IRSP Annual Review 2014

Message of the Executive Director
It is a proven fact that WATER is crucial for the human race
and stands second to AIR for the survival of mankind of this
PLANET. Nature has reserved sufficient water in a system
known as “water cycle” and clearly revealed in the QURA’NIC
injunctions. Similarly; many HADITs are available that
purposefully guides the human beings for safer and intelligent
use of water not only for themselves but also for other living
organism including agriculture and other purposes.
Analyzing and reviewing IRSP’s fourteen years extensive
experience in the field of WASH services provision and
contributing in the sector reform initiatives; we have
learnt that the WASH need is increasing day by day with
uncontrolled and speedy population pressure. IRSP believes
that WASH has become a global challenge and the world is
increasingly supporting the developing and under developed
countries since decades to reach the MDG’s goal set out for
the sector by 2015, but still the world is far behind to reach
its goal.in this scenario, if we look the situation in Pakistan;
the sector is in the worst condition and the statistic shows
that approximately, 40000 children die every year due to
water borne and sanitation related diseases.
Resultantly, the country is spending billions
of rupees every year on diarrheal and
other diseases caused by unsafe drinking
water and poor sanitation. Similarly, every
family is forced to spend more than 40%
of its income on similar diseases.
.In general perception, in developing
countries, the term WASH
(Water,Sanitation,Hygiene) is only
limited to water provision and
even the safe drinking water
is given less attention, hence,
half of the population of the
country has still no access
to safe drinking water.
The other sub sector i.e.
Sanitation and hygiene is
either totally ignored or
partially considered only in
urban cities while in rural
areas zero investment/
spending can be seen in
these two sub-sectors.
Thus, the world need
extensive support to the
countries facing challenging
situation in sub sector
issues and at the same
time these countries need
to give priorities to the
sector issues by formulating
policies, sector assessment and allocating appropriate budget
in ADP’s with equity services distribution.
Looking back to the previous year’s makes me a more proud
person to be a part of the development processes ranging
from sector reform initiatives, policy formulation, capacity
building initiatives extended to govt officials, INGO’s, national
NGO’s and contributing in the international and national
networks like, FANSA, FAFEN,END WATER POVERTY and
many more..
Reflecting on the year of 2014, I am greatly satisfied and
proud with highest performances of my strong team
and professional management who have successfully
accomplished all the set targets and projects in the remote
areas of KPK including IDP’s of south and North Waziristan
settled with local communities and structured camps set
ups, south PUJAB and FATA. The team, working shoulder by
shoulder with the communities and partner organizations and
govt line departments to overcome barriers and obstacles to
achieve the targets set jointly with the funding agencies.
Here it is of highly importance that the services and efforts
of IRSP have been recognized and appreciated by star impact
award 2014 runner up category for WASH in Asia pacific
region. The award has been granted to Mr. Shah Nasir Khisro
ED/IRSP by the former US president Mr. Bill Clinton in London
on December 13, for improving access to wash services and
education in the most remote regions of Pakistan. The award
is 50000 USD which is going to be spending in the education
sector in close collaboration with education department
of KPK. I, again really appreciate the ever tiring efforts of
the team behind all these success and the credit goes to
the team for their everlasting efforts and struggle by bring
improvements in the lives of the most disadvantaged and
poor communities of the Pakistanis’ society.
We are committed to continuously striving for enhanced
improvements and betterment in the lives of the
disadvantaged and most neglected communities of Pakistan
by variety of interventions and program/project developments
through establishing long term strategic partnership with
reputable donor organizations and govt.
Last but not the least, I strongly appreciate and recognize all
the partner organization’s contribution and believe that without
their support, IRSP would have not been able to serve for the
cause of communities.
My greater attributes goes to all my colleagues, communities,
govt and partners.
Syed Shah Nasir Khisro
Executive Director
Contents
Message of the Executive Director..........................................................................2
Poverty Alleviation through Community Empowerment Participatory
Development (PACE-PD)..........................................................................................4
Rehabilitation of Drinking Water Supply after Flood 2010 Phase-II Year 2014......7
Addressing Water and Sanitation challenges of IDPs and host communities at
District Bannu..........................................................................................................9
The Citizen Engagement for Social Service Delivery Phase-III..............................12
Community Based Disaster Risk Management in the selected union councils of
district Charsadda of KP, Pakistan..........................................................................13
WASH Early Recovery for Conflict Affected Families in Bajuar ............................19
Supporting Transparency, Accountability and Electoral Processes in Pakistan-
STAEP......................................................................................................................20
Long Term Election Observation and Oversight Project (LTEOOP).......................23
Sanitation Program at Scale in Pakistan................................................................26
Integrated Regional Support Program...................................................................32

Poverty Alleviation through Community Empowerment Participatory
Development (PACE-PD)
Poverty Alleviation through Community Empowerment and
Participatory Development (PACE-PD) project’s major thrust
is on restoring and strengthening resilience of communities
through social mobilization and community empowerment. It
also includes capacity building of line departments and service
providers for enabling them to meaningfully contribute to the
development process and to set the area on path to success.
While passing through challenging circumstances, the
project team successfully managed to implement the agreed
activities within stipulated timeframe. During the reporting
period (Jan-Dec, 2014) Stakeholders’ and Program Planning
Workshops were conducted, the workshops were planned to
seek broader support from community and stakeholders as
the project methodology depends heavily on involvement of
local community and lays emphasis on local ownership and
providing localized solutions to the issues. In order to seek
a solid understanding of pertinent local issues and overall
living status of indigenous communities, necessary data
was collected through secondary sources, from relevant line
departments and development partner organizations like;
NRSP, NCHD, SAPP etc.
Similarly, Baseline Survey (BLS) was conducted in the 4
targeted Union Councils, which provided added information to
the project management about service delivery status, access
of communities to basic resources, the available infrastructure
and socio-economic status of the target groups etc. Based on
the findings through primary and secondary sources, detailed
UCs and villages profiles were developed as bench mark for
future planning.
Replicating the RSP’s model, “bottom-up approach” was
adopted by formation of 612 Community Organizations (COs),
including 254 women COs at community level. Office Bearers
(Presidents and Managers) of each CO were nominated by the
COs’ members. After formation of COs, 3-days Community
Management Skills Training (CMST) was organized. A detailed
Training Manual in Urdu was developed to keep uniformity
in processes and equipping the SOs with required reference
information. In addition, handout material was also developed
for the CO members and 3-Days trainings were organized by
constituting clusters of 12-15 neighboring COs.
In total, 48 CMSTs including 24 women COs’ trainings were
held for enabling the participants (Office Bearers) to have clear
understanding of their roles and responsibilities, mostly related
to record keeping and preparation of COs’ profiles. Total 1,118
individuals participated in the trainings. The methodology used
for training was,” Learning by Doing”. In consonance with the
“three–tiered” project approach, the members of COs were
further motivated to work on formation of Village Organizations
(VOs).
women LMST.
Youngsters (both male and female) from local community were
engaged in developmental and co-curricular/recreational
activities. 3 volleyball matches were arranged among three
UCs; Gadola, Kachi Shahani and Sial for male youngsters. In UC
Dhandla cricket match was organized for young male members.
For females 2 events of Millad, Quiz Programme, with stalls
and cultural shows were organized in UC Gadola and Kachi
Shahani.
Four Trainings for service providers on project related themes
including Gender, HIV&AIDS, Natural Resource Management
and Disaster Risk Reduction were conducted for improved and
sustainable service delivery in the target UCs.
The project activities like regular follow-up meetings with
COs, interaction with line departments, service providers
and development partners are serving as driving force for the
effective and efficient implementation of the project. Over
the past few months, the project staff developed linkage with
service providers like; NADRA, 1122 (Rescue Team), Punjab
Education Foundation (PEF), Health Department Outreach
Teams, Water Testing Laboratory etc.
Public function
Community’s linkages were strengthened with service
providers through holding three meetings. Since the project
interventions are spread over four UCs, hence three meetings
with service providers were arranged at district level keeping in
view the availability and accessibility of the communities and
service providers.
At the inception stage it was felt that no adequate coordination
mechanismexistsamongdevelopmentpartners,whichpossibly
may lead to gaps and overlaps, both geographical as well as
sector wise. Hence with the help of District Coordination Officer,
NGOs Forum at district level was constituted with the basic
objective of sharing information pertaining to achievements
and any upcoming projects in the district. Similarly, the project
engaged the local as well as national media for highlighting
socio economic issues and promoting project activities.
Major Achievements of the project in 2014
Community mobilization and formation of 3-tiers
mobilization system
During the reporting period, the major thrust was on soft
component like raising awareness among communities for
collective actions, through community mobilization as to
establish and pave the way for establishing 3-tiers mobilization
system. Since IRSP field team is local and well-aware of the
area, ethnic groups, norms, values and to some extent the civic
amenities available, hence the team members were posted in
the UCs where they had some acquaintances. All teams were
asked to visit each UC jointly and collect information with
special reference to the influential and activists.
Exposure visit to Swabi
This exercise geared them up to motivate the communities for
getting organized in the form of CO. The role of activist was
very pivotal. Corner meetings were held through activists that
were followed by mass meetings both in male and female
segment of the communities. The meetings were generally
organized for 25-30 households. It was explained to the
communities that CO is the first tier which would lead them to
VO and LSO. The communities were motivated and convinced
to form the CO. Once the consensus was developed among
the community members for collective action, CO was formed.
Since future development depends on the homogeneity and
uniformity of the members of the CO, hence repeated visits,
discussions motivation are the integral parts of the process. By
no means is the process compromised.
Therefore, there is no hard and fast timeframe to constitute
one CO; however, the underlying principal is to follow the
process. The composition of CO was adult members of 20
to 25 households residing in the same Hamlet/ Mohallah.
The members of CO were encouraged to elect/select their
President and Manager on their own. Same approach was
adopted throughout the target UCs. As per project design IRSP
was required to constitute 600 COs (roughly 150 COs per UC)
however IRSP constituted 612 COs. The reason being that
there are certain communities who move out for labour (cotton

