Annual Report 2015 Final

ANNUAL REPORT Friends Welfare Association Pakistan ANNUAL REPORT ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS MoFA Ministry of Foreign Affairs KnK Kokkyo naki Kodomotachi (Children without Borders) MoI Ministry of Interior ERRA Earthquake Reconstruction & Rehabilitation Authority SERRA State Earthquake Reconstruction & Rehabilitation Authority DRU District Reconstruction Unit KPK Khyber Pakhtunkhwa AJK Azad Jammu and Kashmir E&SE Elementary & Secondary Education INGO International Non - Governmental Organization NGO Non - Governmental Organization UCs Union Councils SRC Students Representative Council SMC School Management Committee PTC Parents Teachers Council FA Faculty of Arts SLOs Students Learning Outcomes TACS Take a Child to School MNA Member of National Assembly MPA Member of Provincial Assembly CGN Children's Global Network SoLF School of Leadership Foundation FAFEN Free and Fair Election Network OOSC Out of School Children BBCM Broad Based Community Meeting EEF Elementary Education Foundation NOC No Objection Certificate MoU Memorandum of Understanding CBP Capacity Building Program DRR Disaster Risk Reduction M&E Monitoring & Evaluation PM&E Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation. PRA Participatory Rural Assessment MCs Mohallah Committees CBOs Community Based Organizations GPS Government Primary School GGPS Government Girls Primary School GMS Government Middle School GMPS Government Maktab Primary School GGHS Government Girls High School GGMS Government Girls Middle School CMGHS Community Management Girls High School CMGMS Community Management Girls Middle School FRIENDS WELFARE ASSOCIATION PAKISTAN ANNUAL REPORT ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS MoFA Ministry of Foreign Affairs KnK Kokkyo naki Kodomotachi (Children without Borders) MoI Ministry of Interior ERRA Earthquake Reconstruction & Rehabilitation Authority SERRA State Earthquake Reconstruction & Rehabilitation Authority DRU District Reconstruction Unit KPK Khyber Pakhtunkhwa AJK Azad Jammu and Kashmir E&SE Elementary & Secondary Education INGO International Non - Governmental Organization NGO Non - Governmental Organization UCs Union Councils SRC Students Representative Council SMC School Management Committee PTC Parents Teachers Council FA Faculty of Arts SLOs Students Learning Outcomes TACS Take a Child to School MNA Member of National Assembly MPA Member of Provincial Assembly CGN Children's Global Network SoLF School of Leadership Foundation FAFEN Free and Fair Election Network OOSC Out of School Children BBCM Broad Based Community Meeting EEF Elementary Education Foundation NOC No Objection Certificate MoU Memorandum of Understanding CBP Capacity Building Program DRR Disaster Risk Reduction M&E Monitoring & Evaluation PM&E Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation. PRA Participatory Rural Assessment MCs Mohallah Committees CBOs Community Based Organizations GPS Government Primary School GGPS Government Girls Primary School GMS Government Middle School GMPS Government Maktab Primary School GGHS Government Girls High School GGMS Government Girls Middle School CMGHS Community Management Girls High School CMGMS Community Management Girls Middle School FRIENDS WELFARE ASSOCIATION PAKISTAN ANNUAL REPORT TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword 5 1. EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 7 1.1 Infrastructure Development Support in Earthquake Affected Areas 8 1.1.1 Background 8 1.1.2 Phase I – Infrastructural Development Support in AJK 9 1.1.3 Phase II – Infrastructural Development Support in AJK 10 1.1.4 Partners’ Visits 11 1.1.5 Inauguration of Schools 12 1.1.6 Major Achievements of Infrastructural Support Project (2015) 12 1.2 Access to Girls Secondary Education 15 1.2.1 Background 15 1.2.2 Approach and Methodology 18 1.2.3 Major Achievements 19 1.3 Mobilization & Community Engagement for Children Enrolment 21 1.3.1 Background 21 1.3.2 Approach and Methodology 22 1.3.3 Major Achievements 25 2. ADVOCACY 27 2.1 Background 27 2.2 Networking with National and Provincial Institutions 28 2.3 Walks, Seminars of the TACS project 28 3. CAPACITY BUILDING 31 3.1 Capacity Building of School Players and Departments in Infrastructure Development Support Program 31 3.2 Capacity Building of Teachers, SMCs and Communities in Access to Girl's Secondary Education Program 32 3.3 Volunteers Training of the TACS 33 3.4 Staff Development Training 34 4. MONITORING AND EVALUATION 36 4.1 Knowledge Management 37 4.1.1 Knowledge Management & Information Management in Friends Pakistan 37 4.1.2 Future Planning for Knowledge Management 38 4.2 Case Studies & Success Stories 40 5. LESSON LEARNT, CHALLENGES & CONSTRAINTS 43 6. GOVERNMENT RECOGNITION 45 7. MEMBER OF 46 8. PARTNERS 47 9. FINANCIAL REPORT 49 FRIENDS WELFARE ASSOCIATION PAKISTAN ANNUAL REPORT TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword 5 1. EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 7 1.1 Infrastructure Development Support in Earthquake Affected Areas 8 1.1.1 Background 8 1.1.2 Phase I – Infrastructural Development Support in AJK 9 1.1.3 Phase II – Infrastructural Development Support in AJK 10 1.1.4 Partners’ Visits 11 1.1.5 Inauguration of Schools 12 1.1.6 Major Achievements of Infrastructural Support Project (2015) 12 1.2 Access to Girls Secondary Education 15 1.2.1 Background 15 1.2.2 Approach and Methodology 18 1.2.3 Major Achievements 19 1.3 Mobilization & Community Engagement for Children Enrolment 21 1.3.1 Background 21 1.3.2 Approach and Methodology 22 1.3.3 Major Achievements 25 2. ADVOCACY 27 2.1 Background 27 2.2 Networking with National and Provincial Institutions 28 2.3 Walks, Seminars of the TACS project 28 3. CAPACITY BUILDING 31 3.1 Capacity Building of School Players and Departments in Infrastructure Development Support Program 31 3.2 Capacity Building of Teachers, SMCs and Communities in Access to Girl's Secondary Education Program 32 3.3 Volunteers Training of the TACS 33 3.4 Staff Development Training 34 4. MONITORING AND EVALUATION 36 4.1 Knowledge Management 37 4.1.1 Knowledge Management & Information Management in Friends Pakistan 37 4.1.2 Future Planning for Knowledge Management 38 4.2 Case Studies & Success Stories 40 5. LESSON LEARNT, CHALLENGES & CONSTRAINTS 43 6. GOVERNMENT RECOGNITION 45 7. MEMBER OF 46 8. PARTNERS 47 9. FINANCIAL REPORT 49 FRIENDS WELFARE ASSOCIATION PAKISTAN ANNUAL REPORT FOREWORD With the grace of government in rebuilding and rehabilitation of Almighty Allah, the education system in Earthquake Affected Areas of most gracious and AJK. During the year 2015, thirteen (13) schools' clement, I am highly buildings have been completed and handed over to gratified to share with the Government Education Departments of AJK. It is you the momentous also pertinent to mention that Friends Pakistan had contribution and also successfully completed the reconstruction and l e s s o n s ' l e a r n t rehabilitation of forty (40) earthquake affected t h r o u g h schools in District Mansehra KPK province as per the p r o g r a m m a t i c Seismic standards set by ERRA till February 2014. i nte r ve nt i o n s o f Friends Pakistan during the year 2015. This report During the year 2015, Friends Pakistan continued the presents the major achievements of interventions of program of Supporting Girl's Education at Secondary Friends Pakistan in targeted districts of KPK and State and Higher Secondary level keeping in loop the of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. Friends Pakistan is Elementary and Secondary Education Department honored to receive the awards of “Most Promising KPK. In this program, Friends Pakistan has been Organization” from our esteemed partner British contributing in providing the opportunity of Council and Appreciation letter from Chief of Staff acquiring education to all the girls of the vulnerable ERRA as an acknowledgement to our contribution areas where the school outreach girls have no during the year 2015. opportunity to acquire education at Secondary and Higher secondary level. The scale of the project During the year 2015, Education continued to be the during the report period widened in term of core program of Friends Pakistan with special focus establishing three new community based schools on development of vulnerable communities. The which increased the schools' numbers from organization has been dedicatedly supplementing seven(07) to ten(10). More than one thousand the governmental efforts for educational (1000) girls of the vulnerable areas of KPK province development and contributing its part by supporting have so far benefited from this program and one the government to meet the challenges regarding hundred and forty eight (148) girls passed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and matriculation from the community based schools education for all (EFA) goals. The educational supported by Friends Pakistan till the past academic development program encompasses mobilization, year of 2015. governance, professional development, research and enhancing physical and learning environment. In the same way, during the year of 2015, Friends The organization's programmatic interventions aim Pakistan executed an intervention of mainstreaming to bridge up the gap between the community needs the out of school children (OOSC) in schools and then in term of education and governmental service ensuring their retention in schools through delivery. mobilizing and training a pool of young volunteers. During the report year, Friends Pakistan achieved the Under its, Infrastructural Development Support enrollment of three thousand and sixty (3060) out of program, Friends Pakistan secured approval and the school children in five (5) mandated union additional funds to continue supporting

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