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ANNUAL REPORT

2013

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ANNUAL REPORT

2013

CONTENTSAbbreviations

Note from the ChairmanThe Year in ReviewIntroduction

I. Origin and FormationII. Our ApproachIII. FIDA Map & OutreachIV. Institutional CapacityV. FIDA Organogram

Social Mobilization

Camapigns and ProjectsCommunity Stabilization through Multi Sectorial Livelihood Support Program • CaseStudy-SmallScaleEnterpriseGrant:Shazada’sStory

Improving WASH Facilities in Flood Effected Areas • CaseStudy-PrioritizingtheNeedsofChildrenWhoRequire

SpecialCare

Building the Capacity of Parent Teacher Councils

Advocacy Campaign against Gender- Based Violence • CaseStudy-SavingSumera:ALawyer’sStory

Finance• Auditors Report• Balance Sheet• Income and Expenditure Sheet

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ABBREVIATIONSADP Association for Development in PakistanASI Adam Smith InternationalAUS AID The Australian Agency for International DevelopmentBMST Business Management Skill Training CBO Community Based OrganizationCO Community OrganizationCHV Community Health VolunteersCMST Community Mobilization Skills Training DFID Department for International DevelopmentD.I. Khan Dera Ismail KhanDWSS Drinking Water Supply SchemeESP Education Sector PlanFATA Federally Administered Tribal AreasFFO FederalForeignOffice(Germany)FIDA Foundation for Integrated Development ActionGBV Gender-BasedViolenceGDP GovernorDevelopmentProgramGEP GenderEquityProgramGWP GlobalWaterPartnershipIDPs Internally Displaced PersonsIEC Information, Education and CommunicationKPK Khyber PakhtunkhwaLSO Local Support Organization MNA Minister National AssemblyNCHD National Commission for Human DevelopmentNGO Non-GovernmentalOrganizationOXFAM GB OxfordCommitteeforFamineReliefGreatBritainPHED Public Health Engineering DepartmentPIA Pakistan International AirlinesPTC Parent Teacher CouncilPWP Pakistan Water PartnershipRSPN Rural Support Programmes NetworkSGAFP SmallGrantsAmbassador’sFundProgramUC Union CouncilUSAID United States Agency for International DevelopmentUNFPA United Nations Population FundUNICEF United Nations Children FundWAPDA Water and Power Development AuthorityWASH Water, Sanitation, Health & HygieneWWF World Wildlife Fund for NatureWWOP Women Welfare Organization PoonchVO Village Organization

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NOTE FROM THE CHAIRMANMakingitssecondyearasanot-for-profitcompany,FIDAhascontinuedtostrengthenitsoperationalandmanagementsystemstoimprovetransparencyandincreasetheimpactofitsworkinthefield.FIDAhasalso worked on developing a comprehensive social mobilization strategy, to help develop its current 365 Community Organizations to the next tier of village organizations in the future.

Thisyear,FIDAfocusedonbuildingit’sexpertiseinalternativeruralenergy.Notonlyhavewebuiltoverone thousand biogas plants in the last four years, we have also introduced solar energy in the region through solar submersible pumps that are being used to power drinking water supply schemes in seven Union Councils in Dera Ismail Khan and Tank.

Working with government and donors to help implement the Education Sector Plan in the province, FIDA partnered with Adam Smith International to build the capacity to Parent Teacher Councils (PTCs) in Karak, Kohat, Lakki Marwat and Dera Ismail Khan. This proved to be a good learning experience for our staff and an opportunity to build our portfolio in education.

Despite working in traditionally conservative areas, a key area of concentration for FIDA during 2013 has beenwomen’sempowermentthroughadvocacycampaignsonwomen’srightsandtheinclusionofwomenin livelihood development initiatives and health and hygiene promotion. It is important the organization continuestopromotegenderequalityandincreasedwomenparticipationinallitsprojectinterventions.

Goingforward,FIDAwillcontinuetodevelopitsfocusareasbylearningthroughpastexperiencesandcollaborating with local stakeholders to strengthen and expand our work in social mobilization, especially engaging youth in this development process. FIDA will also work towards expanding our geographical coverage to other parts of the province, including Chitral.

I am grateful to our board members and donors for their continued support. I would like to thank our staff and community members, without whom none of this work would be possible.

