Counterpart 505960 Strengthening Partici The Citizens First Project will contribute to the human security and good governance by strengthening the social contract i.e. citizens build up and/or restore trust in government as a reliable partner capable of resolving conflict and delivering basic services. In addition people also build trust among each other across different religious, sectarian, ethnic and cultural identities through fulfilling the obligations towards each other.
Project Overview
The project Citizen First is set of outcomes and interventions ranging from community mobilizations for their rights, facilitating community groups to interact and engage with local authorities for basic social services, promoting social harmony through cultural means including festivity and celebratinglife jointly beyond religious, sectarian and ethnic affiliations as well as theatre, music, folk dances etc. it also talks about democratization of public policies impacting peace and conflict in Pakistani social, political and economic context.
The project interventions are aimed to strengthen civil society and support informed mobilization process for accountability of state institutions and government on international obligations particularly International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), UN Security Council Resolution 1325 with Convention for Elimination of all kinds of the Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) as Bench Mark for women#s social, political and economic participation.
The project also provides opportunity to build people contact among citizens of Pakistan and Afghanistan for cooperation and peace. The terrorism survivors in Afghanistan and CSO representative will be invited to Pakistan to meet Pakistan Civil Society, Political Leadership, Media and other stakeholders and share each other# perspectives and perceptions for positive change. Project period is   for four years.
Outcomes and Outputs
Outcomes
(Outcome Indicator #33): 07 Partners organizations of that show (through cases) that they are able to communicate the voice of civilians in the conflict situations in the international debate on conflicts and on quality of (inter) national aid.
The Citizens First project will ensure that in 15 districts of three provinces in Pakistan 50,000 people are educated and mobilized for basic human rights, peace, tolerance and social services. Eight implementing partners Civil Society Organizations will have increased capacity for evidence based advocacy atdistrict, provincial and federal level.
Project will make it possible for 100 CBOs and Community Groups to be able to engage with local authorities on public demands for basic social services. In three provinces of Pakistan 30 CSOs will be facilitated/supported to lobby and campaign for pro-people planning and budget allocation by putting forward alternative recommendations. Alliances of 100 CSOs/CBOs all over Pakistan will be campaigning and lobbying with federal/national assemblies and related bureaucracy in Pakistan for responding positively towards international commitments and obligations for rights of citizens. Project activities will also help in increased interaction of civilian actors among Pakistan and Afghanistan to challenge existing stereotypes about each other.
Outputs
Output Indicator (A): 07 partners in fragile states active in conflict transformation that received support from Oxfam Novib to improve their capacities in terms of lobbying, research and networking
Output Indicator (C): 07 Southern organizations that have received content specific support from Oxfam Novib in terms of lobbying, campaigning and (new) media inorder to find and bundle the voice of citizens affected by conflicts and disasters, and to publicize this at international level.
Output Indicator (D): 03 Innovative methods developed by IMPACT alliance and used to find and bundle the voice of citizens affected by conflicts and disasters and to publicise this at all international level.

The major output of this project will be that in 15 districts of three provinces 50,000 population will have increased access to social services. To address the stereotypical perspectivesnegatively affecting the peace, tolerance and harmony, 50,000 men, women, youth from differentethnic, cultural, religious and sectarian groups will be interacting with each other. One of the outputs of this project is training and 5 C assessment of implementing partners followed by capacity building trajectory. Eight implementing partners will betrained for research and reporting on human security and oriented towards constitutional and international framework of rights. 100 CBOs/ Community groups will be mobilized to engage with local authorities on issues related to basic social services in 15districts of Pakistan.
CSOs will be mobilized to lobby and campaign for specific suggestions on budget allocations and implementation regarding social services and communicating the same toAssembly members and authorities. Civil Society alliances will be advocating, lobbying and campaigning for UNSCR 1325, ICCPR, ICESCR and Democratization of Public Policies (particularly foreign policy and budget). The project will ensure production of 32 annual reports on Human Security Situation in the project areas. Publications, material, websites and its dissemination regarding UNSCR 1325, ICCPR, ICESCR and Democratization of Public Policies particularly foreign policy and budgets will be among the outputs of this project. Awareness will be created at communitylevel on negative impact of MNC business operations. Local organizations will be trainedon private sector engagement (roles and responsibilities, complaint mechanisms, conflict-sensitive business, identification of cases). Also local organizations will be supported and advised in their private sector engagement strategies in specific cases, including filing of complaints. Lastly civil actors and other stakeholders will be engaged through study, exposure visits and lobby meetingsfor building social, cultural, political and trade relations.