiting 51343 people (49891households). Cash for work (PKR 2622844) was provided to total of 2083 local skilled and unskilled labors, total of 6382 men-day of temporary employment were generated locally.

The mitigation measures increased the safety of beneficiaries and infrastructures. It also facilitated them in easy and timely carriage of housing reconstruction materials from city/nearby markets at their villages. The team visited different schemes locations in villages. Technically the schemes designs and construction met quality standard and local needs. The local community was involved in all stages of physical work etc.

Provision of training for effective operation and maintenance of schemes

Operation and maintenance trainings were provided to 49 members of infrastructure committees and at the end, schemes were handover to relevant DMCs members. As mitigation schemes nature were such that it did not involve technical capacity for O & M, still project committees were briefed on the importance of clearing drains so that water flow does not block.

Final monitoring visit was paid by CWW’s staff (engineer, M & E and project officer) to IRSP field area in district Charsadda, to assess the achievements of CBDRM project outputs & outcomes. Their findings were encouraging and their feedback on part of the IRSP was that it had improved their work up to a greater extent in sense of site selection and incorporating the project proposal conceptual thoughts to the schemes on ground. KPK team has really made great efforts in successful implementation of the project.

IRSP exit strategy was developed on basis of final meetings with the DMCs, DCO, other concerned departments and NGOs working in the area were held. IRSP has completed 106 schemes out of 106 target schemes Sign boards were installed for visibility of infrastructure schemes. CWW team visited d DMC UC Utmanzai, DMC MC-2 and DMC UC Tarnab. During visit and meeting with DMC members and it was observed that satisfaction level of DMCs members was high, all the sites for schemes were purposefully selected and the retention level of the knowledge gained by DMC members was satisfactory.

Muster rolls were physically verified.

Muster roll of entire Cash for Work schemes & Trainings and acknowledgments were randomly collected by the CWW team and verified physically in field.

42 culverts were constructed in different locations of 16 union councils for which request were forwarded by community.

56 protections and retaining wall were constructed on the request of community.

10 new drains were constructed for smooth flow of flood waters upon the request of community followed by technical feasibility.

Project Sustainability and Lessons Learned:• An important aspect of the CBDRM approach is the

capacity building of the local communities to design and implement activities and measures to reduce disaster risks, based on their needs and capacities.

• It was empowering process where communities led the process and IRSP/partners acted as facilitators and supporters of the process.

• The program encouraged and assisted communities to establish/strengthen UC level committees to meaningfully engage in disaster risk management in a sustainable fashion.

• IRSP and its partners assisted the communities through training, mentoring, joint planning, implementation and monitoring as well as logistic and operational support.

• This support ensured that the community structures are capable to mobilize resources and continue their mandates. Enhanced capacity of the community structures and other stakeholders will ensure that results achieved by the program are sustained and built upon beyond the program’s duration.

• Rigorous mobilization and follow up is must for community participation/success of the project. Structural mitigation should be part of CBDRM Project for better results. Security prone area Shabqader could not have been included in project. Less technical support in project beginning stage.

• As shared by Concern partners that for such projects

Participants of DMC, ERT & Teachers Trainings

Project/ Result/Activity: Unit Overall Targets Overall Achievements

Total Mitigation structures constructed/Repair Schemes 244 244

New RCC Culverts constructed Culverts 40 43

De-siltation of Drains Schemes 89 135

Retaining wall/Protection wall constructed. Schemes 56 56

New Drains Constructed Schemes 10 10

Number of Benefitting household from Mitigation schemes HH 51344

Number of O&M trainings Trainings 16 16

Summary of Mitigation Schemes in below table:

S. No Activates Targets Achieved

Direct beneficiaries

Indirect Beneficiaries Remarks

1Teachers Trainings

800 805 805 303 female & 502 male teachers

2Disaster Management

Committees285 286 286

66 female DMC members & 220 Male DMC

members

3Emergency Response

Teams800 814 814 80 female & 734 male ERT members

4O & M Training 49 49

49 project committee members

5 Mitigation Schemes 51344 51344 219860

Direct beneficiaries of 243 mitigation

schemes (de-siltation, culverts, protection

wall & drains) were 51344 individuals

6

Number of participants

in Advocacy seminars,

workshops and meetings150 211 211

150 participants target and 211 participated in

advocacy seminars & workshops.

detailed orientation of the staff in start of the project by DRR advisor and other relevant staff will help in satisfactory implementation of the projects.

• As DRR is a cross cutting theme of Concern strategic plan, so for better results on ground Concern should build the capacity of technical staff on priority basis.

WASH Early Recovery for Conflict Affected Families in Bajuar IRSP is currently working for the promotion of peace through WASH in Bajuar Agency. IRSP with technical and financial assistance of IRC is providing WASH facilities to 40 Community Based Education Centers (CBECs) at Bajuar Agency that are already established by the another education partner of IRC named IDEA. Total duration of the project is 24 months (July 2014 to June 2016)

Details of the achieved target of the project are as under,

• At the inception of the project, project opening workshop was conducted in which people from different fields of life including NGOs, local community, Teachers, Political administration, media and elected representatives participated in order to have a clear picture about the project and for effective implementation of the program.

• Pre KAP survey conducted in 38 target villages and CBECs to have a clear understanding and knowledge of local WASH practices.

• A total of 35 DWSS will be constructed for provision of safe drinking water facility to the school going children. For the purpose 7 DWSS were constructed till date.

• 120 permanent latrines will be constructed (three stance latrine per CBEC) for proper disposal and adopting best sanitation practices. 7 CBECs were provided with the sanitation facilities by constructing 21 latrines.

• 02 Cleanup Campaign in collaboration with agency municipal corporation were conducted, at village (CBEC) Zaga Dheri and GGP&MS Civil colony in which all the children, TIJ, WMC members, Teachers and Influential participated in order to insure the cleanliness at CBEC and surrounding areas on self-help and sustainable basis.