Siraj Ul Mulk

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THE YEAR IN REVIEWIn2013,FIDAimplementedfourprojectsinDeraIsmailKhan,Tank,Karak,Kohat,BannuandLakkiMarwat.Ourmajor focus included concluding a two year post-flood rehabilitationWater Sanitation, Health &Hygiene(WASH)projectintwoUnionCouncilsinD.I.KhanandimplementingaMultiSectorialLivelihoodSupportPrograminfourUnionCouncilsinD.I.KhanandthreeinTank.Thepostfloodrehabilitationprojectisthefirstlong-termprojectFIDAhasimplementedthroughwhichover18,000men,womenandchildren have directly benefitted from health and hygiene awareness, latrines, water purification andmanagement systems and drinking water supply schemes (DWSS). FIDA worked closely with the local government to repair six of their water supply schemes and also helped build the capacity of government line authority representatives.

Using this experience, FIDA used solar submersible pumps to power seven drinking water supply schemes underits‘CommunityBasedStabilizationthroughMultiSectorialLivelihoodSupportProgram’,fundedbytheGermanEmbassyinIslamabad.OnedrinkingwatersupplyschemewasconstructedineachUnionCouncil as model initiative to foster its work in Alternative Rural Energy. Hundreds of rural households were given access to renewable, clean energy source through the provision of 245 biogas plants. As Pakistan’senergycrisiscontinuestogrow,itisimperativetoprovidealternativeenergysolutionstoruralcommunities.

To help diversify household incomes, FIDA provided men, women and youth with small grants, vocational skill trainings, honeybee hives, trees and seeds for kitchen gardening. This project also involved theestablishment of seven handicraft skill centers for women and a display center in Dera Ismail Khan and Rawalpindi.

Expandingitsworkongender&advocacyundertheGenderEquityProgram,FIDAledanotheradvocacycampaignagainstgender-basedviolenceinD.I.Khan,Tank,Karak,KohatandBannuthroughaseriesof seminars, school events and roundtables, as well as an extensive radio and an extensive IEC and radio campaign.

This year, FIDA also moved a step further for the promotion of education by building the capacity of 783 Parent Teacher Councils (PTCs) in Dera Ismail Khan, Lakki Marwat, Karak and Kohat. This initiative was partoftheUK’sDepartmentForInternationalDevelopment(DFID)partnershipwithgovernmentofKhyberPakhtunkhwainimplementingaEducationSectorPlan(ESP)aimedatimprovingaccesstoandthequalityof education throughout the province.

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INTRODUTIONOrigin and Formation

Established in 2004, Foundation of Integrated Development Action (FIDA) was founded by Faiysal AliKhan and his grandfather, the late Brigadier SadiqNawazKhanAwaninresponsetotheyearsofgovernment neglect and resulting human suffering in Dera Ismail Khan and its surrounding areas in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The district was chosen as a starting point as our founders wanted to give something back to their ancestral homeland, but also because of its multi-ethnic,multi-linguistic compositionand its locationas acrossroadsneighboredbyPunjab,Balochistanandthe Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). These factors made this area a challenging yet deserving place to begin development work.

FIDA was originally registered as a non-profit,non-governmental, social welfare organizationunder the Social Welfare Ordinance of 1961. After expanding its portfolio during emergency responses in 2009 and 2010, FIDA felt the need to strengthen its internal systems and institutional capacity, afterwhichitwasre-registeredinApril2011asanot-for-profitcompanyunderPakistan’sCompaniesOrdinance of 1984.

In 2012, FIDA became a member of the Rural Support Programmes Network (RSPN), the largest development network of Pakistan, with an outreach of over 35 million rural Pakistanis. All RSP’shave a common approach to development: Social Mobilization. Social Mobilization is based on the belief that poor communities have an innate potential to manage their limited resources if they organize themselves and are provided technical and financialsupport1.

Our Approach

VisionA society built around good governance anddemocraticattitudes,supportedbyasoundeconomyandthesustainableuseofresources.

1 Adaptedfrom‘WhoWeAre’fromtheRuralSupportProgrammesNetwork Annual Report (2013)

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MissionTo mobilize and build the capacity of existingpolitical and social structures and to act as a linkbetweencivilsocietyandmarginalizedcommunities,therebyempoweringallstakeholderstoachievetheiridentified development goals in a sustainable andreplicablemanner.