Rehabilitation of Drinking Water Supply after Flood 2010 Phase-II Year
2014
The project ‘Reduction in water borne diseases through
Rehabilitation of DrinkingWater Supply in Khyber- Pakhtunkhwa
applied a two- pronged approach which included i) providing
access to safe drinking water and ii) creating awareness
amongst the community about basic sanitation and hygienic
water use and storage practices. The project was funded by
the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and
implemented by Integrated Regional Support Program (IRSP)
and by Jobs International Private Limited (JIPL).
Training of health staff at Bannu.
The project targeted different groups at all levels of the
community with its sensitization program me and maximized
use of funds by reaching a wide group of beneficiaries. Young
children and their parents were the primary target audience,
while religious leaders, teachers, parent teacher councils
(PTCs), Lady Health Workers (LHWs), hospitals/Basic Health
Unit (BHU) staff, community support persons, shopkeepers
and medical store owners/managers were the secondary
target audience. In the behavior change (‘soft’) component, the
team targeted the neighbors of the well owners (one participant
per HH) in addition to the well owners. The training of other
community members, such as shop keepers, LHWs, BHU
staff, religions people and community resource persons (CRPs),
was conducted in order to ensure the sustainability of the
project messages beyond the end of the project.
At the school level, teachers of classes 3 and 4 at the public
and private primary schools were targeted. They conducted
interactive sessions with their students in order to promote
water safety and hygiene.This multi-pronged approach ensured
that various effective channels were utilized appropriately
to reinforce key messages related to well protection, water
treatment, water storage, handling and hand washing, for each
targeted population.
In the rehabilitation activities, 2,000 domestic dug wells were
rehabilitated along with improvement of household latrines in
order to reduce fecal contamination of wells from latrine and
septic tank. Pre and post water quality analysis was performed
to identify the effectiveness of the intervention.
Project Impact
Survey results indicate that medical expenditures of
households significantly decreased at the end of the
project. Sharp increase in access to clean drinking water
was reported by 83% of the communities –from a mere
2% at the inception of the project.
The number of protected dug wells increased to 73% from a
starting level of 4%. A similar, marked increase was observed
picking, wheat harvesting or for manual labour to Jhang and
Faisalabad). Out of 612 COs there are 254(42%) women COs.
Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) were signed with
COs. The roles of President and Manager was clearly defined
and provided to them in written form.
The process for forming the VOs has also been completed
during the reporting period however these organizations will be
constituted during the month of January 2015.The VOs will get
trainings and the LSO will be formed till mid of the April 2015
and their registration process with social welfare department
will be initiated.
Facilitate experience sharing among community-
based organizations through arranging Manager
Conferences
For experience sharing among communities four Managers’
Conferences were held representing all the four UCs. UC Gadola
organized this event at Conference Room of Government Post
Graduate College Bhakkar on 18th November 2014. There
were 22 Managers/Activists from Union Council, while from
the Government Sector representation from Livestock, Public
Health Engineering Department, Health Sector (Outreach
Teams) and Irrigation Department was made. Representatives
from COs (Managers and Activists) had major concerns about
livestock, Sanitation and Irrigation Channels. Dr. Mohammad
Aamir from livestock responded to many queries of the
participants especially the reduction in the number of available
livestock due to certain prevalent diseases. Responding
to questions regarding irrigation channels the Agriculture
Extension Department’s officer Malik Muhammad Riaz told
that presently no budget in available for the construction of
irrigation channels.
However, when the budget would be allocated, the desirous
community would have to organize themselves and contribute
their share. Most of the participants were having basic
awareness on safe sanitation. When the PHED’s Sub Divisional
Officer Chaudhary Abdul Ghafoor told that certain schemes of
sewerage and drainage are allocated through MPA/MNA. He
warned the communities that open defecation is the major
threat for health and safety of the local community. One of
the participants said that construction of household latrines
is very expensive and every household is unable to construct
it. He further requested the PHED’s officer that if they could
assist the community in designing certain low cost household
latrines. PHED representative responded that low design
varies from area to area depending on the soil and water table.
He promised that one of their representatives would visit them
and design the HH Latrine according to the time available.
Engage youth in the development process by
arranging co-curricular/recreational activities
In the project area, IRSP organized 6 events of recreational
activities for the local young generation. Although youth
participated in mass meetings and CO/VO formation, yet well
thought out exclusive co-curricular activities for youth were
planned. In the rural communities the most popular game is
volleyball, therefore, for male youngsters, volleyball matches
were arranged in three UCs while in UC Dhandla a cricket
match was organized. Announcements were made through
loudspeakers, posters and displaying banners projecting EU
Logo. At the same time the commentator repeatedly projected
EU support for this event and appreciated to bring together
youth for some health activities. For the winning team shields,
souvenirs and cash prizes were awarded
In the rural set up, females are confined only to family gathering
or some religious festivals. It is very rare that they get an
opportunity for any other social gathering. When our female
staff shared with the women for arranging certain recreational
activity, it was highly commended by the female segment. In
consultation with females 2 events of Millad, Quiz Programme,
tableaus and sort of completion in establishing different stalls
and cultural shows were organized in UC Gadola and Kachi
Shahani.
No. UC Name
Number COs
Total COs Percent of Total COs
Male Female
1 Gadola 93 63 156 25.49
2 Sial 85 65 150 24.51
3 Kachi Shahani 90 64 154 25.16
4 Dhandla 90 62 152 24.84
Total 358 254 612 100

Addressing Water and Sanitation challenges of IDPs and host communities
at District Bannu
In order to ensure the availability of safe drinking water
to the IDPs and hosting communities, 378 water sources
were cleaned and shock chlorinated during the project.
20 water sources were tested prior to the process while
80 were tested after shock-chlorination. A total of 13,293
IDPs and 13,998 individuals from hosting communities
were benefited in the target district.
75 household water treatment and hygiene sessions were
conducted in the community where 791 members from IDPs
and 783 from hosting communities were trained.
118 technical staff members from WASH cluster, PHED, TMA
and FDMA were trained on disinfection in emergencies and
use of WATA kit for chlorine production. The training was very
useful to enable service providers to perform disinfection in
emergencies.
4,000 copies of IEC materials regarding household water
treatment, safe storage of drinking water and best hygienic
practices were developed and distributed among the target
audience at district Bannu.
Objectives of the project:
The objectives of the project were as follow:
• Cleaning, disinfection and testing of water sources at IDPs
hosting communities
• Capacity building of IDPs and host communities on household
water treatment and safe storage
• Capacity building of Service providers working on water
disinfection in emergencies
• Target Area: The project was implemented at three union
councils of district Bannu where the prime target was IDPs
while hosting population was also benefited directly through
the intervention.
Project Outputs:
• 378 Communal, household, water sources at schools, IDPs
households and public water supply schemes in hosting areas
cleaned and disinfected. 100 sources out of them were tested,
(20 pre and 80 post-tests).
• 75 Hygiene promotion sessions carried out highlighting water
quality, storage and safe consumption
• 1,574 Community members trained on household water
treatment techniques and hygienic practices
• 118 PHED and TMA staff on water quality testing and
disinfection of water sources in emergencies and involved in
shock chlorination
• The public water supply schemes were chlorinated by involving
PHED and TMA staff
Project Activities:
To achieve the project objectives following activities were
carried out during the project period;
Disinfection and cleaning of water sources:
The community members were sensitized on the process
of shock chlorination before starting the activity. During the
project, 378 water sources were cleaned and shock chlorinated
at household as well as community level. HTH was used for
the disinfection and shock chlorination while the dewatering
for usage of safe containers (cooler) where prevalence rose
from 8% to 65%. At the start of the project only 25% of
the people believed that it was necessary to treat water to
make it safe for drinking, whereas by the end of the project
74% reported that they believed it was necessary to purify
water prior to drinking. About 93% of the respondents in the
survey have claimed to have started using soap after project
interventions and 86% claimed awareness of the benefits of
air-drying. Improvement in water quality was one of the main
indicators of the project; and the data show that the ratio of safe
water sources increased from 17.52% (before rehabilitation) to
52% within seven to nine months after rehabilitation.
The analysis of bacteriology after wells rehabilitation
revealed that 80% of sources were safe after two months
of rehabilitation. However, the ratio decreased to 62% after
4-6 months and 52% after a 7 to 9-month period following
rehabilitation. This indicates that community members had
not completely adopted the practice of protecting wells and
safe handling of water sources at levels sufficient to maintain
the status of water quality. This was one of the indicators that
would likely have benefitted from longer-term project duration.
Overall, a greater number of projects focusing onWASH-related
behavior change should be designed and implemented all over
Pakistan to help to save lives and achieve MDGs.
IndividualsTrained in Awareness Activities inYear 2014:
No. Activities
Year 2014
Targets Achieved
1. Teachers 81 125
2. Students 1,345 2,524
3. Schools 35 71
4. WWDs & GHWDs 4 4
5. PTAs oriented 35 35
6. Schools follow ups 35 35
7. SODIS video dis 35 25
8. Religious leaders 61 61
9. CRPs 40 43
10. Female sessions 100 120
11. Male sessions 50 55
12. Shopkeepers 134 136
13. LHWs 40 43
14. HH follow ups 200 200
15. Medical Stores 31 32
Rehabilitation Activities Completed inYear 2014:
S.# Activities Target Achieved in Year 2014
1 Wells rehabilitated 2,000
2 Well cleaning and chlorination 2,000
3 Latrines repaired/constructed 129
4 Water quality tests conducted before rehabilitation 450
5 Water quality tests conducted after rehabilitation 975
6 Community meetings/sessions conducted 65

