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Enhancing CSOs' contributions to governance and development processes in Pak The project is to strengthen local governments and right -based Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) contribute to improved governance, accountability and development process at local, sub -national and national levels in Pakistan. It will be achieved by building the capacities of local governments, CSOs, and LG academies in inclusive approaches. The project will strengthening coordination and networking between the different tiers of local governments, between the local governments and the provincial authorities, and between the local governments and CSOs.   At local level project will build consensus amongst stakeholders on key issues and create spaces for dialogue to take place and improving the demand side by creating awareness amongst the target population to demand efficient and quality services and participate in decisions that affect their lives and most importantly involving women and other vulnerable groups in decision making.  At the sub national level it will develop coordination and consensus amongst the LGs and sub national government to influence required policy change and on issues such as release of timely resources to the local governments for effective planning and also engage the sub -national CSO networks.  At the national level by sharing good practices and lessons learned with various CSO networks to create a multiplier effect – the CSO networks at the national level in which the co -applicants are members will be informed on issues from the field like women's participation, excluded groups and LGs empowerment which these CSOs will advocate for at various levels including the national parliamentarians elected from these districts; hence creating a momentum that can affect a more cohesive effort towards affecting local governance.
Enhancing Access and Quality for Girls Education in Pakistan By and large, this is a national level campaigning/advocacy project having citizen led school improvement engagement at the very grassroots levels targeting girls primary and elementary schools located in two districts of Sindh (Dadu and Shahdadkot). During this three years of campaigning in 36 districts of four provinces in Pakistan, the rights holders and Civil Society Organisations will be empowered and capacitated to demand for their right of education by mobilizing communities, parents, teachers, school councils, government representatives, media (as strategic partner) for active citizenship and accountable governance to ensure equitable access to quality education for all especially girls in target locations.
Leverage Accountability through Empowered Women This three years project will build on existing cadre of women leaders under Raising Her Voice (RHV) project in Dadu and Muzzaffar Garh districts. The project will unpack complex budget processes into layman language for social accountability.  District Aurat (women) Budget Committees (DABCs) will be capacitated as Social Watch Groups and to engage with Civil Society Organisation (CSO) alliances and stakeholders. The project will harness potential of women's leadership through enhanced facilitation, communication, advocacy, budget analysis and political skills and linking them with effective citizen group (ECGs) to ensure sustainability of influencing work even after the project period.
Pilot Initiative for Home Based Poultry Production for Poor Women Turkey rearing will the first time introduce in district Layyah, Punjab. Women in communities have small poultry but only for their domestic purposes.  Through market linkages of 30 farmer groups, 20 most vulnerable women which have no other income resources will be chose to run small business at household level. A package of 10 hens, 02 cocks and 01 female turkey will be provided to each woman with accessories (i.e. electric hatcheries, Candler, chicken holding box, egg tray, drinker, feeder & chicken net).
Policy and practice Nexus for financing Girls Education Oxfam in Pakistan's (OiP's) previous interventions were more focused on accountable spending however; we realised that gender disparities are huge in planning and budgeting. For instance, there is relatively less allocation of Education  budget on girls in Sindh province. Based on this, OiP will not only focus to promote social accountability but also suggest solution to government that how they will increase budgeting on Girls Education through improving domestically collected revenue. So more systemic and strategic approach is adopted in this project to bring lasting and sustainable solution and propel policy -oriented changes in government to increase financing on Education. The overall objective of project is "Policy and practice nexus is strengthened to influence decisions to increase financing and performance of girls' education in Sindh and Punjab" which will be achieved through alliance building and other community led actions.
Pakistan Urban Programme Outcome 1: Urban women and men right holders are actively using participatory learning processes in engaging duty bearers (government) and other stakeholders for advocating their rights and entitlements.   Outcome 2:  A community led strategy and program document for attacking urban poverty and vulnerabilities through improved urban governance developed
Women's Effective Participation and Leadership in Decision-making in Pakistan The project will promote women's effective participation and leadership in decision -making processes at the local level. Community women will be facilitated to obtain civil registration documents,  women duty bearers will be trained, material will be developed and disseminated and women's groups will be created.  Duty bearers will be held accountable on women's rights commitments and increasing public budget allocated for enhancing women's political role. Political parties will be encouraged to develop action plans on enhancing women's political participation .
