Innovative Approaches for Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) In Chenjan, District Loralai, Balochistan, Pakistan

7/31/2018

Project Completion Report

By: Essa Kakar, Sr. Project Manager UNDP-IWRM Taraqee Foundation

PROJECT COMPLETION REPORT

GENERAL INFORMATION

Partner Organization Taraqee Foundation

Name of the Project UNDP-IWRM

Location of the Project Union Council Kach Amakzai, District Loralai, Balochistan.

Project Start Date Actual November, 1st, 2017

Project End Date Actual July, 31st 2018

Project Budget1

Planned PKR 6,463,000

Actual PKR 6,463,000

Abbreviation

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CA Civil Administration

CBF Capacity Building of Farmers

CP Cropping Pattern

CO Community Organization

ER Elected Representative

GOB Government of Baluchistan

IUCN International Union for Conservation of Natural Resources

IWRM Integrated Water Resource Management

LAP Livestock & Agriculture Production

LG Local Government

LSO Local Support Organization

NRM Natural Resource Management

PO Partner Organization

IWRM Refugees Affected Hosting Area

SM Social Mobilization

SEP Socio Economic Profiling

TF Task Force

TF Taraqee Foundation

UNDP United Nation Development

VDP Village Development Plan

VO Village Organization

Table of Contents

Title page ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1

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General Information’s---------------------------------------------------------------------------1

Abbreviation --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2

Table of Contents ------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------3

Project Summary---------------------------------------------------------------------------------4

Executive Summary-----------------------------------------------------------------------------5

Background & Introduction of the project--------------------------------------------------6

Project Goal & Objectives ---------------------------------------------------------------------7

Progress against envisaged outputs--------------------------------------------------------8

Outcome 1: Detail of activities & achievements ----------------------------------------09

Outcome 2: Detail of activities & achievements -----------------------------------10-13

Project Monitoring------------------------------------------------------------------------------14

Summary showing the income status earned from daily wage labor--------------15

Challenges faced and remedies-------------------------------------------------------------16

Best practices------------------------------------------------------------------------------------16

Recommendations for future course of action: -----------------------------------------16

Overall Outcome of IWRM--------------------------------------------------------------------17

Case studies --------------------------------------------------------------------------------18-21

PICs Showing before & after comparison of the activities----------------------------22

Project Summary (Problem Statement/Rationale)

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In the socio economic condition of Balochistan, host population continuously faced various issues & challenges to benefit its own population from productive and social services sectors. Besides meeting these challenges and improving the living condition of the local people. An extra burden of a large influx of Afghan refugees hosted from last 3.5 decades poses serious economic problems to Pakistan still trying to recover from years of financial crisis and slowdown of industrial activities on the other hand. The requirement of refugees for health, education, water, fuel, wood, fodder and other supplies and social services has put a huge pressure on already stressed and poor social services facilities and NRM particularly rangelands. It was observed that Afghan refugees took work for lesser payment and therefore creating employment problems for the youth of the host communities who had more competition of the already scarce employment opportunities.Since the Afghanis were and still are willing to work for lower wages and inconsequence many local employers opted for the Afghanis over the hosts. The friction became somewhat inevitable; health, education, economic issues are in many ways linked with the sudden increase in the population and had contributed enormously towards the existing tension, this tension become somewhat a natural outcome of such situations. Despite being one of the oldest districts of the province, the district is underdeveloped, poor and inadequate social services, poor human & capital development practices, weak infrastructure, less communication channels and public utilities compared to other districts of Balochistan are the major reasons for low pace of development of the district, let alone the inadequate health facilities and in-sufficient education facilities. About 70% of the population of Loralai district has access to clean drinking water and 62% has access to improved sanitation facilities (Sources MICS 2010). The population is generally poor and due to high malnutrition, poor living conditions, inadequate health care facilities, high fertility rates, they experience high level of mortality and morbidity. The vulnerable groups including women and children are particularly at risk. The deliverables of the education sector is also very weak compared to other districts of Balochistan; about 32% of the population completed primary or higher level of education (PSLM 2008-09). In this context, Taraqee Foundation proposed an IWRM project in support of refugees affected and hosting areas. The aim of the project is to improve the livelihood of host and refugee population of most affected area of UC Kach Amakzai of District Loralai, Baluchistan province. Taraqee Foundation successfully completed the Karez extension and rehabilitation, PVC lining in karez, valley dicks, construction of eyebrow, washing pad, lining of channel, mother wells and repair of water course schemes along with conduction of various trainings events for male and female communities of host & refugees of the project area.

