IRSP Annual Review 2016

MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
As IRSP enters 16th year of its
establishment as a social development
organization and pioneering ground
breaking concepts like CLTS and MHM in
the region, I am hopeful that our tireless
efforts in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
sector has been showing its significant
improvement in people’s lives and are
adapting better practices for a healthy life.
Water, Sanitation and hygiene is basic part
of life and we cannot separate one from
the other. It is evident that more efforts
are required to mobilize the Policy maker
for better policy making regarding clean
drinking water and
Sanitation and ensure its implementation
at grass roots level. We as a social
development entity try to engage with the
stakeholders during and after public events
such as Water Action Month, World Toilet
Day, MHM Day and many more to keep
them in picture with the situation and what
it requires us to do.
IRSP has strengthened its outreach
beyond the borders of KP and extended
our working boundaries to Punjab Province
to bring a significant change in people’s
behavior and promote civil participation to
change their social and economic status.
We are not limiting our knowledge and
experiences to one
region and by the grace of Allah we are very
hopeful that our message will soon reach
to the people of Sindh and Baluchistan.
We have been going extra mile every year to
reach as many people as we can and create
hype to what we believe in.
Together with the people we have come
a long way and this hasn’t been possible
without mentioning our donors and
partners who have been always keen
to show their trust in us. I also believe
that the people who are willing to help
themselves to overcome the poverty and
unhealthy lifestyle is our strength as they
are a role model to people who are seeking
one.
We feel privileged to see the communities
- who always welcome and make us feel
as if we are needed. I would also recognize
the efforts of our staff who are the most
experienced, competent and has never
been behind anyone in the harshest of
locations of region and always came over
the top.
On behalf of the board members, our staff,
donors and those who served at IRSP,
I would like to thank everyone for their
generosity and their trust.
Syed Shah Nasir Khisro

POVERTY ALLEVIATION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
Duration: January 01, 2014 to December 31, 2016
CONTEXT:
IRSP with the financial support of European Union and SABAWON
completed 3 years’ poverty alleviation project namely “Poverty
Alleviation through Community Empowerment and Participatory
Development (PACE-PD)”. The project was completed in 4 Union
Councils (UC Dhandla, Gadola, Kachi Shahani and
Sial) of District Bhakkar, Punjab Province. According to SDPI
Report 2014, 28% population is living below poverty line in District
Bhakkar. The project goals were achieved through completing the
project activities.
PROJECT’S KEY COMPONENTS:
SOCIAL MOBILIZATION:
The communities in the targeted 4 UCs were mobilized to organize
at Mohallah (hamlet), Village and Union Council level, as result of
which 612 community organizations at Mohallah level, 63 village
organizations at Village level and 4 local support organizations
were formed at UC level. The formation
of the community institutions aimed to enable the targeted
communities to raise their voices for their rights, to unite at all
level, to strive together for your rights and to participate in decision
making process.
CAPACITY BUILDING OF SERVICE PROVIDERS AND
COMMUNITIES:
Training and exposure visits were held to build the capacity of the
communities and service providers. The capacity building aimed
to sustain the project interventions and make the community
institutions viable. The capacity building events enabled the
targeted communities to participate in the development
process and raise their voices for their rights. The government
officials’ capacity was enhanced on Disaster Risk Reduction &
Management, 3 tiers’ mobilization model, Natural Resource
management and policy making process. They are hoped to
influence any planning undertaking in future.
The knowledge of the COs, VOs and LSOs’ office bearers was
enhanced through holding 3 and 5 days’ trainings on community
management (48 trainings) and leadership management skills
(24 trainings) and 5 exposure visits. The trainings enabled the
members to understand their roles and responsibilities, the
functions they are expected to deliver and general management
and leadership of community organization.
Force of 25 individuals called Community Resource Persons
(CRPs) was identified and trained as master trainers. The trained
cadre is foreseen as activists who will provide support to expand
the outreach in the communities by bringing the target group
in organized folds. Developing this cadre also provided a proper
exit for the project once the communities have been empowered

sufficiently to be independent and subsequent interaction of any
development interventions will be facilitated by these resource
persons.
CPI EXECUTION:
Access of the targeted population was improved to social services
through completing CPI components. The CPI projects were
identified by the communities followed by socially and technical
validation by IRSP staff. Women were involved in identification
process as they are often ignored in decision making. In Village
Mochi Wala, 5 communal latrines were constructed as requested
by women.
Likewise, projects in Village Hammu Wala, Moondhy Wali, Jhoke
Faqir and many others were selected by the women. It is worth
mentioning that number of CPI schemes was increased from 32 to
44 due to community contribution. The community provided both
skilled and un-skilled labor.
LINKAGES DEVELOPMENT:
IRSP while working in the 4 UCs linked the communities with the
service providers through manager conferences, exposure visits,
meetings, seminars and joint trainings. The targeted communities
in the events were oriented on government projects for poor,
widows, orphans and youth.
The communities were facilitated by livestock, social welfare,
PHED, NADRA, RESCUEE 1122, health & education departments.
MEDIA AND YOUTH ENGAGEMENT:
Realizing the importance of media in the modern era, the local
journalists were engaged highlighting the socio economic
issues and best practices/learning of the journalists in print and
electronic media. The journalists were involved through meetings,
manager conference, field and exposure visits.
Youth is known as the change agent. The project effectively
involved/engaged more than 7000 boys and girls in the targeted
areas through arrangement of youth engagement activities.
For boys, volley ball & Cricket matches, quiz, debate, drama
competitions took place while quiz, debate, milad events, cultural
shows, mehndi and drama competitions were held for girls.
The events aimed to highlight the importance of unity, collective
actions and involving the youth in achieving the project objectives.
PROJECT ACHIEVEMENTS:
• Total 16,718 individuals including 7,215 (43%) women were
organized in community institutions
• Poverty ratio of the community institution was decreased up-
to 12% (See Graph for detail)
• Knowledge of the 1,864 community members and 366
service providers was enhanced on CMST, LMST, DRR, DRM,
NRM, policy making process, proposal writing and financial
management
• 44 instead of 32 CPI projects were completed benefiting
42,636 individuals
• More than 7,000 boys and girls were engaged through 20
youth engagement activities
• The communities were benefited from government programs
for poor, disable, youth and widows e.g. Widow in Village
Kaneri was provided cow, poor and orphans were provided
financial assistance by Social welfare department, women in
targeted UCs were provided CNIC on the door step through
arranging NADRA Mobile Van, RESCUE 1122 delivered
trainings in each UC on first aid and basic life saving
techniques
IRSP recognition at district level:
IRSP was nominated as the member of the district verification
committee under the chairmanship of the worthy District
Coordination officer Bhakkar. The committee was comprised of
three members i.e. SP Traffic, Executive District Officer Education
and IRSP. The committee was formed to verify the applications for
Chief Minister Apna Rozgar Scheme.
Celebration of global events: IRSP in district Bhakkar also
celebrated world water day, global hand washing day, white cane
day, world toilet day and international volunteers’ day. The events
were participated by officials from line departments, local CSOs,
journalists, elected representatives and targeted communities.

Community Institutions’ Members Poverty Status (before and after)

POVERTY ALLEVIATION THROUGH COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT AND
PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT
Duration: February 01, 2015 to January 31, 2018
The Poverty Alleviation and Community Development (PA-
CD) Project has recently completed the first two years of its
implementation. Total duration of the PA-CD Project is spanned
over 3 years starting from January 1st, 2015 and ending on January
31, 2018. The PA-CD Project is currently being implemented in
4 Union Councils Rasheed Pur, Kot Murad, Uch Gul Imam and
Rodhu Sultan of District Jhang Punjab Pakistan.
Total beneficiaries of the project include 123, 430 individuals
comprising of 57,587 children, 34,707 women and 31,136 men. This
2nd interim report provides summary of achieved progress starting
from February 01, 2016 till January 31, 2017.
The underpinning philosophy of the PA-CD Project is community
empowerment illustrated by broader community engagement
in participatory development processes. The project approach
is based on organizing community representation from all
walks of life with due emphasis on inclusion of women and
most marginalized community members into local level small
community institutions; so that development at the very local
level could be initiated. As to commence effective development
process and to ensure and undertake the quality development
work; it is important to focus on enhancing resilience of the
local individuals. Under the PA-CD Project in District Jhang
Punjab Pakistan, keeping these important aspects in view; right
after the revitalization/formation of local community institution,
their representatives’ undergone extensive formal trainings
on community development and operational management of
development initiatives at local level. Besides formal trainings; day
to day involvement of community representatives in development
process in close consultation of the project teams and their
active participation in community meetings also happened to be a
continuous learning exercise for community members. All these
efforts lead to strengthening the community platforms guiding the
local community to initiate and sustain development collaboration
with departments of local government and other development
organizations.
Moreover, all this exercise contributed in building trust of local
government department and other development organizations
on the community lead platforms, which have been fostered
during the project implementation, for which their Government’s
engagement in inclusive local development planning through
development of Union Council level development plans, planning,
execution and monitoring of small community level projects and
execution of service delivery by Government directly via community
platforms beyond EU’s intervention; are some of the evidences.

