Sustainable Rural Development in the Refugee Affected and Hosting Areas of Pakistan (RAHA)
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Annual Progress Report July 2011-June 2012 Sustainable Rural Development in Refugee Affected and Hosting Areas of Pakistan (RAHA) Abbreviations and Acronyms BCC Behavioural change communication CAR Commission of Afghan Refugees CMST Community Management Skills Training CPI: Community physical infrastructure CO Community organisation CPI Community physical infrastructure DCC District Coordination Committee DRM Disaster risk management EIC Employment Information Centre EU European Union LMST Leadership Management Skills Training LSO Local support organisation M&E Monitoring and evaluation MDG Millennium Development Goal NGO Non-governmental organisation O&M Operational and maintenance P&DD Planning and Development Department PCRWR Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources PHED Public Health Engineering Department PMU Programme Management Unit PRA Participatory rural appraisal RAHA Refugees Affected and Hosting Areas TMA Tehsil municipal administration TTC Technical Training Centre UC Union council UNDP United Nations UNDP United Nations Development Programme VDP Village development plan WATSAN Water and sanitation Sustainable Rural Development in the Refugee Affected and Hosting Areas of Pakistan (RAHA) Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................................................. 1 OVERALL IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS: ........................................................................................... 5 STAKEHOLDERS ......................................................................................................................................... 9 TARGET AREAS ..........................................................................................................................................10 Expected Result I: Greater social cohesion and empowerment through community development in refugee/IDP affected and hosting areas ...............................................................................................................................12 Expected Result 2: Improved livelihoods and local economies ...........................................................................26 Expected Result 3: Restoration of social services and infrastructures ..................................................................47 Expected Result 4: Improved social protection among co-existing host communities and IDPs/refugees ...........56 Expected Result 5: Restoration and improvement of the environment ...............................................................58 Expected Result 6: IDP return anchored and absorption capacity created by small-scale community-based reintegration ...................................................................................................................................................62 MAINSTREAMING OF CROSSCUTTING ISSUES UNDER RAHA ........................................................63 MANAGEMENT AND COORDINATION ARRANGEMENTS ..............................................................66 OVERARCHING POLICY ISSUES .............................................................................................................69 WEB-BASED MIS/GIS SYSTEM .................................................................................................................70 VISIBILITY ACTIONS UNDER RAHA ......................................................................................................72 CHALLENGES .............................................................................................................................................78 LESSONS LEARNT......................................................................................................................................80 PHYSICAL PROGRESS AS PER THE INDICATIVE ACTION PLAN .....................................................82 Union Council wise detail of main activities ....................................................................................................85 Development Investment Allocations for RAHA Target Union Councils under EU Fund as per PFC Formula .......................................................................................................................................................................88 GLOBAL AND ANNUAL WORK PLAN 2012-2013 ..................................................................................94 Logical Framework Analysis and Monitoring Framework under RAHA ..........................................................95 FINANCIAL REPORT 2011- 2012 ...............................................................................................................96 ii Sustainable Rural Development in the Refugee Affected and Hosting Areas of Pakistan (RAHA) Annexes Annexure 1: Community Organisations and their Prioritised Needs Identified through Participatory Resource Constraint Analysis Annexure 2: Union Council-wise List of Village Organisations Annexure 3: Training Events for Government Officials Annexure 4: Participants of Livelihood Training Annexure 5: Major Infrastructure Projects Annexure 6: Irrigation Projects Annexure 7: Community Physical Infrastructure Projects Annexure 8: Clean Drinking Water Projects Annexure 9: Sanitation Projects Annexure 10: Flood Protection Projects Annexure 11: Project Recruitment Status Annexure 12: Global Work Plan Annexure 13: Annual Work Plan 2012-13 Annexure 14: Logical Framework Analysis Annexure 15: Monitoring and Evaluation Framework Annexure 16: Budget Forecast 2012-13 Annexure 17: Financial Report 2011-2012 Annexure 18: Gender Strategy and Framework for implementation Annexure 19: Draft Social Protection Strategy Annexure 20: Livelihoods Needs Assessment (KPK) Annexure 21: Livelihoods Needs Assessment (Balochistan) Annexure 22: Training Needs Assessment to Strengthen Government officials (KPK) Annexure 23: Training Needs Assessment to Strengthen Government officials (Balochistan) Annexure 24: KPK PTC Meeting Minutes (Fourth to Sixth) Annexure 25: Balochistan PTF Meeting Minutes (Fifth to Eighth) Annexure 26: Government Notifications of DCC and PTF Annexure 27: Needs Identification and Prioritisation of Major Infrastructure (Balochistan) Annexure 28: Participatory Needs Identification and Prioritisation of Rehabilitation/Construction in Major Infrastructure Schemes-Nowshera, KPK Annexure 29: Participatory Needs Identification and Prioritisation of Rehabilitation/Construction in Major Infrastructure Schemes in District Haripur and Swabi, KPK Annexure 30: Major Infrastructure (Final Report) Annexure 31: Village Development Plan (Format) Annexure 32: Provincial Conferences on Voices from the Community iii Sustainable Rural Development in the Refugee Affected and Hosting Areas of Pakistan (RAHA) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY RAHA’s interventions are working towards creating socially cohesive, empowered communities having improved livelihood opportunities, social services and infrastructure, social protection within the community and an improved surrounding environment. The reintegration capacity of the community will also be built so they can deal appropriately with the refugees they are hosting or affected by for more than a decade. The areas RAHA has intervened in are some of the most backward and conservative in Pakistan. An illustration of this lies in the very limited access to women that all program staff has keeping in view the high level of ‘purdah’ being observed by the women of the communities. Only women staff is allowed to speak to the women of the community. The communities are extremely disempowered and live in survival mode. RAHA’s interventions with these communities reflect that it is the first time some of these communities have participated in any kind of development project. Therefore, RAHA initially has concentrated on creating and capacitating community organizations. Properly functioning community organizations are an extremely efficient method of both empowering and integrating communities. For example, the 961 community organizations established by RAHA have planned, implemented and monitored community projects. This process automatically enhances the skills relevant to the specific project being implemented as well as encouragingforcing the community members involved to take consultative decisions, cooperate in implementing them and make informed judgments about the best interests of the whole community and henceforth at a later stage of the village. This practical implementation of skills complements RAHA’s training program. 663 community members have been trained in community management and 190 community organization members have been trained in leadership management skills. The office bearers of the community organization have been elected by the community members, encouraging nascent skills in taking democratic decisions. The training programme is also targeted towards the unemployed and therefore contributing to the employment increase in the country which has been one of the drivers of conflict/crisis in the region. The training models used are those utilized by the RSPN (Rural Support Networks of Pakistan). Synergies with proven intervention models are thus encouraged and henmceforth some synergies amongst ongoing programmes in the region areis created. However, next year this will be formalised. It was this emphasis on creating synergies that encouraged RAHA to use the BISP (Benazir Income Support Program) constructed poverty score cards to identify the most vulnerable people in the targeted communities.