• 38 Water Management Committees were formed for smooth implementation of the hygiene promotion activities and their capacity would be further strengthened by imparting training for the sanitary inspection and bacteriological water quality test and disinfection of rehabilitated water sources.

• A total of 34 Children Environmental Committees (CEC) were formed in order to ensure children participation and promoting good hygiene practices with in the locality.

• 04 Hand Washing Points were constructed for provision of hands washing facilities plus developing the habit of hand washing at critical timings.

• A total of 29 pre water quality test of water sources conducted till date.

• A total of 148 Health & hygiene promotion sessions in CBECs and Community on the hazards of open defecation, best hygiene practices, prevention of water borne diseases, personal & environmental hygiene and hand washing with soap at critical timings etc. are conducted in local language.

• Global Hand Washing Day, World water day and Sanitation day were celebrated with school going children, community and member of WMCs.

• With the onset of spring in 2015 IRSP in collaboration with Agency Forest Department carried out a tree Plantation Campaign in 14 CBECs and one government girls school. 1100 plants of indigenous species were planted.

• IEC material Designed & Printed and 331 IEC materials distributed among the students, teachers, TIJs and Community members in order to sensitize them for adopting good hygiene practices.

Detail of health & hygiene sessions

No of Total Sessions No of Male Sessions No of Female No of Boys No of GirlsBeneficiaries

Male Female Boys Girls

14849 47 28 24 1233 967 1005 1279

Supporting Transparency, Accountability and Electoral Processes in Pakistan- STAEP

Building on the successes of the Foundation’s 2006-2008 “Support for Free and Fair Elections in Pakistan” Program, the Foundation proposed a follow-on program to capitalize on the gains of the 2008 Pakistan General Elections and consolidate progress towards transparent, accountable governance under civilian rule. To this end, the Foundation proposed a 30 months long “Citizen Action for Electoral and Democratic Progress in Pakistan” program for enhancing the effectiveness of government in addressing the critical challenges now facing Pakistan by increasing citizens’ participation in ensuring transparency and accountability. The program was expected to address the long-standing weaknesses in the nation’s democratic environment through making the Elected Representatives (ERs) responsive to their constituents, enhancing electoral reforms and citizen’s participation in democratic processes, improving civic education on democratic rights and responsibilities, building media capacity to report on democracy and governance themes and enhancing FAFEN’s capacity to operate as an independent civil society network. Keeping the fruitful results of the intervention in mind, the Foundation in February 2011 proposed to expand program’s outreach from 150 to 200 constituencies of national assembly including Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) along with extension to project life from February 2012 to June 30, 2013.

After the program close out, once again the extension has been given to complete the remaining work throughout the program and to strategize some new ideas for the future planning. Extension phase has begun from mid December 2013 for six-month period till mid-June 2014. After the receipt of Letter of Agreement from TAF, IRSP carried out the recruitment process as per guidelines from TAF and recruitment policy of IRSP. Selection of Program Manager and one District Coordinator was made on the basis of relevant experience with Free and

Fair Election Network (FAFEN) in every position from 2007 till date. Soon after the recruitment of staff, an orientation meeting was conducted by FAFEN on December 23 & 24, 2013 and for the first time, heads from the member organizations were also invited to attend and participate. Along with other member organizations from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, IRSP attended this meeting at Shelton Guesthouse in Peshawar. Both, the Program Manager and Executive Director of IRSP actively participated particularly, in the planning session for STAEP extended phase.

For further capacity building of the staff on activity reporting, a training workshop was held on training modules and FOPT for STAEP staff at Peshawar to identify FOPT related issues and to make efforts for resolution of these issues.

To strengthen and reactivate District Governance Group (DGG) in the District and Provincial Governance Group in the Province to tackle basic issues of the community and to engage with Provincial Government for the resolution of governance issues.

• As mentioned in above paragraph that the very first activity of the extension phases was, Organizations’ heads and Program Mangers orientation meeting held soon after the recruitment of Program Managers for FAFEN member organizations Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. This orientation meeting was arranged by FAFEN secretariat to familiarize about targets, outputs and activities during the extension phase.

• After the recruitment of District Coordinator FAFEN secretariat arranged the second training of Program managers, District Coordinators and Finance Officers on reporting modules and FOPT on Monday January 06, 2014. This training aimed to understand the best way and to ensure timely submission of activity reports on

FOPT. Program Manager and District Coordinator actively participated in the training and identified and discussed some issues related to FOPT.

• Soon after the training, IRSP prepared and timely submitted indicative activity plan for the extension phase as approved with some suggestions. Though Election related activities are suspended, regular activities like governance advocacy, CNIC and Voter registration campaigns, engagements of CRGs and District Governance Group (DGG) and capacity building of both the groups in constituencies and District level are going on to meet the results.

• Before moving to the field, one-day training and orientation meeting was arranged on January 20, 2014 as planned in the training plan for sharing STAEP extended period outputs, activities and planning. Manual for District Coordinator training was prepared and designed by Program Manager and gave it manual’s shape after approval from TAF.

• Preparation for District Governance Group reactivation and Orientation of CRGs regarding the extension phase of STAEP, three meetings were held respectively with each and every CRG. In this connection

o 1st meeting was held with NA-10 Mardan II Constituency Relation Group on January 23, 2014 and elected 3 members for DGG.

o 2nd CRG meeting arranged with NA-09 Mardan I and elected 7 members for District Governance Group

o 3rd meeting arranged with NA-11 Mardan III Constituency Relation Group on January 27, 2014 and 6 members were elected as members of District Governance Group.

• Total number of 17 members promoted and selected for District Governance Group (DGG) training for extension phase.

• Prepared and approved DGG training manual by Program Manager followed by District Governance Group (DGG) training held at IRSP Office on January 28, 2014.

• A meeting was conducted with Assistant Election Commissioner District Mardan Mr. Ijaz Ahmad Awan for local bodies’ election plan and delimitation of union councils of District Mardan on January 17, 2014 at Election Commission Office Mardan. Due to some complaints on delimitation process from some political parties it was not shared with District Coordinator.

