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 thesituation. 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.

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 projectbecause the organizations have no resources and mechanism for follow-up.
5. Local organizations are lagging behind in proper resource mobilization for WASH projects because proper 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.
PREPARED has been actively engaged since 2012 by responding to the needs of flood affected people both in South and Northern Sindh in partnership with various humanitarian organizations. PREPARED has responded to the flood emergency in relief and early recovery projects in various sectors including WASH, Shelters, Livelihood/food security with cross cutting themes of Protection and DRR etc. As lesson learned from previous projects and limited resources, some areas of improvement w.r.t to WASH programming are identified and suggested to build the institutional as well as individual capacity of PREPARED toensure the timely response with desired level of quality.
Communities in the affected areas are extremely vulnerable due to the long lasting impact of recurring disasters and the social condition of these people. In context of Sindh Province, majority of them areworking as tenants and small substance agriculture and daily wage labours. Whenever disaster occurres, it causes wide range of damages due to poor infrastructures and lack of awareness and capacity of local communities to manage and withstand against the disaster#s shock. These communities require assistance now in terms of capacity to manage disasters and construct or strengthened disaster resilient infrastructures because otherwise survival will be more difficult and challenging for them if any other disaster occurred in the region