Evacuation of trapped people, who were endangering of life, was prime task of HANDS rescue team, which evacuated 93,163 people. 500 relief camps were established and supported 35,000 families (245,000 individuals). Each family was provided with tent, two to four months food, commodities, hygiene kits, water & sanitation hygiene facilities, health, education and livestock services. During relief period more than 35000 tons of rations were provided. 35000 hygiene kits, Non-Food Items to 35000 families provided, besides HANDS ensured adequate water supply and toilet facilities under the most challenging circumstances.

HANDS health teams provided health services to 300,000 patients through more than 3500 medical mobile/fixed camps in 13 districts. Around 10,000 women were screened for antenatal and post natal care, ensured 10,000 safe deliveries free of cost services with reproductive health kits comprising of required contraceptives after
counseling session while 5000 health and hygiene awareness sessions were conducted.

HANDS Education team established more than 350 Temporary Learning Centers where more than 9500 children education get education. HANDS agriculture and livestock team worked to provide vaccination, de-worming and fodder for more than 57000 goats, buffalos, and bulls.

After relief phase, HANDS started working on its early recovery & rehabilitation plan “TAMEER” (The Appropriate Measures for Early Recovery and Early Rehabilitation). HANDS facilitated more than 35000 families to move back to their respective villages as soon as water recedes. HANDS Research team conducted rapid assessment of the most effected villages and UCs and selected 16 union councils in 7 districts of Sindh and one district of Baluchistan under the umbrella of TAMEER project. During the process nearly 12000 villages of 7 districts were surveyed.

HANDS constructed more than 6000 one room shelters with water, sanitation & hygiene services being the integral part of all shelters and handed over to flood survivors while construction of more than 2000 one room shelters is under process. HANDS is targeting 50,000 shelters in next 03 years. HANDS completed nearly 1092 Community Physical Infrastructure (CPI) of 279 model villages and nearly 6674 are in process of 446 villages. These include street pavements, water reservoir, culverts, roads, channels etc. During early recovery phase HANDS providing food to 6300 families, health facilities to 103196 clients and livelihood to 1000 families. In addition to that 6250 WASH structures were also provided.

HANDS supported around 3000 entrepreneurs (comprised of agriculture, livestock, fishing, indigenous trades etc). HANDS provided extensive skill trainings, grant support and technical support in developing these enterprises. Support of developing 2000 more entrepreneurs is in process.

HANDS is managing a large scale project of “Integrated Approach for School Revival -ISAR” with the support of UKAID-DFID for revival of 1000 primary schools in 07 flood affected districts of Sindh. This project is benefiting 100,000 children, 2000 teachers and nearly 500,000 community members.

To combat future disaster HANDS started establishing 02 HANDS Disaster Management & Preparedness Centers (HDMPCs) in Northern and Southern Sindh and in Karachi to minimize risks of disasters and to rehabilitate and reconstruct the losses and damages happen due to disaster

During 2010-11 HANDS focused to human & institutional development both at organization and at grass root levels. HANDS anticipating the need of capacity building and community development in 21st century established Institute of Community Development to empower and strengthen the NGOs, COs, Govt. departments (District & Provincial) and promote health, education and alleviate poverty.

During reporting period 85 staff members were trained in communication, 124 members in education while 5 staff members were given opportunities in finance. In GAD/PAP 197 staff members were trained, in health 1049 staff members, while in ME&R 73 staff members were trained. In the field of leadership and management 731 staff members were trained. Total 2337 staff members were trained through 219 training events. Staff was also given opportunity of international training held in Greece, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Doha, Cambodia and Nepal. HANDS conducted 2076 training for community members and trained19780 members in health, education, skill development etc. Trainings were also conducted for government officials and 3964 persons from various government departments were trained.

HANDS health promotion program has provided the health care services to male, female and children clients/patients directly in the community and through secondary health care facility in district office Karachi Rural, RH Centers in district offices Karachi, Matiari and Thatta, and by strengthening of Govt. Health facilities in districts Dadu, Sukkur, Sanghar and Thatta in FALAH project. Health program provided health facilities in flood affected population through Mobile and Fixed Medical camps. Total numbers of patient treated were 314128.