• A meeting with NADRA officials was conducted to discuss regarding one identified low CNIC registration pocket and requested for MRV to facilitate unregistered citizen of Sawal Dher Tehsil Katlang Mardan.

• District Coordinator prepared three issue briefs and designed campaigns on selected governance issue to educate, mobilize and engage the citizens with public

institutions and elected representative and also for changing their own behavior towards many issue.

• During the extension phase, overall 6 issues came under discussion which includes 3 issues from the previous quarter while 3 new issues were identified, analyzed and targeted for advocacy. This include variations in market prices and quality, Right to Information, 2 in Education, Election related issues.

• Identified low CNIC registration pockets during the extension phase for facilitating unregistered communities especially women in their door step in District Mardan. The target that was given to IRSP in CNIC facilitation was 225 CNIC have to facilitate in the extension phase from December 2014 to June 2014. IRSP team facilitated total 522 unregistered eligible people in which 109 Male and 413 females were facilitated during taken to NADRA and MRV on Location.

• During the extension phase mobilization meetings were held with the communities for identifying unregistered voters and their facilitation for new registration with ECP. Total 50 unregistered voters facilitated during the extension phase.

• Potential candidates were identified, profiled and trained on Local Government Act and responsibilities during the election. Total 241 potential marginalized candidates trained during the extension phase to participate in the upcoming Local Government Election. The candidates were also engaged in the campaigns for the demand for local government election.

• Citizen Conventions were also held in every Tehsil of District Mardan during the extension phase for building pressure on provincial government to hold immediate Local Government Elections under the Act for Local Government Elections in Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa. After Citizen Convention in three Tehsils of District Mardan, a letter was sent to Chief Minister and one copy to Provincial Election Commissioner Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa along with media campaign and demanded for immediate holding of LG elections.

Overall impact of the project:As a result of 4 years of extensive working experience over democratic governance related themes, it is convinced that none of the other sectors are so much important than the interventions highly desired for strengthening the culture of democratic governance at institutional level for making Pakistan as prosperous and developed country. Supporting Transparency, Accountability and Electoral Processes in Pakistan (STAEP) was one the unique approaches adopted for promoting and strengthening transparency, accountability and electoral process within public as well as elected institutions. Activities under this program were designed for promoting greater citizens’ participation in governance and democratic processes that will ultimately bring transparency and accountability at institutional level as citizen engagements with institutions at all level is key to the performance of institution. I appreciate those

who designed STAEP program as under this program, citizens on one side got the opportunity to closely observe the existing culture of governance within public and elected institutions while on the other side, it provided a forum where they can raise their voices and a forum where they got guidance to influence the duty bearers for performing transparently.

Keeping the outputs under STAEP in mind, I would say that the program was quite successful in achieving its results. STAEP has successfully contributed in filling in the gap between citizens and public institutions as well as between citizens and their elected representatives. STAEP was successful in identifying active citizens, building their capacity and facilitating them in their engagement with public institutions and with elected representatives. The presence of active citizen groups in each constituency and their level of engagements with public institutions and elected institutions are the glaring examples. They are identifying their constituency based and district based issues, raise it with authorities concerned as well as making allies for supporting their caus. They are seeking information of public importance, furnishing RTIs, conducting meetings with public and elected officials and are raising people’s awareness on civic and democratic education.

Although, STAEP was successful in achieving its objectives, but,

to achieve its goal i.e. “ensuring more effective, transparent and accountable governance that addresses the critical challenges facing Pakistan today” still a lot of continuous interventions are needed as Pakistan still faces crises of governance. The essential pillars of good governance, including rule of law, accountability and transparency are trampled upon by corrupt and incompetent duty bearers. Unfortunately, since the creation of this country no serious efforts have been made to ensure accountability and transparency translated into effective mechanisms/systems leading towards true democracy and good governance.

It is therefore, recommended that continuous interventions are needed to keep the existing culture of citizens’ engagements alive. More programs are needed and more resources are required to be allocated to this sector. Similarly follow ups of the existing structure in the form of CRGs, DGGs and PGGs are very much crucial for making them active and alive.

Long Term Election Observation and Oversight Project (LTEOOP)

The Long Term Election Observation and Oversight Project (LTEOOP) was completed on December 31, 2013 as per the actual contract but it got extension in January for next four months i.e. January 1, 2014 to April 30, 2013 with some modifications and revision in its scope of work. In its extension phase of LTEOOP, IRSP has to conduct consultative meetings and workshops over six thematic areas, selected for Electoral Reforms and Advocacy. IRSP carried out these activities in all the three National Assembly’s Constituencies of district Mardan namely NA-09-Mardan I, NA-10-Mardan II and NA-11-Mardan III.

This report covers all the activities and efforts being done under the extension phase of LTEOOP, which include consultative meetings with citizens from each National Assembly’s Constituency (NA), consultative meeting with university level students, consultative meetings with district level leadership of five political parties, consultation with multi-stakeholders and last of not the least, district level press briefing.

All the activities went successful. The participants everywhere and in each consultation, recorded live participation and it was observed that they took keen interest in the topics and themes selected for consultation. Although, there came some petty challenges while arranging some of events but overall the activities went smooth as per the plan.

Summary of the activities being held in the ex-tended phase, is given below:

Consultative Meeting with Citizens of NA-10-Mardan II:The 1st target group under LTEOOP project was consulta-

tion with constituency based citizen and in this connec-tion, IRSP started this series of constituency based consul-tations with citizens from National Assembly Constituency NA-10, Mardan II. The activity was conducted as per the work plan and the procedures followed for this activities include consultation with key informants of the constitu-ency, finalization of date and venue for consultation, fur-nishing invitations to proposed participants, follow up the participants for confirming their participation. This activ-ity was conducted on February 06, 2014 at Sher Garh Pub-lic School, Hari Chand Road, Sher Garh, NA-10, Mardan.