was performed after 8-24 hours. Water sources at community,
schools and common places have been given priority due to
their importance.
After shock chlorination, dewatering was carried out and free
residual chlorine level was analyzed. The sources were handed
over to the community and the owners after making sure that
the free residual chlorine level has dropped down to 0.2-0.5
mg/l.
Social Mobilization and Hygiene Promotion:
The community was trained on household water treatment and
adaptation of best hygienic practices. 75 community sessions
were conducted in the target areas where 791 IDPs and 783
participants from hosting community. 4,000 Booklets regarding
best hygienic practices and household water treatment were
distributed during the community sessions.
Pre and Post Bacteriological Analysis:
Pre and post bacteriological analysis were also performed in
order to analyse the improvement of water quality in the target
area. During the project, 20 water sources before and 80 after
cleaning and shock-chlorination were tested for bacteriological
analysis.
During the analysis it was observed that 60% of water sources
were contaminated before cleaning and shock chlorination
while the ratio reduced to 7.5% after shock chlorination.
Training of Service Providers:
To ensure the provision of safe drinking water, technical
staff of PHED and TMA was trained on water disinfection in
emergencies and use ofWATA kit for chlorine production.Three
trainings were conducted at Bannu where 91 participants were
trained while a 2-days TOT was also arranged at Peshawar a
total of 27 participants were trained. The training in Peshawar
was arranged for the sub engineers and sub divisional officers
of PHED and TMA, technical staff of NGOs. The main purpose
of the TOT was to enhance the capacity of the participants
to further perform the activities in practical and train other
technical staff as well.
One-day training on chlorination and use of WATA kit was for
the tube well operators of PHED andTMA in order to use WATA
Kit in the field for chlorine production and perform chlorination.
WATA kits were already provided to PHED by the TMA so the
training was very helpful to them in order to use the kits in the
field for chlorine production.
Outcomes achieved
The project intervention aimed to minimize the ratio of
water borne diseases in the IDPs and host communities
at district Bannu. For achieving the desired goal, IRSP with
the financial support of SDC started the project by improving
access to WASH facilities in the target area. The project
was implemented in two pronged approach of hard and soft
intervention. Provision of water and sanitation facilities in
schools, communities and health facilities were followed by
training of community members, school teachers, health
staff and PHED officials on water quality and disinfection. For
the successful execution of the project, PHED, Health and
education department were involved in the activities.
To ensure the sustainability of the project, the community
members, school teachers and health staff was trained on the
operation and maintenance of the installed water sources.
Unlike other developmental and long term projects, it is hard
to observe the overall impact of the project due to the short
period of intervention, however pre and post KAP survey was
performed to analyse the efficiency of the intervention.
Project impact:
The post KAP survey shows that medical expenditures
of households significantly decreased at the end of the
project. Sharp increase in access to safe drinking water
was reported by 89.3% of the communities –from a
mere 38.9% at before the project.
At the start of the project only 39% of the people believed that
it was necessary to treat water to make it safe for drinking,
whereas by the end of the project 79% reported that they
believed it was necessary to purify water prior to drinking. About
71% of the respondents in the survey have claimed to have
started using soap after project (56% hand washing practices
before the project). Improvement in water quality was one of
the main indicators of the project; and the data show that the
ratio of safe water sources increased from 20% to 94% after
the intervention (the season may also affect water quality, the
project was started in monsoon and ended in winter).
Rehab latrines RHC Domail
According to the end line KAP survey, 89.3% of the target IDPs
families were satisfied with the quantity and quality of water.
The increase in quantity of water further lead to better sanitation
and improved hygiene as 15% increased observed in the hand
washing practices in the target communities (56% hand
washing practices before while 71% after the project).
The end line KAP survey reveals that 89.9% of IDPs and host
families were disposing-off human excreta safely by provision
and rehabilitation of hygienic toilets in the targeted areas.
72.68% of the population was not using latrine and practicing
open defecation.
The incidence of water and sanitation borne diseases were
minimized by educating IDPs and host families, according to
health data the ratio of water borne diseases decreased by
17% observed in the target areas by the end of the project.
The ratio of water borne diseases was 27.4% before the project
which reduced to 10.5% at the end of the project.
44% of the target population was practicing household water
treatment methods while the ratio was 10.7% before the
project. 71% were practicing hand washing and improved
hygiene.
The services providers were also trained on water quality,
treatment of water and cleaning of storage tank by using
chlorine compounds. During the project 200 of the TMA and
PHED staff was trained while 12% of them were practicing
chlorination in the field.
The project intervention not only facilitated men but also
women in the communities at district Bannu.The software and
hardware intervention in the schools of both genders, health
facilities and in the community facilitated men, women and
children equally.
The improvement in the sanitation facilities at girl’s schools
was highly appreciated by the community as the access to this
facility was very poor in the targeted schools before.
The rehabilitation of water supply schemes not only increased
access to safe water at door steps for women but also saved
time which they were spending for fetching water from
neighbours. In this way the women can spend more time to
maintain personal and domestic hygiene to take better care of
their families.
Following are the figures of well cleaning in different villages of the above districts;
S# District Union Council
No. Of
Villages
# of Sources
Chlorinated
# of Sources
Pre-Tested
# of Sources
Post-Tested
Beneficiaries
(IDPs)
Beneficiaries
(Hosts)
1
Bannu
Domel 8 120 7 30 6,357 6,885
2 Kakki Khel 4 198 6 41 3,292 2,168
3 Mamash Khel 8 60 7 9 3,644 4,945
GrandTotal 3 20 378 20 80 13,293 13,998
Beneficiaries from hygiene sessions:
S# District Union Council No. Of Villages # of Sessions Conducted Beneficiaries (IDPs) Beneficiaries (Hosts)
1
Bannu
Domel 8 25 280 230
2 Kakki Khel 4 35 418 405
3 Mamash Khel 8 15 193 148
GrandTotal 3 20 75 891 783

The Citizen Engagement for Social Service Delivery Phase-III
The Citizen Engagement for Social Service Delivery
(CESSD, Phase III project), operating in 11 districts
of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Province works at the
community, district, and provincial levels to strengthen
service delivery across KP in the education, health care,
and water supply sectors. The project’s goal is to improve
the quality of basic social services in KP and increase
access to and use of these services, particularly by girls
and women.
CESSD project progress FY 2014-15:
• One-day PTCs orientations were held with each PTC
on government mandated roles and responsibilities of
PTCs for 176 Parent Teacher Councils in selected PTCs
in consultation with district education department. (Girls
Schools were 87 & Boys Schools were 89).
• Total 13 Mothers’ groups were formed in boys’ primary
schools in the light of the PTC guidebook.
• 44 events of Four-days trainings on roles and
responsibilities, financial management, PTC record
keeping, School Improvement Plan (SIP), Primary
Education Quality Standards (PEQS), raising awareness of
the PTCs on corporal punishment for 89 male PTCs & 87
female PTCs were held.
• 80 General Body Meetings of 80 different PTCs were
conducted in which progress, planning and challenges to
PTCs were discussed and action plan were developed.
• 18 events of two-day training on Gender and education
for male PTCs & female PTCs were conducted in which
total of 176 PTCs were trained.
• 18 events of Two-Day trainings on Social Accountability
(Right to public service, right to information) for newly
selected 87 female PTCs and 89 male PTCs.
• Conducted a six-month adult literacy course for 21
mothers’ groups.
• Facilitated and coached 80 PTCs for the preparation and
implementation of School Improvements Plans (involving
mother groups).
• 76 UC level PTCs Networks were developed and 10
circle level PTC Networks were established through PTC
election.
• Best PTCs Annual conference were conducted in
Islamabad.
• Community Forum were conducted through networks at
district level.
• 2 Events of One-day training on revised role &
responsibilities of PTCs were conducted for old selected
15 male PTCs & 15 female of years 2011-12
Community forum at GPS Mir Akbar killi Mardan
Community Based Disaster Risk Management in the selected union
councils of district Charsadda of KP, Pakistan
Community Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM)
was an innovative project, implemented by Concern
Worldwide Pakistan through funding by OFDA, in flood
affected provinces of Pakistan (2011-2013.)
In the province of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa (KPK), Concern
Worldwide-Pakistan (CWW-lead partner) & Integrated Regional
Support Program (IRSP- Implementing Partner) implemented
the Community Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM)
program aimed at improving the disaster risk management
capacities and strategies of poor and vulnerable communities
and other key stakeholder in 16 flood affected union councils
of district Charsadda through sustainable preparedness and
increased institutional capacity. Major activities completed
under the CBDRM project:
• Participatory risk analysis and development of 16 Union
Council (UC) level DRM Plans,
• Community mobilization,
• Awareness raising and capacity building,
• Provision of emergency contingency stocks,
• Advocacy for the integration of DRR in development
processes.
Training and capacity building of the local human resource
is an essential part of the CBDRM program at all levels
i.e. beneficiaries, partners and program staff.
Advocacy events were held with the government, community
and CSO. Under the project build capacities of stakeholders
ranging from community mobilization & awareness raising on
CBDRM/DRR to the trainings of CBDRM facilitators & 286
members of 16 union councils level DMCs and 814 members
of 16 union councils level ERTs members on specific skills
based on the needs. Trainings of the 805 local school teachers
on DRR/CBDRM were also held to ensure disaster risk
management at the school level. Particular emphasis was given
to the capacity building of all the DRM structures/stakeholders
(DMCs, ERTs, teachers etc.) on disaster management, group
dynamics, conflict resolution and leadership skills to ensure
their longer term sustainability and development.
243 flood mitigation schemes were completed under CBDRM
(135 De-siltation schemes, 56 protection walls & Protection
walls, 42 RCC culverts & 10 new drains). These are benefiting
249455 people ( 49891households). Cash for work (PKR
2622844) was provided to total of 2083 local skilled and unskilled
labours, total of 6382 men-day of temporary employment were
generated locally.
The mitigation measures increased the safety of beneficiaries
and infrastructures. It also facilitated them in easy and timely
carriage of housing reconstruction materials from city/nearby
markets at their villages. Technically the schemes designs and
construction met quality standard and local needs. The local
community was involved in all stages of physical work etc.
IRSP exit strategy was developed for CBDRM and final
meetings with the DMCs, DCO, other concerned departments
and NGOs working in the area were held and list of schemes
and list of DMC & ERT members were provided to relevant
government counterpart.