Guiding PrinciplesOne of the key elements in FIDA's approach to development is cooperation. An integral part of this cooperation includes partnerships with donor agencies and other NGOs. It is FIDA’s belief thatsharing of resources, knowledge and expertise will lead to a more efficient and sustainable systemof development. FIDA has therefore positioned itself as an entry point for organizations wishing to do work in the districts of operations. This is a

significantroleinareaswhereamajorchallengeofdevelopment lies in establishing relationships, trust and credibility. FIDA has already established these critical elements and can provide the resources and accessneededtoimplementdevelopmentprojects.

In an attempt to reach as many people as possible, FIDA works with a wide variety of communities and groups throughout the region. FIDA also works to create links and partnerships with neighboring districts, in order to strengthen and replicate the work that is being done.

FIDAbelievesinamulti-sector,community-drivenapproach to development. Rather than dealing with single issues in isolation, FIDA formulates comprehensive strategies that help communities deal with their problems holistically. FIDA also works

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to build and strengthen the capacity of Community Organizations (COs) and Village Organizations (VOs), thereby creating social transformation that is meaningful and sustainable.

AcornerstoneofFIDA’sexistencehasbeenalong-termapproachtodevelopment.Therefore,thefirstfiveyearsofoperationwereviewedasa“researchand development” period, allowing time in the field to understand the traditional mechanisms,structures and cultures of the areas, as well as the development needs of the communities. Building meaningful relationships and maintaining integrity of process were imperative when working in areas that were often hostile to NGOs, suspicious ofoutsiders and vulnerable to security issues.

ThisstrategyenabledFIDAtorespondquicklyandeffectively to the displacement caused by military operations in South Waziristan in 2009, acting as the sole implementing partner for the Provincial Government, UNHCR and others and assistingover 270,000 individuals. FIDA continued this emergency relief and rehabilitation work with the displaced communities and did so again after the unprecedented floods that occurred in 2010 and2011.

Following this series of emergency humanitarian responses, FIDA focused on building internal capacity and returning to its core competencies. These include alternative rural energy, community physical infrastructure, livelihood development, gender & advocacy health and education. Over the course of its operations, FIDA has implemented more than 50 self-financed and donor fundedprojects by the German Embassy in Islamabad,Oxfam GB, USAID (Gender Equity Program &Small Grants Ambassador’s Fund Program), WorldWildlife Foundation (WWF), UNFPA, UNICEF, AUS AID, Association for Development in Pakistan, Governors Development Program and Adam SmithInternational.

Institutional Capacity

FIDA developed strong financial and operatingsystems in order to register itself as a not-for-profit company under Pakistan’s Companies

Ordinance. Comprehensive Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) were established and have been implemented since September 2010. Internal and external audits are conducted on a quarterlybasis by internationally reputed firms like AnjumAsim Shahid Rehman (AASR) (Grant Thornton’srepresentatives in Pakistan), KPMG and AwaisHaider. Capacity assessment exercises have also beencarriedoutbyKPMGandtheUNFPA.

FIDAhasitsheadofficeinIslamabadandaRegionalOffice in Dera Ismail Khan where its project andfieldstaffarebased.AdynamicBoardofDirectorscomprised of the following individuals governs the team:

• Mr. Siraj-ul-Mulk (Chairman)- CEO HindukushHeights; Former PIA Pilot

• Mr. Faiysal Ali Khan- Founding Member andChiefExecutiveOfficer,FIDA

• Ms. Shandana Humayun Khan-Chief ExecutiveOfficer, Rural Support Programmes Network(RSPN)

• Brigadier (Rtd.) Muhammad Aslam Khan-Director GWP/PWP, Former Vice ChairmanNationalPeaceCouncil,Ex-DirectorNCHD

• SayidGhaziGulabJamal-MNAOrakzaiAgencyand Former Federal Minister

Our core staff is comprised of a senior management team based at our head office in Islamabadwho provide strategic oversight, institutional backstopping and guidance to our regional team. Our regional team is comprised of local professionals who have spent many years in the field and arefamiliarwiththecultureandcontextofFIDA’sareasof operation. The core structure of our team is shown in organizational chart on page 11.

