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Pakistan Final Project Report LACHI POVERTY REDUCTION PROJECT LPRP 2000 - 2007 (Project ID 00046727) December 2008 Submitted to; POVERTY REDUCTION AND GENDER UNIT UNDP CO. UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME 1 SUMMARY PAGE Benefiting country: Pakistan Project Title: LPRP 00046727 Project Duration: April 2000 – December 2007 Implementing Partners: Sarhad Rural Support Program Project cost: USD 5,948,050 Reporting period: December 2000 to December 2007 Type of report: Project Final Report 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS ..................................................................................... 4 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................................................................... 5 3- PROJECT PERFORMANCE .................................................................................................. 9 3.1 Output 01: Communities mobilized at the grassroots level ............................................................ 9 3.1.1 No. of men and women community organizations formed....................................................... 9 3.1.2 No of households as members of the community organizations .............................................. 9 3.2 Output 02: Natural Resource Management model for semi arid areas developed and tested. ...13 3.2.1 Participatory varietal selection program and seed priming model developed and demonstrated ...................................................................................................................13 3.2.2 Village selection breeding program introduced and demonstrated ............................19 3.2.3 Value Added Activities undertaken ...............................................................................26 3.2.4 Alternate source of energy demonstrated .....................................................................27 3.2.5 Range management associations formed and rangelands sustainably .......................28 managed 28 3.2.6 Community based afforestation carried out and nurseries established .....................31 3.2.7. Communities trained in NRM techniques and practices .............................................33 3.3 Output 03: Community based physical infrastructure developed ................................................35 3.3.1 No. of community based physical infrastructure schemes completed ........................35 3.4 Output 04: Micro credit made available and capacity enhanced for income ...............................45 generation activities .................................................................................................................................45 3.4.1 No. of micro loans disbursed ..........................................................................................45 3.4.2 Beneficiary Managed Microcredit Model tested ..........................................................45 3.5 Output 05: Project Management, monitoring, evaluation and knowledge dissemination. .........49 3.6 Overall Project’s Implementation Constraints/ Challenges and Mitigation Strategies ........50 3.7 Best Practices and Lessons Learned ..........................................................................................50 Project Location Map: Lachi Tehsil of District Kohat .........................................................................55 3 ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS BC Breeding Centers CIP Community Infrastructure Project CO Community Organization DFID Department for International Development DWS Drinking Water Supply EoP End of Project FAMPAR Farmers Managed Participatory Research FCA Frontier Consulting Association FSC Farm Services Association HHs Households IICR International Income Credit Ratios ISACPA Independent South Asian Commission on Poverty Alleviation IT Information Technology LMST Leader ship and Management Skills Training LPRP Lachi Poverty Reduction Program MCO Men Community Organization MoA Memorandum of Agreement MTR Mid Term Review NGO Non Governmental Organization NRM Natural Resource Management NWFP North West Frontier Province O&M Operation and Maintenance PSI Productive and Social Infrastructure PVS Participatory Varietal Selection R&D Research and Development RMA Range Management Association RSP Rural Support Program RSPN Rural Support Program Network SAARC South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation SAPAP South Asia Poverty Alleviation Program SRSP Sarhad Rural Support Program TNA Training Need Assessment ToR Terms of Reference TRP Terminal Progress Report TMA Tehsil Municipal Administration UC-wise Union Council wise UN United Nations UNDP United Nations Development Program UNOPS United Nations Offices for Project Services US United States VBC Village Breeding Centers VOs Village Organizations WCO Women Community Organization 4 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Lachi Poverty Reduction Project (LPRP) started in March 2000 as a transition from a pilot project called South Asia Poverty Alleviation Programme (SAPAP1). LPRP was a community based integrated poverty alleviation programme and operated in six union councils (though it mostly focused on three union councils2) of Tehsil Lachi of Kohat district of North West Frontier Province from March 2000 to 2005. It was implemented by Sarhad Rural Support Progeramme (SRSP) as an independent project. At the filed level, all project activities were carried out through grassroots community organizations on cost sharing basis. The project’s implementation approach was based on the principles of social mobilization and as a first step; all potential beneficiaries were organized in the form of grassroots Community Organizations (COs) separately for men and women. The project formed 960 COs (300 for women) with a total membership of 23,053. These organizations helped strengthen the bonds of social cohesion by bringing together the rural people belonging to different poverty profiles under an organized forum of community organizations. These organizations promoted equitable distribution of project benefits as evidenced from the fact that 87% of total members of the COs were from the very poor and poor categories of the society and 49% were women that benefited from project interventions. The community organizations served as platforms for rural households to partner with the project on various development initiatives. All the project interventions were implemented through beneficiary communities on a cost sharing basis. The project successfully developed and tested a Natural Resource Management (NRM) model for semi arid areas. Initiatives under the NRM component helped communities convert a large number of less productive livestock breeds into descriptive and more productive ones. The Village Breeding Centres (VBCs) provided economical services at the communities’ doorsteps that enabled them to capitalize on the heat cycle of their animals. The VBCs were instrumental in increasing the quality of animals and resulted in healthy ruminants with higher market values. Some studies have reported an increase of 20 days in animals’ lactation period and 0.25 litres per day increment in milk yields. Similarly the various training imparted resulted in an incremental income of up to Rs. 36,000 per annum per beneficiary. 1 SAPAP was a two years regional programme piloted on the recommendations of South Asian Commission on Poverty Alleviation (ISACPA) in all of the member states of SAARC except Bhutan. Its launch was announced in the Dhaka Declaration of SAARC Summit 1993. In Pakistan, SAPAP was piloted in one union council namely Shakardara of Teshil Lachi, district Kohat. 2 Shakardara rural and urban and Soodal. 5 The project demonstrated a number of high yielding varieties of crops on farmers’ fields through the two innovative approaches namely Participatory Varietal Selection (PVS) trials and Seed Villages, For the conservation and management of forest resources, the project supported the establishment of community based Range Management Associations (RMAs), biogas technology and plantation.. A national symposium on sharing Lachi experience and lessons in NRM sector was held and the best practices were documented in a NRM Manual for practitioners. The project supported the development of 224 community based physical infrastructure schemes that benefited more than 36,000 community members. The construction of 102 rainwater harvesting structure was one of the widely appraised achievements of the project that was replicated by other similar programmes. An international water symposium was held to share lessons learnt and best practices of the project related to community based water conservation and harvesting. Different case studies have reported increased water availability in the project area due to water related interventions of the project. Substantial time saving has occurred for women folk who are primarily responsible for fetching water. Due to the availability of water in close proximity, women’s travel time for fetching water was reduced by 0.8 to 2.8 hrs per day. The time thus saved is now being used for different productive activities like kitchen gardening, backyard poultry, handicrafts etc. The availability of water has increased the frequency of animals watering and the average per animal water consumption was 25% higher in the areas where the project had facilitated the construction of water reservoirs than those without such facilities. This coupled with the decrease in incidence of diseases, has increased the number of animals (adult + young) from 9 heads per household before the availability