Skills enhancement of government department’s representatives
also remained an important part of the project; which had an
added advantage of building the capacity of local government staff
on different aspects of community and rural development. These
so far effort by the project helped fostering and strengthening
networks of community institutions (COs/VOs/LSOs) and built their
capacities to interact effectively with local government department
and development/civil society organizations for inclusive
development.
The project focused on the main issue of weakened system
or platform that enable the communities and the government
agencies to interact with each other for local level planning and
implementation of local level agenda. This lack of coordination has
often resulted into such planning and implementation of projects
whose benefits did not reach to the communities in general and
especially to the poor, women or other vulnerable population.
During the last two years of project period, the completed
activities and results have specifically adhered the interventions
that contributed in alleviating the negative impacts of poverty
and creating opportunities by building and empowering resilient
communities that participated actively in development initiatives.
The aggregate result of all four expected results have been
envisaged as an environment in which the community institutions
and the local government agencies worked together on a
long-term basis to achieve the overall objectives of inclusive
development.
The implementation of all planned activities has considerably
contributed to the achievement of the overall and specific objective
of the action. Through social mobilization process 400 Community
Organization (COs) with 40% women representation, 41 Village
Organizations (VOs) and 4 LSOs (Local Support Organization) were
established following a participatory process in the community.
Before formal interaction with the local stakeholders including
line departments and other development organizations; capacities
of these community institutions have been strengthened through
trainings, exposure visits and awareness raising session for CO/
VO/LSO members/representatives on community management,
managing operations, financial management, local development
planning, resource mobilization, linkages development, policy
making process & regulations etc.
These trainings have improved the basic management and
technical skills required at community level; contributing towards
the strengthening of rural community platforms. The activists
from these community institutions gained an increased planning
and financial management skills following the capacity building
interventions delivered after formation and strengthening. This
intervention contributed towards an achievement in the shape of
Village Development Plans at each village level by COs and VOs.
The general masses in the project areas were effectively engaged
and involved in the project through arranging youth engagement
activities while linkages of the beneficiaries with service providers
were built through manager’s conferences.
The communities experienced a greater participation and inclusion
in the local social and economic development planning and
implementation process alongside representatives of relevant
government departments through increased coordination between
COs/VOs/LSOs, IRSP and government line agencies during the
process of Union Council Development Planning in 41village level
workshops.
These representatives contributed their valuable inputs for local
level development planning. As a result of these workshops, 231
MIPS, 41 VDPs were developed with the inclusive participation of
different segments of society like youth (40%), elderly men and
women (53%), disable (1%). These plans were finalized and shared
with relevant government entities; that showed willingness and
agreed to meet the rural development needs.
The IRSP and SABAWON technical team, along with the local
organizations have prioritized 30 CPI schemes which were visited
by CPI coordinator and IRSP technical team. The BOQs, drawings
and designs are finalized and CPIs will be initiated during 2017. It
is expected that the construction of these CPIs will considerably
improve the public services delivery contributing to poverty
reduction and will benefit 56,063 population including 17,000 men,
21,000 women and 18,000 children under 0-15 years.
The prioritized project includes numbers of CPIs for One Health
Dispensary, Education missing facilities in 2 schools, one Irrigation

channels, 3 sewerage/drainage, 6 Street pavements and 17 street
pavement schemes are finalized. The agreed contribution from
the community in providing labour and raw material and land is
expected to PKR 6.6 million of the total cost.
The third result of the proposed action focuses on building the
capacities of local services provider to effectively plan, implement
and monitor their interventions and deliver appropriately. IRSP
hired a development consultant who has accomplished the
capacity need assessment of the local services providers and
organized 3 capacity building workshops that were attended by 80
officials from the local government and CSOs.
After contributing in building the capacity of the local government
and other stakeholders, 2 medical camps were organized that
befitted 1,000 people, anti-polio campaign benefiting 127 children,
CNIC preparation for 1,331 men and 1,419 women, 2 primary level
schools established benefiting 108 children, established 6 literacy
centres for women benefited 130 individuals, launched livestock
vaccination camp benefited 538 households.
The health department announced and notified that One RHC at
UC Rodhu sultan will provide 24/7 services. The project advisory
committee has also been established at district level where
different line departments and CSOs are member of the forum.
To accomplish result 4 of the action CSOs’ advocacy forum has
established at district level comprising of 15 CSOs. Capacity
development plan for local authorities was developed, upon which
their capacities were built through formal training on “Rights
Based Approaches (RBA), Equity & Inclusion” for improving
services delivery and advocate for community genuine demands in
the district.
As a result of the advocacy efforts, capacity building events and
joint planning; Doaba foundation provided 18 flood embankments
in the project area benefited 1,200 households. CHIP organization
provided 5 street pavements and 25 waste bins, provided PKR
20,000 enterprise loan for promoting small scale businesses and
benefited 1,000 people in the project area.
The EU visibility was ensured during implementation of the project
via displaying banners, developing and distributing of IEC material,
press conferences, visits of the journalist to the communities,
press releases and developing and disseminating the case studies
and success stories.

SUPPORTING GOVERNMENT CAPACITY BUILDING IN RURAL WATER AND
RURAL SANITATION
Duration: October 01, 2015 to March 2016
Executive Summary
To improve service delivery in water sector, WSP-SA assigned
the task of capacity building activities to IRSP in the Province
of Punjab. After assessing the target audience, to execute the
assignment “Supporting government capacity building in rural
water sector” the training workshops were designed to strengthen
the CBOs and CD unit of PHED Punjab.
Before starting the trainings, an inception workshop was arranged
for designing the training and prioritize the contents in which
members from CBOs and CD Unit participated. Total 8 (3-days)
training workshops were executed in which 218 participants from
CBOs and CDU participated from 9 divisions of the province.
IRSP has developed manuals for social mobilization, hygiene
promotion, gender mainstreaming, social accountability and
M&E for CD unit while record keeping, financial management,
documentation, operation & maintenance, fund raising, water
quality control, cleaning of water storage tank complaints
handling, new connection and disconnection policy, water meter
type; specification and installation, bill printing and distribution,
accountability, financial management, cost recovery and
transparency were designed for CBOs.
Monitoring indictors for CBO performance were developed
including monitoring formats for CBOs and six monthly reporting
of financial, O&M and customer complaints at water supply
scheme level.
According to the evaluation of the trainings, the social mobilization,
water quality and water resources management remained on the
top where more than 80% of the participants ranked it the top
most contents of the training. 60% of the participants ranked the
trainers and training methodology as excellent as the knowledge
level improved during the training.
50% of the participants demanded to arrange the trainings at
district level to ensure more participation from the community.
37% of the participants having the view that the contents should
explained in more detail by increasing the training duration up to
five-days.

Trainings of CBOs and PHED staff on Rural
Water Sector Best practices
PHED Punjab has a dedicated social mobilization unit - Community
Development Unit (CDU) – who undertake social mobilization
activities before the start of rural water supply schemes and
during the construction of schemes. The CD Unit staff also lack the
capacity to effectively play their role in identification of schemes,
mobilizing the communities, their resources, formation of CBOs
and engaging the CBOs for running the schemes.
The CD Unit staff is trained on different project based interventions
but a proper training according to their job description was long
awaited.
Perusing the importance of capacity building in rural water sector
in Punjab, WSP-SA streamlined the capacity building program for
CBOs and CDU in the province of Punjab. The capacity building
activities were designed for both stakeholders according to their
traits of duties.
The training need assessment was developed during an inception
workshop in Lahore where the provincial as well as the district
level staff participated in this workshop. During this workshop, the
participants sorted out different contents through group works that
were necessary for CDU staff as well as for the CBOs to effectively
carry out their duties.
In this assignment, IRSP delivered trainings to support the
government and other stakeholders to scale up and adopt the best
practices in rural water sector.
IRSP has developed manuals for social mobilization, hygiene
promotion, gender mainstreaming, social accountability and
M&E for CD unit while record keeping, financial management,
documentation, operation & maintenance, fund raising, water
quality control, cleaning of water storage tank, complaints
handling, new connection and disconnection policy, water meter
type; specification and installation, bill printing and distribution,
accountability, financial management, cost recovery and
transparency were designed for CBOs.
The training contents were endorsed by the provincial authorities
of the PHED Punjab and it was agreed to carry out these training
at circle level in the whole province for CDU and CBOs staff.
The Secretary of PHED issued a circular for training schedule
according to which IRSP (consultant) carried out trainings in the
whole province.
IRSP developed a training manual & reference material in
Urdu language for carrying out all these trainings which was
shared with CDU of Punjab before starting the trainings for their
endorsement.
Following were the objectives of the training;
• To enhance the capacity of CBOs for improved water supply
services and strengthened recovery system.
• To strengthen the capacity of the CD unit staff for effective
delivery of their duties.
• Strengthening of community based approaches in rural
water supply sector of Punjab.
The participants agreed on the following actions for
their future work;
• After getting trainings on financial management and record
keeping the Chairmen from CBOs agreed to implement
financial management by using the guidelines provided in
training manuals at their respective CBOs. They were able to
record their financial matter via cash and bank transactions.
• The CBOs were agreed to maintain water quality through
cleaning of water storage tanks on regular basis and
protection of water sources from contaminations.
• The participants from CD Unit agreed upon the data
collection from CBOs through prescribed formats developed
for CBOs monitoring.
• After getting knowledge regarding M&E the CBOs and CD
Unit agreed upon their responsibilities to implement it during
the designing, construction and operation of water supply
projects.
• The CD Unit staff agreed to ensure women role during the
project cycle especially hygiene and PATS projects.
• The participants came up with clear concepts of the
community mobilization and were able to mobilize the local
resources for community action planning.
• The participants agreed to use the RTI law for holding the
service providers accountable based on acquired information
through this law.

WASH EARLY RECOVERY FOR CONFLICT AFFECTED FAMILIES (WERCAF)
IN BAJUAR AGENCY
Duration: July 01, 2014 to August 31, 2016
Executive SUMMARY:
FATA in general and Bajuar Agency in particular is always facing
security threats being the conflict affected region of Pakistan.
IRSP remained in a much closed contact with the political
administration and has followed their security instructions during
implementation of the field activities which has enabled us to be
vigilant and no such threats were faced by the staff.
At the inception of the project p the security situation remained
much deteriorated which has slowed down the pace of work in the
project area? The suicide attacks and IEDs blast on IDEA staff has
created hurdle for staff mobility in the area. In few days the curfew
in certain area was also hurdle in implementation of the field
activities.
The security situation become much more favorable and control
in FATA as an impact of Operation Zarb- e –Azb. The number of
IED blasts and terrorist attacks on security agencies and other
government & public installations reduced to a significant number
in the plan areas of Bajuar agency, however the situation become
worse in the areas lying on the border that restricts the project
interventions to a larger extent in those areas.
During implementation of the project the targeted communities
remained very supportive and visit to the CBECs, schools,
conducting BLS and hygiene promotion activities were successfully
carried out.
The political administration remained very supportive and has
provided guidance in implementation of the project activities.
The education department and PHED has supported the
project objective and activities are being implemented in close
coordination with these departments.
During the BLS/KAP Survey it was found that 90% of the people
are dependent on the schemes which are constructed by the
community on self-help basis. Only 10% of the community are
dependent on the government led schemes. 85% of these schemes
are either gravity or springs while dug wells are 12% and hand
pumps are 3% in the targeted areas. In most of the cases more
than 80% water sources are near to the community and 93% water
is fetched by the women.
The impact of water treatment, hygiene, and sanitary interventions
on improving child health outcomes such as absenteeism,

