Partnering with Communities for Post Flood Early Recovery Success Stories from the American Pakistan Foundation Project in the Swat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa RSPN Rural Support Programmes Network House No. 7, Street 49, F-6/4, Islamabad Tel : +(92-51) 2822476, 2821736, 2829141 Fax: +(92-51) 2829115 Email: [email protected] Website: www.rspn.org RSPN Contents Introduction . ................................................................................................................................................... 0 2 Process.. .......................................................................................................................................................... 0 3 Drinking Water Supply Scheme in Village Garhi, Tehsil Kabal, Swat .......................................................... 07 Drinking Water Supply Scheme in Village Suigalai, Tehsil Kabal, Swat ....................................................... 09 Hand Pump Installation in Village Baringal, Tehsil Kabal, Swat ................................................................... 11 Drinking Water Supply Scheme in Village Jawand, Tehsil Kabal, Swat ........................................................ 13 Drinking Water Supply Scheme in Village Dehro, Tehsil Kabal, Swat .......................................................... 15 Drinking Water Supply Scheme in Village Mahak Sarkot, Tehsil Kabal, Swat .............................................. 17 Sanitation and Street Pavement in Village Dherakai, Tehsil Kabal, Swat ....................................................... 19 Drinking Water Supply Scheme in Village Serai Ziarat, Tehsil Kabal, Swat .................................................. 21 Irrigation Channel in Village Maira, Tehsil Kabal, Swat ................................................................................ 23 Street Pavement in Village Bandai, Tehsil Khwazakhela, Swa t ..................................................................... 25 Every effort has been made to verify the accuracy of Sanitation and Street Pavement in Village Mullah Patai, Tehsil Matta, Swat the information contained in this study. All ................................................. 27 information was deemed to be correct as of October Hand Pump Installation in Village Kuza Durshkela, Tehsil Matta, Swat ........................................................ 29 Report Text: Zafar Kakakhel 2011. Nevertheless, the Rural Support Programmes Hand Pump Installation in Village Bijora, Tehsil Matta, Swat ....................................................................... 31 Ayesha Amina Askari Network (RSPN) cannot accept responsibility for the Nida Khan consequence of its use for other purposes or in other Street Pavement in Village Ghurejo Khpa, Tehsil Khwazakhela, Swat .......................................................... 33 contexts. Hand Pump Installation in Village Baidara, Tehsil Matta, Swat ..................................................................... 35 Designing: Abdul Qadir (Mashallah Printers) ©2011 Rural Support Programmes Network (RSPN). Hand Pump Installation in Village Shagai, Tehsil Babozai, Swat ................................................................... 37 Printing: Mashallah Printers All Rights Reserved Street Pavement in Village Gali Gram, Tehsil Babozai, Swat ........................................................................ 39 Introduction Process The Rural Support Programmes Network (RSPN) represents 11 Rural Support Programmes (RSPs) and is the largest The project consists of four primary processes. Initially SRSP teams would go to a community affected by the floods civil society network in Pakistan, working in 112 out of the country's 138 districts and two out of 13 FATA agencies. and through a process of Social Mobilization encourage community members to form Community Organizations RSPs are working to reduce poverty through social mobilization of the communities by helping them to form their own (COs). Once this was achieved a Needs Assessment would be conducted, wherein community members would grassroots organizations. themselves identify their priority micro infrastructure needs. This process was very important for creating local ownership. Keeping in mind that each community has its own needs SRSP identified a portfolio of CPIs which RSPN with the support and funding of the American Pakistan Foundation (APF) initiated the “Early Recovery Project included; Gravity flow drinking water supply schemes; hand pumps, irrigation channels; link roads and sanitation and in the Remote District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province” in district Swat in March, 2011. The Sarhad Rural Support street pavement. Once communities identified their priority needs SRSP teams