Executive Summary:4

Project Completion Report (PCR) reflects the completion status vs expected results and impacts of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) Project of UNDP Loralai since (November, 1st 2017 to July, 31th, 2018). The report contains analysis, results and anticipated impacts of all components of outcome 1 and outcome 2 in shape of narrative, figurative summaries and graphs. PCR also highlights the achievement as made in shape of meeting the objectives of improving the livelihood and helped in strengthening of social cohesion among the host and refugees of the project constituency through implementation of major economic activities of IWRM project ie; Karez rehabilitation, construction of mother well, lining of channels, eyebrows, valley dikes, washing pads and training events. It is to acknowledge that by rehabilitation & restoration of various productive activities related to water immediately increased its volume up to 50% of irrigation water resulted as relief & declared as best remedy for conservation of more water to be consumed for more area to be brought under cultivation. Completion of these activities also provided an employment opportunity to both the host and refugee’s population in shape of earning good income of PKR 1.1 million earned by refugees and PKR, 0.9 million earned by host communities worked as skilled and unskilled labor on day wages.

Major economic activities also benefited the community in shape of increasing the cultivated land about 30 acres in the command areas of respective villages of Chinjan. The land also developed under the land development component of IWRM project, which now brought under cultivation and sowed lucerne and planted new variety of apples and apricot in newly developed lands.

In the context of water scarcity in the area, rehabilitation of karez and new water course also played a productive role in controlling the seepage and increasing the storage capacity of average 50% which ultimately provides irrigation water for Rabi and Kharif crops throughout the year. As a result the farmers produced a sufficient quantity of vegetables & multi cut fodder having a high protein content carrying 10 to 12 % proteins with multi cuttings for their small and large ruminants.

The project activities construction of 400 eyebrows, valley dicks, washing pad, rehabilitation of 2 mother wells of karez, 301 RFT repair of old water channel and events helped in improving livelihood opportunities of the host and refugees population.

The soft components of IWRM in shape of social mobilization and conduction of various events provided a base of gaining knowledge and ensured a strong social cohesion among the host and refugees communities. The technical support of UNDP office and cooperation of respective community during implementation of IWRM Project is acknowledged..

Background & Introduction

The experience and lessons of Taraqee Foundation from implementing the Integrated Water Resource Management activities in association with IUCN, Forest department,

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Agriculture department in various constituencies both North & South Baluchistan Since 1994 –2015. That already provided strong basis for planning, initiating, strengthening and scaling up successful interventions, targeting the communities living in the Refugees & Host communities. The integrated model of integrated water resource and management (IWRM) focused on various productive activities, such as agriculture components, reservoir construction and restoration, Karez extension and rehabilitation, construction of animal trough, PVC pipelining, washing pads, valley dikes, eyebrows & lining of channels.

Besides implementing these activities, the UNDP Loralai project is also covering social sector activities such as provision of clean drinking water, conduction of trainings for awareness of communities in watershed management, range management, operation and maintenance of karez system. These events really supported to further strengthen their formed organizations i.e; Cos, VOs and task force.

The idea of implementing UNDP project has been floated & designed in the context where widespread poverty has affected both refugee and host population in north zones of the province, equally disappearing and puts additional strain on already inadequate resources. The aim of the proposed project is to promote stability and compensate for the social, economic and environmental consequences wrought on local communities by the presence of Afghan refugees along with a severe drought that affected most of the livelihood of the entire region. The local Pakistani host communities shared their resources of both productive and social sector with more than 3 million Afghan refugees for over the past 39 years which affected the socio economic of host communities in every aspect. The completed intervention aims at bringing a positive change in the lives of the targeted communities through ensuring sustained flow of benefits from project interventions in post project era.