infections, knowledge, attitudes, and practices and adoption
of point-of-use water treatment. The project improved health,
learning and performance of primary school pupils and teachers
by providing a cleaner and safer learning environment. Project
activities focused on provision of safe water and adequate
sanitation and the adoption of better hygiene practices. The
project aimed to strengthen local operations and maintenance and
management capacity by offering innovative solutions to commonly
encountered technical problems, and linking school efforts to
community development and ownership.
Project Achievements:
• A total of 432 health & hygiene session were conducted
with 8515 children’s (4,003 girls & 4,512boys) 2,276 female
and 1,734male on hazards of open defecation, safe use of
drinking water, water borne diseases and importance of
hand washing.
• A total of 40 WMCs were formed for smooth implementation
of the project activities.
• In order to ensure best hygiene practices among the
students, 40 CECs were formed.
• GHWD celebrated in 2 schools, 2 villages and 2 CBECs with
an objective to mobilize the children and adults regarding the
importance of hand washing. A total of 1,375 girls, 651 boys,
106 female & 156 male participated in GHWD.
• A total of 8 village Clean-up Campaign conducted at 8
different villages of Bajuar agency with the participation
of School children, PTC and community members for the
awareness of environmental hygiene.
• 10 health and hygiene promotion campaigns conducted
at CBECs level to adopt best hygiene practices by the
community.
• A total of 96 pour flash latrines (3 stances in 16 & 2 stance in
24 CBECs) constructed for children (1,826 girls & 1,463 boys)
of 40 CBECs.
• A total of 35 DWSS constructed for provision of clean drinking
water to children’s (1,826 girls & 1,463 boys) of 40 CBECs
with support and coordination of TIJs, WMCs, and community
and line department.
• A total of 40 hand washing pads constructed in 40 CBECs for
water collection & hand washing purposes benefiting 1,826
girls & 1,463 boys
• A total of 40 solid waste bins installed in 40 CBECs for safe
disposal of waste.
• A total of 40 latrine cleaning kits distributed among WMCs of
40 CBECs for proper maintenance & cleanliness of latrines.
• A total of 40 WMCs (480 members) & 40 CECs (400 children)
were capacitated for operation & maintenance of WASH
facilities and to adopt best hygiene practices.
• Two days training imparted to stakeholders of the project
about Peace Education, gender mainstreaming, Right
to information act, water management, monitoring &
Evaluation and Social Accountability.
• A total of 75 water quality test (40 pre & 35 post)conducted in
order to insure safe and clean drinking water for users.
• A total of 40 O & M kits distributed among WMC & TIJs
member for proper operation & maintenance of WASH
facilities in their respective CBECs.
• A total of 2,700 trees of indigenous and different species,
(Dewodar, Cheerh and Shewa) were planted in different
villages & CBECs of Bajuar Agency.
• Strong coordination, linkages and liaison is established with
political administration, law enforcing agencies, community,
education dept., PHED, NGOs and UN agencies for better
results of the project.
Target Vs. Achievement
OUTCOME 1. RURAL GIRLS AND BOYS IN
CONFLICT-AFFECTED AREAS HAVE INCREASED
ACCESS TO SAFE COMMUNITY-BASED EDUCATION
OPPORTUNITIES AND APPROPRIATE WASH
FACILITIES.
Following activities were performed to achieve this outcome;
Students have a safe and conducive CBE learning
environment.
IRSP with technical & financial support of IRC and in collaboration
with Political administration plus line agencies constructed
separate WASH facilities separately (DWSS, latrines, solid waste
bin & Hand Washing Point) for both boys and girls in 40 CBECs of
Bajuar Agency.
The provision of WASH facilities in these CBECs improved the
learning environment for the students to a greater extent, as the
percentage of student’s dropout and absenteeism decreased to
larger scale, students especially girls feels secured while using
WASH facilities (latrines). Over and above the parents are now
confident enough to send their children to school without any
hesitation..

Water supply schemes constructed/rehabilitated with
potable water
A total of 35 water supply schemes constructed as compared to
targeted 20 schemes. The increased in the number of water supply
schemes from 20 to 35 is agreed among IRSP & IRC based on the
actual needs and demand of the beneficiary community.
IRSPhasconstructed35drinkingwatersupplyschemesforprovision
of safe drinking water to children of 40 CBECs (5DWSS serving two
CBECs). IRSP has ensured participation of the community, TIJs,
WMCs and Political administration for smooth implementation
and better sustainability. The construction of the water supply
schemes is regularly supervised and monitored by IRSP and IRC
technical teams in order to ensure the quality and pace of work. The
monitoring assured the construction in accordance to standards
and engineering codes in close collaboration with Government Line
Departments.
No of DWSS
Beneficiaries
Total
Girls Boys
35 1,826 1,463 3,289
Summary of Drinking Water Supply Schemes
Construction of Three & two Stance Latrines:
IRSP technical team carried out detail assessment for construction
of three & two stance latrines- with Asian commodes while one
with English commode to be used by PWDS. A total of 96 pour
flash latrines (3 stance in 16 & 2 stance in 24 CBECs) constructed
in 40 CBECs for safe disposal of human excreta. Once the latrines
construction completed TIJ & WMCs member were provided with
latrine cleaning kits to ensure the cleanliness of latrine. A total of 40
(03 Buckets, 03 Mugs, 03 Lottas, 03 Commode Cleaning Brushes, 02
Grooms, 01 Phenol, 02 Gloves Pairs and 02 Masks) Latrine Cleaning
Kits were provided during the project period. During distribution of
latrine kits, demonstration sessions were conducted for best use
of latrine cleaning kits. Community hygiene volunteers were also
sensitized and motivated to regularly monitor the cleanliness of
latrines. Public health promoters closely monitored the latrines on
weekly basis.
No. of CBECs No. of Latrines
Beneficiaries
Total
Girls Boys
40 96 1,826 1,463 3,289
Details of Latrines Construction
Community Clean Up Campaigns:
Sanitation condition of Bajuar agency was very much poor. The
streets and drains were choked with debris causing stagnancy
of water. The clean-up activity was conducted in collaboration
with TIJs & WMCs members, Khar Municipal Administration and
Political Administration for better sanitation purposes and to avoid
any disease outbreak or hazard.
The activity mainly focused on the chocked and overflowing
drainage systems and street cleaning with extensive promotion
and awareness regarding public health awareness messages and
hygiene promotion sessions in the respective communities.
A total of 8 different spots/villages were cleaned and the drainage
systems were restored in close coordination with Political
Administration and local communities.
Apart from the community clean up activity with Political
Administration, 10 small scale clean up campaigns conducted at
CBECs level with school going children, teachers and members
of WMCs for developing best sanitation & environmental practices
among school going children.
Formation of Water Management Committees
(WMCs):
Community involvement and participation is the key to success
in every developmental program and their ownership can sustain
the project interventions. Therefore; IRSP formed 40 WMCs (19
female & 21 male) each comprising 8 to 10 members through
a social mobilization process. The capacity of these WMCs
further strengthened by providing training to them on their roles
& responsibilities; including action planning, monitoring and
maintenance of WASH facilities.
WMCs
Membership
Teachers Community/TIJ
21 Male WMCs 42 147
19 Female WMCs 38 134
Total 40 80 281
Detail of WMC formation
Water Quality Testing/Monitoring:
A total of 75 Pre and post (40 pre & 35 post) Water Quality Tests
of target water sources were conducted to ensure the availability
of clean drinking water for students and community. The water
quality tests checked the turbidity, pH value and presence of
bacteria causing water borne diseases. Proper arrangements
were made to purify the water where the water was found to be
contaminated by proper monitoring and purification

OUTCOME 2. COMMUNITY MEMBERS ARE ACTIVELY
INVOLVED IN THE DELIVERY OF COMMUNITY-
BASED EDUCATION AND MAINTENANCE OF WASH
FACILITIES.
Following activities are performed to achieve this outcome;
Formation and training of Children Environment
Committees (CECs):
To ensure best hygiene practices among students, IRSP formed
40 Children Environmental Committees (CECs) in 40 CBECs. Each
committee consists of twelve members and one teacher. These
committees were further capacitated by imparting training to them
for the purpose to maintain cleanness at schools, promote good
hygiene practices like safe use of drinking water, hand washing at
critical timings and proper disposal of human excreta.
No of CECs
Membership
Boys/Girls Teacher
21 Boys CECs 252 boys 21
19 Girls CECs 226 girls 19
Total 40 478 40
Details of CEC formation
Celebration of Global Hand Washing Day:
IRSP celebrated Global Hand washing day twice during whole
project life. First on 15th
of October 2014 in 2 schools and 2 CBECs
and secondly in 2015 in two CBECs & two villages. Main objective
of organizing this event was to mobilize children and grownups
regarding the importance of hand washing at critical times
(before eating and after the use of latrine). IEC materials including
posters, banners, broachers and pamphlets designed and printed
for this event. The main activities carried out, were demonstration
of hand washing with soap, dramas, songs, speeches, games
and distribution of soaps among children and academic staff of
schools.
The core massages of IEC material was hand washing at key time
and steps of hand washing with soap.
S #
Name of School/
CBEC
Beneficiaries
Men Women Boys Girls
1 Lakyano 7 101
2 Sheenkoty 9 97
3 GGP/M school 21 751
4
Kas Karevand
CBEC
16 104
Grand total 25 28 201 852
Detail of GHWD
Conduction of Health & Hygiene Sessions:
In order to mitigate the risk pertaining to various water borne
diseases, the communities as well as students of CBECs were
provided with an in depth information on the causes of water borne
diseases & diseases related with poor hygiene plus sanitation
practices plus the possible steps that can be taken to reduce
these risks. IRSP conducted 360 Health and hygiene sessions
(male & female) to ensure community awareness on health issues
related to open defecation, safe use of water and personal hygiene
practices. People attended these sessions including parents and
students. Through these awareness sessions a very visible change
has noticed both among the behavior of students and parents by
adopting good hygiene practices, like hand washing practices a
critical timings, personal & environmental hygiene, proper use
of latrine or disposal of human excreta and other good sanitary
practices.
Type of
Session
Number
of
sessions
Beneficiaries
Total
Men Women Boys Girls
Men 74 1,734 1,734
Women 100 2,276 2,276
Children 258 4,512 4,003 8,515
Total 432 1,734 2,276 4,512 4,003 12,525
Detail of Health & Hygiene Session
SMCs and WMCs maintain WASH facilities.
With the completion of WASH facilities construction in 40 CBECs
, the WMCs of the concern CBECs were provided with a latrine
cleaning kit for better operation & maintenance of the facilities.
Practical demonstration sessions conducted with each WMCs &
SMCs for proper and effective use of those kits. Both IRSP & IRC
teams are monitoring the facilities on weekly basis through spot
check & observation and provided every necessary information or
inputs to the WMCs whenever is required
SMCs/WMCs Trained in WASH facility Maintenance:
Once the process of WMCs formation completed and realizing the
need of the capacity building of these committees IRSP conducted
trainings of 40 WMCs & CECs on operation & maintenance
of WASH facilities, safe use of drinking water, best hygiene
practices, hazards of open defecation and preparation of ORS
during the first phase.The methodology of these training was
brain storming sessions, group work and group presentation. The
participants were provided with IRSP/IRC designed IEC material
kits to equip them for further promotion of health and hygiene
in their respective areas. These trainings were conducted in
schools, CBECs and community gathering places (Hujras) with an
integrated and participatory approach.

