Promoting Civil Society Participation in Water & Sanitation Governance in Pakistan

Approx. value of the contract: 88 million PKR
Country Pakistan	Location within Country (Districts) Mardan (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)
Name of Donor/ Funding Agency EU/WaterAid	Duration of Project (months): 03 years
Start date (month/year): January 01, 2011	Completion date (month/year): December 31, 2013

 

No. of Project Staff   35 persons

Name of senior employees of your organization involved in project implementation Syed Shah Nasir Khisro (ED) Fazal Ullah (Finance Manager) Saif Khan (Project Manager) Majid Ali (M&E Officer) Noman Ahmad (Project Engineer) Adnan (Project Engineer) M. Ismail (Research & Advocacy Officer) Hina Israr (Gender Specialist) Masood Ahmad (Communication Officer) Syed Ajmal Shah (Master Trainer)

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

Project Outputs/Results

To contribute to poverty reduction in Pakistan through the achievement of the water and sanitation MDGs

Project Outputs/Results

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

• Improved capacity of CSOs to engage with government leading to more involvement of citizens in wider development processes
• Improved capacity of LG to respond to citizen’s demand through a right based approach and deliver appropriate services
• Increased access to appropriate water, environmental sanitation and hygiene promotion services in 30 communities including refugees
• Improved institutional systems and processes for promoting equitable and inclusive governance in the water and sanitation sector

List of major activities (along with targets)

• Assessment and capacity building plan for CSOs using DRA and RBA approaches
• CSOs capacity building events/visits
• Support CSO coordination by using RBA approaches
• Capacity building of communities and implement citizen action through DRA and RBA approaches
• Training and capacity building of LGs
• Organise 1 enlightenment programme and workshop for government agencies and policy makers /influencer on meeting the needs of excluded groups including refugees in relation to WASH
• Support government to pilot implement component sharing model in 2 TMAs (selected area and lanes)
• Social infrastructure mapping for effective planning and resource allocation
• Organise annual community town hall meetings as a platform for engagement between community and LG
• Awareness creation, community selection and baseline survey through using DRA and RBA approaches
• Conduct a participatory feasibility study of appropriate water and sanitation technologies
• Promotion of safe hygiene practice including IWRM
• Construction of 30 new boreholes with hand pumps and rehabilitation of 10 existing boreholes/schemes
• Building of 200 household latrines and 20 communal latrines for demonstration
• Building of 20 school latrines with separate blocks for girls and boys
• Identification and training of 300 community based hygiene promoters
• Establishment and training of 30 school hygiene clubs
• Formation and training of 30 women groups in refugee camps and rural communities
• Establishment and training of 30 water and sanitation management committees
• Carryout water quality testing of all newly established and existing (sampled) water points
• Implement CLTS approach in 30 communities using PRA techniques