Health program is working in community based management of Acute Malnutrition and has establish 30 OTPs (Outpatient Therapeutic Program), 30 SFP (supplementary feeding program) and 2 NSC (Nutrition stabilizing centers ) in district Jamshoro and Kashmore for screening the under 5 children and pregnant and lactating women. CDGK – HANDS hospital is an exemplary public private model; the number of patients seen in this hospital last year has increased to 29144. Out of these, 17747 were females, 3987 were males, while 7414 children were examined in the hospital.

Health program under FALAH project envisages increasing demand and utilization of family planning services through repositioning family planning in the public discourse as a key health intervention to improve the survival and health of the mother and the newborn child. This was undertaken through a communication campaign at the national level and social mobilization at the community level in close collaboration with the Behavioral Change Communication (BCC) committees of the Ministry of Population Welfare (MoPW) and the Ministry of Health (MoH).

HANDS-Education & Literacy Promotion Program benefited through its community/village based program to more than 1.5 million population of 150 villages in 07 districts of Sindh which are Matiari, Tando Mohammad Khan, Hyderabad, Khairpur, Karachi (Rural), Badin and Thatta and indirectly through Research, Capacity building and information & communication resource to most part of the country.

In the reporting period HANDS education program/ projects intervened in 224 Govt. Girls & Boys primary, community & Higher secondary schools. Education program focused on provision of quality education for less privileged areas/villages of sindh.In the reporting period, under the education & literacy promotion program Total 21 trainings were conducted for 450 different cadres of male and female educational service providers, school management committee members & Parwarish workers in different districts. These trainings were conducted on classroom learning environment, teaching methodology, concept & strategies of ECE & ECD, Nutrition & balance diet, health messages for health behaviors, school management & environment, adult learning, and adolescent life skills based learning.

Poverty Alleviation Program (PAP) provides opportunity to HANDS staff and other institutions to build capacity in different component of the program. In this regard total 13 trainings were conducted in which 39 staff members were trained. 23 of these were conducted internally and 16 organized by other public and private institutions. In this year total 4 exposure visits were organized for the staff of different institutions and 13 staffs were exposed to various skills and knowledge.

HANDS in collaboration with Khushhali Bank Ltd is implementing the SMF Project in 7 districts of Sindh, including Hyderabad, Matiari, Thatta, Badin, Tando Muhammad Khan, Tando Allah Yar and Khairpur. Total 30091 members were generated for micro-credit disbursement in the reporting period. The approach of SMF is to mobilize the poor to form community groups, enhance capacity of the credit group members for community mobilization, social awareness, selection and management of income generating activities, develop skills and provide basic community skills to credit group leaders. The approach is to facilitate the group to receive loan products like Agriculture Development, Livestock Development and working capital. HANDS has facilitated Khushhali Bank Ltd to disburser Rs. 271,046,850 since 2003 to community groups.

The Community Physical Infrastructure (CPI) component provides grants to the community on cost sharing basis for small-scale infrastructure projects through Partner Organizations who meet the eligible criteria. Partner Organization assists communities in organizing, preparing, and implementing and managing these projects. The average size of a community physical infrastructure project is approximately Rs.100,000 – 500,000. The target population of the CPI component is poor and disadvantaged rural and urban communities especially women, under-served districts and communities that lack essential infrastructure and have high unemployment.

HANDS Information & Communication Resource Program (ICR) made enormous efforts to develop material and bring out 529 publications in a year i.e. more than 18 publications in a month. ICR team has to stretch itself to meet the demand of extensive work. The number of publication is almost tripled then previous year in which tremendous amount of publication developed under the umbrella of TAMEER project which is a Project incepted after flood of 2010. Shelter, WASH, Infrastructure, Education (ISAR) Projects were supported by ICR Program in publications of material and other communication material. ICR has conducted many researches with the facilitation of ME&R Program to formulate BCC strategy of the MARVI, NARI and other projects.