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Board of Directors

Director Grants & Programs

CEO

COO

Manager Grants & Communication

Grants & Communication Officer M&E Officer HR Officer

District Program Manager

Finance Officer

Engineer

M&E Officer

Admin Officer

Manager OperationsManager M&E

Admin & Finance Officer

Project Coordinator

Manager Finance

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SOCIAL MOBILIZATIONFIDA has a participatory approach to development based on the concept of social mobilization. This process consists of organizing communities into grass root institutions that gradually evolve into larger institutions at the village and Union Council level. Through social mobilization, households are organized into settlement or mohallah level “CommunityOrganizations(COs)”.FIDAbuilds thecapacity of these COs to enable them to become self-sustaining and self-governing grassrootslevel institutions that are able to mobilize their internal and external resources to participate in the implementation and monitoring of development initiatives in their area. Social mobilization and its consequentprocessesenablecommunitiestorealizetheir inherent potential, create social awareness and avail capacity building opportunities that allow them to become self reliant in the future.

Community mobilization is the foundation for all of FIDA’s development initiatives. Interventionsare designed on the basis of need arisen through community organizations at a grassroots level. COs takepartinimplementation,supervisionandqualityassurance through cost contribution, managing and supervising the physical construction or delivery of schemes and above all they are the majorstakeholder in social collateral between FIDA and beneficiariesfortransparencyandsustainabilityoftheinterventions.OncetheCOsareequippedwithrequisite knowledge and skill, they are entrustedwiththenominationofbeneficiaries,inaccordancewithFIDA’spre-designedselectioncriteria.

FollowingtheRSPN’sthreetiersocialmobilizationmodel,COsarethefirsttierofsocialmobilization,consisting of 15-20 households. COs eventually

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evolve into Village Organizations having more visibility, voice and access. VOs consist of representatives from each CO in the village. The thirdtierrepresentsVO’sfrom the entire Union Council to form a Local Support Organization (LSO), an institution capableofmobilizingandimplementinglargerprojectsand create productive linkages between the public and private service delivery organizations.

To date, FIDA has formed and fostered 351 community organizations and 20 Village Organizations (VOs) in 23 Union Councils of D. I. Khan, Tank, Frontier Region Tank

and South Waziristan Agency of Southern KPK.

Currently the greatest challenge for FIDA is mainstreaming gender in culturally sensitive areas that have tribal roots and are resistant to social change. A deteriorating law and order situation has made communities suspicious about non-government organizations and development work.Overtime,FIDAhasbeenabletowintheconfidenceofthe communities and has formed 54 women and mixed Community Organizations in D. I. Khan and Tank and is taking a more concentrated approach towards inclusion of women in community organizations.

Men COs

Women & Mix COs

OxFam

FFO-2

FFO-1WWF

USAID

ADP

IRD

Sungi

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CAMPAIGNS & PROJECTS

Community Stabilization Through Multi-Sectorial Livelihood Support Program

After a successful partnership providing alternative energy through biogas plants, the Federal Foreign Office (FFO) of Germany in Islamabad supportedFIDA to improve the standard of living and economic prospects for a hundred villages in Dera Ismail KhanandTank.Thismulti-sectoralinitiativeaimedto diversify and increase income opportunities for poor individuals, especially women, through advocacy sessions, small grants, vocational skill trainings, small infrastructure projects, naturalresource management activities and the creation of market access for women home based workers. The projecthasbenefittedatotalof2,691householdsin nine months.

Organized community participation was the core of allprojectactivitiestoensurecommunityownershipandprojectsustainability.FIDAformedandtrained102 Community Organizations (COs) that took the leadinnominatingbeneficiaries,identifyingsmall-scale infrastructure schemes and monitoring the construction of biogas plants. Communities also made a 50% contribution (in the form of labor or material) for the construction of biogas plants and

20%forcommunityphysicalinfrastructureprojectsthat included link roads, street pavements and water supply schemes.

Building on its work on alternative energy, FIDA built another 245 biogas plants (140 in D. I. Khan and 105 in Tank) to provide rural households with renewablefuel forcookingpurposes.Beneficiarieswere also given training in the operation and maintenance of the plants, to ensure they are usedefficiently.Promotingsolarenergywasalsoalargecomponentofthisproject.Asaccesstocleanpotable water is a basic necessity for communities in these target villages, solar powered pumps were used to power seven drinking water supply schemes. A drinking water supply scheme was built in each target Union Council as a model initiative that benefittedanaverageof200householdsperUnionCouncil. This, in addition to other infrastructure schemes including link roads, water management systems and repairing of government drinking water supply schemes (DWSS), gave these 100 villages access to basic facilities, thereby, improving their standard of living.