Creating Space to Take Action on Violence Against Women and Girls Creating Space (CS) Project will reduce violence against women and girls, and the prevalence of early, forced and child marriage. The project focuses to achieve this ultimate outcome through a holistic, multi -pronged and multi -generation approach to ending violence against women and girls.  First, it will create an enabling environment to prevent violence against women and girls by engaging  key, influential religious, community, private sector and political leaders as well as young men and women in advancing women's leadership, women's rights and the elimination of violence against women and girls. These community leaders and youth will act as champions of change, decreasing the social acceptability of violence and modelling positive behaviours within the social spheres in which they are most influential. Trainings will be undertaken for them to better understand the rights of women and girls, the different forms of violence, as well as the role they each must play in ending violence. Practical tools will be developed to ensure these actors are supported in their on -going efforts to model positive behaviours. The project will include annual round tables and exchange visits to strategize long -term solutions and build momentum around prevention. In addition, the project will support key religious, community, private sector and political leaders to strengthen or change standards, legislation, and regulations. A comprehensive, context -specific baseline analysis will be undertaken in each project location. EVAW through Edutainment project (R09289) will create will engage with students, their parents and faculty members through interactive theatre performances, radio broadcasts, social media posts, murals, and graffiti bringing about conscientious messages on Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) and Child, Early Forced Marriage (CEFM) in ways that are appealing and lasting. These messages will be further transferred through conversations and dialogue in the households
Livelihood/Restocking Livelihoods Project (ECHO Funded) The restocking project is a logical continuation of the previous efforts of Oxfam and its partners in dealing with emergency and post -emergency crisis in Swat and Buner. The following project will last 8 months and targets 5,000 families (40,000 people). The project's objective is around: short -term livelihood support and emergency food -security  - focusing on distribution of livestock (cattle and goats) and Animal Health support.  Balance of R02676 GBP255,288 transfered to PKNC 52.
Girls Education Matters The idea behind the design of the project is for OGB in Pakistan to consolidate its outreach in south Punjab by focusing proposed interventions in a union council. This shall allow us to create a ‘Model Union Council' in south Punjab that can be demonstrated and showcased to influence district as well as provincial level authorities for replication at a larger scale.  practices supported by improved and enabling infrastructural environment  in schools. The entire school improvement process will be led by the effective involvement of parents, wider community and local stakeholders backed by district school council alliance.
Early Recovery WASH Programme Floods 2012 Response in Sindh Pakistan Provision of safe water, sanitation and hygiene promotion facilities to flood affected families for a period of 9 months
Improved Dairy Practices of Small Holder Farmers (Innovative Fund) This project is a pilot initiative that supports rural diary producers, particularly women, to increase their income.     The above will be achieved by developing the capacity of dairy producers to adopt better management practices, improved collection techniques, enhancing negotiation skills and marketing.
Pakistan Complex Emergency in KP and FATA 2017 Provision of Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) services at embarkation points to Temporary Displaced Persons (TDPs) of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) returning to their place of origin after military operation
"Girls Education Matters (GEM)" Under this project, 4 schools will be rehabilitated. Furniture will be provioded in four schools. Provision of para teachers will be supporting to overcome the challenge of shortage of teachers.
Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction and Livelihood Programme Increase the capacity of targeted communities and stakeholders on Disaster Risk Management to cope with disaster and strengthen existing policies to reduce the impact of disaster through community based coping mechanisms. Strengthen livelihood to sustain means of income generations of disaster prone communities and increase community resilience through linkages with stakeholders.
Women Leadership in Public Life in Sindh, Pakistan The project involve local influencer women and WROs, and put them in the driving seat to oversee the execution of institutional reforms. The proposal also engages men in separate but linked networks to counter socially embedded values, norms, traditions and attitudes that perpetuate unequal power structures that restrict the mobility and freedoms for women at the family and community levels. The proposal also makes special efforts to reach and engage especially marginalized women from religious minority backgrounds, young women and those who are physically challenged. Moreover, all interventions are based on thorough research to gather required evidence and data to provide an adequate understanding of major institutional obstacles to women's participation in public life.  Finally, the action also uses innovative approaches, tools and technologies to resolve long -standing problems in new ways. By supporting the first Gender Management Information System, the action is investing in the enabling power of data, transparency and access to information for shining a light on the status of women in health, education, justice and other key areas where inequalities persist, which is a ‘first' for Sindh.