Consultative Meeting with Citizens of NA-11-Mardan III:IRSP conducted second consultative meeting with the citi-zens of NA-11, Mardan-III on February 12, 2014 at Rustam area, one of hubs of constituency. The meeting was ar-ranged and conducted by following the strategy applied in the first consultative meeting.

Consultative Meeting with Citizens of NA-09-Mardan I:Third consultation meeting was conducted in NA-09-Mar-dan-I, on February 20, 2014. While arranging this event, STAEP colleagues were also consulted for ensuring partici-pations of active citizens. This meeting was attended by members of District Governance Group (DGG) and Con-stituency Relation Group (CRG) beside other participants.

Consultative Meeting with University Students:This was the 2nd target group to be consulted over the thematic

areas. While preparing work plan on FOPT, this activity was planned on February 27, 2014 and I initiated arrangement processes for holding this activity as per plan. While arranging the said event, I furnished permission letter to Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan and held meeting with Chairmen of Political Science and Sociology Departments where I noted that formalities involved in University’s procedures will not allow me to conduct this activity till April, 2014. I made visit to private institute where, students of Master Degree were studying. The meeting was successful and they welcomed our program. In meeting, we finalized March 8, 2014 for the said event which later on, the college administration changed to March 07, 2014. In this connection, this activity was modified twice and was finally conducted in the month of March, 2014.

Consultation with Political Parties:The 3rd target group for consultation was five prominent political parties of the district where I made field visits for arranging consultative meetings with political parties and in this connection, I conducted consultative meetings with five political parties of district. As there were more than five political parties in the district, therefore, I selected those political parties who either has prominent role in the field at district level or has close observation over the elections of May, 2013. In this connection, I selected the following political parties:

• Awami National Party (ANP): ANP remained in power for five years in the province.

• Jumaat-e-Islami: JI is in coalition with PTI in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as a result of May 2013 General Elections

• Jameat Ulma-e-Islam (Fazl-ur-Rehman Group): Part of Federal Government and remained in provincial government in the past

• Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaf (PTI): Ruling Party at Provincial level.

• Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N): Ruling Party National level

Multi Stakeholders’ Consultative Meeting:The 4th target group for consultation was multi-stakeholders and to this end, I conducted consultative meeting of multi stakeholders. Consultation with multi stakeholders was the second last activity. As compared to other activities for consultation, this activity was a bit heavy in terms of participants as well as in term of importance. More than 50

participants from different sectors, including women, attended the event. The activity was conducted in the first week of April while the preparatory process was initiated in the beginning of the last week of March which include finalization of venue, selection of participants, and invitation to the participants and follow up visits to different locations/offices. Some of the key stakeholders were visited in person during and after distribution of invitation letters. I also furnished invitation to those active citizens who were involved with us as CRG/DGG members. Members from senior management of IRSP were also invited to attend the event.

District Level Press Briefing:

The last activity under EU-LTEOOP extended phase where we had to update both the electronic as well as print media about the consultations, had been done with election’s stakeholders as well as about draft recommendations of FAFEN.

In the preparatory stage for this activity, formal letter was furnished to President of the Press Club for confirming date, time and venue. In this connection, I also held meeting with general secretary of the press club for discussing about the participants to be invited for this event. During this meeting, it was decided that the event will be conducted as per date, time and venue, already shared with them. The meeting was started as per schedule and was attended by 22 participants from print and electronic media. The participants were given brief introduction about FAFEN and EU-LTEOOP’s activities during pre-election, post-election periods as well as activities conducted during its extended phase that include consultative meetings with citizens, students, political parties and multi-stakeholders. During this briefing, the participants were informed about the issues with recommendations proposed by election stakeholders during consultative meetings.

A glimpse of the activities, being implemented against plan, is given below in the tabulated form.

Sr.# Name of Activity

No of activities planned

No of activities implemented Date of Activity Venue of activity

No of participants

Consultation with Citizen of NA-101 1

Feb 06, 2014 Malakand Road, Sher Garh20

Consultation with Citizen of NA-111 1

Feb 12, 2014 Buner Road, Rustam30

Consultation with Citizen of NA-09.1 1

Feb 20, 2014 GHS, Landaki, Guli Bagh28

Consultation with University Students1 1

March 07, 2014ANSI College, Nowshera

Road, Mardan 29

Consultation with Political Party (ANP)1 1

March 05, 2014Residence of ANP’s Ex-

President 6

Consultation with Political Party (JI)1 1

March 13, 2014City Office of Jumat Islami,

Mardan 10

Consultation with Political Party (JUI)1 1

March 18, 2014Office/Madrassa, General

Secretary, JUI-F 11

Consultation with Political Party (PTI)1 1

March 21, 2014 IRSP Head Office7

Consultation with Political Party

(PMLN) 1 1March 27, 2014 District Office of PML-N

2

Consultation with Multi-stakeholders1 1

April 03, 2014Executive Club, Sheikh

Maltoon 52

District Press Breifing1 1

April 15, 2014 Press Club Mardan22

Sanitation Program at Scale in Pakistan

Purpose of this intervention is to ensure the safe disposal of human excreta and creation of open defecation free environment at community level along with the safe disposal of liquid and solid wastes as well as promotion of health and hygiene practices at community level which is the primary focus of National Sanitation Policy and contribution towards meeting the millennium development goals (MDGs).

Main expected results as per the approved Country Program Document and Country Program Action Plan (CPAP) or United Nations Development Assistance Framework Action Plan (UNDAF-AP).

BCC Campaign- 1 in Schools:Children are called as the change agent and considered very effective medium to promote any sort of message for achieving set objectives. That’s why project SPSP deeply focus on school children and designed event for schools’ children as a part of campaign 1 and SLTS. To utilize school children and teacher effectively, IRSP already build a strong coordination with school children and teachers in every of its target area’s school, where wash club is a forum which help to disseminate the health and hygiene messages to other school children. So far IRSP got very good results of its school intervention. Children are more conscious about their health as compare to other family members and they are enthusiastic to deliver the received messages. Therefore, children learn health and hygiene lesson and penetrate into the community where they deliver such messages to their peer groups in village (playground) and madrasas and to their other family members at home.