Distribution of O & M Kits:
The proposed number of kits for O & M of WASH facilities
increased from 20 to 35 (as discussed earlier in construction of
DWSS). IRSP after construction of physical infrastructure and
capacitating 40 SMCs/WMCs were provided with 40 latrine cleaning
& O& M kits for operation and maintenance of WASH facilities.
Plantation Campaign
IRSP in collaboration with forest department works with schools
children and community members to provide and plant trees
for improved and better environment. IRSP also celebrated tree
plantation campaign at Bajaur Agency jointly with the IDEA at
CBECs and community level.
Tree Planting Campaign help connects students and community
members to the benefits of trees and fosters environmental
stewardship.
These types of activities also support IRSP larger community effort
to help grow Bajaur tree canopy. A total of 2700 trees of indigenous
and different species, (Dewodar, Cheerh and Shewa) were planted
in different villages & CBECs of Bajuar Agency.
Participation of beneficiaries and partners
Both direct and indirect beneficiaries of the project participated
during the initial assessment of the project. KAP survey conducted
involving parents, students, teachers and community members.
Their responses were recorded for analysis.
Provision of WASH facilities and development of IEC materials
were based on these findings. Teachers, community elders,
religious leaders and parents have actively participated in all
project interventions. Assessment for DWSS, water sources and
latrines were done by involving community, teachers, Education
Department, political administration and partner responsible for
education component.
IRSP has involved Jirgas-local community’s assemblies during
project orientation, conflict resolution and assessment of WASH
facilities.
The Action/target beneficiaries are rural poor from farming
communities living in conflicted affected areas of Bajuar Agency.
For sustainability and accountability point of view participation of
beneficiaries were ensured at all levels of the project.
At the inception of the project community/beneficiaries
participation was encouraged by forming their committees and
sharing full project information with
them.
IRSP has managed to establish good
contacts with the local population and
community leaders that contribute a
lot towards project success. Regular
jirga meetings were held in the
communities to actively engage with
the targeted beneficiaries and tailor
IRSP’s services to their specific needs.
IRSP encourages and facilitates the
interaction with targeted communities
through Jirga meetings, involvement of
teachers, religious leaders and elderly
of the community for larger impact
of the project, gaps identification and
prioritization of activities. IRSP has a
very positive response from community / beneficiaries who actively
participate in every project activity and ensure their full support for
the betterment of the area.

STARS AWARD AND CONSULTANCY FUNDING
Consultancy Funding:
The award has recognized IRSP as a prominent organization in
WASH sector in Pakistan. This has created opportunities which are
availed by IRSP.
Following were the weak area which were improved through the
financial support of Stars Impact Award;
• Monitoring system
• Capacity building of IRSP staff on project designing, proposal
writing, fundraising and low cost WASH technologies
• 3 years strategic planning of organization
• Developing and implementation of Child Protection Policy
The monitoring system of IRSP was enhanced with the
development of proper monitoring framework and is practical in
the ongoing projects. IRSP is also planning to create a database
for online monitoring system, this will be a landmark for the
organization in this scenario.
The capacity building of IRSP staff on WASH technologies, an
exposure visit was made to Lahore where low cost sanitation
technology was observed. Sewerage treatment unit was visited
while the cost and designs were shared in order to replicate the
same model in IRSP projects. The same wastewater treatment
plant model is proposed in the upcoming project starting from July
2016.
Strategic planning and fundraising were among the weak area of
IRSP. Before the strategic planning IRSP was focussed on WASH
sector and most of the project of IRSP were being implemented
on WASH specific agenda. During the strategic planning it was
realized that the funding in WASH sector is shrinking therefore
it was realized to focus on other relevant sectors as well. In the
strategic planning the livelihood, food security, health & nutrition
and governance were also prioritized for the coming years.
Following the strategic planning agenda IRSP has secured one
health & nutrition project from UNICEF and another of governance
is in pipeline from DAI and USAID. Three staff members acquired
the training on project planning, proposal writing and fundraising
at Islamabad. The strategic planning documents was developed
with the involvement of IRSP key staff members. Due to all these

efforts; IRSP submitted more than 10 project proposals in last two
months mostly on WASH, food security, DRR, health & nutrition
and governance; in which three projects are in the maturity stage.
Award Funding:
The Stars’ unrestricted funding was very much beneficial to IRSP
and its targeted communities. To address the education challenges
of adolescent girls in school was long desired but no specific
funding was available in Pakistan to address these challenges.
This unrestricted funding gave the liberty to IRSP to design and
amend the project objectives and activities in consultation with
the stakeholders. In initial design the award funding project
was designed for 50 schools i.e. 25 boys and 25 girls’ schools
but the target audience was changed based on the discussion
with education authorities. Hence 75% girls’ school are being
addressed.
Unlike the restricted funding, IRSP found this
funding very much beneficial for both IRSP and
its targeted groups to work mutually for achieving
the objectives.
Through award funding, IRSP started school WASH program which
is highly appreciated by the education department. The schools are
remote, WASH conditions are poor and the students were vulnerable
in the target school which are selected for the intervention.
Following are the updates of the Stars Award Funding Project;
SELECTION OF THE TARGETED SCHOOLS
As per decisions in the minutes of meeting for NOC; the girls’
schools were decided as 35 while 14 boys’ schools are to be
selected for the project interventions. The district education
authorities along with IRSP team has visited different areas and
selected the 4 union councils in Tehsil Takht Bhai. These UCs are
Takkar, Narai, Saro Shah and Madey Baba. All targeted schools are
assessed in these UCs for project interventions.
PROJECT PLANNING WORKSHOP
A one day project planning workshop was held which was
participated by all head teachers and ASDEO of the concerned
circle. During the project planning workshop, a detailed orientation
about the whole project was given and consultation was done with
all participants to successfully implement the project.
ORIENTATION ON SLTS AND MHM WORKSHOP
A one day orientation was held which was participated by Head
teachers, teachers and ASDEO. During workshop participants
oriented on SLTS approach and MHM.
DEVELOPING & PRINTING OF IEC MATERIAL
IRSP research and development section developed 3 manuals
for school children in Urdu language for their empowerment and
capacity building. These manual includes School Hygiene Club
Manual, Children Empowerment Skills Manual and Menstrual
Hygiene Management Manual. These manual are printed in 500
copies each and used during training and capacity building of the
school children.
ASSESSMENT FOR GIRLS’ FRIENDLY LATRINES
There were 35 schools assessed for construction of girls’ friendly
latrines where 15 schools were selected for construction. The
engineer will select 10 out 15 based on technical feasibility.
SCHOOLS HYGIENE CLUBS FORMATION
The schools club were formed in all schools with representation
of children from all classes. The children were selected for the
club based on the consents of the students as well as on the
recommendations of the school teachers. The club members
trained on different traits related to WASH, children empowerment
skills, child rights and menstrual hygiene management and also
involve in healthy activities like plantation, gardening. Painting,
LCSP production for their selves and for school need. All the
documentation of clubs formation are maintained at each school
so that record is available for future references.
TRAINING OF (3 DAYS) OF 500 SHC MEMBERS ON
HYGIENE PROMOTION, ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES,
BASIC LIFE SKILLS AND CHILD RIGHTS
IRSP has years of experience working with children and involving
them in different training. IRSP has designed a manual in Urdu
language with pictorial illustration which will be used by the
hygiene clubs for carrying out the day-to-day activities of the
school hygiene club within the school.
The members of the hygiene clubs were trained on the different
activities to be performed to maintain the school WASH
environment. The club members after their capacity building are
responsible to ensure the personal hygiene of students, managing
solid wastes of the school, ensuring better use of toilets and
ensure its cleanliness, monitoring water supply line of the school
(to repair the seepage and optimum use), cleanliness of water
storage twice a year, educating the students on water hygiene,
mobilizing the neighboring shopkeepers and houses to ensure
clean environment around the school and the area.
The 3-days training for each hygiene clubs was arranged in their
schools where formal meeting was done with head teachers for
proper arrangement. The trainings were facilitated by Master
Trainers of IRSP. The members of hygiene club were trained on the

designed manual using participatory approaches to enable
them for keeping the school environment clean and to
sustain the water supply systems within the school.
Training of School Teachers on Menstrual Hygiene
Managment and Low Cost Sanitary Pads Production
IRSP arranged 2 days training of selected school teachers
from 35 schools on MHM and Low Cost Sanitary Pads
production. The participants were oriented on the main
components of MHM and how to produce the low cost
sanitary pads at school level and that can be used by
schools girls at schools.
Training of Adolescent School’ girls on Menstrual Hygiene
Managment and Low Cost Sanitary Pads Production
IRSP arranged 3 days long training for the adolescent
schools girls on MHM and low cost sanitary pads production
to overcome the challenges of menstruation. There were 10
trainings organized to train more than 600 school girls. The
trainings were composed of the following contents;
• Session on Puberty and Adolescence
• Session on Menstruation
• Session on Menstrual Hygiene Management
• Session on low cost sanitary pads making.
After all training, feedback, distribution of the IEC material
and feedback training concluded with the vote of thanks by
one of the trainers with the hope of more progress on MHM.
Participants also paid their gratitude for such informative
and fruitful training and requested for more advanced
discussion on the topic in future.
CONSTRUCTION OF GIRLS FRIENDLY LATRINES
IRSP has made few modifications in the existing school
latrine designed and girls friendly latrine where the girls
can deal with the challenges of menstruation during the
school timings. The additional feature includes the space for
washing the reusable pads and disposing-off the disposable
pads. These latrines were constructed in 10 rural schools of
Mardan district.
Intra-School Completion for children empowerment
IRSP has arranged 5 intra-school different competitions that
includes debates, drama & quiz competition to polish and
discover their creativity skills and express it to the people.
DISTRICT LEVEL WASH EXHIBITION
IRSP with support of district education department and
targeted schools has arranged a WASH Exhibition in Govt.
Girls Centennial Model High School Canal Road Mardan
on December 06, 2016. During the exhibition more than
2,000 participants from different schools of district Mardan
participated in the event. The participants included school
teachers, children, members from NOGs working on WASH,
officials from water and sanitation services, officials from
district government. During the exhibition, the participants
from different schools and NGOs demonstrated stalls related
to WASH and showed their skills for tackling the challenges
of water, sanitation, hygiene & environment. During the event
different activities highlighted the importance of WASH and
Environment also performed by the students from different
parts of Mardan.
The girl’s students on the occasion prepared attractive
models from the scrap material. Centential High School
Canal Road got first position in the competition, Lund Khwar
High School got second position and Labour Colony High
School grabbed third position.
The purpose of the competition was to create awareness
among the girls students about the importance of sanitation
and cleanliness.
District Nazim Himayatullah Mayar, who was chief guest on
the occasion, distributed prizes among the students who
displayed good performance.