The Innovative approaches of IWRM is an integrated and holistic project launched by UNDP with ultimate goal of serving humanity through provision of sustainable water resources at Nari river basin. Taraqee Foundation (TF) has joined hands with UNDP to transform the lives of poor and marginalized communities in the province of Balochistan.

The adoption of national IWRM policies and strategies is a fundamental step towards reaching most of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Consistent with the SDGs targets, IWRM strategies involve balancing societies’ multiple needs and uses of water with the need to protect ecosystems and their ability to sustain multiple uses.

In this context, UNDP has supported TF in implementing a project of integrated water resource management (IWRM) in UC Kach Amakzai, Village Chinjan of District Loralai of Balochistan.

The project will further build on the established roadmaps for Speeding up IWRM Planning in rest of the areas of Nari river basin in coming years and be integrated within the framework of the UNDP Water Initiatives, as feasible.

Project Objectives Main Goal: To sustainably enhance the livelihood of the communities including

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marginalized groups through increasing water security and productivityMain Objective: Livelihood of the communities in command area improved by ensuring availability of sustainable and increased quantities of water through adoption of innovative approaches of IWRM of development and management of Karez Ecosystem.1: Communities are mobilized and capacitated enabling them to take ownership of the project implementation and leading to enhanced social cohesion.2: Livelihoods are enhanced through Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM)

It is envisaged that not only the hosting & refugee communities will directly benefit from the project interventions but also the public services as these will be provided with a model of Integrated Water Resource Management. Cross cutting issues relating to gender equality, social society engagement also addressed to eliminate the discrimination and inequalities with gender perspective.

It is projected that the major economic activities of Karez reservoirs, PVC, land development and plantation will improve the livelihood and social condition in 2 poorest villages of UC Kach Amakzai Loralai through strong social mobilization and capacity building activities of IWRM project and it is expected the planned components would further boost the overall economy of host and refugees communities in the future.

Sustainability was the major prospect in the planning of said project. In all aspects of the project, it was assured that the interventions should remain sustainable after project completion through social mobilization of the communities. In order to ensure project sustainability, TF have considered four essential dimensions: Functional community organizations will continue to function and sustain after the project ends.

Resilient households and communities took actions in shape of developing the Village Development Plans (VDPs) to improve their livelihood by developing linkages with development actors at district level. An environmentally sustainable system of management of forest area has been maintained though construction of 400 eyebrows as made in IWRM project, this will not only provide fuel wood to respective community but also support the recharge the rain water and preserve biodiversity of watershed area of Kili Chinjan as well.

The structural dimensions of poverty are addressed through the empowerment of poor and marginalized rural households.

Direct and indirect beneficiaries:

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Direct beneficiaries: Taraqee Foundation covered 425 House Holds in 02 sub villages of 01 Union Council Kach Amakzai) of District Loralai in Balochistan Province including 11,723 afghan refugees in the host communities).

Progress against envisaged outputs:

S#Activities Total

Target

Overall Cumulative Progress as of 31 July, 2018

%age targets achieved

Outcome 1

1.1 Socio economic profiling 01 01 100%1.2 Formation of VOs (07 male & 4 female) 11 11 100%1.3 Project Task Force (12 monthly

meetings, 15 to 25 persons) 09 12100%

1.4 Training of communities in O&M (2 day event for 30 Members) 01 01

100%

1.5 Training of 30 farmers in watershed & range management (2 day event) 01 01 100%

Outcome 22.1 Lining of Mother wells 02 02 100%2.2 Rehabilitation of Main Karez Tunnel 500 RFT 500 RFT 100%

2.3 Lining of Main Karez Tunnel 600 RFT 600 RFT 100%

2.4 Construction flood diversion dikes 13500 RFT13500 RFT 100%

2.5 Repair of Lined Section of Main Watercourse 301RFT 301RFT

100%

2.6 Additional Lining of Main Watercourse 800 RFT 800 RFT

100%

2.7 Construction of eyebrows in watershed area 400 400

100%

2.8 Construction of Washing Area for Women 01 01

100%

Outcome 1: Detail of activities & achievements

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Formation of Village Organization (VOs) and its major deliverables TF's 3 tier Social Mobilization Program encompasses a broad scale movement to engage the people in community’s participation programs to achieve a specific development goal through self-reliant efforts. This process further aims to organize the community institutions to enusre equitibility, accountibility & sustainibility at 3 tiers of ( CO, VO & Task Force). Main objective of formation of Task Force at UC level is to work as umbrella organization to manage the development of UC to improve the quality of life by targeting each household.