LIVELIHOOD DEVELOPMENT

ALTERNATIVE RURAL ENERGY

COMMUNITY PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

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The inclusion of livelihood development packages was a new initiative for FIDA and was designed to help vulnerable individuals increase their household income and food security through the provision of small enterprise grants, distribution of honey bee hives, vegetable seeds for kitchen gardening and fruit & tree saplings. This initiative has been particularly favorable for women, many of whom

used the grants to open general and grocery stores and are now able to earn profits throughhome-based enterprises. Beneficiaries were alsogiven Business Management Skills Training (BMST)

to teach them the basics of running their own enterprise.Inaddition,fiftyyoungmenwhowere

interested in setting up their own business or were outofworkattendedaone-monthvocationalskilltraining courses where they learnt about mobile repair, computer hardware and software repair and electric work.

In addition to providing women with livelihood

packages,fiftywomen tookpart in amonth longvocational skill training in tailoring and hand embroidery. Seven handicraft centers for women

were established in each UC to promote local embroidery and craftwork and to encourage women to use this skill to earn an income.

Over a hundred women registered with these centers and used them to make clothes, handbags, cushions, shawls,babyclothes,hand-madejewelryboxesandkitchen accessories. A display center in Dera Ismail Khan and Rawalpindi were also established under

thisprojecttopromotetheworkofthesecentersand to allow women direct market access without having to go through middle men that erode their profits and income. All the activities under thisintervention were aimed at increasing the standard of living of the target communities. Twenty-one advocacy sessions were arranged ontopics of women rights, the importance of education

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and environmental preservation in order to sensitize the population towards these important, yet largely ignored issues. Through seven advocacy sessions, more than 400 uneducated women from poor households received basic information on the importance of women’s rights, women protectionlaws, and the importance of women participation indecisionmaking,genderequityanddevelopingtheir livelihoods. Another 406 were sensitized on the importance of gaining education for their socio-economic uplift, towards a better future.To complement the natural resource management componentofthisproject,sevenawarenesssessionson the topic of “Environment Preservation” werearranged in which more than 400 participating men learnt about tips and techniques for maintaininga cleaner and healthier environment, which would help reduce costs of ill health. The inclusion of advocacy sessions worked to fortify impacts of other project activities through sensitization ofcommunity, hence creating a favorable environment for future interventions

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Community Stabilization through: Impact D.I. Khan Tank

Formation Of 102 Community Organizations 1,819 community members engaged 1,092 727

Distribution Of 300 Honey Bee Hive Units 150familieshavediversifiedtheirfamilyincome

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Distribution Of Vegetable Seeds For Kitchen Gardening

150familieshavebecomeself-sufficient 87 63

Distribution Of Tree Saplings 65 families have increased their household income

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DistributionOfCashGrantsTo70Individuals enterprise opportunities for 70 poor families

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Establishment Of 7 Handicraft Centers For Women

>150 women have access to skill centers 103 45

2 Display Outlets For Handicraft Work In Islamabad and D I Khan

>150 home based women workers have market access

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245HouseholdsProvidedWithBio-gasPlants >1500 individuals have access to clean renewable energy for domestic use

980 945

Installation of 7 Solar Pumps For Drinking Water Supply Schemes

> 2000 men, women and children have access to clean drinking water

1,290 1,110

Construction of 15 Link Roads And Street Pavements

>1500 beneficiaries have access toimproved road network

1,020 700

Construction of 7 Water Supply Schemes >1000beneficiarieshavebenefitedfromwater management systems for domestic and agriculture use

675 438

Repair And Maintenance of 2 Govt. DWSSSchemes

>1500 individuals have easy access to clean water

840 685

8 Training Sessions On Community Mobilization Skills Training

204 CO members trained in social mobilization and record keeping

120 84

8 Training Events For Operation & Maintenance of Biogas Plants

245 biogas beneficiaries trained tomanage their plants

140 105

6 Business Management Skill Training Events 120 individuals have improved managementandfinancialskills

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7 Advocacy Sessions On Women Rights >400 individuals have basic knowledge of women rights in the constitution

239 184

7 Awareness Sessions On Importance Of Education

>400 women sensitized about the benefitsofbasiceducation

241 165

7 Awareness Sessions On Environment Preservation

384 individuals learnt about the importance of environment preservation

226 158

One Month Vocational Training For Men 50 men trained in skills like electrician, mobile repairing and computer hardware/software

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One Month Vocational Training For Women 50 women trained in basic embroidery, stitching and tailoring

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Case study –small sCale enterprise Grant shahzada’s story

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Shahzadalostherhusbandduringthefloodsin2010,andwas left with no choice but to return to her poor parents with an uncertain future. Her parents could only offer her a room, as her father was old and physically impaired and her mother was already overwhelmed with taking care of him and trying to make ends meet.