PROVISION OF WASH FACILITIES IN AFGHAN REFUGEE CAMPS IN
KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA
Duration: June 01, 2016 to December 31, 2016
Background of the Project
Access to safe drinking water and sanitation facilities, coupled
with poor hygiene conditions, are the most critical health issues
in Pakistan. The projected population growth in coming years will
only exacerbate water and sanitation demand, making access
to safe drinking water even more of a challenge. However the
situation is even worse in Afghan refugees due to inadequate
WASH facilities in schools and the communities.
Perceiving the importance of WASH intervention in Afghan refugee
camps, Integrated Regional Support Program (IRSP) started the
project “Provision of WASH services to Afghan refugees in Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa” with the financial support of SDC in June, 2016.
Before starting the project, IRSP team conducted a rapid need
assessment in the target camps of district Mardan, Kohat,
Nowshehra and Swabi in order to analyze WASH situation and
design the project. The overall conditions of WASH infrastructure
were poor; the drainage was broken causing stagnant water,
most of the schools have improper water and sanitation facility,
the hygienic conditions were poor at household level and in the
streets. Water supply schemes and communal hand pumps were
not properly maintained causing inadequate water supply to the
communities in terms of quality and quantity.
Goal & Objective:
Goal: The goal of the project is to contribute to better household
economy by reducing the burden of communicable diseases in
afghan refugees of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Objective: The objective of the project is to reduce the incidence
of communicable diseases among afghan refugees by provision
of water & sanitation facilities and promotion of best hygiene
practices.

TARGET CAMPS AND POPULATION
S.No Name of Camp
Population
(families)
Total Individuals
1 Gamkol- Kohat 6,686 53,488
2
Ghulam Banda-
Kohat
1,300 10,400
3 Chichana-Kohat 572 4,576
4 Kheshgi-Noshera 210 1,680
5 Kagan-Mardan 515 4,120
6
Baghicha Dheri-
Mardan
1,735 15,095
7 Barakai-Swabi 5,868 51,052
Total 16,886 140,410
Activities and Outputs:
SOCIAL & TECHNICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE
SANITATION INFRASTRUCTURE
Sanitation infrastructure including latrines, septic tanks, drainage
and sewerage were assessed during sanitary survey before starting
the project in all camps. IRSP team comprised of field engineers,
social organizer, water quality analyst and M&E officer were
responsible for sanitary survey.
CONSTRUCTION OF HAND WASHING PLACES AT
SCHOOLS
During the project, hand washing places in 6 schools were
constructed for the improvement of sanitation infrastructure. The
hand washing place were designed according to the size of school
and strength of students.
Awareness and practical demonstration regarding hand washing
practices were covered during hygiene sessions and training of
school hygiene clubs.
CONSTRUCTION OF WASTE WATER TREATMENT
UNITS FOR PRIMARY AND SECONDARY TREATMENT
Perusing the importance of municipal waste water, centralized
waste water treatment units were installed in target camps. The
pilot plants will be used for primary and secondary treatment of
sewage. Initially 2 waste water treatment units were constructed
in two different camps in schools. Wastewater from latrines and
septic tank will be treated through a centralized waste water
treatment so the water can be used for irrigation or can be
disposed into the drain afterward.
CONSTRUCTION OF SOLID WASTE DUMPING POINTS
Solid waste dumping points were constructed in the streets and
community was sensitized on the importance of solid waste
management and proper disposal during the community sessions.
CONSTRUCTION OF SCHOOLS LATRINES
These school were visited by the project engineer who in order to
design the BOQs according to the available standards and spaces
available in the school. Under the project, 6 twin latrines in the
targeted boys and girls schools have been constructed in the target
camps.
CLEAN-UP CAMPAIGNS
During the project, cleanliness campaigns were organized in the
target communities and schools for the promotion of solid waste
management, cleanliness and stopping open defecation. During
the campaign school hygiene clubs, community activities and
camp administration were involved for garbage and solid waste
collection and dumping in landfill. The sewages and drainages
were cleaned and along the streets in 7 camps.
DISTRIBUTION OF LATRINE CLEANING KIT
Latrine cleaning kits were provided to the schools which were
vulnerable and having unhygienic conditions in the latrines and
surroundings. The kit including a set of cleaning brush, bucket, mug
and cleansing material. Total of 100 were distributed among the
schools in all target camps.
FORMATION AND TRAINING OF SCHOOL HYGIENE
CLUBS
IRSP’s experience working with school children shows that they are
very effective change agents both amongst their peers and within
the household.
The school hygiene clubs were formed by the teachers with
support of IRSP consists of active students who were willing
to work together for school environment. The students will be
selected for the school clubs who can motivate other students to
be part of the club, establish a small fund to be used for activities
of the club and to generate monthly report of the club activities.
IRSP designed a manual in Urdu language with pictorial illustration
which have been used by the hygiene clubs for carrying out the day-
to-day activities of the school hygiene club within the school.
DEVELOPING & PRINTING OF IEC MATERIAL
The IEC material has very good effect which is available to the
community to be used for a longer time and to get and disseminate
the hygiene education. In this project IRSP designed 3 type of IEC
material. One booklet design for school hygiene club focusing
on all aspects of hand washing, personal hygiene, domestic
hygiene, environmental hygiene and safe handling/storage of
water at household level. The 3rd booklet was designed sanitation
specifically for solid waste management practices and proper
disposal of household garbage.

HEALTH & HYGIENE SESSION WITH COMMUNITY &
SCHOOLS
The hygiene sessions were arranged and facilitated by the IRSP
team with support of WASH Committees and community activists.
During these sessions the community was gathered at an
appropriate place where the member of WASH Committee and
IRSP team sensitized them about the different aspects of hygiene,
sanitation water quality and solid waste management by using IEC
material. The copies of IEC material were distributed among the
participants.
AWARENESS SESSION WITH WOMEN AND SCHOOL
GIRLS ON MENSTRUAL HYGIENE MANAGEMENT
Though menstruation is a basic phenomenon in women’s life but
due to secrecy of the issue and few other hurdles for instance
financial problems and illiteracy; it is not as managed as it needs
to be.
IRSP has already develop training manual and IEC material for
growing girls to adopt best hygiene practices during menstruation
and to avoid physical and psychological issues especially during
menarche.
The developed material were used for mobilizing the refugee
women and adolescence school girls of the targeted areas.
CELEBRATION OF GLOBAL HAND WASHING DAY
To raise the awareness in the target audience, Global Hand
washing Day was celebrated in schools and communities. For the
celebration; camp administration, education department, PHED/
TMA and health department was coordinated for
their support and participation.
PLANTATION CAMPAIGN FOR
ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION
Plantation campaign was celebrated in all camps
during monsoon season. Plants were distributed
among the households and school kids for
plantation in different areas.
All relevant stake holders including govt.
departments, NGOs and camp administration
were coordinated for effective implementation of
the activity.
Project Beneficiaries
S.# Name of Activity
Target
Beneficiaries
Achieved
Target
1
Beneficiaries from soft
component
18,544 87,255

Trainings, community
sessions, cleanup and
plantation campaigns

2
Beneficiaries from water
supply
79,500 101,212

Rehabilitation of WSS, Hand
pumps, installation of new
water sources, installation of
solar system in schools, water
testing and water source
disinfection

3 Beneficiaries from Sanitation 31,791 32,876

Drainage, levelling of ponds,
construction of wastewater
treatment unit, construction.
Rehab. Of school latrines and
construction of hand washing
places in schools