The targeted constituency has been organized into 11 Community Organizations in UC Kach Amakzai District Loralai. All necessary steps of community participation, participatory poverty assessment techniques and various tools of Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) have been adopted for formation of 11 COs (07 Male & 04 Female) and these 7 VOs have been further merged into to 1 Task Force. The SMs process helped the staff in involvement of the poor families of (host and refugees) in the implementation process that obviously ensured a positive environment of social cohesion and improved the livelihood of the respective communities.

Training of Karez committees in effective operation & maintenance of Karez systems:

A one day training event of “Karez operations and maintenance” has been organized for the office bearers of the VOs of Chinjan. The proposed training was organized in the context to educate the farmers on new techniques of water management and also to educate the farmers upon importance of effective operations and practices of Karez water to benefit the farming communities of the area.The growers have been oriented and sensitized upon innovative approaches of IWRM and convinced the growers for adaptation of new techniques and low delta crop to grow more with less water.Following of the topics have been covered during this training ie; What is Karez, Basics of karez, karez history, karez restoration/rehabilitation, karez efficiency/effectiveness, karez flow/ bottlenecks, karez re-charges, operation & maintenance, water & its importance, water & uses of water, water & wise utilization of water, its efficacy & conservation, capacity/productivity & enhancement of karez, knowing operation, effectiveness utilization of Karez.

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Watershed and range management training: This training event has been organized for the office bearers and progressive growers of 7 formed VOs with following objectives.

Sharing of baseline information and data gathered at the initial stage of the IWRM.

Familiarize the professionals with importance of environmental protection, integrated water resources management and watershed management.

Familiarize/Refresh participant’s knowledge regarding basic concepts of water conservation and management, principles, components and approaches of Integrated Water Resources Management.

Provide guidelines to participants about watershed management interventions and water harvesting/spreading.

Training also helped the office bearers to clearly understand the background of IWRM approaches and realized the importance of components planned under the said project. At the end of the event they proposed that participation of VOs members is quite necessary to know the paradigm of the project.

Outcome 2: Detail of activities & achievements.

Restoration/Upgrading of Main Karez through various techniques

Karez being the only source of water of the area, hence major portion of the local population and afghan refugees use waters of the Kareze for domestic purposes and majority of population also earn their livelihood by using these waters for grapes orchards, crops and quenching their herds thirst. However, due to kacha channel & non-maintenance of these structures from a decade, the yielding capacity of this Karez has decreased considerably up critical condition by 0.5 cusec. There are certain major reasons & bottlenecks in shape of kacha channel which affected the sangcheen (stones walls of Kareze) badly and minimized the flow of Karez system of irrigation. In order to ensure un-interruption and increase the availability of water, the Karez has been successfully rehabilitated and restored with innovative techniques of laying of PVC pipes in the tunnel by locally skilled labor. When asked the productivity aspect of construction of mother wells, community realized that laying of PVC in the karez saved 25-30% of irrigation water that will be used to bring more crops area under cultivation. They also acknowledged that the project has achieved the objectives of improving the livelihood of the communities

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by ensuring availability of increased quantities of water through adoption of such innovative approaches.

A total 116400, CFT have been excavated and 600 RFT PVC laid in the said Karez and the volume of the irrigation water has been 50% increased, that will contribute in increasing the income of respective communities by utilizing 30 acres cultivable land for apple orchards and cultivation of fodder and vegetables in their new developed land.