Activities:
Community Based Disaster Risk Management
(CBDRM) Training for CBDRM Facilitators:
Concern Worldwide arranged two weeks training for 5 IRSP
facilitators. The training was facilitated by Asian Disaster
Preparedness Centre (ADPC) because NDMA recommended
and certified their trainings for the CBDRM programming in
Pakistan.
Development/Adaptation of training/IEC materials
on DRM:
IEC materials were designed to provide information about the
disasters risks, disaster risk reduction measures and used as
a tool for the community awareness raising. The IEC materials
were developed in the local language and keeping in view the
local culture and hazard situation of district Charsadda.
Community Mobilization and Awareness Raising
Sessions on DRR/CBDRM:
Community mobilization and awareness was an integral part
of the CBDRM program to sensitize and prepare the local
communities to actively participate in DRR/CBDRM activities
in their respective villages/UCs.
There were 60 mobilization meetings conducted in different
locations of 16 union councils.
Participatory risk analysis and development of UC
level DRM plans:
The activity of Participatory risks was carried out in 16 union
councils to determine the nature, scope and magnitude of
negative impacts of hazards on the community and locations
that were most vulnerable. The methodologies and tools
used were hazard/risk mapping, historical timelines, seasonal
calendars, focus group discussions, analysis, observation,
transect walk, action planning tables. Those DRM plans were
handed over to Disaster Management Committees (DMCs) &
District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA).
Following the risk assessment, the facilitators facilitated the
communities in developing 16 UC level DRM plans.
The steps that were followed in developing a UC level DRM
plan are as follows:
• Listing of identified hazards (during risk analysis)
according to priority and listing of problems associated
with the identified hazards
• Discussion on priority problems and setting of objectives
to address each problem
• Identification of risk reduction measures/activities and
persons/groups responsible to address these problems
• Identification of resource requirements for the
implementation of preparedness and risk reduction
measures (from available resources of community and
required from external sources)
• Setting the timeframe for the completion of activities
• Setting up the monitoring mechanism to track progress
on activities.
16 UC DRM plans were printed, and copies were provided
for dissemination among the DMCs and relevant government
stakeholders. The hazard map of each UC was displayed (on
a metal signboard) at a prominent place within the UC for
sensitisation of communities.
UC level DRM plans were linked with tehsil/district level DRM
plans of the government. Linking of the UC level DRM plans with
the tehsil/municipal/district DRM plans for institutionalization
of the UC level DRM planning and link the communities
with the tehsil/district/provincial and national authorities. For
further speedup of information flow to the community level
(particularly early warnings), the DMCs were provided mobile
phones, pocket radios (FM/AM) and megaphones for the UC
level DMCs, as part of the stockpiles.
The program aimed to strengthen linkages between
government institutions (NDMA/PDMAs/DDMAs, District
Governments, and Tehsil Municipal Administrations etc.) and
UC level DMCs to help increase disaster preparedness at
the local level. Linking of UC DRM plans with the upper tiers
(tehsil/district) will also help UC’s to access external resources
to carry out the risk reduction measures identified during DRM
planning.
Formation and training of UC level Disaster
Management Committees (DMCs) in basic disaster
management skills:
During the UC level DRM planning, communities in the target
16 UCs were facilitated to establish 16 UC level DMCs for
DRM related responsibilities in their respective UCs. Each of
the 16 UC level DMC had 15 members, with representation
from all the villages in the UC – including CBOs and local
government representatives present at the UC level. At the
very outset of the program, DMCs members were provided
CBDRM training. This enabled them to carry out essential risk
management tasks in their respective UCs. IRSP facilitators
build the capacity of the UC level DMCs on topics such as
coordination and communication during emergencies, basic
damage and need assessment, relief distribution, DRM
planning including evacuation and early warning mechanisms.
DMCs were responsible to disseminate weather updates/flood
early warnings (from NDMA/PDMAs/DDMAs, PMD & local
government administration) to their respective communities.
In 19 trainings total 286 (including 86 female members and
220 male) members of 16 DMCs were trained under the
program on the above mentioned topics.
Trainings were coordinated with relevant government line
departments and local DDMA representatives were involved
in the process.
Training of UC level Emergency Response Teams
(ERTs) in basic emergency response skills:
During the UC level DRM planning communities were facilitated
to establish 16 UC level Emergency ResponseTeams (ERTs) to
undertake primary emergency response activities in case of any
disaster within the UC. Each of the UC level ERT consisted of
50 members with representation from all the villages in the UC
including representatives from the UC level local government
and CBOs. These ERTs were trained on first aid, search and
rescue, damaged need assessment (DNA) and emergency
response, relief distribution for the ERTs to equip them with
the essential skills to respond in case of emergencies. In total
814 members (including 80 females & 734 males) of 16
ERTs were trained.
Training of local school teachers on disaster
preparedness/ DRM:
IRSP’s CBDRM facilitators provided training on disaster risk
management to the school teachers in the 16 target UCs.
From each target UC, 50 teachers were trained - in total
805 (303 female teachers & 502 male teachers) in 16 DRM
trainings were trained under the program. Teachers’ trainings
were coordinated with the education department, school
management and DDMA of district Charsadda.
243 schools were targeted in Disaster Risks Managements
trainings across 16 union councils of district Charsadda.
Provision of emergency contingency stocks (tools and
equipment) at the UC level:
Essential tools and equipment were provided to 16 targeted
DMCs in order to equip communities to undertake emergency
response and mitigation activities. The contingency stock
items were useful for search & rescue, first aid, firefighting and
receiving / dissemination of information/early warnings. DMCs
were assisted to ensure proper documentation and record
keeping of the emergency contingency stockpiles. Details of
the stockpiles were shared with district authorities and DDMA.