Total 129,835 221,343

ENGAGING VILLAGE AND NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCILS FOR BETTER
ALLOCATION IN SANITATION SECTOR
Duration: January 01, 2016 to May 31, 2016
Executive Summary
The local government elections were held in KP province in 2014
where 214 village and neighborhood councils were established
in district Swat. The provincial government (initially) allocated
42.4 billion rupees for the development schemes at village
and neighborhood council level. However these newly elected
members of the councils have very limited capacity to plan against
the allocated budget and spend it efficiently for development at
grassroots level.
Though the government had planned to fill this capacity gap by
hiring new engineers in each district but the process is time taking
and faced with lengthy process of government recruitment process
though public service commission.
Addressing the existing challenge of the capacity at NC/VC level,
IRSP with technical and financial support of Water & Sanitation
Program of the World Bank started a pilot project in district Swat
to build capacity of VCs/NCs and assist them in planning against
the allocated budget.
This project was providing technical support for generating the
PC-1 documents mainly to invest in sanitation sector which may
ultimately lead to the open defecation free environment at VC/NC
level. In this context, these ToRs are to utilize engineering support
services through IRSP- a National level NGO for Swat district to
support the VC/NCs administration in the following:
• Preparation of PC-1 and Bill of Quantities (BOQ) for schemes
to be identified by VC/NC
• Training of district VC and NC on CLTS and achieving ODF
status
The project was launched in March/April 2016 after recruiting 6
engineers for the project. At initial stage of the project a proper
coordination mechanism was established by having meeting with
local council board officials in Peshawar and Assistant Director
Local Government in Swat.
IRSP arranged 7 Tehsil based workshops and orientation session
in Swat which was participated by nazimeens and secretaries
of 162 village and neighborhood councils. The participants were
oriented about the PC-1 formulation, its process of approval and
also the importance of Open Defecation Free (ODF) environment.
The proper coordination mechanism and orientation of the nazims
and secretaries provided support for the field activities where the
project engineers were supported by the villages and neighborhood
councils during the PC-1 formulations. The sub-engineers after

completing their field work in each NC/VC has completed 1301
PC-1s and BOQs for 168 village and neighborhood councils. These
PC-1s were submitted to the district office of the LGRDD. About
80% of PC-1s were about street pavement and drains construction
and 15% about drinking water supply.
The progress and initial impact of the project was very much
promising as even a single survey was not carried out by the
LGRDD for any development schemes and they were not having
any PC-1 at the start of the project while at the end of the project
they were having 1301 PC-1 for 168 VCs/NCs.
Major Activities of the project:
COORDINATION MEETINGS:
At the inception of the project, coordination and liaison building
meetings were held with provincial and district authorities of the
Local Government and Rural Development Department (LGRDD).
These meetings have gain their confidence and secured their
support during the implementation of the project.
The provincial office oriented the project team on PC1 formulation
and necessary documentation required while district office assisted
the project team in organizing the orientation workshops of
Nazimeen and secretaries and tackling the field issue.
The department remained in closed coordination with IRSP
and informed IRSP about the government decisions related to
assignment like decision regarding reduction in the development
budget of VCs/NCs sand rules which regulates these funds.
Moreover, they played leading role in coordination meeting and also
timely reviewed the draft version of the PC-1 and provided inputs for
producing the final version.
CAPACITY BUILDING OF TEAM:
The recruited team was oriented to PC-1 by the Director Technical
at Local Government and Rural Development Department Office,
Peshawar. Apart from PC-1 formulation, the team was also provided
with the guidelines of Village Council/ Neighborhood Council
development scheme selectionand about the steps involved in PC-1
approval process.
The orientation was of great advantage to the team as the core
work of the project (PC-1 formulation) depended on it. Further the
information provided by the Director Technical were also shared
with Nazimeen and Secretaries during the orientation workshops.
ORIENTATION MEETING WITH THE DEPARTMENT
AND PLANNING FOR ORIENTATION WORKSHOPS OF
NAZIMEEN
The project was launched by having an orientation meeting on with
the Assistant Director Local Government and Rural Development
Department (LGRDD), Swat.
The department was informed that the project aim is to assist the
department and VCs/NCs in PC-1 formulation and ultimately in
efficient and effective utilization of development funds. The Assistant
Director appreciated the intervention and extended all possible
support for making the project a successful. At the end of the
meeting, the first three one-day orientation workshop for Nazimeen
were planned and it was jointly decided that the remaining four
events will be organized after the three workshops are over.
This coordination and meeting help IRSP team to work with support
of the department and has easily arranged and conducted the tehsil
level orientation workshops for NC/VC nazims.
As a result of the meeting,
• the project team was looking to be part of the LGRDD team
and feltat home with the department
• The seven orientation workshops for Nazimeen of VCs/NCs
could also be easily arranged.
Orientation workshops for Nazims/ Secretaries of Village/
Neighborhoods Councils
There were 7 one-day orientation workshops organized with the
following objectives:
To inform the participants about the process of spending
developmental budget of Village/Neighborhood councils
• To inform the participants about the criteria of developmental
scheme,
• To introduce the IRSP team responsible for working with and
assisting the village /neighborhood councils and explain their
ToRs,
• An orientation to the concept and approaches of ODF
A total 162 village council/neighborhoods councils secretaries and
Nazimeen attended the 7 events. The workshops for Tehsil Barikot
and Babozai were organized at Mingora city while the rest of the 5
workshop were organized at community level.

PC-1 FORMULATION:
There were 1301 PC-1s formulated for 168 VCs/NCs against
the target of 214 VCs/NCs. Due to the KP government decision
regarding reduction in the development budget of VCs/NCs, 34 VCs/
NCs in Tehsil Matta, 7 in KhwazaKhela, 4 in Tehsil Bahrai and 1 VC
in Tehsil Kabal were on strike and refuse to chalk out planning for
utilizing the funds.
The following process was adopted for the formulation of PC-1:
• Informing the VCs/NCs: One or two days before the visits,
the secretary and Nazimof a VC/NCs were informed
through phone about the visit, its purpose and essential
documentation like ADP and resolution passed by the council
for detailed technical survey and PC-1 formulation,
• Meeting with VC/Nazim: In cases where the scheme were
not following the P&D guidelines or the schemes were not
feasible, Nazimeen and Village Council were educated to
make the scheme as per P& D guidelines and change the
nomenclature of the scheme to make them feasible,
• Field Survey: One of the senior team members designed a
format for data collection and survey was done to collect
information as per that format. The format is hereby
annexed for information. In the initial days, the survey for the
schemes of a village council could take two days as they had
at least 10-14 schemes to be surveyed (one scheme for each
member) but in the last days a team member could complete
survey of Two Village Councils. The reason for the increase
in the pace is reduction in the development budget of the
Village Council. With the reduced budget, fewer schemes
could be planned and hence fewer schemes were surveyed.
• Desk job: After field survey and data collection, the data entry
process was started. For this also a senior
engineering team member designed the
format. The format for data entry and cost
estimation is hereby annexed for information,
• All the cost estimation, BoQs and drawings
for each schemes were submitted to District
Office of LGRDD, Swat for review and inputs,
• After incorporating the comments, the cost
estimations and drawings were attached to
descriptive part of the PC-1 duly filled in Urdu
language and submitted to the department.
• In TehislBarikot, Babozai and Charbagh the
average number of PC-1s per VC/NC are
comparatively greater. The reason is that
here the budget per Village Council varied
in a range of about 1 to 6 million and these Tehsil were
surveyed before the government decision of reduction in
the development budget of VCs/NCs. On the contrary, in
Tehsil Kabal, Bahrain, KhwazaKhela and Matta, the number
of PC-1s are comparatively lesser with the justification that
the development budget of the VC/NCs was reduced by 75%
and thus with the reduced they planned lesser number of
schemes. The lowest number of PC-1s are in the Tehsil
Matta where survey could be completed for just 12 Village
Councils while the rest of the 34 Village Council refused to
utilize their fund due to government decision of development
budget reduction. Similarly in Bahrain, 4 VCs, in Kabal 01 VC
and in KhwazaKhela 7 VCs refused to utilize the funds for the
same reason.
Sector wise disaggregation of the scheme are as following:
S.No Type of scheme
# of
scheme
Percent-
age
1 Street Pavement& Drain 969 75
2
Household Waste Water
Drain
72 5
3 Culvert 22 2
4
Construction & Up Gradation
of JanzGah& Graveyard Wall
32 2
5 Garbage Point (Kora Dan) 5 0.38
6 Water Supply 201 15
Grand Total 1301 100%

CITIZEN ACTION FOR DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE IN PAKISTAN
Duration: September 01, 2015 to March 31, 2016
Summary
Building on the successes of the foundation’s 2006-2014, Trust for
Democratic Education and Accountability (TDEA) is implementing
the CADG with member organizations of Free and Fair Election
Network (FAFEN) under the Accountable Grant Agreement with
the Department for International Development (DFID). The project
is supporting initiatives and actions for electoral, legislative and
local governance oversight, advocacy and electoral reforms in the
country.
Based on effective and appropriate involvement of TDEA-FAFEN
in electoral processes from 2008 General elections and onward
till 2014, it was needed for the sustainability of the previous
involvements that fafen launched one year pilot project that
was linked with STAEP project. IRSP is one of the pioneer FAFEN’s
member organizations who has been working from the 1st activity,
also implemented Citizen Action for Democratic Governance
in Pakistan pilot project in District Mardan along with election
observation of three districts of Punjab for local government
elections 2015-16.
The overall Project goal is to contribute towards more inclusive,
transparent and responsive democratic institutions and processes
in Pakistan. Free and fair elections are a vital element and the 1st
step towards democratic processes and government. To observe
Local government elections during the project life in Punjab, IRSP
was given three districts (Bhakkar, Mianwali, Layyah) in Punjab.
The observation was systematic, independent and objective was
to provided credible and independent information on the quality
of elections and generate evidence-based recommendations for
improvement in future elections.
Target Groups:
Though these interventions benefitted every segment of society
but especially the excluded class of the society, including women,
ethnic minority groups, workers, government officials, youth
groups and the communities where the issues are exist for
decades. In this pilot project, the staff identified those communities
where huge number of eligible population have no access to CNIC
to entertain legal citizenship and those who have not yet registered
to contest the election or to vote. With many issues within the
project, it can claim that thousands of people issues were
highlighted and facilitated the whole villages, how to raise their
issue in front the concern authorities.
In was planned that district level associations like lawyers’ forums,
political parties’ youth wings, trade unions, doctors’ Associations,
village level organizations and musalihati jirgas will be encouraged
to promote village level issues up to district level to engage them
with local authorities. Most of the active volunteers have been
identified among these groups for the future activities and to give
them a uniform structure for a strong pressure group.