ICR Program disseminated 749,690 copies of various publications of HANDS among different Civil Society Organizations, Government officials at district, provincial and federal levels, donor agencies, educational institutions, associations and philanthropists to promote HANDS extensive work in health, education and poverty alleviation. Out of 77 articles 36 articles were written on health issues, 17 on education issues, 10 on poverty alleviation and remaining on other issues. However the focus has been on women and girls issues in either of the sector. Total 33 stalls were organized by HANDS offices during different programs.

Gender and Development (GAD) Program of HANDS works as cross cutting theme to ensure gender equity and equality in organizational policies, procedures and in all programs and projects. Program creates an enabling environment to flourish the skills of men & Women, ensure its application in development work and women’s socioeconomic empowerment.

GAD program developed many capacity building packages, and developed human resource in different subjects and conducted different trainings/diploma courses for Communities representatives, total 177 trainings conducted only for women members in which 3284 women trained. Program provides opportunity to staff to build their capacity. In this regard total 13 trainings including gender sensitization trainings conducted for HANDS wherein 187 staff members trained. 3108 community organizations and groups have been strengthened in reporting period and built the capacity of 39840 members of communities.

Monitoring, Evaluation and Research (ME&R) are essential for assessing progress or success of any program/project. It is through the monitoring and evaluation that one is able to assess the intervention output, out come and impact. HANDS Monitoring and Evaluation program synergies all inputs and output by maintaining Monitoring Information System (MIS). M&E conducted using a wide range of tools, methods and approaches. These include performance monitoring indicator. The logical framework; theory based evaluation, formal surveys such as service delivery surveys, citizen report cards, living standards measurement surveys (LSMS) and core welfare indicator questionnaire (CWIQ), rapid appraisal methods such as Key Informant Interviews, Focus Group Discussions and facilitated brain storming by staff and officials, participatory methods such as participatory M & E, public expenditure tracking surveys, rigorous impact evaluation, cost – benefit and cost – effectiveness analysis.

MER Program has conducted many researches (baseline, midterm and final evaluation) during reporting period that includes project like MUMKIN, GAVI, MISALI, NARI, MARVI, FARAH etc. During reporting period, 52 reviews were conducted including schools, Health Centers, Villages, community organization, health facilities etc were monitor through this process.

Developing strong Public Private Partnership in health and education systems is a big achievement of HANDS. High indigenous philanthropy contribution, Corporate philanthropy, Model of sustainable health services and Community based income generation model made HANDS a unique organization in Not for Profit sector. Establishing HANDS Institute of Community Development is a milestone in HANDS history, through which HANDS is aiming to transform illiterate and ignored rural communities to literate, trained, motivated and empowered communities.

We will appreciate and welcome NGOs of Sindh to assist us.

Mehtab Qureshi
President
SWO

if we talk about solutions than suggestions are as follows :

1) research and survey should be prepared on failure / incomplete projects
2) many failure projects; i.e health, education facility buildings are available and since the failure not used by any one, so therefore that can be re-initiated with small funding.
3) On energy and environment, we have quite huge opportunity to explore with, all is needed to make a community center lead by women, where point of contact should be native women of that village.

4) Agro-economics, women handi craft and cattle farming are the basic tools which will help the villagers to uplift and maintain sustainable livelihood.
and on another hand meet the world food crises and support the environment concerns.

Will write you soon more about it
Please don’t hesitate to contact
Saad Ali (Hyderabad)

I am very much anguished to see that Thatta Sindh is a Historical District of Sindh various NGO Claiming for development work in Thatta, Makli Gharo Jhampir etc but I am senior journalist and personally visited the area there is nothing positives schemes in Thatta NGO claiming for development works are in papers only actually no any NGO working properly in Thatta they are only in papers and expending million on their own expenses nothing more all the schemes shown should be verified and certified before issuing any funds to the NGO, NRSP & others are only paper NGO.

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Thanks,
Scott

it is best wishes for u my dear specially for u young people

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