Capacity Building Project - WASH Pakistan is a disaster prone country where in past decade natural and manmade calamities brought many sufferings in shape of human loss, casualties, displacements and loss of resources.
WASH is one of the prominent sectors interlinked with health, education, foodsecurity, nutrition and almost all areas of emergency needs. Provision of clean drinking water, proper sanitation and hygienic environment are the required standard for healthy life and more accurately survival needs of human beings.
Due to limited resources, poor economy, political instability and many other challenges government is not able to manage the emergencies and timely provide the assistance to disaster stricken communities/people.

Involvement of Non-Governmental Organizations is the only and alternative optionto cope with the situation and assist the vulnerable population. NGOs having the resources pool like human resource, technical knowledge, logistic support and equipment can play a vital role in reducing WASH related issues in emergencies and can support the government in provision of emergency WASH support. Here it is utmost necessary to ensure that humanitarian actors working for WASH emergency are well equipped with technical expertise and human resources to cope with the situation. Local partners have grass root level knowledge and linkages with the communities, they can timely response in emergency and can provide proper support if they are fully equipped. The initial phase of emergency is always very crucial and need prompt response, local partners being having linkages with communities and presence in the area can play vital role if capacitated in WASH emergency response.

Keeping in view of the facts mentioned above, to build capacity to deliver better quality humanitarian WASH responses, SMART proposes a capacity building project to address the above mentioned issues and be helpful in timely response in WASH Humanitarian Response. This will build the capacity of SMART as being local organization as well as the communities and stake holders in the target district where SMART will further transfer the skills and knowledge to them.   SMART has strong linkages and coordination with the local communities; government agenciesand other stakeholders in the target district and have the advantage to reach immediately to respond to the needs in any emergency or disaster. Capacity building of SMART as proposed in the activities under outputs will result in effective and efficient service delivery in humanitarian WASH responses in emergencies.




Here the main dilemma with services providers is lack of capacity due to following reasons;
1.NGOs hire WASH expert for donor funded projects who leave the organization as the project ends.
2. Local NGOs cannot make proper need assessments due lack of resources to bear field HR, Logistics and reporting expenditures.
3. Local organizations havenoresources to arrange exposure visits of WASH emergency mechanism in other regions / countries for capacity building, experience sharing and replicating the model in their areas.
4. Local organizations cannot sustain WASH Management committees formed atcommunity level. These formed and established committees become dead after end of the project because the organizations have no resources and mechanism for follow-up.
5. Local organizations are lagging behind in proper resource mobilization for WASH projects becauseproper assessment, technical designing, hiring consultants are mostly compromised during proposal writing because of limited resources and lack of technical expertise.
 In the light of aforementioned facts PRDS proposes a capacity building package addressing all the above mentioned issues and helpful in timely response in WASH Humanitarian Response. This will build the capacity of PRDS as being local organization PRDS has roots in indigenous communities.  As compare to International organizations and UN agencies, a local organization needs no complicated process of security clearance and can easily acquire NoC needed for immediate response. Therefore capacity building of the organization described in activities under each output is deemedtobring better results in WASH emergency response