The presentation present the SCF's solution

1. Advancing labor rights of
women cotton workers in rising
temperature and climate
change impacts in Sindh
Current Partners:
Asia Gender Equality Fund-
AVPN & Feed The Minds
Sindh Community Foundation
Pakistan

2. • Established in 2001 registered in Societies act XX1, 1860 under the
registration number 5104 in 2007, based in Hyderabad, Sindh province of
Pakistan
• SCF is in special consultative status with UNECOSOC since 2015 and is also
certified with Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy -PCP and Tax Exempted with
FBR
• SCF has MOU with Economic Affairs Division , Government of Pakistan
VISION
SCF envisions for a socially and economically empowered society with no
discrimination on caste, gender and race with equitable access to social justice
and resources
MISSION
Creating social consciousness among the various marginalized
and vulnerable population women, youth, PWDs, minorities living rural
and informal urban settings in Sindh and provision of the equitable access to
resources and opportunities for socio-economic development , improved
health and education status so that they can exercising their rights
to combat poverty and all forms of injustices
Sindh Community Foundation (SCF)
• Special
Consultative
Status with
UNECOSOC
• National
Humanitarian
Network
• CSOs observer
accreditation with
Green Climate
Fund
• Global Disaster
Risk Reduction
Network
• Grow Green
Network Pakistan

3. Gender Just Climate solution at COP27
• “SCF is winner of the Gender Just Climate
Solution Award’ during the Climate
Conference COP27 in Egypt. This was
awarded by Women Engage for Common
Future and United Nations Climate Nations
Climate Technology Centre & Network
UNCTCN and Women and Gender
Constituency for the work on advancing
labour rights of women cotton workers in
rising temperature and climate change
impacts in Sindh”
• https://tribune.com.pk/story/2386462/jave
d-hussain-becomes-first-pakistani-to-win-
gender-just-climate-solution-award

4. Problem
• More than a half million women cotton workers are engaged in cotton
picking a seasonal labor to earn cash/livelihoods
• Lack of literacy
• Poor bargaining and negotiation powers
• Lack of climate risk reduction skills
• Forefront to climate change impact both rising temperature and flood
• Experience offseason poverty
• Poor understanding and awareness on labor laws and rights, decent work
• Poor occupational safety and health
• Vulnerable to health hazards during picking

5. Our solution
- Organizing workers
- Capacity building on negotiation
and bargaining skills
- Awareness on labor rights
- Informal literacy facility
- Leadership of women led unions
- Growers sensitization
- Climate change adaptation and
safety
- Offseason poverty reduction
support
- Advocacy to implement laws
- Linking with social protection
schemes/system

6. - Organizing 10000 women cotton workers in 100
villages
- Capacity building on negotiation and bargaining
skills for 10000 women cotton workers
- Awareness on labor rights , decent work,
- Informal literacy facility to 10000 women cotton
workers
- Leadership of women led trade unions
- Growers sensitization
- Climate change adaptation and safety
- Offseason poverty reduction support to 3000
poor women
- Advocacy to implement laws
- Linking with social protection schemes/system
- Install 300 eco-friendly shads
Targets for
3 years
Total
Budget:
500000
USD

7. Advancing labour rights of women cotton workers in
rising temperature and climate change impacts in Sindh
Donor : ASIAN VENTURE PHILANTHROPY NETWORK LIMITED
Location : 30 villages of district Matiari
Budget : USD 108,734.00
Period: 24 months
Project description:
The project support will sustain the impact of decent work and women
economic empowerment for the women cotton workers and outreach
from the 1050 to 3000 more and institutional development of
organization.
The solution will increase the access of women cotton worker to better
and decent working conditions and economic empowerment. The
solution will organize 3000 women cotton workers on labor rights,
decent working condition, social and occupational safety and climate
change adaptation and 1500 women with literacy and offseason
poverty reduction support –training and organize them into group and

8. Progress of Scale up Grant support
• 30 new women cotton workers group is
formed, 10 women trade unions are
moved for registration with labor
department
• Increased fundraising portfolio to
expand and support the targeted areas
• 60 women leaders from 20 villages, 10
old and 10 new trained in leadership
skills in climate change adaptation and
occupational safety and health
protection
• 2350 women have reached for climate
literacy
• 2350 women are trained negotiation
and bargaining skills and decent
working conditions /labor rights
• 15 Suahee Literacy Centers are near to
established and 525 women cotton
workers are gaining literacy skills
• Offseason poverty reduction trainings
have been identified As result ;150
women have joined 5 skills training
program –five from each village. SCF
held women assembly –workers
conventions on climate justice and
decent work , social protection
• Organization has improved its financial
management, MIS system practices by
practicing software based accounting
• Increased fundraising activities

9. Women cotton workers at Literacy Centers

10. Literacy for Rights Protection of Women
Cotton Pickers in Matiari District, Sindh,
Pakistan
Donor : Feed The Minds UK
Location : 10 new villages of district Matiari
Budget : 16000 GBP
Period: 6 months
Project description: To improve the literacy skills
among 350 women cotton pickers in Matiari District,
Pakistan, enabling them to secure fairer wages and
safer working conditions.

11. Impact of Asia Gender Equality Fund
• SCF has its increased visibility among potential donors by developing
communication material, annual reports, brochures
• SCF is applying climate change adaptation and safety with livelihoods resilience
intersection with labor rights protection
• Improved communication and resources to reach out potential partners and
stakeholders
• Increased financial portfolio has increased and improved financial and
monitoring system, increased number of staff has attracted other donors and
implement solution in well manner.
• Two potential donors assessed after receiving the grant and expansion of literacy
and income generation and climate change intersection model to an other cotton
producing and climate hit district Sanghar in Sindh .
• Women led climate adaptation and tree plantation campaign started resulted
3000 tree planted
• Eco friendly shads designed to be installed

12. Eco-friendly
shad

14. Media Links
• Rights activists demand creation of climate change fund - Newspaper
- DAWN.COM
https://www.brecorder.com/news/40269638/wo
men-cotton-workers-demand-better-health-
safety-measures
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2451810/scf-
launches-new-initiative-to-empower-women-
labourers

15. For our 3 Years Targets we need
support to scale up this model to
more women cotton worker to
become economic and climate
resilient