Like many women from Dera Ismail Khan, Shahzada had never been given an opportunity to complete her education. To help her mother with household expenses, Shahzada started making “changairs” (baskets made with dry leaves of date trees), which she sold for meager twenty or thirty rupees. In 2011, through borrowed money and her own savings, Shahzada started a small shop that sold bangles, cosmetics, toiletries and house items for women. As she could not afford to rent a shop, she displayed the items in one corner of her room, where women from the local neighborhood would visit. Shahzada’s average arupees,which was not enough to support her son. She continued to make changairs and also started traditional embroidery work to help her earn enough to send her son to school.

When FIDA’s staff met with Shahzada, now 22, shewas a perfect candidate for Business Management Skill Training, one of the many components under a multi sectorial livelihoodsupportprojectthroughthesupportoftheGermanEmbassyinIslamabad.TheBMSTtraininghelped Shahzada manage records of her daily sales and the amount she spent on inventory purchase. Once she completed the training, Shahzada was nominated by her localcommunityorganizationasapotentialbeneficiaryforacashgrantofthirtyfivethousandrupees.

ThisgrantenabledShahzadatoincreasethequantityandvariety of the products in her shop. She was provided technicalassistancebyFIDA’senterpriseofficerandhasnow increased her daily income to five to six hundredrupees,financially empoweringher toenroll her son inschool. Shazada is grateful to be given an opportunity in an area where women are restricted to their homes and have limited opportunities for economic development.

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Improving WASH Facilities in Flood Affected Areas

In the summer of 2010, Pakistan experienced devastating monsoon floods that inundated onefifth of the country, including Dera Ismail Khan.FIDA partnered with Oxfam GB and the EuropeanCommission to improve drinking water supply, sanitation facilities and hygiene in two floodaffected Union Councils in Dera Ismail Khan.

From August 2011 till December 2013, FIDA was able to provide over 18,000 men, women and children with access to safe drinking water and improved hygiene practices in 48 flood affectedvillages in UC Parova and Naivella through the following activities:

• FormationandcapacitybuildingoftwentyCommunity Based Organizations (CBOs), including ten women CBOs, for identifying and prioritizing community health problems. Apart from their engagement in actual project implementation, theseCBOs became self-governing institutional

entities registered and recognized by the Department of Social Welfare.

• 140 Community Health Volunteers (CHVs)(including 70 women) were trained and conducted 742 Health & Hygiene Sessions attended by over 1,600 individuals. These sessions outlined health precautions and hygiene methods like hand washing techniques, perils of open defecation,proper disposal and sanitation methods, personal hygiene, water and sanitation management that would prevent illness, especially those caused from waterborne diseases.

• 1,300 children participated in interactiveChild-to-Child (C2C) activities includinghand washing and “snakes and ladders”games to learn about hygiene and health practices.

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COMMUNITY PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

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• An extensive radio campaign that aired2,700 messages was used to promote health and hygiene awareness.

• Six Drinking Water Supply Schemes(DWSS) including community tube wells and drinking water supply schemes were rehabilitated, providing approximately 25,500 men and women with potable drinking water

• Bio-sand filters were installed in 240households to purify contaminated water from ponds and irrigation canals for drinking purposes

• Sixfiltrationgallerieswereinstalledinsixvillagestofilerandprovidecleanwaterto2,000beneficiaries.

• Under the City Clean-up Campaign, de-silting of six main drains or nalahs in D.I. Khan city was carried out over 3 schemes.

• 225 latrines were constructed to improvegeneral hygiene conditions and 27 of these latrines were specially designed for individuals with physical impairments.

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Case study –prioritizinG the needs of Children with speCial needs

Sabo was very relieved, “Allah has listened to my prayers. Now Sabir can use the toilet himself with little assistance from me and this has given him so much self confidence.”