Advocacy (workshop/meetings/seminars) for the
integration of DRR in development processes at
district level:
Advocacy events (meetings, workshops and seminars) were
arranged at UC, tehsil and district levels to highlight the
importance of integrating DRR in the district level development
programs.
Flood Mitigation Schemes:
The mitigation schemes included De-siltation of blocked
drains; Culverts, retaining walls & protection wall. Those
mitigation schemes were requested by community through
proper resolutions followed by technical & social feasibility.The
progress was regularly shared with district government in soft
and hard copies.
135 schemes of de-siltation of blocked drains were completed
in different locations of 16 union councils. these De-siltation
schemes were coordinated with TMA of Charsadda and other
related organization to avoid duplication of schemes.
243 mitigation schemes were completed in CBDRM (135 De-
siltation schemes, 56 protection walls & Protection walls, 42
RCC culverts & 10 new drains). These are benefiting 51343
people (49891households). Cash for work (PKR 2622844) was
provided to total of 2083 local skilled and unskilled labors, total
of 6382 men-day of temporary employment were generated
locally.
The mitigation measures increased the safety of beneficiaries
and infrastructures. It also facilitated them in easy and timely
carriage of housing reconstruction materials from city/nearby
markets at their villages. The team visited different schemes
locations in villages. Technically the schemes designs and
construction met quality standard and local needs. The local
community was involved in all stages of physical work etc.
Provision of training for effective operation and
maintenance of schemes
Operation and maintenance trainings were provided to 49
members of infrastructure committees and at the end,
schemes were handover to relevant DMCs members. As
mitigation schemes nature were such that it did not involve
technical capacity for O & M, still project committees were
briefed on the importance of clearing drains so that water flow
does not block.
Final monitoring visit was paid by CWW’s staff (engineer, M &
E and project officer) to IRSP field area in district Charsadda,
to assess the achievements of CBDRM project outputs &
outcomes. Their findings were encouraging and their feedback
on part of the IRSP was that it had improved their work up to
a greater extent in sense of site selection and incorporating
the project proposal conceptual thoughts to the schemes on
ground. KPK team has really made great efforts in successful
implementation of the project.
IRSP exit strategy was developed on basis of final meetings
with the DMCs, DCO, other concerned departments and
NGOs working in the area were held. IRSP has completed 106
schemes out of 106 target schemes Sign boards were installed
for visibility of infrastructure schemes. CWW team visited d
DMC UC Utmanzai, DMC MC-2 and DMC UC Tarnab. During
visit and meeting with DMC members and it was observed
that satisfaction level of DMCs members was high, all the sites
for schemes were purposefully selected and the retention level
of the knowledge gained by DMC members was satisfactory.
Muster rolls were physically verified.
Muster roll of entire Cash for Work schemes & Trainings and
acknowledgments were randomly collected by the CWW team
and verified physically in field.
42 culverts were constructed in different locations of 16 union
councils for which request were forwarded by community.
56 protections and retaining wall were constructed on the
request of community.
10 new drains were constructed for smooth flow of flood
waters upon the request of community followed by technical
feasibility.
Project Sustainability and Lessons Learned:
• An important aspect of the CBDRM approach is the
capacity building of the local communities to design and
implement activities and measures to reduce disaster
risks, based on their needs and capacities.
• It was empowering process where communities led
the process and IRSP/partners acted as facilitators and
supporters of the process.
• The program encouraged and assisted communities to
establish/strengthen UC level committees to meaningfully
engage in disaster risk management in a sustainable
fashion.
• IRSP and its partners assisted the communities through
training, mentoring, joint planning, implementation and
monitoring as well as logistic and operational support.
• This support ensured that the community structures
are capable to mobilize resources and continue their
mandates. Enhanced capacity of the community
structures and other stakeholders will ensure that results
achieved by the program are sustained and built upon
beyond the program’s duration.
• Rigorous mobilization and follow up is must for community
participation/success of the project.
Structural mitigation should be part of CBDRM Project for
better results.
Security prone area Shabqader could not have been included
in project.
Less technical support in project beginning stage.
• As shared by Concern partners that for such projects
Participants of DMC, ERT &TeachersTrainings
Project/ Result/Activity: Unit Overall Targets Overall Achievements
Total Mitigation structures constructed/Repair Schemes 244 244
New RCC Culverts constructed Culverts 40 43
De-siltation of Drains Schemes 89 135
Retaining wall/Protection wall constructed. Schemes 56 56
New Drains Constructed Schemes 10 10
Number of Benefitting household from Mitigation schemes HH 51344
Number of O&M trainings Trainings 16 16
Summary of Mitigation Schemes in below table:
S. No
Activates Targets Achieved
Direct
beneficiaries
Indirect
Beneficiaries Remarks
1
Teachers Trainings
800 805 805 303 female & 502 male teachers
2
Disaster Management
Committees
285 286 286
66 female DMC members & 220 Male DMC
members
3
Emergency Response
Teams
800 814 814 80 female & 734 male ERT members
4
O & M Training 49 49
49 project committee members
5 Mitigation Schemes 51344 51344 219860
Direct beneficiaries of 243 mitigation
schemes (de-siltation, culverts, protection
wall & drains) were 51344 individuals
6
Number of participants
in Advocacy seminars,
workshops and meetings
150 211 211
150 participants target and 211 participated in
advocacy seminars & workshops.
detailed orientation of the staff in start of the project
by DRR advisor and other relevant staff will help in
satisfactory implementation of the projects.
• As DRR is a cross cutting theme of Concern strategic
plan, so for better results on ground Concern should build
the capacity of technical staff on priority basis.

WASH Early Recovery for Conflict Affected Families in Bajuar
IRSP is currently working for the promotion of peace
through WASH in Bajuar Agency. IRSP with technical and
financial assistance of IRC is providing WASH facilities
to 40 Community Based Education Centers (CBECs) at
Bajuar Agency that are already established by the another
education partner of IRC named IDEA. Total duration of
the project is 24 months (July 2014 to June 2016)
Details of the achieved target of the project are as under,
• At the inception of the project, project opening workshop
was conducted in which people from different fields of
life including NGOs, local community, Teachers, Political
administration, media and elected representatives
participated in order to have a clear picture about the
project and for effective implementation of the program.
• Pre KAP survey conducted in 38 target villages and
CBECs to have a clear understanding and knowledge of
local WASH practices.
• A total of 35 DWSS will be constructed for provision of
safe drinking water facility to the school going children.
For the purpose 7 DWSS were constructed till date.
• 120 permanent latrines will be constructed (three stance
latrine per CBEC) for proper disposal and adopting best
sanitation practices. 7 CBECs were provided with the
sanitation facilities by constructing 21 latrines.
• 02 Cleanup Campaign in collaboration with agency
municipal corporation were conducted, at village (CBEC)
Zaga Dheri and GGP&MS Civil colony in which all the
children, TIJ, WMC members, Teachers and Influential
participated in order to insure the cleanliness at CBEC
and surrounding areas on self-help and sustainable basis.
• 38 Water Management Committees were formed for
smooth implementation of the hygiene promotion activities
and their capacity would be further strengthened by imparting
training for the sanitary inspection and bacteriological water
quality test and disinfection of rehabilitated water sources.
• A total of 34 Children Environmental Committees (CEC)
were formed in order to ensure children participation and
promoting good hygiene practices with in the locality.
• 04 Hand Washing Points were constructed for provision
of hands washing facilities plus developing the habit of
hand washing at critical timings.
• A total of 29 pre water quality test of water sources
conducted till date.
• A total of 148 Health & hygiene promotion sessions
in CBECs and Community on the hazards of open
defecation, best hygiene practices, prevention of water
borne diseases, personal & environmental hygiene
and hand washing with soap at critical timings etc. are
conducted in local language.
• Global Hand Washing Day, World water day and Sanitation
day were celebrated with school going children,
community and member of WMCs.
• With the onset of spring in 2015 IRSP in collaboration
with Agency Forest Department carried out a tree
Plantation Campaign in 14 CBECs and one government
girls school. 1100 plants of indigenous species were
planted.
• IEC material Designed & Printed and 331 IEC materials
distributed among the students, teachers, TIJs and
Community members in order to sensitize them for adopting
good hygiene practices.
Detail of health & hygiene sessions
No of Total Sessions No of Male Sessions No of Female No of Boys No of Girls
Beneficiaries
Male Female Boys Girls
148
49 47 28 24 1233 967 1005 1279