Karez Mother Wells:The planned activity of Karez was well lining of 3004 CFT of stone masonry that was completed successfully and resulted in protecting the tunnel from soil erosion as it has always affected the Karez from flash flood during monsoon season. Lining of mother wells also supported the farmers to easily clean the lined section of the Kareze. It is anticipated that the said activity will contribute to increase the irrigation water by 30% that will directly facilitate the growers to increase the crop production in the command area. Total income earned from skilled and unskilled labor wages by Host was PKR 0.9 million and Refugees was PKR 1.1 million, which indicates an improvement in the livelihood of both communities. The refugees living in the suburbs of village chinjan also worked as skilled/unskilled labor at daily wages and fully benefited from the project activities.

Graphs showing the before, after & expected status of increase in water

Intervention Before Project

After Project

Expected after 1 Year Measurement in CUSEC

Karez rehabilitation and lining through pipe

0.4 CUSEC=(11.328 Liters)

0.7 CUSEC=19.824 Liters

0.9 CUSEC=25.488 Liters

                                   

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00.20.40.60.8

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00.20.40.60.8Before

Expected after 1 YearAfter

Summary showing the income status earned from daily wage labor

Activity

Type of labor (S=Skilles, U=Unskilled)

Daily wages/day

Total Labor

Host Labor

Host earned income (PKR)

Refugees Labor

Refugees earned income (PKR)

Karez Rehabilitation

S 1200 155 65 78,000 90 108,000

U 600 1020 420 252,000 600 360,000

Construction of Eyebrow

S 1200 45 25 30,500 20 24,000U 600 380 180 108,000 200 120,000

Mother Well S 1200 60 20 24,000 40 48,000U 600 153 54 32,400 99 59,400

Harvesting Structure

S 1200 35 10 12,000 25 30,000U 600 205 80 48,000 125 75,000

Washing Pad S 1200 15 8 9,600 7 8,400U 600 125 55 33,000 70 42,000

PVC lining S 1200 65 23 27,600 42 50,400U 600 375 225 135,000 150 90,000

New Channel Construction

S 1200 20 5 6,000 15 18,000U 600 110 50 30,000 60 36,000

Repair of Channel

S 1200 52 20 24,000 32 38,400U 600 90 60 36,000 30 36,000

Valley Dikes S 1200 18 8 9,000 10 12,000U 600 45 12 7,200 33 19,800

4668 2045 902,300 26231,175,400

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Valley dikes:

Water harvesting structure (dikes) have been constructed in the main upper stream of village Kach Amakzai; the purpose of this structure was to save the run-off for diversion of flood water to command area, resultantly these structure also enhanced the recharge of ground water in the stream and also enhance the water volume of two main collective Karez located in the downstream of village chinjan. Before construction of 13500 CFT of dikes, it has been shared by the villagers that the poundage (water storage area) of earthen structures were always hit by flash floods but now all structures are safe and made available to use for flood irrigation purpose. According to a poundage capacity assessment exercise done by the consultant that the said structure can store 800,000 to 1million gallons of volume of water at a time in its poundage.

Eyebrow Construction in Watershed area:

The selected UC Kach Amakzai is a potential area for forestry and range management. Therefore, suiting its climatic conditions, it has sub-tropical broadleaved evergreen scrub forests of wild pistachio in the upper catchment of Kach Amakzai areas. Besides pistachio plants, the project area has vast range lands which facilitate the feeding of livestock (small & large ruminants). During the base line study the people requested for construction of eyebrows in the water shed areas of both the villages.

In the context of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) practices, it is essential to conserve the water run-off through applying of various techniques of water conservation i.e. smalls dams, check dams, plantation, eyebrow construction to facilitate improve the process of eco-system of the project area.

In this regard the activity of construction of 400 eyebrows on the said area with its proper dressing & watering was undertaken. These conservation techniques of water could be of a great importance for the local inhabitants as they would be intact in their native areas.

Lining of Watercourse: Work upon water channel has been completed and a length of 800rft have been constructed with proper finishing and good quality of material used in construction of the channel. This channel helped out the inhabitants of the village to save more water and to make the water reach safely to their fruit orchards in less time and controlled the loss of water.