Activities of the project:
RECRUITMENT PROCESS FOR SOCIAL MOBILIZERS
AND OBSERVERS
As per the contractual agreement and guidelines, IRSP hired
one staff member for each phase of local government election
observation for District Bhakkar, Mianwali and Layyah as per
IRSP’s HR policy. While hiring election observers for Election
Day, the criteria of hiring staff from the same union council and
preference was given to experienced one who had already observed
the elections in the past through FAFEN, was kept as the priority
however, rest of the processes were carried out as per IRSP’s
recruitment policy i.e. qualification, experience and willingness
etc. The hired staff filled in the given profile form and sent back to
TDEA accordingly. After the approval all volunteers profiled on MIS
as contractual obligations.
IDENTIFICATION OF ELECTION DAY OBSERVERS
In the identification process of observers, the following
requirements and qualification of Election Day observers was
strictly followed.
• A valid CNIC and resident of the district
• No office bearers of any political party and have no explicit
political affiliation
• No involvement in the campaign of any political candidate
• Physical fitness and to conduct a day long rigorous
observation
• To have a functional mobile phone and connection especially
in the election day
• To be able to read Urdu and have basic arithmetic skill
Most of the observers, who have already observed general
elections 2013, were recalled for the local government elections
2015 for his/her residing union council/Ward. In case of non-
availability in the UCs of their resident, observers from the nearest
UCs were deployed.
PROFILING OF ELECTION DAY OBSERVERS
Soon after the identification of observers for Election Day, IRSP
carried out profiling of the observers on MIS as well as on the
format shared by TDEA, and was later on shared with secretariat.
ACCREDITATIONS FOR OBSERVERS
Accreditation was a challenging task within the limited time and
it was also noted that election commission office along with other
election related officials refused many time to provide accreditation
cards. They were not serious and cooperative in such type of
activities as observation so, during DRO meeting it was observed
that he had no knowledge and information about accreditation and
observation in the election. DRO told that it is the responsibility of
ECP office for providing accreditation card to media and observers.
In the 2nd meeting with ECP request was made for providing
accreditation cards for observers. After detailed and frequent
meetings the ECP agreed and provided accreditation cards for
observers and staff.
It was also noticed during observation in the Election Day that
majority of the election staff in polling stations did not cooperate
with observers
OBSERVER TRAININGS
According to guidelines and training plan for observers’ trainings,
every social mobilizer held trainings in their respective district.
Total five training were arranged for 132 observes in the three
districts. All training arrangements like training venue, ensuring
participation of identified observers and facilitator, logistics was
done by IRSP.
Each session was briefly conducted by the trainer in easy Urdu
language and local examples. Participants took interest in the
training from the very first movement till the end of the training.
Participants asked regular questions to resolve their queries which
were professionally and satisfactory answered by the trainer.
ELECTION DAY OBSERVATION AND REPORTING
As a step towards free and fair elections in Pakistan, FAFEN/IRSP
deployed 132 trained citizens (Male 89, Female 43) for 515 sample
polling stations in Bhakkar, Mianwali and Layyah Districts. All
observers were issued accreditation card by ECP. DRO told that he
didn’t have any knowledge about accreditation or didn’t take the
responsibility, referred to ECP for issuance of accreditation cards.
All the observers were identified and profiled as per the already
set criteria and ensured 100% participation in one-day training on
election observation. Upon conclusion of training, polling stations
were assigned to each observer and required reporting formats
were handed over to each observer.
All the observers were trained on technical aspects of the voting
and counting process, Local government act. They were also
discussed about the state, governments, why local government
elections are necessary and how the people can access to their
local representatives and their involvement in development
work. Four polling stations were assigned to each observer with
standardized checklists to be filled in the specified time during
Election Day.

Project facilitator held various meetings with Election Commission
of Pakistan’s (ECP) district office, DRO office, ROs for obtaining
polling Scheme, sharing list of observers and getting accreditation
cards.
All standardized checklists successfully collected and dispatched
to fafen secretariat.
SELECTED UNION COUNCILS POLLING STATION
FORMS
IRSP observed local government elections in non-project district
but successfully completed pre-election, Election Day observation
and post-election activities in all the districts.
DGSG Engagements:
After the orientation of District Governance Support Group that
was held on November 22, 2015 members constantly engaged
with political party office bearers once in a month, elected
representatives, targeted communities, ECP and government
officials to identify electoral issues and to advocate on the
identified issue with local authorities.
Total five meeting were held with ECP officials for identified issues
regarding delimitation, polling station locations and vote under
registration.
DGSG held five meetings with political party’s office bearers for
getting support and build pressure on the authority to step forward
for the solution of these issues.
One session was held with 42 CSO representatives to represent
the agenda points and to brief them on FAFEN national electoral
reforms campaign to get alliance for pressure building.
One session was held with 39 Media persons to broadcast the voice
of the people to pave the way for democratic culture in the country.
Regional Governance Group:
Regional governance Group comprise of sixteen with equal gender
balance of local active volunteers in which most of the people have
already voluntarily working in the society.
Daily Observation of District Assembly
In district Mardan the assembly met for about 6 times during
the project life observed 4 times by IRSP and reported their
proceeding.
Impact of the Project:
The impact of the project is slow and steady but fruitful and
acceptable for the excluded class of the society. Being a
permanent member of the network it has been seen many
changes in the behavior of those who did not accept any proposal.
• Free and Fair Election is the 1st step towards a democratic
and accountable system. Purpose of the project is very
important especially for those who have no access to the
resources of the state.
• Association of female and gender balance shows the change
in the behavior of the society. Now female are acceptable
to raise the voice of excluded class in every field related to
female. In the past days about 50% of the population did not
have any right to vote or contest the election in the society
but now a day it is increasing due to their presence in various
forums
• Project is design to encourage the exclude class to engage
with local authorities for the solution of their problems and
to ensure accountability with in the public institutions. The
behavior of authorities are not yet encourage able but with
regular interventions it may see some changes.
• Due to project interventions, capacity of a common man
has been improved regarding their constitutional right and
responsibilities.
• The project focuses on collective instead of individual effort
that is more effective and encourage more people to easy
raise their voice for their people.
It is important to mention that this intervention focuses on citizens’
behaviors and attitudes and is contributing in constructing
social as well as democratic infrastructure at society level and
institutional level therefore, immediate impact or result as we
experience in the projects of street/building infrastructures, may
not be visible in this project.
The impact of such projects can be assessed after decades.
However, during the implementation phase, some observations
have been noted regarding acceptability of its objectives among
institutions and citizens and that is an encouraging corner.

TRANSFORMING INCLUSIVE LOCAL GOVERNMENT (TILG)
Duration: November 01, 2016 to October 30, 2017
Project Background:
Integrated Regional Support Program (IRSP) has entered
into agreement with Development Alternatives Incorporation
(DAI) to implement the project titled “Transforming Inclusive
Local Government (TILG)” in the targeted 48 N/VCs of district
Swabi. Rational behind this intervention is the fact that good
governance is an inevitable phenomenon for the smooth working
of any state machinery. Therefore, political stability, rule of law,
constitutional supremacy and public participation in policy making
and implementation must be ensured for establishing a true
representative, just, transparent and accountable governance
system.
To contribute towards this state of governance, IRSP, through this
intervention, is going to enhance public service delivery and social
accountability mechanisms in the district, to analyze and share the
annual development program (ADP) of the district with communities,
conduct research on ADP process implementation for improving the
governance of the local government by designing a more realistic
ADP in future and to best utilize the existing ADP.
Objectives of the project
Integrated Regional Support Program (IRSP) has entered into
agreement with Development Alternatives Incorporation (DAI)
to implement the project titled “Transforming Inclusive Local
Government (TILG)” in the targeted 48 N/VCs of district Swabi.
This is one year project started on November 1, 2016 and shall be
completed on October 31, 2017. Overall goal of the project is to
“Change the perception of people about local government system by
engaging them with newly elected local government system, while
identifying and addressing gaps in the ADP (annual development
plan) implementation and ensuring citizens engagement through
citizens’ charter in budget making process, awareness raising
and promoting right to information in communities” through the
following three main objectives:
1. To enhance government’s responsibility for implementation
of ADP by creating awareness of and engaging villages
councils, neighborhood councils and communities in the
process of ADP formation and implementation
2. To support the government and elected representatives in
identifying course correction for implementation of ADP
3. To incorporate citizens’ voice in planning process at

local level following a consultative process with elected
representatives by incorporating citizen’s charter in planning
and budget making process for next fiscal year
To this end, IRSP has carried out the following main activities so far:
Activities of the project:
RECRUITMENT & ORIENTATION OF THE PROJECT
STAFF
IRSP soon after signing of the project agreement, formally
advertised the vacancies for TILG project as per its HR policy
and completed the selection that include one Project Manager
supported by a Research and Advocacy Officer, three male Social
Organizers and one female Social organizer were recruited as
per standard procedures of the organization. In the next phase,
IRSP formally oriented the project staff about project aims and
objectives, project area, Local Government Act 2013, its RoBs
(Rules of Business), three tiers of the LG system and latest
amendments to the act.
APPLY FOR NO OBJECTION CERTIFICATE (NOC)
IRSP, in this connection fulfilled all the requirements in due course
of time and the concerned department has been pleased to provide
NOC within a shortest possible time frame.
PROJECT INCEPTION WORKSHOP
The project was formally initiated through this event. This
workshop was conducted on December 15, 2016 attended by
representatives from district administration, department of
LG & RDD, members of district council, tehsil councils and
village/neighborhood councils. The event was also attended by
representatives from DAI. District Nazim-Swabi was chief guest
of the event. Overall the event was attended by more than 70
participants.
COORDINATION MEETINGS WITH DISTRICT
DEPARTMENTS
IRSP conducted regular visits to offices of district authorities
of the project district that include visits to the office of District
Nazim, office of Assistant Director Local Government, Tehsil
wise supervisors/Focal Persons of AD LG Office, office of district
Finance Officer.
VILLAGE MAPPING
Project staff initiated village mapping exercise with a purpose
to select N/VCs to be targeted during project implementation
process.
MEETING WITH ADDITIONAL DEPUTY
COMMISSIONER (ADC)
Senior management of IRSP held a meeting with the ADC. This
meeting was recommended by ADC during his meeting with
TILG staff’s coordination meeting with the offices of deputy
commissioner and ADC.
GETTING COPIES OF ADPS
TILG staff held meetings with the offices of AD LG & RDD, District
Council, District Finance Office, Tehsil Councils and three village
councils for getting copies of District ADP, Tehsil ADPs and ADPs
of village councils. Except ADP of Tehsil Topi, all the ADPs have
been received.
ANALYSIS OF THE ADPS
TILG staff held one-day long analysis of the ADPs. Purpose of
this exercise was to equip the field staff over the ADP’s structure;
budget allocations and its overall process so that during their
interaction with stakeholders, they are more confident and
conceptually clear.
AREA SELECTION AND ITS DISTRIBUTION AMONG
FIELD STAFF
30% of the N/VCs were selected. During selection process, a series
of meetings were conducted with district office of LG & RDD that
include meetings with office of Assistant Director LG & RDD and
supervisors of each of the four tehsils.