Supporting Transparency, Accountability and Electoral Processes in
Pakistan- STAEP
Building on the successes of the Foundation’s 2006-2008
“Support for Free and Fair Elections in Pakistan” Program, the
Foundation proposed a follow-on program to capitalize on the
gains of the 2008 Pakistan General Elections and consolidate
progress towards transparent, accountable governance
under civilian rule. To this end, the Foundation proposed a
30 months long “Citizen Action for Electoral and Democratic
Progress in Pakistan” program for enhancing the effectiveness
of government in addressing the critical challenges now
facing Pakistan by increasing citizens’ participation in
ensuring transparency and accountability. The program was
expected to address the long-standing weaknesses in the
nation’s democratic environment through making the Elected
Representatives (ERs) responsive to their constituents,
enhancing electoral reforms and citizen’s participation in
democratic processes, improving civic education on democratic
rights and responsibilities, building media capacity to report on
democracy and governance themes and enhancing FAFEN’s
capacity to operate as an independent civil society network.
Keeping the fruitful results of the intervention in mind, the
Foundation in February 2011 proposed to expand program’s
outreach from 150 to 200 constituencies of national assembly
including Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) along with
extension to project life from February 2012 to June 30, 2013.
After the program close out, once again the extension has been
given to complete the remaining work throughout the program
and to strategize some new ideas for the future planning.
Extension phase has begun from mid December 2013 for six-
month period till mid-June 2014. After the receipt of Letter of
Agreement from TAF, IRSP carried out the recruitment process
as per guidelines from TAF and recruitment policy of IRSP.
Selection of Program Manager and one District Coordinator
was made on the basis of relevant experience with Free and
Fair Election Network (FAFEN) in every position from 2007 till
date. Soon after the recruitment of staff, an orientation meeting
was conducted by FAFEN on December 23 & 24, 2013 and
for the first time, heads from the member organizations were
also invited to attend and participate. Along with other member
organizations from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, IRSP attended this
meeting at Shelton Guesthouse in Peshawar. Both, the Program
Manager and Executive Director of IRSP actively participated
particularly, in the planning session for STAEP extended phase.
For further capacity building of the staff on activity reporting, a
training workshop was held on training modules and FOPT for
STAEP staff at Peshawar to identify FOPT related issues and to
make efforts for resolution of these issues.
To strengthen and reactivate District Governance Group (DGG)
in the District and Provincial Governance Group in the Province
to tackle basic issues of the community and to engage with
Provincial Government for the resolution of governance issues.
• As mentioned in above paragraph that the very first
activity of the extension phases was, Organizations’
heads and Program Mangers orientation meeting held
soon after the recruitment of Program Managers for
FAFEN member organizations Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. This
orientation meeting was arranged by FAFEN secretariat to
familiarize about targets, outputs and activities during the
extension phase.
• After the recruitment of District Coordinator FAFEN
secretariat arranged the second training of Program
managers, District Coordinators and Finance Officers
on reporting modules and FOPT on Monday January 06,
2014. This training aimed to understand the best way
and to ensure timely submission of activity reports on
FOPT. Program Manager and District Coordinator actively
participated in the training and identified and discussed
some issues related to FOPT.
• Soon after the training, IRSP prepared and timely
submitted indicative activity plan for the extension phase
as approved with some suggestions. Though Election
related activities are suspended, regular activities like
governance advocacy, CNIC and Voter registration
campaigns, engagements of CRGs and District
Governance Group (DGG) and capacity building of both
the groups in constituencies and District level are going
on to meet the results.
• Before moving to the field, one-day training and
orientation meeting was arranged on January 20, 2014 as
planned in the training plan for sharing STAEP extended
period outputs, activities and planning. Manual for
District Coordinator training was prepared and designed
by Program Manager and gave it manual’s shape after
approval from TAF.
• Preparation for District Governance Group reactivation
and Orientation of CRGs regarding the extension phase
of STAEP, three meetings were held respectively with
each and every CRG.
In this connection
o 1st meeting was held with NA-10 Mardan II
Constituency Relation Group on January 23, 2014 and
elected 3 members for DGG.
o 2nd CRG meeting arranged with NA-09 Mardan I and
elected 7 members for District Governance Group
o 3rd meeting arranged with NA-11 Mardan III
Constituency Relation Group on January 27, 2014 and
6 members were elected as members of District
Governance Group.
• Total number of 17 members promoted and selected for
District Governance Group (DGG) training for extension
phase.
• Prepared and approved DGG training manual by Program
Manager followed by District Governance Group (DGG)
training held at IRSP Office on January 28, 2014.
• A meeting was conducted with Assistant Election
Commissioner District Mardan Mr. Ijaz Ahmad Awan
for local bodies’ election plan and delimitation of union
councils of District Mardan on January 17, 2014 at Election
Commission Office Mardan. Due to some complaints on
delimitation process from some political parties it was not
shared with District Coordinator.
• A meeting with NADRA officials was conducted to
discuss regarding one identified low CNIC registration
pocket and requested for MRV to facilitate unregistered
citizen of Sawal Dher Tehsil Katlang Mardan.
• District Coordinator prepared three issue briefs and
designed campaigns on selected governance issue to
educate, mobilize and engage the citizens with public
institutions and elected representative and also for
changing their own behavior towards many issue.
• During the extension phase, overall 6 issues came under
discussion which includes 3 issues from the previous
quarter while 3 new issues were identified, analyzed and
targeted for advocacy. This include variations in market
prices and quality, Right to Information, 2 in Education,
Election related issues.
• Identified low CNIC registration pockets during the
extension phase for facilitating unregistered communities
especially women in their door step in District Mardan.
The target that was given to IRSP in CNIC facilitation was 225
CNIC have to facilitate in the extension phase from December
2014 to June 2014. IRSP team facilitated total 522 unregistered
eligible people in which 109 Male and 413 females were
facilitated during taken to NADRA and MRV on Location.
• During the extension phase mobilization meetings were
held with the communities for identifying unregistered
voters and their facilitation for new registration with ECP.
Total 50 unregistered voters facilitated during the extension
phase.
• Potential candidates were identified, profiled and trained
on Local Government Act and responsibilities during
the election. Total 241 potential marginalized candidates
trained during the extension phase to participate in the
upcoming Local Government Election. The candidates
were also engaged in the campaigns for the demand for
local government election.
• Citizen Conventions were also held in every Tehsil of
District Mardan during the extension phase for building
pressure on provincial government to hold immediate
Local Government Elections under the Act for Local
Government Elections in Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa. After
Citizen Convention in three Tehsils of District Mardan,
a letter was sent to Chief Minister and one copy to
Provincial Election Commissioner Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa
along with media campaign and demanded for immediate
holding of LG elections.
Overall impact of the project:
As a result of 4 years of extensive working experience over
democratic governance related themes, it is convinced that
none of the other sectors are so much important than the
interventions highly desired for strengthening the culture of
democratic governance at institutional level for making Pakistan
as prosperous and developed country. SupportingTransparency,
Accountability and Electoral Processes in Pakistan (STAEP)
was one the unique approaches adopted for promoting and
strengthening transparency, accountability and electoral
process within public as well as elected institutions. Activities
under this program were designed for promoting greater
citizens’ participation in governance and democratic processes
that will ultimately bring transparency and accountability at
institutional level as citizen engagements with institutions at all
level is key to the performance of institution. I appreciate those

who designed STAEP program as under this program, citizens
on one side got the opportunity to closely observe the existing
culture of governance within public and elected institutions
while on the other side, it provided a forum where they can
raise their voices and a forum where they got guidance to
influence the duty bearers for performing transparently.
Keeping the outputs under STAEP in mind, I would say that the
program was quite successful in achieving its results. STAEP
has successfully contributed in filling in the gap between
citizens and public institutions as well as between citizens
and their elected representatives. STAEP was successful in
identifying active citizens, building their capacity and facilitating
them in their engagement with public institutions and with
elected representatives. The presence of active citizen groups
in each constituency and their level of engagements with public
institutions and elected institutions are the glaring examples.
They are identifying their constituency based and district based
issues, raise it with authorities concerned as well as making
allies for supporting their caus.They are seeking information of
public importance, furnishing RTIs, conducting meetings with
public and elected officials and are raising people’s awareness
on civic and democratic education.
Although, STAEP was successful in achieving its objectives, but,
to achieve its goal i.e. “ensuring more effective, transparent
and accountable governance that addresses the critical
challenges facing Pakistan today” still a lot of continuous
interventions are needed as Pakistan still faces crises of
governance.The essential pillars of good governance, including
rule of law, accountability and transparency are trampled
upon by corrupt and incompetent duty bearers. Unfortunately,
since the creation of this country no serious efforts have been
made to ensure accountability and transparency translated
into effective mechanisms/systems leading towards true
democracy and good governance.
It is therefore, recommended that continuous interventions are
needed to keep the existing culture of citizens’ engagements
alive. More programs are needed and more resources are
required to be allocated to this sector. Similarly follow ups of
the existing structure in the form of CRGs, DGGs and PGGs are
very much crucial for making them active and alive.
Long Term Election Observation and Oversight Project (LTEOOP)
The Long Term Election Observation and Oversight Project
(LTEOOP) was completed on December 31, 2013 as per the
actual contract but it got extension in January for next four
months i.e. January 1, 2014 to April 30, 2013 with some
modifications and revision in its scope of work. In its extension
phase of LTEOOP, IRSP has to conduct consultative meetings
and workshops over six thematic areas, selected for Electoral
Reforms and Advocacy. IRSP carried out these activities in
all the three National Assembly’s Constituencies of district
Mardan namely NA-09-Mardan I, NA-10-Mardan II and NA-11-
Mardan III.
This report covers all the activities and efforts being done under
the extension phase of LTEOOP, which include consultative
meetings with citizens from each National Assembly’s
Constituency (NA), consultative meeting with university level
students, consultative meetings with district level leadership of
five political parties, consultation with multi-stakeholders and
last of not the least, district level press briefing.
All the activities went successful. The participants everywhere
and in each consultation, recorded live participation and it
was observed that they took keen interest in the topics and
themes selected for consultation. Although, there came some
petty challenges while arranging some of events but overall the
activities went smooth as per the plan.
Summary of the activities being held in the ex-
tended phase, is given below:
Consultative Meeting with Citizens of NA-
10-Mardan II:
The 1st
target group under LTEOOP project was consulta-
tion with constituency based citizen and in this connec-
tion, IRSP started this series of constituency based consul-
tations with citizens from National Assembly Constituency
NA-10, Mardan II. The activity was conducted as per the
work plan and the procedures followed for this activities
include consultation with key informants of the constitu-
ency, finalization of date and venue for consultation, fur-
nishing invitations to proposed participants, follow up the
participants for confirming their participation. This activ-
ity was conducted on February 06, 2014 at Sher Garh Pub-
lic School, Hari Chand Road, Sher Garh, NA-10, Mardan.
Consultative Meeting with Citizens of NA-11-
Mardan III:
IRSP conducted second consultative meeting with the citi-
zens of NA-11, Mardan-III on February 12, 2014 at Rustam
area, one of hubs of constituency. The meeting was ar-
ranged and conducted by following the strategy applied
in the first consultative meeting.
Consultative Meeting with Citizens of NA-
09-Mardan I:
Third consultation meeting was conducted in NA-09-Mar-
dan-I, on February 20, 2014. While arranging this event,
STAEP colleagues were also consulted for ensuring partici-
pations of active citizens. This meeting was attended by
members of District Governance Group (DGG) and Con-
stituency Relation Group (CRG) beside other participants.
Consultative Meeting with University
Students:
This was the 2nd
target group to be consulted over the thematic