Keeping in view the effectiveness of this activity, IRSP in Campaign-1 has reached to all schools in target areas. In schools IRSP conducted BCC Campaign -1 activities such

as quiz competition, poster competitions etc. Apart from campaign-1 activities, IRSP formed wash clubs in 41 schools, conducted SLTS and developed event calendar through wash club in all target schools, conducted monthly meetings of wash clubs and facilitated school wash club members to participate in their village PRAs.

People (men, women, boys, girls) reached with demand creation for sanitation messages

The project SPSP is divided into four main Campaign which is Campaign 1 for demand creation, Campaign 2 for technical education, Campaign 3 for hygiene promotion and campaign 4 for sustainability. Each of these campaigns further divided into four events such as event in schools, event at religious place, house to house event and event at community. Following the order of the designed project, demand for sanitation was created by conducting four events in all our 62 targeted villages in Mohmand & Bajaur Agency. Through these campaign events communities were targeted in schools, at religious places, in side house hold and at communal places through a series of activities to inform/ aware people about the need for sanitation and safe drinking water. Different event was arranged to raise sanitation demand in schools through SLTS and campaign events. BCC campaign 1 is comprised of the following four events:

The project SPSP is divided into four main Campaigns, which were launched at all the targeted village. These four campaigns are below:

• Campaign 1 for demand creation

• Campaign 2 for technical education

• Campaign 3 for hygiene promotion

• Campaign 4 for sustainability

Each of the above campaign is further divided into four events, which were conducted at all target villages. These events were

• BCC Campaign-1 at school

• BCC Campaign-1 at Religious place

• BCC Campaign-1 at community

• BCC Campaign-1 at house to house (door to door)

According to project design, IRSP conducted 16 events in each target village. Campaign-1 related all activities have been finished in all target villages.

BCC Campaign-1 at Religious Place:Community ownership and involvement is vital in bringing change in community behaviors towards specific issues and also lead to sustainability. Like other tribal areas of FATA, the communities in Bajaur agency is religious minded and deeply influence by the religious people and give respect and weight to the sayings of religious people. It might be due low literacy rate, poverty and less exposure to the other developed areas of the country. Therefore, keeping in view the above fact, one event in each campaign will be delivered at religious place through imam of the mosque. Like minded religious imams of the mosques were identified in the early stages of the projects and they were convinced for the deliverance of project activities and themes in their mosques.

BCC Campaign-1 completed at religious places in 31 villages in Bajaur and 20 villages in Mohmand. In target villages still imams are delivering IRSP messages in Friday sermons and other prayers.

BCC Campaign-1 at Community:In order to achieve targets/ goals strong mobilization along with effective coordination/ collaboration between stakeholders including government and communities is required. Once the communities are provided with proper knowledge about the subject matter they can bring change in their lives. As a part of community, children are one of the important aspects of the community can help to lead the community towards achieving ODF status for the village and can eradicate the menace of unhygienic practices in all senses from their concern communities. The purpose of BCC Campaign- 1 event through community is to involve the entire community (male, female and children) in health and hygiene activities through awareness and to educate them about the diseases caused by poor sanitation and unhygienic practices and to realize them that they can get rid of all these ill practices through collective and sincere efforts.

IRSP has gone through BCC Campaign-1 at community in 31 villages in Bajaur agency and 26 in Mohmand agency.

BCC Campaign-1 at House to house (Door to Door):According to project SPSP, IRSP will reach out to 50,000 populations which include men, women and children through launching 4 campaigns while each campaign consists of 4 events. Among all four events of each campaign, house to house is one of the important events, actually design to reach out the women segment of the community inside home through LHVs/ LHWs for creation of sanitation demand and raising awareness among female about better health and hygiene practices and common diseases caused by poor sanitation in the area. Unfortunately, LHVs/LHWswere not available because of the strict tribal culture. Therefore, the initial structure of this event was changed and a new methodology was adopted. According to this methodology, the households will be divided into small group of male and they will be called and gathered at a place to preach about the theme of the event. They were also requested to convey these messages to their remaining family members in home especially the women.

IRSP has reached to its target of 31 villages in Bajaur and 26 villages in Mohmand in connection of BCC Campaign-1 at house to house (door to door) event and conducted many sessions in target villages.

Training events conducted for school teachers (men, women) on facilitating SLTSAccording to the designed project dire need was felt to train school teachers in the targeted areas which will not only strengthen the wash clubs in the schools but also help in to initiate its activities in smooth and timely manner under the supervision of these trained teachers. After a thorough consultation with the agency education department, 25 teachers and one education official were trained in 3 days training from both the agencies at Prang ghar in Mohmand and at tehsil Khar Bajuar. The 3 days training was held separately in both the agencies in the last week of May 2013.

During teachers training different sessions were delivered on sanitation, wash club formation and its role and responsibilities, sanitation ladder, PATs, CLTS, SLTS, SPSP and its concept methodologies and techniques to improve the participant’s understanding on subject. Furthermore, efforts were made to build a clear understanding on Wash club formation and its role in changing the behavior of the targeted community.

WASH clubs formed in schools and strengthened with planned follow up capacity development sessionsAfter teachers training SO initiated the process of formation of wash clubs in the schools of both tehsils. Till date 26 wash clubs are formed in 26 schools in Bajaur while in Mohmand12 WASH clubs have been formed before the schools were closed for summer vacations. All wash club members have

been briefed about their role and responsibility. In some of the schools SO started conducting hygiene sessions with the wash club members for their capacity building.