Improving food security, in enhancing control & income for poor women & men Scope of the project is to target poor, marginalized community members with the highest risk of being food insecure, and who are in most need of livelihood support from the all five target districts.  The project will indirectly benefit 23,625 poor women and men across the five districts by awareness raising, formation, technical capacity building, mobilization, networking, advocacy, business planning, and strong linkages with government departments of community organizations and networks
Improved access to fair, legitimate and effective justice in Pakistan Informal justice systems that leads to settlement of cases at community level can share this case burden. In Pakistan panchayat, faislo and jirga are the existing informal justice systems that work parallel with the formal justice system. However, these informal justice systems follow customary practices, are not formalized and usually do not follow basic human rights standards as given in the Constitution of Pakistan. This project will address the issue of ADR building on existing knowledge and available mechanisms. It will develop linkages between the formal and informal justice system, improve structure and functioning of informal justice systems, establish Semi formal justice system comprising of formal and informal justice providers, strengthen the role of local government including police and judiciary in improving access to justice for the communities to ensure peace and harmony in the society.
Emergency WASH and Livelihoods Response for IDPs in Kohat District. This project is in response to ongoing fighting between militants and security forces in Orakzai Agency , Pakistan which has resulted in a large displacement of civilians out of the affected areas/.  The project aims to relieve suffering, maintain health and reduce vulnerability by:·   1. Providing water and sanitation and hygiene supplies  2. Promoting public health and hygiene practices  3. Building capacity of local organizations and line agencies to respond better to WASH emergencies       in the future.
Emergency Response in Flood affected people in Punjab Pakistan Initially this project is aiming to assist 300,000 flood affected women, men; boys and girls WASH comprehensive interventions and food security  with a focus on ensuring the addressal of key protection issues. These intervention would decrease the suffering and provide life saving facilities to the flood  affected population.
Making Schools Safe for Girls in Punjab In line with the National Change Strategy, the project aims to increase enrolment and reduce dropout, improving access and quality education for girls in flood prone area of district Jhang a remote rural area of Pakistan. The primary approach is that of working with local communities in partnership with grassroots level organisations, improving infrastructure (compeltely and partially depending on needs at selected sites) of government schools,  capacity building of teachers and School Management Committees and linkage building between the relevant stakeholders.
Empower Youth for Work in Pakistan ( COVID-19 ) The project's ambition is that young people in Pakistan are empowered and have improved skills and jobs. This is a multi -country project that includes Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Indonesia in addition to Pakistan. This program focuses specifically on Small Medium Enterprise (SME) development; improved jobs; skills development for youth; climate change, and Life Skills.   This project works with holistic approach working around three building blocks  1. Agency, capacity and skills 2. Economic opportunities 3. Policy and norms Youth will be co -creators and co -implementers. Through civil society partners, and close links with the private sector and government institute, we ensure that improved skills training is adopted within local structures and innovative social enterprises; unemployment is tackled through improved private sector practice, increased market access and new enterprise development; an enabling social environment is created through grassroots and mass media action. Climate change, resilience, gender and youth empowerment are mainstreamed. 70% of beneficiaries will be rural young women.  Overall it aspires to economically empower the rural youth especially young girls by imparting the required soft and market led skills to engage in economic learning cycle. But in order to fulfil this aspiration we need to build the confidence of girls by imparting Life Skills Based Education which in turn will pave the path for economic empowerment.  Additionally none of this is possible until and unless policy and practice level change is in place in both districts Jamshoro (Sindh) and Layyah (Punjab). So mobilisation and lobbying with government and private sector companies (inclusive of Micro Enterprises (MEs), Small Medium Enterprise (SME) and Multi -National Corporations (MNCs) to make pro youth and specifically pro girls working environment shall also be carried out.