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This interventions aims to improve the water sources to convert from earthen channel to concrete lining in order to save the seepage and evaporation wastage of irrigation water and also to cultivate the nearest land for agriculture production. Before implementation of concrete work, the said communities used old practices of unlined open channels full of shrubs and grasses from source to command area. Due to said activity the respective VOs have been economically benefitted with the development of 9 acres new land for crops, orchards and multi cut green fodder. This activity immediately supported the livelihood of the people of the project area.

Washing Pad:

The objectives of construction of washing pad was to provide a safe & protected washing space to the female members of respective communities and to save their orchards and crops from contaminated water of soap and detergent. During base line study of IWRM project, it was accessed by the agriculture expert that the agriculture production is severely affected by washing of clothes on the Day Light Point (DLP) of Karez and open channels. They used very contaminated water for their vegetables, crops and fruit orchards by washing their clothes in the same water sources. Before provision of washing pad, the male & female were not familiar about the importance of clean water to be utilized for agriculture.

In this regard, one washing pad has been constructed on channel site in the center of the village. As a result, this activity provided a safe and protected space facility to the female members of the respective villages and ensured safe and clean water to their vegetables.

UNDP – IWRM support, Taraqee inputs & Reflection by Elected representatives: The integration concept and packages of (IWRM) project was highly endorsed by the elected representatives and heads of politicians, notables and development partners. They acknowledged the efforts of the UNDP and Taraqee Foundation for implementation of such a unique model of IWRM project in chinjan area. They have requested to replicate the same model in rest of areas of Nari river basin of Balochistan.

Monitoring visits of TF program team,Frequent monitoring visits to the site have been conducted by program team. The prime objectives of these visits were to check and supervise the quality and progress of the awarded schemes i.e.; Construction of New channel, Repair of Channel, Washing Pad, Mother Well lining and karez lining. The organizational maturity level of the Task force has been also assessed & analyzed by having detailed discussions in the fortnightly meetings of VOs. Monitoring team shared their valuable inputs, feedback with field team and community institutions (COs, VOs) members to get

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Monitoring visit

involved in ongoing work to make sure timely completion of the components planned under this project. As a result, monitoring has been exercised in the award of schemes and ensured successful implementation processes of planned components. M&E team has facilitated the process of implementation as per project indicators and provided their support by sharing their timely feedback that enabled the field team & village organizations in achieving the objectives of improving the livelihood through diversified sustainable livelihood.

Project Sustainability:

Considering the sustainability aspects of the project at community level, TF has keenly considered upon some essential dimensions;

Viable Community institutions will be strengthened as per institutional maturity index that has played pivotal role to make functional these Community Institutions towards self-sustaining after close up of IWRM project ends.

Soon after forming the Community institution, all formed VOs took actions in shape of developing the Village Development Plans and Cluster Development Plans (CDP) to enable the resilient communities to build their linkages with relevant entities.

To polish their skills and promote collectivism to respond to and influence the course of change.

Promotion of environment friendly activities like, WASH and preserve biodiversity and conservation.

It is to ensure that structural dimensions of poverty are addressed through social and economic empowerment of poor and marginalized rural households.

Challenges Faced and Remedies:

Except the change in season that has affected the technical implementation processes of IWRM interventions and delayed the work pace for some time upon major interventions like Karez lining and wells but none of other challenge has been faced in IWRM project constituency.

Best Practices: In-depth orientation and proper training enhanced the capacity of field team which

ensured efficient and effective delivery of IWRM project.

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Getting on board the social team of the project from the respective UC particularly male and female Social Organizers SOs supported the management to get on board all local activists and notables of the area. With this exercise, the inclusion of refugees, poor and women was also ensured and benefited from the project interventions.

Hard work of the field team definitely ensured the maximum inclusion of host and refugees in the shape of benefiting them by earning a good income from major economic interventions of IWRM project.

Regular follow up and visits of M&E section, Taraqee Foundation head office staff has enabled the field team towards timely completion of IWRM activities.