Training events conducted for social organizers on participatory tools and IEC material for facilitating PATS Social organizers successful using participatory tools and IEC material for facilitating PATS in villages according to developed criteria

Participatory Rural Appraisals (PRAs):According to the project design, IRSP will be responsible to conduct one PRA at each target villages. It is a multi-purpose activity where the community is gathered at one place and highlights their main problems and identifies its solution through their own participation. One of the main objectives of this activity to obtain the list of extremely vulnerable and vulnerable from the community through well-being ranking and also get knowledge of their peak busy months when they are involved in sowing or harvesting their crops through seasonal calendar. VSC is form in this process and baseline date of the village is gather during the PRA.

The main steps of the PRAs are:

• Introduction/ Rapport Building

• Social Mapping

• Pat Transact walk

• Pats Seasonal calendar

• Pat well- being Ranking

• Problem Tree

• CAP formation

A format for PRA/ baseline was developed for data collection in PRAs, so all the data about villages were collected on that format. The baseline data consisted of name of the village, tehsil name, population, number of households, number of health and education facilities, main sources of income, number of main shops including sanitary shops, the number of latrines, main crops, common diseases, waste dumping points etc. IRSP field team has completed all PRAs in its 57 target villages and approved its VSCs in the process of PRAs and collected information for PRA/ baseline data.

VSCs existing/formed and trainedVSC will play a significant role in sustaining the project in future, once the project time is over. As mentioned earlier that IRSP selected 31 villages in Bajuar and 29 villages in Mohmand for its wash activities, therefore 31 and 29in VSC were formed in Bajaur & Mohmand respectively.

Masons trained on sanitation construction and using their learnt skillsUNICEF has continued response to scale up sanitation, focusing on achieving an Open Defecation Free (ODF) environment through demand creation for sanitation, mobilization latrine construction, meeting needs for supply of sanitation materials at household level, Behavioral Change Communication and improved household water treatment in vulnerable rural communities. Once the community is triggered and they convinced for construction of latrines, the top most thing which we need there is trained mason who know how to construct the low cost latrines, ultimately fulfilling the demand of low cost latrines which is raised through the process of demand creation for sanitation.

Therefore, 140 Masons were identified from 31 villages through set criteria and then 4 groups of 35 Masons (35 in Nos.) in both the agencies.

It was made sure that both training places should be secure and easily accessible to all participant Masons. The two days’ mason training divided into two different components, one-day theoretical training and second day practically construction of demo latrine in one of the target villages. The objectives of mason trainings are:

• To build a pool of local Masons for latrine construction

• To build the skills of Masons in Low Cost Latrine Technology

• To divert the attention of Masons to Sanitation & its importance

• To alert the Mason about the opportunity in Latrine construction

• To Provide Mason the knowledge to get benefit from Sanitation related constructions

• To identify local Masons and link them with the local Entrepreneur and village sanitation committee (VSCs)

• To ensure the employment of Masons in low cost latrines constructed by community through demand creation

• To develop database of the Masons of the project target area i.e. tehsil Khar and Nawagai in Bajaur agency and tehsil Prang ghar in Mohmand

Entrepreneurs/manufacturer trained and producing low-cost sanitation solutionsThe seed of hope continue to be sown through health and hygiene promotion to reduce diseases like cholera and diarrhea. In this connection, IRSP is trying to reach the nock and corners of the targeted area to ensure the successful implementation of the project. According to project design once the community triggered then demand for low cost latrines will be raised and the community will expect to find the sanitary stuff at

their local sanitary shop if any. This is the reason that a two days Entrepreneur was arranged, and they were trained and motivated towards introduction of sanitary materials in their shop if they have other than sanitary shops. It is expected, once the community convinced through triggering that they need to construct low cost latrines at their home which is the ultimate solution to get rid from diseases caused from poor sanitation, then supply of sanitary material through entrepreneur will be ensured timely. The other thing which is very important that local mason will be linked with concern area entrepreneurs and mason contact number will be available with entrepreneur, so these contacts will be given to those customers interested in construction of low cost latrine. Total 50 entrepreneurs were identified from the project target areas and their training were arranged at Nawagai colony. The objectives of the entrepreneur training are:

• To build a pool of local entrepreneurs in sanitation

• To ensure sanitation material available at door step

• To enhance the skills of entrepreneur in Sanitation marketing

• To enhance the business tactics of entrepreneur

• To develop the interest of common entrepreneur in sanitation business

Advocacy initiatives undertaken with duty bearers/political leadership to support PATS Consultative meetings were held at both the agencies and provincial level with senior govt officials in which representatives from different departments like LGRD, Education, Health, PHED and Agency Administration participated. Report for the said events has already been shared with UNICEF.

MoUs signed by implementing partner with relevant public institutions responsible for sanitation

Villages jointly selected for PATS program by relevant Government duty bearers with IP

Villages were selected in consultation with agency administration. 29 villages in Mohmand & 31 villages were finalized. After joint selection of villages, detailed information consisted of general information of village i.e. village population, no. of households, no. of schools, no of medical facility, sanitation condition of the village etc. were collected of all targeted villages i.e. 29 villages of Mohmand agency and 31 villages of Bajaur agency having 50000 populations in each agency.

Inception workshops conducted in the beginning of project.

Villages with baseline established in the beginning of project by IP.

Schools Identification for wash activities:After selection and profiling of villages, The SO started

identification of schools in 31 selected villages of Bajuar where 26 schools were identified where 17 schools are located in tehsil Khar (including 3 girls’ schools) while 9 schools are located in tehsil Nawagai (including 3 girls’ schools). Among these 26 schools, 10 schools were selected (according to the need) for the provision of wash facilities. It is important to mention here that school children have a vital role in changing the opinion of community, so IRSP will conduct soft activities in all its 26 schools. Similarly, 12 schools were identified from 29 villages of Mohmand agency.

