Development With Dignity

Todays talk is to encourage a paradigm shift in our attitudes to Development and the Limits of Growth.

“Extreme poverty can be ended Not in the time of our grandchildren but in OUR lifetime….by 2025” - Jeffery Sachs, Economist

Development with Dignity

Inequality prevents growth and effects the GDP of a country.

Development with Dignity

Development with Dignity

• Founded in 2000

• Currently 300,000, beneficiaries, all below poverty line

• Network across 400 villages

• Head office Karachi, 8 persons

• Regional office, 34 persons

• Training Centre, Gharo

Indus Earth Trusthelping the vulnerable poor build better lives with dignity

Livelihood Employment &

Enterprise Development

ProgramIndigenous

Housing

Water

Alternative Energy

solutions

Drought Mitigation and

Adaptation

Food Security and Nutrition

Development with Dignity

Integrated Development- is the way to fight extreme poverty- the only way to lift the overall economic index

All interventions to be provided in

Every Village if a real difference is to become

apparent

Development with Dignity

Human Institutional DevelopmentEmpowering the grassroots to run their own lives and take ownership,

is the only way to Long Term Sustainability

CBO

VDO

LSO

Organize Community Based Organization with minimum 25 members of volunteer men and women550 CBO’s established

They form a Village Development Organization who are responsible for all village development affairs 25 VDOs established

VDO elects a Local Support Organizationcommunicating village needs to elected govt. representativeslinkages to National and International NGOs and DonorsAccess to markets for sale of community made goods3 LSOs established in 3 UC’s

Development with Dignity

Livelihood Employment & Enterprise Development Program

“The poor are born entrepreneurs, give them incentive and a little bit of help and get out of the way”.

• 12,000 people 1435 households have benefitted.

• 70% women are women, with own bank accounts earnings minimum Rs.15000 per month

• Businesses established 5 years ago

• Provision of 3 meals a day for entire family reducing stunting in children, a common prevalence across Sindh

• 20 women built their own houses

• Children go to schools

Food Security and NutritionSindh is the most food insecure province in Pakistan, with the worst nutrition

record in South Asia

• IET has developed fish and crab farming techniques for coastal 3 communities

• Drip irrigation pilot, 1 acre, for orchards. Providing not only income (one coconut tree provides income of Rs.5000/month) but much needed vitamins

• Pitcher irrigation growing any crop next to house. 100s installed

• Growing certain plants in saline ground for both animal and human consumption. Pilot on 1 acre

• Teaching sustainable organic agricultural techniques. 4 acres

• Kitchen gardens techniques in 50 villages

• Storage techniques of vegetables.

Alternative Energy Solutions

• Home Solar Lights to 3000 houses

• Solar street lights to 145 villages

• Solar Water Pumps 22 villages

• Solar Lanterns 300 houses

• Hybrid Wind-Solar System 100 villages

• Bringing “hope” to 25,000 people

• Target – to provide 300,000 persons with light within 10 years

Alternative Energy Solutions

Community Physical Infrastructure

• 300 Hand pumps providing clean drinking water

• Improved health by 80% for 40,000 people Reduced dysentery, diarrhea, improved skin aliments caused by using saline water

• Irrigation channels for 5000 acres from 15 check dams -Income improved 300%

• Rain water reservoirs for an entire UC

• Fresh water availability increased for 500 households

• Flood protection for 32 villages-Built and managed entirely by the community

Praised by sitting senator and minister for quality of provisions.

Indigenous Housing SystemsHouses made from the earth have existed for 100s of years,

Properly built they can last minimum of 50 years.

• A home is the centre of family life

• The marginalized communities live in houses that do not survive the vagaries of the weather

• IET has trained communities in building their houses using proper age old methods

• Communities have built 185 such houses under the supervision of IET. Built after the 2010 floods, each have survived heavy rains

• IET in turn have been trained by CRATerre, the best Institution globally, specializing in Earth building Techniques and Earth Quake Resistant Houses.

Indigenous Housing Systems

The meaning of Development.

• Without the proper development in infrastructure, a GDP index will falter. Forecasts made, to make people feel secure, will not happen.

• But the greatest threat to our lives is Climate Change. Hand in hand goes Environmental Degradation. Unlimited infrastructure development will continue to add to carbon emissions.

• Evidence is everywhere. Floods, droughts, Artic disappearing, with Antarctic close behind. Sea currents temperatures alter, direct affect on climate. Crops failing etc.

• We need to rethink the existing parameters. Business as usual is not a going concern any more.

• A PARADIGM SHIFT IN THE CONCEPT OF DEVELOPMENT HAS TO TAKE PLACE.

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF ECONOMIC GROWTH

• The excepted norm is that it will create more jobs thereby increasing prosperity?• So we have GDP targets from 2% to 6% in some countries like China.• In Pakistan the GDP target, as stipulated by the Government, is 4.2%.• According to a World Bank report, environmental degradation in Pakistan has

caused a lose to GDP by 3.8%.• Environmental Degradation is not even considered, when it is perhaps THE most

important condition for economic growth to be considered.• Surely the whole purpose for any Growth Graph must be to ensure the well being

of all its citizens.• The “trickle down” approach only makes the rich richer. Very little is left for the

majority.• Economic Growth to be created from the bottom known as the “trickle up” affect. • Its beginning to work.

Change Development Strategy now• There has to be a transition from a “charity-based approach”

towards the poor and underprivileged, to a rights based approach. • Empower the underprivileged to become confident to know their

Human and Constitutional Rights so that they can lobby their elected representatives and demand their rights.

• We do not believe in Charity. Ours is a Social Enterprise.• Economic Growth to be created from the bottom up. The “trickle

up” affect. • “Economic Growth occurs whenever people take resources and

rearrange them in ways that are more valuable”. Paul Romer (economist).

• Create entrepreneurs and provide skill development to empower them to run their own lives.

• Create “Development Dignity”.

(+92-21) 35864344 & (+92-21) 3586624229 - C, 24th street, Tauheed Commercial Area,

Phase 5, Karachi, D.H.A. 75500 Pakistan

indusearthtrustpakistan@gmail.com

INDUS-EARTH-TRUST

Indus Earth Trust

http://www.indusearthtrust.org

Development With Dignity