along with survey committees from the Programme (SRSP), with more than two decades of experience in undertaking participatory development initiatives in COs would go and Identify Project Sites, and gauge their viability for inclusion in the AFP funded project. The last Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), implemented the project. The APF project provided support to the flood affected people process before work would start on a project would be the Third Dialogue, where a meeting would be held in the of Swat to restore and rehabilitate their micro infrastructure or community physical infrastructure (CPI) which had village in which the entire community would participate. In this meeting, the community would form a project been damaged in the devastating floods of 2010. The specific objectives of the project were to rebuild confidence committee, an audit committee and a maintenance committee. SRSP staff members along with the relevant among the people and to rebuild and rehabilitate 33 micro infrastructure projects/schemes benefiting 3,630 committees would decide on the technical design of the CPI, as well as the details of the CPI costing including the households with a beneficiary population of 25,000. community's share and timeframe. During the meeting the first tranche of the payment for the CPI project would be delivered to the community representatives in order to ensure full transparency in transactions. During the construction process SRSP teams would provide the community with technical guidance, and work with the community to find local solutions to any problems encountered. Payment would be released in regular tranches against receipts provided by the CO and following verification by SRSP engineers of quantity and quality of work completed. Throughout this process SRSP engineers and the RSPN Senior Monitoring Specialist regularly monitored the procedure and progress of the project. 02 03 No. of APF No. of APF Total Total Region Village Beneficiary Type of CPI Share Region Village Beneficiary Type of CPI Share Cost PKR Cost PKR Households PKR Households PKR Garhi 40 DWSS (Gravity Flow) 297,500 238,000 Bandai 120 DWSS (Gravity Flow) 510,500 408,400 Suigalai 115 DWSS (Gravity Flow) 338,000 270,400 Qala 80 DWSS (Gravity Flow) 374,500 299,600 a Barigal 105 DWSS (Gravity Flow) 361,000 288,800 l Samai 50 DWSS (Gravity Flow) 404,500 323,600 e Jawand 75 DWSS (Gravity Flow) 394,500 315,600 h 60 240,000 240,000 k Kalakot Hand Pumps a l Melagah 170 DWSS (Gravity Flow) 498,000 398,400 z Mullah Patai 120 Sanitation & S.Pavement 450,000 360,000 a a b w a Dehro 60 DWSS (Gravity Flow) 421,000 336,800 Kuza Durshkhela 60 Hand Pumps 208,000 208,000 h K Lalo Banda 200 DWSS (Gravity Flow) 366,000 292,800 K Bijora 150 Hand Pumps 357,500 357,500 a Mahak Sarkot 50 DWSS (Gravity Flow) 428,500 342,800 l Ghurejo Khpa 150 Sanitation & S.Pavement 572,500 458,000 e Dherakai 95 Sanitation & S.Pavement 413,500 330,800 h Spina Khpa 65 Hand Pumps 208,000 208,000 k Serai Ziarat 120 DWSS (Gravity Flow) 317,500 254,000 a Baidara 55 Hand Pump 240,000 240,000 z Maira 80 Irrigation Channel 609,500 487,600 a Swato Kalay 150 Link Road 635,000 508,000 w Jahngir Kandak 100 DWSS (Gravity Flow) 523,000 418,400 h Link Road+ Sanitation & K Kareem Abad 200 728,500 582,800 Ghala Patay 130 DWSS (Gravity Flow) 478,000 382,400 S.Pavement n Mainjay Waoor Banda 120 DWSS (Gravity Flow) 485,000 388,000 Zayar Karin 40 DWSS (Gravity Flow) 551,000 440,800 o i g Fazal Abad 150 Sanitation & S.Pavement 543,500 434,800 e R Shagai 200 Sanitation & S.Pavement 658,000 526,400 t a Bakhtmand 170 Sanitation & S.Pavement 421,500 337,200 w S Green Hills 150 Sanitation & S.Pavement 736,000 588,800 Gali Gram 350 Sanitation & S.Pavement 483,500 386,800 Serai 160 Irrigation Channel 695,500 556,400 04 05 Drinking Water Supply Scheme in Village Garhi, Tehsil Kabal, Swat Climbing up to the hilltop on which the village of Garhi, in Tehsil Kabal, is perched one is struck by the amazing beauty of the surrounding area. It is hard to imagine that people living here have any problems at all. But Hussan Zadgai, a mother of seven whose husband works in Dubai as a labourer, says that “I was born in this village and am now married here, and for as long as I can remember women had to walk 20 minutes to get water, and this was done four to five times a day.” The UN suggests that a person needs a minimum of 20 liters of clean water per day to ensure their basic needs for drinking, cooking and cleaning. With an average family size of nine in Garhi that would mean 180 liters or nine trips per day (women carry up to 20 liters on one trip) to meet the basic needs of a family. Families in Garhi were falling short of this resulting in the fact that their basic water needs were not being met. In March 2011, SRSP met with the