areas. While preparing work plan on FOPT, this activity was
planned on February 27, 2014 and I initiated arrangement
processes for holding this activity as per plan. While arranging
the said event, I furnished permission letter to Abdul Wali Khan
University Mardan and held meeting with Chairmen of Political
Science and Sociology Departments where I noted that
formalities involved in University’s procedures will not allow
me to conduct this activity till April, 2014. I made visit to private
institute where, students of Master Degree were studying.The
meeting was successful and they welcomed our program. In
meeting, we finalized March 8, 2014 for the said event which
later on, the college administration changed to March 07, 2014.
In this connection, this activity was modified twice and was
finally conducted in the month of March, 2014.
Consultation with Political Parties:
The 3rd
target group for consultation was five prominent
political parties of the district where I made field visits for
arranging consultative meetings with political parties and in
this connection, I conducted consultative meetings with five
political parties of district. As there were more than five political
parties in the district, therefore, I selected those political parties
who either has prominent role in the field at district level or
has close observation over the elections of May, 2013. In this
connection, I selected the following political parties:
• Awami National Party (ANP): ANP remained in power for
five years in the province.
• Jumaat-e-Islami: JI is in coalition with PTI in Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa as a result of May 2013 General Elections
• Jameat Ulma-e-Islam (Fazl-ur-Rehman Group): Part
of Federal Government and remained in provincial
government in the past
• Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaf (PTI): Ruling Party at Provincial
level.
• Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N): Ruling Party National
level
Multi Stakeholders’ Consultative Meeting:
The 4th
target group for consultation was multi-stakeholders
and to this end, I conducted consultative meeting of multi
stakeholders. Consultation with multi stakeholders was
the second last activity. As compared to other activities
for consultation, this activity was a bit heavy in terms of
participants as well as in term of importance. More than 50
participants from different sectors, including women, attended
the event. The activity was conducted in the first week of April
while the preparatory process was initiated in the beginning
of the last week of March which include finalization of venue,
selection of participants, and invitation to the participants and
follow up visits to different locations/offices. Some of the key
stakeholders were visited in person during and after distribution
of invitation letters. I also furnished invitation to those active
citizens who were involved with us as CRG/DGG members.
Members from senior management of IRSP were also invited
to attend the event.
District Level Press Briefing:
The last activity under EU-LTEOOP extended phase
where we had to update both the electronic as well as
print media about the consultations, had been done
with election’s stakeholders as well as about draft
recommendations of FAFEN.
In the preparatory stage for this activity, formal letter was
furnished to President of the Press Club for confirming date,
time and venue. In this connection, I also held meeting with
general secretary of the press club for discussing about the
participants to be invited for this event. During this meeting,
it was decided that the event will be conducted as per date,
time and venue, already shared with them. The meeting was
started as per schedule and was attended by 22 participants
from print and electronic media. The participants were given
brief introduction about FAFEN and EU-LTEOOP’s activities
during pre-election, post-election periods as well as activities
conducted during its extended phase that include consultative
meetings with citizens, students, political parties and multi-
stakeholders. During this briefing, the participants were
informed about the issues with recommendations proposed by
election stakeholders during consultative meetings.
A glimpse of the activities, being implemented against plan, is given below in the tabulated form.
Sr.# Name of Activity
No of
activities
planned
No of activities
implemented Date of Activity Venue of activity
No of
participants
Consultation with Citizen of NA-10
1 1
Feb 06, 2014 Malakand Road, Sher Garh
20
Consultation with Citizen of NA-11
1 1
Feb 12, 2014 Buner Road, Rustam
30
Consultation with Citizen of NA-09.
1 1
Feb 20, 2014 GHS, Landaki, Guli Bagh
28
Consultation with University Students
1 1
March 07, 2014
ANSI College, Nowshera
Road, Mardan 29
Consultation with Political Party (ANP)
1 1
March 05, 2014
Residence of ANP’s Ex-
President 6
Consultation with Political Party (JI)
1 1
March 13, 2014
City Office of Jumat Islami,
Mardan 10
Consultation with Political Party (JUI)
1 1
March 18, 2014
Office/Madrassa, General
Secretary, JUI-F 11
Consultation with Political Party (PTI)
1 1
March 21, 2014 IRSP Head Office
7
Consultation with Political Party
(PMLN) 1 1
March 27, 2014 District Office of PML-N
2
Consultation with Multi-stakeholders
1 1
April 03, 2014
Executive Club, Sheikh
Maltoon 52
District Press Breifing
1 1
April 15, 2014 Press Club Mardan
22

Sanitation Program at Scale in Pakistan
Purpose of this intervention is to ensure the safe disposal
of human excreta and creation of open defecation free
environment at community level along with the safe disposal
of liquid and solid wastes as well as promotion of health and
hygiene practices at community level which is the primary
focus of National Sanitation Policy and contribution towards
meeting the millennium development goals (MDGs).
Main expected results as per the approved Country Program
Document and Country Program Action Plan (CPAP) or United
Nations Development Assistance Framework Action Plan
(UNDAF-AP).
BCC Campaign- 1 in Schools:
Children are called as the change agent and considered very
effective medium to promote any sort of message for achieving
set objectives.That’s why project SPSP deeply focus on school
children and designed event for schools’ children as a part of
campaign 1 and SLTS. To utilize school children and teacher
effectively, IRSP already build a strong coordination with school
children and teachers in every of its target area’s school, where
wash club is a forum which help to disseminate the health
and hygiene messages to other school children. So far IRSP
got very good results of its school intervention. Children are
more conscious about their health as compare to other family
members and they are enthusiastic to deliver the received
messages. Therefore, children learn health and hygiene lesson
and penetrate into the community where they deliver such
messages to their peer groups in village (playground) and
madrasas and to their other family members at home.
Keeping in view the effectiveness of this activity, IRSP in
Campaign-1 has reached to all schools in target areas. In
schools IRSP conducted BCC Campaign -1 activities such
as quiz competition, poster competitions etc. Apart from
campaign-1 activities, IRSP formed wash clubs in 41 schools,
conducted SLTS and developed event calendar through wash
club in all target schools, conducted monthly meetings of wash
clubs and facilitated school wash club members to participate
in their village PRAs.
People (men, women, boys, girls) reached with
demand creation for sanitation messages
The project SPSP is divided into four main Campaign which
is Campaign 1 for demand creation, Campaign 2 for technical
education, Campaign 3 for hygiene promotion and campaign 4
for sustainability. Each of these campaigns further divided into
four events such as event in schools, event at religious place,
house to house event and event at community. Following
the order of the designed project, demand for sanitation was
created by conducting four events in all our 62 targeted villages
in Mohmand & Bajaur Agency.Through these campaign events
communities were targeted in schools, at religious places, in
side house hold and at communal places through a series of
activities to inform/ aware people about the need for sanitation
and safe drinking water. Different event was arranged to raise
sanitation demand in schools through SLTS and campaign
events. BCC campaign 1 is comprised of the following four
events:
The project SPSP is divided into four main Campaigns, which
were launched at all the targeted village. These four campaigns
are below:
• Campaign 1 for demand creation
• Campaign 2 for technical education
• Campaign 3 for hygiene promotion
• Campaign 4 for sustainability
Each of the above campaign is further divided into four events,
which were conducted at all target villages.These events were
• BCC Campaign-1 at school
• BCC Campaign-1 at Religious place
• BCC Campaign-1 at community
• BCC Campaign-1 at house to house (door to door)
According to project design, IRSP conducted 16 events in
each target village. Campaign-1 related all activities have been
finished in all target villages.
BCC Campaign-1 at Religious Place:
Community ownership and involvement is vital in bringing
change in community behaviors towards specific issues and
also lead to sustainability. Like other tribal areas of FATA, the
communities in Bajaur agency is religious minded and deeply
influence by the religious people and give respect and weight
to the sayings of religious people. It might be due low literacy
rate, poverty and less exposure to the other developed areas
of the country. Therefore, keeping in view the above fact, one
event in each campaign will be delivered at religious place
through imam of the mosque. Like minded religious imams of
the mosques were identified in the early stages of the projects
and they were convinced for the deliverance of project activities
and themes in their mosques.
BCC Campaign-1 completed at religious places in 31 villages
in Bajaur and 20 villages in Mohmand. In target villages still
imams are delivering IRSP messages in Friday sermons and
other prayers.
BCC Campaign-1 at Community:
In order to achieve targets/ goals strong mobilization along with
effective coordination/ collaboration between stakeholders
including government and communities is required. Once
the communities are provided with proper knowledge about
the subject matter they can bring change in their lives. As a
part of community, children are one of the important aspects
of the community can help to lead the community towards
achieving ODF status for the village and can eradicate the
menace of unhygienic practices in all senses from their
concern communities. The purpose of BCC Campaign- 1 event
through community is to involve the entire community (male,
female and children) in health and hygiene activities through
awareness and to educate them about the diseases caused by
poor sanitation and unhygienic practices and to realize them
that they can get rid of all these ill practices through collective
and sincere efforts.
IRSP has gone through BCC Campaign-1 at community in
31 villages in Bajaur agency and 26 in Mohmand agency.
BCC Campaign-1 at House to house (Door to
Door):
According to project SPSP, IRSP will reach out to 50,000
populations which include men, women and children through
launching 4 campaigns while each campaign consists of 4
events.Among all four events of each campaign, house to house
is one of the important events, actually design to reach out the
women segment of the community inside home through LHVs/
LHWs for creation of sanitation demand and raising awareness
among female about better health and hygiene practices and
common diseases caused by poor sanitation in the area.
Unfortunately, LHVs/LHWswere not available because of the
strict tribal culture. Therefore, the initial structure of this event
was changed and a new methodology was adopted. According
to this methodology, the households will be divided into small
group of male and they will be called and gathered at a place to
preach about the theme of the event.They were also requested
to convey these messages to their remaining family members
in home especially the women.
IRSP has reached to its target of 31 villages in Bajaur and
26 villages in Mohmand in connection of BCC Campaign-1
at house to house (door to door) event and conducted many
sessions in target villages.
Training events conducted for school
teachers (men, women) on facilitating SLTS
According to the designed project dire need was felt to train
school teachers in the targeted areas which will not only
strengthen the wash clubs in the schools but also help in
to initiate its activities in smooth and timely manner under
the supervision of these trained teachers. After a thorough
consultation with the agency education department, 25
teachers and one education official were trained in 3 days
training from both the agencies at Prang ghar in Mohmand and
at tehsil Khar Bajuar. The 3 days training was held separately in
both the agencies in the last week of May 2013.
During teachers training different sessions were delivered on
sanitation, wash club formation and its role and responsibilities,
sanitation ladder, PATs, CLTS, SLTS, SPSP and its concept
methodologies and techniques to improve the participant’s
understanding on subject. Furthermore, efforts were made to
build a clear understanding on Wash club formation and its role
in changing the behavior of the targeted community.
WASH clubs formed in schools and
strengthened with planned follow up
capacity development sessions
After teachers training SO initiated the process of formation
of wash clubs in the schools of both tehsils. Till date 26 wash
clubs are formed in 26 schools in Bajaur while in Mohmand12
WASH clubs have been formed before the schools were
closed for summer vacations. All wash club members have