Humanitarian Preparedness and Response The primary objective of this initiative is to strengthen the disaster preparedness capacity of Oxfam and its implementing partners for an efficient and rapid humanitarian response. Working with strategic partners (NGO's) and government departments ,Oxfam will aim to pre -positioned the technical capacities and stocks for an efficient Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) response, by reaching to a case -load of 10,000 households ( 70,000 individuals)
Women's Voice and Leadership-Pakistan The Ultimate Outcome of this proposed 5 year program is the increased enjoyment of human rights by women and girls and the advancement of gender equality in Pakistan.  This Outcome will be achieved through three interrelated Intermediate Outcomes. First (Intermediate Outcome 1110), the program will improve the management and sustainability of local women's rights organizations in Pakistan, particularly those representing vulnerable and marginalized women and girls. This pillar of the program focuses on organizational capacity building and will be achieved through two Immediate Outcomes: Strengthened organizational capacity of WROs to manage their own organizations and mobilize resources effectively; and Enhanced women's leadership capacity rooted in gender transformative values and practices.   To support the Outcome related to organizational capacity strengthening, during the Inception Phase, local Pakistani WROs will be selected to participate the project based on criteria developed by Oxfam. These criteria will respond to issues raised by WROs in proposal consultation exercises. Organizational capacity building will be offered to this group of WROs, based on self -identified needs determined using Oxfam's Organizational Capacity Assessment Tool (CAT), first developed in the GAC funded Engendering Change program. From these assessments each participating WRO will develop a capacity building strategy reflecting their needs. Building on Oxfam's experience of capacity building with WROs, in collaboration with external organizational development expertise targeted specifically to the needs of WROs, capacity building processes and modules will be designed.  Focus themes for modules are likely to include Resources Management and Mobilization; Risk Assessment for WROs; Organizational Management and Strategic Planning; Gender Transformative Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning.   The capacity building strategy will also include an area where core funding needs surface in th
Effective Citizenship and Responsive Governance The project aims to build a strong interface between state and citizens through improved accountability and voice mechanisms, which will be done through partners at the said locations. On one hand it will build capacity through effective use of right to information law and budget accountability tools and on the other hand it will Taking the conclusions from MSTC the project will be working on integrating the existing programs at the said geographical locations by mainstreaming conflict sensitive approach within all programs.
Women's Voice and Leadership Project- Pakistan The Ultimate Outcome of this proposed 5 year program is the increased enjoyment of human rights by women and girls and the advancement of gender equality in Pakistan.  This Outcome will be achieved through three inter -related Intermediate Outcomes.  First (Intermediate Outcome 1110), the program will improve the management and sustainability of local women's rights organisations in Pakistan, particularly those representing vulnerable and marginalised women and girls. This pillar of the program focuses on organisational capacity building and will be achieved through two Immediate Outcomes: Strengthened organisational capacity of Women's Rights Organisations (WROs) to manage their own organisations and mobilise resources effectively; and Enhanced women's leadership capacity rooted in gender transformative values and practices.   To support the Outcome related to organisational capacity strengthening, during the Inception Phase, local Pakistani WROs will be selected to participate in the project based on criteria developed by Oxfam. These criteria will respond to issues raised by WROs in proposal consultation exercises. Organisational capacity building will be offered to this group of WROs, based on self -identified needs determined using Oxfam's Organisational Capacity Assessment Tool (CAT), first developed in the Global Affairs Canada (GAC) funded Engendering Change program. From these assessments each participating WRO will develop a capacity building strategy reflecting their needs. Building on Oxfam's experience of capacity building with WROs, in collaboration with external organisational development expertise targeted specifically to the needs of WROs, capacity building processes and modules will be designed.  Focus themes for modules are likely to include Resources Management and Mobilisation; Risk Assessment for WROs; Organisational Management and Strategic Planning; Gender Transformative Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning.   The capacity building strategy will
Flood Response in Upper Sindh Province (WASH, EFSL and Shelter) This project directly contributes towards the Oxfam Floods Response in Pakistan PIP P00697, with the principal objective of  life -saving activities and contributing to early recovery of flood affected populations in Dadu, Shikarpur, Jacobabad, Larkana, Naushehro Feroz and Khaipur Districts in Upper Sindh Province. The specific objective is to ensure safe environment, food security and equitable access to water, sanitation, hygiene facilities for 600,000 flood affected women, men and children in upper Sindh.
Facilitating Access and quality for girls education thru evidence based advocacy Under the proposed project 19 school improvement models (that incorporate disaster resilience) strengthen the process of evidence based advocacy for wider replicability and policy change will be developed. For Active citizenship parents will be mobilised to demand and political leaders will be galvanized to fulfill constitutional right of the children in the target areas by embedding with its education campaign.
Harvesting Global Food Security and Justice in the Face of Climate Change The GROW campaign will mobilise communities, local government line departments, youth network/ alliances and academies in 12 districts of Sindh & Punjab. First phase (2014), campaign will engage already existing farmer groups in target areas and established district forum in 12 target districts. The core objective of district forum is to build capacity building of all stakeholders on food security and climate change through sessions, workshop and online actions, conduct assessment on local action plans and mobilise district authorities. In second phase  (2015 -16), campaign will establish Provincial Steering Committees (PSC) in each provinces to discuss and priorities domestic options for Provincial Climate Change Policy formulation. Third and last phase (2016 -17) is lobbying for institutionalisation of provisional climate change policies, its implementation along with tracking of climate finances.