[dropcap]Restoration of Flood Affected Rural Economic Structures Humanitarianly[/dropcap]
Funded By: MISEREOR Germany
Project Duration: 6 Months
There are two target groups for project interventions:
- Women and children living in the targeted villages of Union Council Ghanool who required considerable support and assistance in rehabilitation of their drinking water supply systems and improvement of means of access to sustainable livelihood.
- Rural population in general, living in the area whose access paths, rural access roads, arable land, water mills and crops have got severe damages due to floods and landslides.
Project Goal:
Permanently rehabilitate the small infrastructure schemes particularly including drinking water supply, opening/rehab of rural access roads, paths, and water mills damaged by the floods and landslides of 2010.
Project objectives:
A : To assist, support and enable poor rural flood and land sliding affected community (men and women) in Union Council Ghanool to rehabilitate their drinking water supply, opening/rehab of rural access roads, paths, and water mills damaged by the floods and landslides of 2010
Activities:
- Formation/restructuring and institutionalization of women and men community organizations
- Finalization rehabilitation of small schemes
- Formation of Project Implementation Committees
- Opening of joint bank accounts
- Implementation of the project
B: To raise awareness and link the uphill dwellers with govt. Line agencies for further support (at least technical and in terms of further linkages)
Activities:
- Consultation with District Coordination Officer (DCO..the district magistrate)
- Assistant Coordination Officer (ACO..the sub-divisional magistrate)
- The Executive District Officer Public Health Engineering Department (PHED)
- Construction & Works Department
- NGOs
- Discussing the context in District Projects Advisory Committee meetings
- Visits of govt. officials to site and community visits to offices for coordinated support
Project Implementation Strategy:
Project staff conducted several meetings with community members, local community organizations and other NGOs working in the area for process oriented implementation of the project. Haashar Association believes in the strengthening and capacity building of local structure so decided to implement the project through the facilitation of “Local Support Organization”. LSO is a local representative organization formed at Union Council level by clustering of different community organizations including men and women from different villages.
It was decided in meeting with LSO that they will collect community resolutions from community organizations and forward to project staff for further process. HAASHAR staff get resolution from LSO and COs and accordingly field visits were made by field staff along with LSO representative. Project staff conducted first dialogue with community members for the identification and revalidation of CPIs keeping in mind the prior need of community. After the conduction of second and third dialogues: Social, technical, environmental and detailed survey carried out jointly by social and technical staff. Getting approval of design and cost estimation, ToPs were signed between the community organization and Haashar Association with defined roles and responsibilities. For each of the schemes Project Implementation Committee (PIC) comprising three sub-committees was formed with the representation of both men and women. The number of PIC members varied (6-8) for different schemes.
Sub committees for each PIC included:
- Procurement committee
- Audit Committee
- Operation and Maintenance committee
All schemes excluding water mills were implemented with 80% Project share (Donors share) and 20% community share in kind or cash additional with 2% O & M (Operation & Maintenance) in cash. In case of rehabilitation of water mills, individual beneficiaries contributed 30% of the total cost while rest of 70% was project contribution. Estimated amounts of the schemes were distributed in three installments of 40:40:20 ratios on work done.