been briefed about their role and responsibility. In some of
the schools SO started conducting hygiene sessions with the
wash club members for their capacity building.
Training events conducted for social
organizers on participatory tools and IEC
material for facilitating PATS
Social organizers successful using participatory tools and IEC
material for facilitating PATS in villages according to developed
criteria
Participatory Rural Appraisals (PRAs):
According to the project design, IRSP will be responsible to
conduct one PRA at each target villages. It is a multi-purpose
activity where the community is gathered at one place and
highlights their main problems and identifies its solution
through their own participation. One of the main objectives
of this activity to obtain the list of extremely vulnerable and
vulnerable from the community through well-being ranking and
also get knowledge of their peak busy months when they are
involved in sowing or harvesting their crops through seasonal
calendar. VSC is form in this process and baseline date of the
village is gather during the PRA.
The main steps of the PRAs are:
• Introduction/ Rapport Building
• Social Mapping
• Pat Transact walk
• Pats Seasonal calendar
• Pat well- being Ranking
• Problem Tree
• CAP formation
A format for PRA/ baseline was developed for data collection
in PRAs, so all the data about villages were collected on that
format.The baseline data consisted of name of the village, tehsil
name, population, number of households, number of health
and education facilities, main sources of income, number of
main shops including sanitary shops, the number of latrines,
main crops, common diseases, waste dumping points etc.
IRSP field team has completed all PRAs in its 57 target villages
and approved its VSCs in the process of PRAs and collected
information for PRA/ baseline data.
VSCs existing/formed and trained
VSC will play a significant role in sustaining the project in future,
once the project time is over. As mentioned earlier that IRSP
selected 31 villages in Bajuar and 29 villages in Mohmand for
its wash activities, therefore 31 and 29in VSC were formed in
Bajaur & Mohmand respectively.
Masons trained on sanitation construction
and using their learnt skills
UNICEF has continued response to scale up sanitation, focusing
on achieving an Open Defecation Free (ODF) environment
through demand creation for sanitation, mobilization latrine
construction, meeting needs for supply of sanitation materials
at household level, Behavioral Change Communication and
improved household water treatment in vulnerable rural
communities. Once the community is triggered and they
convinced for construction of latrines, the top most thing which
we need there is trained mason who know how to construct
the low cost latrines, ultimately fulfilling the demand of low
cost latrines which is raised through the process of demand
creation for sanitation.
Therefore, 140 Masons were identified from 31 villages through
set criteria and then 4 groups of 35 Masons (35 in Nos.) in both
the agencies.
It was made sure that both training places should be secure
and easily accessible to all participant Masons. The two days’
mason training divided into two different components, one-
day theoretical training and second day practically construction
of demo latrine in one of the target villages. The objectives of
mason trainings are:
• To build a pool of local Masons for latrine construction
• To build the skills of Masons in Low Cost Latrine
Technology
• To divert the attention of Masons to Sanitation & its
importance
• To alert the Mason about the opportunity in Latrine
construction
• To Provide Mason the knowledge to get benefit from
Sanitation related constructions
• To identify local Masons and link them with the local
Entrepreneur and village sanitation committee (VSCs)
• To ensure the employment of Masons in low cost latrines
constructed by community through demand creation
• To develop database of the Masons of the project target
area i.e. tehsil Khar and Nawagai in Bajaur agency and
tehsil Prang ghar in Mohmand
Entrepreneurs/manufacturer trained and
producing low-cost sanitation solutions
The seed of hope continue to be sown through health and
hygiene promotion to reduce diseases like cholera and diarrhea.
In this connection, IRSP is trying to reach the nock and corners
of the targeted area to ensure the successful implementation
of the project. According to project design once the community
triggered then demand for low cost latrines will be raised
and the community will expect to find the sanitary stuff at
their local sanitary shop if any. This is the reason that a two
days Entrepreneur was arranged, and they were trained and
motivated towards introduction of sanitary materials in their
shop if they have other than sanitary shops. It is expected, once
the community convinced through triggering that they need to
construct low cost latrines at their home which is the ultimate
solution to get rid from diseases caused from poor sanitation,
then supply of sanitary material through entrepreneur will be
ensured timely. The other thing which is very important that
local mason will be linked with concern area entrepreneurs and
mason contact number will be available with entrepreneur, so
these contacts will be given to those customers interested in
construction of low cost latrine. Total 50 entrepreneurs were
identified from the project target areas and their training were
arranged at Nawagai colony.The objectives of the entrepreneur
training are:
• To build a pool of local entrepreneurs in sanitation
• To ensure sanitation material available at door step
• To enhance the skills of entrepreneur in Sanitation
marketing
• To enhance the business tactics of entrepreneur
• To develop the interest of common entrepreneur in
sanitation business
Advocacy initiatives undertaken with duty
bearers/political leadership to support PATS
Consultative meetings were held at both the agencies and
provincial level with senior govt officials in which representatives
from different departments like LGRD, Education, Health,
PHED and Agency Administration participated. Report for the
said events has already been shared with UNICEF.
MoUs signed by implementing partner with relevant public
institutions responsible for sanitation
Villages jointly selected for PATS program by relevant
Government duty bearers with IP
Villages were selected in consultation with agency
administration. 29 villages in Mohmand & 31 villages were
finalized. After joint selection of villages, detailed information
consisted of general information of village i.e. village
population, no. of households, no. of schools, no of medical
facility, sanitation condition of the village etc. were collected
of all targeted villages i.e. 29 villages of Mohmand agency and
31 villages of Bajaur agency having 50000 populations in each
agency.
Inception workshops conducted in the beginning of project.
Villages with baseline established in the beginning of project
by IP.
Schools Identification for wash activities:
After selection and profiling of villages, The SO started
identification of schools in 31 selected villages of Bajuar where
26 schools were identified where 17 schools are located
in tehsil Khar (including 3 girls’ schools) while 9 schools are
located in tehsil Nawagai (including 3 girls’ schools). Among
these 26 schools, 10 schools were selected (according to the
need) for the provision of wash facilities. It is important to
mention here that school children have a vital role in changing
the opinion of community, so IRSP will conduct soft activities
in all its 26 schools. Similarly, 12 schools were identified from
29 villages of Mohmand agency.
BCC Campaign 2 (Technical education):
Same as Campaign-1 (according to the SPSP- Rural),
Campaign-2 theme technical education is also divided into four
main events, which has delivered successfully at the following
places in all target villages:
• At school
• At Religious place
• At community
• House to house (door to door)
BCC Campaign- 2 (Technical Education) at schools:
Children are change agent and proven effective medium to
promote any message for achieving set goals and objectives.
Project SPSP mainly concern with the school children, that’s
why gave them a vital place in project core activities and in all
campaigns. Following the project design, a strong coordination
network build by IRSP team with school teachers and children
in the early stages of project implementation through teachers
training and formation of wash clubs. According to expectation,
school children being proved very effective in disseminating
health and hygiene messages to their families particularly and
to community (especially to their peer groups) in general.
Realizing the importance and effectiveness of the activity,
IRSP in Campaign-2 as well has reached to all schools in
target villages, where IRSP already formed Wash Clubs. In
schools IRSP conducted BCC Campaign -2 activities of theme
technical education such as low cost latrine design, practical
demonstration of hand washing with soaps, boiling water by
different sources through quiz competition, poster competition
etc.Along with BCC campaign-2, IRSP also conducting activities
of event calendar through wash clubs’ members and through
general school children as well. Following are the detail of all
the activities conducted in schools as a part of Campaign-2.
BCC Campaign-2(Technical Education) at Religious
Place:
Community ownership and involvement is vital in bringing
change in community behaviors towards specific issues and
also lead to sustainability. Like other tribal areas of FATA, the
communities in Bajaur & Mohmand agencies is also religious
minded which is deeply influenced by the religious people, give
respect and weight to the sayings of religious people (Mulla)

IRSP Annual Review 2014

Recommended

Recommended

More Related Content

What's hot

What's hot (19)

Similar to IRSP Annual Review 2014

Similar to IRSP Annual Review 2014 (20)

Recently uploaded

Recently uploaded (20)

IRSP Annual Review 2014