‘It is always an unpleasant experience for me to take Shumaila outside. People do not understand her needs and she often cries from embarrassment when other children made fun of her. Many times she does not even want to go out to avoid humiliation." Sakina Bibi

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In Pakistan, little priority is given to catering to the needs of individuals with disabilities, especially in remote districts like D.I.Khan.Duringthemonsoonfloodsof2010,thedisabledpopulationlivinginvillageGaraNoorKhanbecamethemostvulnerable victims of this natural catastrophe damaged a large amount of infrastructure, including sanitation facilities. People had to resort to open defecation, which increased the likelihood of illnesses.

Sabo Bibi is a mother of eighteen-year-old Sabir, who hasstruggled with a mental and physical disability since childhood. Shespokeaboutthedifficultiesshefacedasaresultofnothavingabathroominherhome.“Beingawoman,itisveryembarrassing for me to carry my son outside our home so he canrelivehimself.AsIgetolderIfinditdifficulttocarryhim to more isolated areas but I have no other choice; the onlylatrinewehadwasdamagedbythefloods.”SakinaBibi,who belongs to the same village, faces the same issue with herfourteen-yearolddaughter,Shumaila.ShetoldFIDA, ‘Itis always an unpleasant experience for me to take Shumaila outside. People do not understand her needs and she often cries from embarrassment when other children made fun of her. Many times she does not even want to go out to avoid humiliation.’

When FIDA started working in these areas to restore and rehabilitate infrastructure damaged by the floods, homeslike Sakina and Sabo’swere given priority because of theirchildren.AfterFIDA’steambuiltlatrinesintheirhomeswithdisabledaccess,Sabowasvery relieved,“Allahhas listenedto my prayers. Now Sabir can use the toilet himself with little assistance from me and this has given him so much selfconfidence.”SakinaBibi,wasverygratefulthatShumailacould now use a washroom in the comfort of her own home and no longer has to be ridiculed by other children.

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Building the Capacity of Parent Teacher Councils

Parent Teacher Councils (PTCs) play a pivotal role in school management and improving the quality of education in public schools. PTCsplay an important role in discouraging teacher absenteeism, identifying missing facilities in schoolsandinvolvingparentsintheirchildren’seducation. Typically, each Parent Teacher Council comprisesoffiveparents,aseniorschoolteacheror head master and a retired government employee.

InJune2013,FIDApartneredwithAdamSmithInternational (ASI) under the Education Sector Plan (ESP) for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to build the capacityof783PTCsthroughtrainingsonrecord-keeping and financial management to enablethemtoefficientlyutilizegovernmentfundsformissing facilities in schools.

FIDA worked in close liaison with the District Education Department to provide trainings to 1,861 PTC members (994 women and 867 men) in D. I. Khan, Karak, Kohat and Lakki Marwat. Separate training sessions were arranged for women and men and each PTC was given a detailed briefing about the government’s EducationSector Plan and the role envisioned for PTCs in improving service delivery. They were taught to use karwai registers, as well as cash and stock registers. Follow up visits revealed many were

able to identify and provide missing facilities in their schools that improved the infrastructure and learning environment for hundreds of students.

EDUCATION

Advocacy Campaign Against Gender-Based Violence Continuing its work on raising awareness on gender-basedviolence(GBV)andwomen’srights,FIDA, in collaboration with Aurat Foundation under USAID’s GEP program, launched anotheradvocacy and information dissemination campaign infiveculturallysensitivedistrictsinKPK:DeraIsmail Khan, Tank, Karak, Kohat and Bannu. The campaign was designed to raise awareness onwomen’s rightsunderPakistan’s constitutionand highlight the facilities available for women victims of violence.

Roundtable sessions were attended by a variety of stakeholders including community elders, students, lawyers, government representatives and other members of civil society organizations. These sessions aimed to mobilize these groups to act as catalysts in promoting an attitudinal shift towards domestic violence and women. FIDA found that many women were not aware of their marital rights and many had not even seen their nikkah (marriage document). Participants also agreed that many women did not have other important legal documentation like national identity cards, birth and marriage certificates that prevented

Round Table Discussions

Provincial Seminar

District Seminar

School seminars

PROJECT BENEFICIARIES

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themfromexercisingtheirrightsthroughthestatejusticesystem.