BCC Campaign 2 (Technical education):Same as Campaign-1 (according to the SPSP- Rural), Campaign-2 theme technical education is also divided into four main events, which has delivered successfully at the following places in all target villages:

• At school

• At Religious place

• At community

• House to house (door to door)

BCC Campaign- 2 (Technical Education) at schools:

Children are change agent and proven effective medium to promote any message for achieving set goals and objectives. Project SPSP mainly concern with the school children, that’s why gave them a vital place in project core activities and in all campaigns. Following the project design, a strong coordination network build by IRSP team with school teachers and children in the early stages of project implementation through teachers training and formation of wash clubs. According to expectation, school children being proved very effective in disseminating health and hygiene messages to their families particularly and to community (especially to their peer groups) in general.

Realizing the importance and effectiveness of the activity, IRSP in Campaign-2 as well has reached to all schools in target villages, where IRSP already formed Wash Clubs. In schools IRSP conducted BCC Campaign -2 activities of theme technical education such as low cost latrine design, practical demonstration of hand washing with soaps, boiling water by different sources through quiz competition, poster competition etc. Along with BCC campaign-2, IRSP also conducting activities of event calendar through wash clubs’ members and through general school children as well. Following are the detail of all the activities conducted in schools as a part of Campaign-2.

BCC Campaign-2(Technical Education) at Religious Place:

Community ownership and involvement is vital in bringing change in community behaviors towards specific issues and also lead to sustainability. Like other tribal areas of FATA, the communities in Bajaur & Mohmand agencies is also religious minded which is deeply influenced by the religious people, give respect and weight to the sayings of religious people (Mulla)

due to multiple reasons. Therefore, keeping in view the above mentioned facts, IRSP is delivering events (campaign-2) in the mosques of all the target villages with theme of technical education. Where religious leader further promoting SPSP project messages of low cost latrine technology, different methods of boiling water for drinking purpose and health and hygiene messages to community in routine prayers and Friday Sermons.

BCC Campaign-2 (Technical education) at Community:

In order to achieve targets/ goals strong mobilization along with effective coordination/ collaboration between stakeholders including government and communities is required. Once the communities are provided with proper knowledge about the subject matter they can change their lives accordingly. As a part of community, children are one of the important aspects of the community can help to lead the community towards achieving ODF status for the village and can eradicate the menace of unhygienic practices in all senses from their concern villages. The purpose of BCC Campaign-2 (technical education) events in the community, is to give them (male, female and children) the knowledge of low cost latrine technology, maintaining proper distance while constructing latrines from the water sources, drains direction which should be away from population, different methods of boiling water for drinking purpose, proper procedure of hand washing with soap etc. and to involve the entire community in health and hygiene activities and educate them about the diseases caused by poor sanitation and by their unhygienic practices in daily life.

IRSP has completed its BCC Campaign-2 activities in all its villages

BCC Campaign-2 (technical education) at House to house (Door to Door):

According to SPSP, IRSP will reach out to 100,000 populations which include men, women and children through 4 campaigns where each having different theme. Like other three above mentioned events, house to house event is also one of the important events which focus on to reach out the female of the community. As discussed in previous reports that house to house (door to door) was actually design to reach out the women segment of the community (inside home) through LHVs/ LHWs to raise awareness among female about better health and menstrual hygiene and common diseases caused by poor sanitation at house level. Unfortunately, LHVs/LHWs were not available because of the strict tribal culture. Therefore, the initial structure of this event was changed and a new methodology was adopted. According to this methodology, the households will be divided into small group of male and they will be called and gathered at a place to preach about the BCC campaign-2. The male was stressed to further communicate these messages to their remaining family especially the female who are restricted to stay at home.

IRSP has delivered house to house event (campaign-2) in

all its target villages.

As per project design, IRSP will cover 50,000 in Mohmand agency & 50000 in Bajaur agency population including men, women and children to protect them from the diseases caused by poor sanitation in 31 villages of tehsil Khar and Nawagai in Bajaur agency while villages in prang ghar tehsil of Mohmand agency. The above mentioned population will be reached through SOs and 70 CRPs.

To trigger the targeted communities using CLTS approach through CRPs, two batches of the CRPs were formed (tehsil wise) at both the agencies where each batch consisted of 35 CRPs each in both the agencies, were trained. Therefore, first Batch of CRPs were got training from 25- 27 October 2013 at Nawagai while the second Batch got training on 28-30th October 2013 at the same place.

The following two things were considered while selecting the venue for training:

•The venue should be secured from all aspects

•The venue should be accessible for all the participants

Therefore, on the basis on the above consideration for venue selection, APA colony Bajaur was selected for training in Bajaur agency and tehsil Tangi of Charsadda for Mohmand agency where IRSP took prior permission from the concerned authority.

BCC Campaign-3 (Hygiene Promotion)Hygiene promotion is the theme of campaign-3 which mainly focus to divert the attention of the community in target villages towards better hygienic practices, the only way to get rid of the diseases caused by poor hygiene especially polio, diarrhea etc. The efforts were made to promote hygienic practices at all level in the community and in schools.

BCC Campaign- 3(Hygiene promotion) at schools:

IRSP teams conducted campaign- 3 theme hygiene promotion in the month of December 2013 in the following schools. The purpose behind this was to equip all the targeted school children about the importance of hygienic life and the negative effects of un-hygienic practices at school and in home. Following is the detail of the activities and no. of participants:

BCC Campaign-3(hygiene promotion) at Religious Place:

Exactly like campaigns 1 and 2, in campaign-3(at religious place) the religious leaders (Mullas) were convinced and requested to delivered lecture on hygiene in routine prayers and Friday sermon. Surprisingly, religious leaders link hygiene with Islam in their lectures and stressed the community members to adopt hygienic lives which is the only way of avoiding diseases for their families and whole community because Allah like those Muslim who have follow hygienic practices in their lives.