Recommendations for future course of action: Due to distanced geographical presence of the population, it’s recommended that

such integrated and a viable model of IWRM should be replicated at various potential villages of Nari river of Balochistan, where the social services ie; health, water and education facilities are voluntarily shared by the host population with refugees.

An impactful result could be achieved by extending the tenure of future projects such as the time period of physical work process should be extended up to 2 years to meet the long term objectives of IWRM concepts.

Conclusion

The project interventions are in line with achieving almost all its set targets while ensuring the strategic objectives of IWRM project.

IWRM approaches has promoted socio economic resources of the area concerned though implementation of integrated activities with the communities, there by indulging them to invest in small scale infrastructure interventions. It is anticipated that the objective of IWRM will be achieved to support the poor community to contribute to reduce poverty through creation of sustainable conditions of social and economic development that includes increase in income as well as production capacity. 

Considering the current scenario of the province of Balochistan, same model of integrated water resource management needs to be scaled up to the rest of the areas to timely support economy of rural people.

Overall Result/Outcome: Considering the sustainability of IWRM, before going for scheme implementation the

governance system of 3 tire institutions were developed by enhancing their capacity in various areas i.e; community management skills, VDPs, Project planning and implementation, leadership management skills, linkages development with concerned stakeholders to a satisfactory level. Now the COs and VOs of Chinjan village have the capability to undertake their own development activities.

With technical and financial support of UNDP, it is realized that various schemes of water conservation and management has provided economic benefit to 100%

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population of the selected communities. They were also mobilized and capacitated enabling them to take ownership of the project. They took active part and supported TF team in installation of the said scheme.

Most importantly, the livelihood of the communities of respective villages are improved by ensuring availability of sustainable and increased quantities of water through adoption of innovative water conservation and management interventions. As a result, the extra water has been utilized by irrigating their fruit orchard and 30% of their land brought under cultivation that improved the livelihood of poor farmers of Chinjan community.

Case studies: (1)

“A tangible change of water conservation and management in water scarce area”

Chinjan is a village of UC Amakzai of District Loralai located at the distance of about 85 KMs from main town. In the past the area receives a significant amount of snowfall rains annually and offered sufficient quantity of water for agriculture purposes. But from last decade there is a persistent drought which has affected the village from every aspect. During need assessment, it was observed that discharge of the karez flow has been reduced to extreme level which is the only perennial source of drinking and irrigation for their crops and orchards. It was observed that turning the karez line in to PVC pipe lining will be a suitable solution to save water and also a productive and communal intervention covers 250 HHs directly of villages of Chinjan including refugees and transitory nomads living in the suburbs of its catchment area.

The Challenge:

Due to a prolong drought spell prevailed in the province and particularly in project area since 1995 remained a big challenge to fulfill water requirement for agriculture, livestock and domestic use. This situation led the working community in trouble of food insecurity that directly affected their livelihood at large scale which further affected health and education components of respective villages of Chinjan. The water flow of the tube well is the only source used for irrigation, drinking and livestock purpose. About 50% of water mostly wasted in unlined kacha channel that took so long to fill the earthen pond. The growers tried their level best to repair it to control the wastage. Apple and apricot dried and eradicated by the growers.

Meanwhile, to save the available quantity of water, they have contacted line departments to help them out in pipe lining but couldn’t receive any financial support.

The Initiative:-

After completing the process of social mobilization, the project team has conducted need prioritization exercise at village level. After that, people of village Chinjan thoroughly discussed the problems regarding water scarcity and its challenges faced by the growers for timely irrigating of their crops. At the end, they had unanimously approved the resolution

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with consensus and stressed that there is a dire need to lay pipe in the earthen channel so that the water would reach into the field with zero loss.

Accordingly, Taraqee foundation with the help of UNDP under IWRM Project conducted technical assessment of the site and declared that the project is feasible, productive, equitable and sustainable as well. It was anticipated that after improving the source about 60 % of their agriculture production can be increased along with 35 - 50 acres of cultivable lands which may also be brought under cultivation.