Thedistrict-levelseminars focusedonfacilitatingtheactiveparticipationof lawyers,governmentofficialsandNGOrepresentativestoenablewomenfromallbackgroundstoaccessinformationabouttheir rights and availing of state facilities including shelters, courts etc. In the provincial seminar, aninteractivediscussiontookplaceonthecurrentlawsinthecountryprovisionedagainstGBVandthe need to improve and oversee their implementation.

Alargecomponentofthiscampaigninvolveddisseminatinginformationonpro-womenlegislation,help lines and local shelters through IEC material and an extensive radio campaign that was also aired inadjoiningdistrictsBhakkarandLayyah.Throughthiscampaign,FIDAwasabletoengage1,212individualsalongwith thousandsof indirectbeneficiaries.Awarenessalonecannot tacklegender-based violence, especially in areas with tribal roots that are conservative and tend to adhere to culturalcustomsandnorms.ThereforeFIDAaimstocontinue itsworkonadvocatingforwomen’srights and protection at the grassroots level to try and create an attitudinal shift in society in the future.

Sumera had a promising career in medicine while living in Kohat with her parents. She was only 25 when she got married and became a mother to an infant daughter. Her husband, an engineer born and raisedinKohatbutnowbasedinAbuDhabi,seemedasuitablematchinherparents’eyes.

A few months after Sumera moved to Abu Dhabi, her parents started receiving disturbing letters from her, narrating stories of physical and psychological torture by her husband. Despite many attempts, Sumera’sparentswereunabletocontactherandsoonafter,theystoppedreceivingletters.

Gravely concerned,Sumera’s fatheranda fewofhermale relativesflew toAbuDhabi to look forher. After months of searching, she was found unconscious in the washroom of a disserted building whereherhusbandhadkepthercaptiveandsubjectedhertophysicalandmentaltorture.Herbodywas marred with countless cigarette burns and she was often drugged before enduring other forms of abuse. She reported,” My husband would come home intoxicated and would look for excuses to beat me up. Whether it was a loss in his investments or simply him having a bad day at work, I was the onetoblameforallhistroubles.Whenhehadnothingtofightover,hewouldabuseandaccusemeofhavingillicitrelationswithmen.Idon’tknowhowIsurvivedthatlivinghellforoverthreeyears.”

Sumera’stroublesdidnotendevenaftersheandherhusbandreturnedtoKohattoherparents.Herhusband began harassing the family for custody of their infant daughter and Sumera once again found herselfinavulnerablesituationwithnolawyerreadytofighthercase.

Sumerasaid,“EverylawyerthatIapproachedwoulddropourcaseafterbeingbribedbymyhusband.Hethreatenedtokillme if Ididn’tagreetogivemydaughtertohim.”Herhusband’s familywasinfluentialandshewasunabletoregisterhercaseincourt.Afterseverallawyers,hercasewasfinallytakenupbyMr.Ghyas-ud-din,alawyerwhohadparticipatedinFIDA’sseminarsonwomen’srightsandpro-womenlegislation.

Afterattendingthesesessions,GhyaswasinspiredtoofferlegalaidservicesforGBVvictimsinKohat.Healsovolunteeredtolectureatsubsequentawarenesssessionsonlegaloptionsforwomenlookingtoaccessthejusticesystem.

Sumerawasfullofpraiseforhim,“Ghyasofferedtohelpuswhennooneelsewaswillingtotakeupour case. He has not only got my case registered in court, but has also helped me exercise my right to claim charges against my husband for being abusive. With his help, I feel like a much stronger woman and I see in him a ray of hope for other women in my area.”

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Individual Donors

National Donors

International Donors

Grant Portfolio(Rs.)

70,552,442

6,528,206

6,908,787

FINANCEFIDAhasconcludedprojectsamountingtoavalueofover

Rs. 83.9 millionIntheFiscalyear2012-2013

Rs. 6.9 millionOf the overall funding came

from National donors

Rs. 6.5 millionOf the overall funding came

from individual donors

Rs. 70.5 millionOf the overall funding came from International donors

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AUDITOR'S REPORT

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BALANCE SHEET

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INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT

Foundation For Integrated Development Action (FIDA) Sadiq Awan Foundation Compound, Bhakkar Road, Qureshi Morr, Dera Ismail Khan

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