BCC Campaign-3 (Hygiene promotion) at Community:

As discussed before that once the community is triggered through strong mobilization with provision of adequate knowledge about the subject they can bring positive changes in their lives, even they can motivate other as well. In BCC campaign-3 at community, IRSP social organizers tried their level best to promote hygiene at all level in the community. For this purpose, they met with the community elders, Maliks of the areas, teachers etc. and realized them that a healthy community is only come through better hygienic practices where the children are healthy and show tremendous performance in education and other activities and elder of the community live longer. IRSP SOs put emphasis on and motivated the communities towards achieving ODF status for their villages, will ultimately bring a prosperous life for them.

The details of activities IRSP teams conducted in connection to BCC campaign-3 at community level in the month of December 2013 are below:

BCC Campaign-3 (hygiene promotion) at House to house (Door to Door):

In BCC campaign-3, at house to house, IRSP teams conducted the following activities. The same methodology like previous two campaigns (1 and 2) but with different theme (hygiene promotion) was adopted here in campaign-3. There were 31 locations in 29 villages of Bajaur agency while in Mohmand 29 villages have BBC campaign completed.

BCC Campaign-4 (Sustainability):BCC Campaign-4 was started in the last month of the project especially when all soft and hard activities done in all the selected schools/villages and these target villages attained ODF status. The purpose of BCC Campaign-4 is to tell about sustainability to the target population. Unfortunately, schools were planned in Bajaur to close for winter vacations on 25th December 2013 till March 2014, therefore, we completed BCC Campaign-4 school events before school’s closure. In Bajaur agency 26 governmnet schools were targeted where 4025 children participated in those events.

In Mohmand 16 schools were targeted.

Mass Media Campaign for BCC:As street theater and other gatherings were not allowed which are/ were associated with media or show biz, therefore only two medias were used for behavior change communication. The print and electronic media were used for the above mentioned job in Bajuar and Mohmand agencies. The newspapers and FM channels were selected through vendor which have a large number of audience in the targeted agencies. Both the medias print and aired messages specifically tailored communication tools and messages.

LHV/ LHW Training: A training for LHVs/ LHWs on SPSP and PATS was held on 16th January at Prang Ghar BHU in Mohmand agency. Total number of LHVs/ LHWs were 30 whom were apprise of the following:

The training consisted upon plenary discussion, group discussion/work, group work presentation and role play. The presentation consisted upon history of Integrated Regional Support Program, introduction to Pakistan Approach to Total Sanitation (PATS), Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) and School Led Total Sanitation (SLTS) in the project, Role of LHV/LHW Member in project implementation, role of Village Sanitation Committees, Sanitation demand creation, role of Rural Sanitation Mart and Entrepreneurs in project. The group discussion consisted upon identifying the role of CRP’s in the project implementation process, sanitation and its issues in the local context, existing hygiene practices and best hygiene practices. The role play was about conducting hygiene session in community and schools and triggering sessions in community and schools.

Campaign 3 and 4:While Some components of BCC3 had already been covered in December remaining were held in January and February. Details of each individual campaign is as given below for the quarter:

Provision of Demo latrines for Poorest of the poor and demo latrines for vulnerable through their support: In both the agencies 430 latrines were built, 215 in each agency with DRR component and sphere standards incorporated. Similarly, 430 families were given support for constructing latrines with the above mentioned criteria in their homes with 215 latrines in each agency.

Verification and certification of Open Defecation Free villages:And last but not the least was the main activity of ODF verification and certification activities in all tye targeted villages. The target of 60% was achieved through this activity and more than 80% of targeted villages were verified and certified as Open Defecation Free villages in both Bajuar and Mohmand agencies. The activity was carried out through field investigation by the designated committee which comprised members of the Government, Community members who are usually a VSC member, CRP, a field monitor from the monitoring agency Apex, SO designated for the area and District Manager of the respective Agency.

IRSP honored with Star Impact Award

Star Impact Awards 2014 runner up category for WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) in Asia-Pacific has been awarded to Integrated Regional Support Program (IRSP), an NGO improving WASH access and education in the most remote regions of Pakistan. The award was handed to Sayed Shah Nasir Khisro, Executive Director of IRSP by former US President Bill Clinton in London on December 13.

IRSP works to empower and bring development to local communities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province and Southern Punjab. It acts as a WASH resource center and the leading agency in the implementation of two innovative approaches to hygiene and sanitation in Pakistan: Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) and Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM).

“The Stars Impact Awards recognizes and rewards outstanding local organizations that are improving the lives of children in the countries with highest rates of under-five mortality,” the organization said in a press release. As part of the prize package, IRSP will receive US$50,000 of unrestricted funding, US$10,000 in tailored consultancy and a package of media support.

“Every day, these winners prove the power and potential of local responses to global challenges. I am inspired by their work and look forward to seeing the enormous impact they will surely achieve in the future,” said Clinton.

Since 2007, the Impact Awards has recognized local civil society organizations in 30 countries, reaching out to more than four million people. This year, Stars is awarding 18 organizations from countries ranging from Brazil to Zimbabwe for their work with disadvantaged children.

Over half the population of Pakistan do not have access to safe drinking water and more than 40,000 children die every year from diarrhea caused by unsafe water and poor sanitation.

Addressing the lack of water and sanitation facilities is the most effective way of tackling poverty, promoting economic development and achieving gender equality in the country.

IRSP’s works cuts across many themes such as livelihoods, health, education and capacity building, but its activities are especially focused in WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene).

The local organization improves access for vulnerable people to safe drinking water and sanitation through household water treatment and solid waste management systems.

IRSP also promotes hygiene practices and menstrual hygiene programs in schools and advocates for policy reforms in the water and sanitation sector.

IRSP has become a WASH resource center and the leading agency in the implementation of two innovative approaches to hygiene and sanitation in Pakistan: Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) and Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM).

Integrated Regional Support Program

House # 121, Street 2, Sector A, Sheikh Maltoon Town Mardan. Khyber Pukhtunkhwa. Pakistan.

Phone: +92 (937) 880283 Fax: +92 (937) 880284

Web: www.irsp.org.pk Email: info@irsp.org.pk