ILM POSSIBLE TAKE A CHILD TO SCHOOL (TACS)
Project Introduction
British Council (BC), Trust for Democratic Education and
Accountability (TDEA-FAFEN), Children’s Global Network (CGN)
and School of Leadership Foundation (SOLF) are implementing
ILMPOSSIBLE: Take a Child to School (TACS) project in four
provinces of Pakistan – Punjab (25 Districts), Sindh (18 Districts),
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (12 Districts) and Baluchistan (5 Districts).
The aim of the project is to enroll 135,000 out of school children (5-
11) in Government Primary Schools and 80% of these newly enrolled
children are expected to stay in school during the life of the project.
The project will accomplish these result using a holistic approach
that engage all education stakeholders to ensure children
enrollment in schools, stay in schools and learn while in schools.
For these stakeholders, the project will deliver:
• increased number of better informed parents committing to
enroll their children and
• An increase number of parents who are interested to retain
their children in schools.
Role of FAFEN in ILM-POSSIBLE TAKE A
CHILD TO SCHOOL PROJECT
FAFEN’s major role in ILMPOSSIBLE: Take a Child to School
(TACS) project will be to monitor child enrollment and retention
of enrolled children out of project’s total enrollment to monitor
whether 80% retention target was met or not. Scope of work for
TDEA/FAFEN includes:
• Updating the ILM Information System (IIS) to facilitate
reporting of program activities
• Monitoring of new enrollments and retention of children
enrolled in the project
• End line survey to measure project outcomes and conduct
impact analysis of the project
Scope of work for IRSP
Being an implementing partner of FAFEN, IRSP is implementing
the monitoring component of ILMPOSSIBLE: Take a Child to School
(TACS) project in schools specified in five union councils of district
Mardan namely Bagh-e-Irum, Bazar, Khazana Dheri, Kata Khat,
Kandar while PAK WOMEN, as an implementing partner of British
Council is implementing the enrollment and retention component

of the project. Phase I of this project has been implemented in
2015 while the 2nd
phase was started on April 21, 2016 primarily
till October 31, 2016 however, now the project life was extended
till December 15, 2016. As per the new letter of grant, IRSP will
monitor enrollment of 1827 children and monitor retention of 1489
children and its timely reporting on IIS.
Similarly, IRSP will conduct End line survey in the project area of
district Mardan tentatively from October 2016 to November 2016.
Updates till October 31, 2016
As per the timeline, End line survey has been started where 3
union councils have been completed while rest of the 2 union
councils will be completed within this week. The last activity of this
milestone is uploading the data on IIS which will be initiated once
the survey comes to an end in the field.
All the tasks under milestone 3 have been completed and reported
to FAFEN through its online utility as well as data in hard have
been dispatched.
Period Milestone Activity Remarks
Milestone 1 Monitoring of Child Enrollment
April 21, 2016 to May 31,
2016
Milestone 1.1
Monitoring of Child enrollment (upto maximum of 600
children) in respective schools of the district
Completed
June 2016 Milestone 1.2
Milestone 2 Monitoring of Child Retention
July-2016 Milestone 2.1
Monitoring of Child retention (upto maximum of 1489
CompletedAugust-2016 Milestone 2.2
September-2016 Milestone 2.3
Milestone 3 Monitoring of Child Enrollment
August-2016 Milestone 3.1
Monitoring of Child enrollment (upto maximum of 1227
CompletedSeptember-2016 Milestone 3.2
October-2016 Milestone 3.3
Milestone 4 End line Survey
October-November 2016 Milestone 4.1
End line survey will profile five (5) Union Councils of
district Mardan in order to assess the impacts of the
project
Ongoing

DEEPENING DEMOCRACY AND ELECTION SUPPORT IN PAKISTAN (DESP)
Duration: August 01, 2016 to March 31, 2017
Background
IRSP is implementing a project titled Deepening Democracy
and Election Support in Pakistan (DESP) in Mardan from July
2016 to March 2017 to continue supporting time-sensitive actions
to contribute to strengthening of electoral and parliamentary
processes ahead of General Election (GE) 2018.
The project focuses on continued oversight of electoral and
parliamentary processes and evidence-based advocacy for
improved enforcement of existing statutes as well as legal and
policy reforms through proactive engagement with political parties,
parliamentarians, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), civil
society and media. In addition, it seeks to encourage public debate,
dialogue and discourse to strengthen a pro-democracy narrative in
the country.
These actions focus on areas as important as improvement in the
electoral rolls, under-registration of voters particularly women,
minority and persons with disabilities, conflict mapping of electoral
constituencies in an effort to design appropriate peace-building
interventions ahead of General Election 2018, electoral literacy
of citizens and key stakeholders, oversight of Parliament and
provincial assemblies, and multi-stakeholder engagements to
promote a pro-democracy narrative.
Project Activities
ADVOCACY CAMPAIGN FOR CITIZEN AND VOTER
REGISTRATION OF WOMEN AND MINORITIES
Mobilization strategy as a first deliverable under DESP has been
designed to mobilize unregistered citizens including women,
transgendered persons, members of religious minorities and
persons with disabilities in the project district. Total one thousand
female with persons with disabilities has been facilitated and
the remaining 4000 unregistered citizens will be facilitated till
February 2017.
MEETINGS WITH ECP AND NADRA
IRSP has been conducted 08/14 meetings with NADRA and 06/14
with ECP officials and submitted requests for the deployment
of MRVs in the identified areas with the lowest CNIC and voter
registration. The main objective of this advocacy activity is to raise
the issue of missing women and minority voters with relevant
public institutions in the project district.

OBSERVATION OF DISPLAY CENTRES
ECP has displayed preliminary voters’ lists after door-to-door
verification of voters across Pakistan at display centers established
for the purpose for a 21-day period starting August 21, 2016. IRSP
identified, mobilized and trained three observers for observation of
58 display centers established in the district for first five days i.e.
from August 21 to August 26, 2016.
Total 60/58 display centers successfully observed and reported to
FAFEN secretariat during the observation period.
Training of Social Mobilizers/Volunteers/Observers
IRSP conducted 2 trainings for Mobilizers/Volunteers and Display
Period Observers during the project.
Direct Facilitation to Women and Minorities for CNIC
and Voter Registration
IRSP is directly facilitating unregistered women, transgendered
persons, individuals belonging to religious and economic
minorities and persons with disabilities as per approved
mobilization strategy.
Number
of women
to be
registered
for CNIC
Number of
minority
persons
registered
for CNIC
Number of
transgender
persons
registered for
CNIC
Number of
persons with
disability
registered for
CNIC
950/ 4748 0/142 0/51 50/101
Progress against Targets for Mobilization Strategy
ENGAGING WITH POLITICAL PARTIES FOR CITIZEN-
CANTERED ELECTION MANIFESTOES AND CHARTER
OF DEMANDS
IRSP shall bring civil society organizations including trade unions
and professional associations into one district level alliance as per
criteria set by TDEA-FAFEN. The alliance will engage with political
parties and citizens for development of district-specific charter of
demands reflecting the development needs of the project district.
District convention has planned on January 18, 2017 at Mardan.
IRSP is also facilitating CSO Alliance to engage with political
parties on party manifestoes for GE 2018 to influence the
manifesto development process and concur with citizens’ Charter
of Demands. The partner organization shall also engage all
stakeholders in a district convention on Charter of Demands and
Party Manifestoes.
Activities
S. No. Type of Activity Target Achieved
1
Individual
Meeting with CSO
Representatives
20 Meetings 25 Meetings
2 Profiling of CSOs 20 CSOs 25 CSOs
3
CSO Formation
Meeting
1 Meeting 1 Meeting
4
Review and Planning
Meeting of CSO
Alliance
3 Meetings 2 Meetings
5
Meeting with Political
Parties
10 Meetings 0 Meeting
6 District Convention 1 Convention 0 Convention
DIALOGUE WITH JOURNALISTS ON INDEPENDENT
AND OBJECTIVE ELECTION COVERAGE AND
PROMOTION OF PRO-DEMOCRACY NARRATIVE
IRSP has been arranged a district-level dialogue with journalists on
objective reporting of electoral and democracy issues to encourage
a robust and consistent societal dialogue on democracy. The session
was delivered by TDEA-FAFEN.
ENGAGEMENT WITH YOUTH IN COLLEGES,
UNIVERSITIES AND SEMINARIES
District Coordinator conducted individual meetings with the heads
of colleges/universities and religious schools to get their permission
for engaging with students in a discussion/dialogue on electoral
literacy, democracy, inclusion and tolerance.
Male and female students between the ages of 16 and 22 were
participants of these sessions ideally in joint sessions.

Activities
Sr. No. Type of Activity Target Achieved
1 Individual Meeting with Press Club President and individual journalists 10 Meetings 14 Meetings
2
Dialogue on Independent & Objective Election Coverage and Promoting Pro-Democracy
Narrative
1 Dialogue
Session
Dialogue
Session
S. No. Type of Activity Target Achieved
1 Individual Meeting with Heads of College/University and Religious Educational Centers 3 Meetings 3 Meetings
2 Individual meeting with Head of Women Colleges/Universities and Institutions 3 Meetings 3 Meetings
3
Number of Dialogue Sessions with Male Students
(target is to engage 110 male students and 110 female students)
6 Dialogue
Sessions
6 Dialogue
Sessions

NETWORKING OF IRSP
IRSP HOSTED THE NATIONAL SECRETARIATS OF THE FOLLOWING NETWORKS:
FANSA Pakistan (Freshwater Action Network South Asia)
Social Accountability Network Pakistan (SAN-Pakistan)
IRSP IS ALSO EXECUTIVE MEMBER OF THE FOLLOWING NETWORK:
End Water Poverty (EWP)
Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN)
IRSP IS GENERAL BODY MEMBER OF THE FOLLOWING NETWORKS;
Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC)
Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Civil Society Alliance (CSA)
Climate Action Network South Asia (CANSA)
Peace and Justice Network (PJN) Pakistan
Pakistan Development Alliance (PDA)

PARTNERS/DONORS ORGANIZATION
European Union Water Aid
Water and Sanitation Program -
South Asia
The Asia Foundation
Concern Worldwide UNICEF
Plan Pakistan Stars Foundation UK
Canadian International Agency for
Development
Swiss Agency for Development
and Cooperation
Oxfam GB UN Habitat
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation International Rescue Committee
DAI USAID

INTEGRATED REGIONAL SUPPORT PROGRAM
House # 121, Street 2, Sector A, Sheikh Maltoon Town
Mardan Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Pakistan
Phone: +92 937 880283
Fax: +92 937 880284
Web: www.irsp.org.pk
Email: info@irsp.org.pk

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