Supporting Early Recovery for Conflict Affected Families in District Buner

Approx. value of the contract: 10 million PKR
Country Pakistan	Location within Country (Districts) Buner (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)
Name of Donor/ Funding Agency Concern WorldWide/DFID	Duration of Project (months): 08 months
Start date (month/year): October 01, 2009	Completion date (month/year): May 31, 2010

 

No. of Project Staff   21 persons

Name of senior employees of your organization involved in project implementation Syed Shah Nasir Khisro (Executive Director) Saif Khan (Director R&D) Fazal Ullah (Director Finance) Sajjad Ali (SPM) Syed Tariq Nadeem (Project Manager)

Project Objectives, Outcomes and list of major activities (Not more than 500 words)

Project Outcomes

• Target farming households provided with necessary inputs and support for the restoration of their on-farm livelihoods
• Target households provided with skills training, trade-specific toolkits and small grants for the revival of their non-farm livelihoods
• Damaged essential physical infrastructure restored through the active participation of local target communities.

Project Outputs

The following are the headline amounts of the key outputs/services delivered:

• 2,700 resource poor farming families provided with vegetable gardening inputs
• 2,200 poor/vulnerable families provided with poultry package (6 birds/family)
• 464 poor families provided with cow package (1 cow/family)
• 18,041 animals vaccinated & de-wormed
• Skill training, cash for training & toolkits provided to 1,200 persons
• 300 trained artisans provided with technical toolkits
• 303 damaged/affected small businesses restored through enterprise grants
• 49 community-based physical infrastructure schemes repaired/reconstructed

List of major activities (along with targets)

• Carry out beneficiary selection and market survey
• Provide input support (seeds and bio-fertilizer) for kitchen/vegetables gardening
• Distribute improved breeds of poultry
• Distribute improved breeds of cow
• Arrangement of livestock field days for vaccination/de-worming
• Provision of vocational/ employable skills development trainings, technical trade-specific toolkits and cash for training.
• Provision of enterprise grants for restoration of damaged/affected small businesses/enterprises
• Restoration of damaged essential infrastructure schemes.
• Provision of training for effective operation and maintenance of infrastructure