Result:

The project of laying the PVC Pipe of 600 RFT was completed successfully with financial support of UNDP and guidance of respective community. Before completion of the said activity, it was hard to water their crops that took 2 hours to reach the field but now it takes only 15 – 20 minutes; approximately 30% of total water has been increased. That also resulted in improving the quality of the crops such as wheat and vegetables and fruits (Apple). The dominant crops of the area have received good price in the market.

Analyzing the overall outcome of the project, 50% of crops have been increased and about 35 acres cultivable waste lands has been brought under cultivation that obviously contributed in improving the livelihood of the poor farmers.

We became socially rich by improving of our livelihood and engaging ourselves in developmental activities carried by TF with financial support of UNDP-IWRM and now we see a positive change in our village said “Malik Majeed (a positive change maker and VO president and LSO executive body member”.

At the end, the project has been completed with 100% share of UNDP and successfully handed over to the local community for future operation and maintenance. To keep regular maintenance and long term sustainability, an annual estimated cost 3% was decided as repair and maintenance cost by respective community. The community will bear all the maintenance cost of the project.

Case Study (2)

Impacts of IWRM interventions on Women life under UNDP-IWRM:

Historically the social setup of respective UC Kach Amakzai is very conservative in the perspective to engage their women in productive activities and bring the village women in main stream of development. At the inception of (IWRM) project, it was obviously a

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challenging task to convince the rigid and socially dominant male members for formation of female institutions and other activities as planned under UNDP Loralai. Because some people of these villages have misperception about NGOs particularly most of the villagers were against the female involvement in terms of organizing them into VOs. Keeping in view the current scenario of the project constituency, it was quite difficult for the field team to intervene for women activities in such area where the people are against the casting of female vote in general elections and also restricted them to be a holder of National Identity Card (CNIC).

The field team in consultation with project manager devised and incorporated culturally workable strategies in their plans and dialogues conducted during formation of Male VOs. They tried their level best to convince the male members to initiate female activities as planned in the project digest. The strategies adopted jointly by project team and village activists were involvement of notables, religious, civil administration, politicians, teachers, contractors and Meraw “socially acceptable person and made them responsible for Karez maintenance and rehabilitation matters.

After continuous struggle of the field team in close collaboration with above stakeholders, the team got success to initiate the dialogue process through female social organizers. As a result, FSOs were formally allowed to start the formation of Village Organization and they were successful in bringing the female into development stream by forming their own village organizations (VOs) and 8 Female Village Organizations consisting upon 15 members have been successfully formed in Kach Amakzai.

Generally the completed components of (IWRM) project provided a wide range of livelihood and social development opportunities to all the beneficiaries of host communities and also to refugees women’s and children’s by one way or the other, resulting in formally engaging the women in development activities and involved themselves in decision making process at the village level.

Particularly in the (IWRM) project components both soft & hard, there are some specific women focused interventions having specific outcome on women life ie; women trainings, sensitization sessions, receiving various trainings of community management skills, livestock and agriculture, WASH training, orientation of village development plan, linkages with women departments, health & education enabled them to maximize their role and also availed optimum opportunities from the said project interventions.

In fact, most of the common hard interventions directly benefited the women towards social and economic empowerment by having the midterm analysis from the outcome perspective of the IWRM project. It has been observed that project activities provided sense of ownership & empowerment, capacity enhancement and clarification of the basic concept of the women for their rights, life skills, behavioral change and gained individual knowledge by each individual VO members and school going girls.

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Annexures

Annex-I:

Pictures of Implementation: Pictures with captions of various events as annex.

Calendar meetings with VOs LSO Meeting upon schemes review

Initial Assessment of Karez PVC liningMother wells at upper catchment of karez

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Kareze Rehabilitation and cleaning Assessment exercise for feasibility of felt needs

Site visit of water course for technical assessment

Water Channel constructed in command area

Assessment of washing pad Washing pad after construction

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Eybrows after constructionValley dikes in commnad area

Karez Cleaning phase Physical work for PVC lining

Physical work during dikes construction Valley dikes after completion of meeting with CRPs trained in agriculture and livestock

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field level orientation during Irrigation Scheduling training Watershed Management training

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