Detailed presentation on PDI work on Water Management, Water Governance, Sustainable Livelihoods and DRR in Sindh and Balochistan Provinces of Pakistan

2. Who are WE?
 Launched in year 2000 by a group of young and dedicated
social workers, human rights activists and experts
 Registered under Societies Registration Act 1860
 Working in Sindh and Balochistan Provinces of Pakistan

3. PDI Vision & Mission
• VISION
PDI envisions a participatory development process with
the active involvement of all the stakeholders’ right from
the conceptualization to planning and implementation
phases, making the development process people
oriented, people centered, and gender sensitive.
• MISSION
Promoting participatory, pro-poor, and sustainable,
environment friendly and gender balanced development,
for creating equal opportunities and benefits for all

4. PDI
PDI Karachi Office
PDI Thatta Office

5. PDI Khuzdar Office
PDI Quetta Office

6. What are we focusedon?
 Climate Change & Disaster Risk Reduction
Program
 Humanitarian Response Program
 Education &Literacy Program
 Land & Water Rights Program
 Sustainable Livelihoods and Value Chain Program
 Endangered Languages Preservation & Revival
Program

7. Our Partners!

8. PDI Water Management Related
Initiatives
 PDI advocated pro people initiatives in the World Bank
Supported National Drainage Program under which Sindh
Irrigation and Drainage Authority was established and
participatory methods of managing irrigation water
resources in Sindh took its roots.
 PDI was engaged in the capacity building and training of
the Farmers Organizations which were established to
manage the collective water resources on different canals of
Sindh.
 PDI advocated with the World Bank to remove a number of
flaws in the project and make the participatory irrigation
system project more pro people and decentralized in Sindh

9.  PDI has been actively engaged for the water rights of the lower riparian
especially the coastal and deltaic regions of Sindh, while beginning its
campaign for the water rights of the deltaic region of Sindh with its
national conference on ‘Dams and Indus Delta, PDI was also engaged
in research on the water rights and water needs of the humans,
livelihoods and biodiversity of the lower riparian of Indus river.
 On the basis of such PDI initiatives, Sindh Government had nominated
PDI Executive Director as member of its high powered committee of
irrigation and water experts to oversee and supervise the federal
government initiated studies to work out the water needs downstream
Kotri barrage.
 PDI played critical role in the process, raising its objections on the
study process and suggesting correct study methods to ensure that the
water rights of the human being, their livelihoods, and biodiversity of
Indus Delta is made secure in the age of the development of more and
more dams.

10.  PDI has been engaged in national as well as global level
advocacy and networking to highlight the water rights of
local indigenous communities especially women of Sindh.
 PDI worked with the government of Sindh to ensure that
the women who were allotted agriculture land under the
land distribution program of Sindh government also get
their water rights.
 For this purpose, a number of national and international
forums were used and the issues faced by the indigenous
communities of Sindh were properly raised.

11.  PDI has been advocacy the flaws in the mega drainage structure of Pakistan
especially World Bank supported Left Bank out fall Drainage Project (
LBOD),which on the one hand provides drainage relief to some central Sindh
districts , while on the other hand due to its technical faults has threatened the
land resources and biodiversity of District Badin Sindh.
 It is because the outfall of the drainage has been designed in such a flawed way
that in place of draining out the drainage water of LBOD in Arabian Sea, the
sea water is progressing towards the land, degrading the land of two tehsils of
District Badin.
 PDI raised this issue with the government of Sindh, government of Pakistan, as
well as World Bank and also suggested remedies of this technical disaster.
 As a result, the government and World Ban are working to resolve this issue
and supported the affected communities in district Badin and Thatta in the
coastal region of Sindh through different projects.

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Conference of Asian Peoples Resistance
Movements in WSF

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Protest Rally against WB/ ADB at World Social
Forum [WSF]

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District Level Protest Rally against IFIs

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Protest Hunger Strike In Karachi

38. Community Physical Infrastructure
Development Program

39. Community infrastructure development

40. Natural Resource Management & Sustainable
Livelihoods Program

41. Sustainable Livelihood Agriculture
related Projects Implemented
 Women Empowerment Project, Thatta
 Improving Fish catch & Marketing standard in Kharo
Chhan District Thatta
 Community Based Natural Resource Management Project
Kharo Chhan, Thatta
 Fisherwomen Alternative Livelihood Project FALP
 Vegetables & Fruits Value Chain Capacity Building Project
 Tomato Value Chain Capacity Building Project
 Community Based Sustainable Land Management (SLM)
Project in Hingol National Park
 Community Based Sustainable Land Management (SLM)
Project Khuzdar

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53. Natural Resource Management &
Sustainable Livelihoods Program

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64. PDI DRR Projects Implemented
 Cost benefit analysis of ON Partners work
 with the Community on DRR
 Humanitarian Capacity Building Project 2012- 13
 Pre monsoon Preparedness Project 2012
 WASH capacity building Project in district Dadu
 Views from Frontline Project 2011
 Pre-monsoon Preparedness 2011 Project
 Community based Climate Adaptation and mitigation
 through Natural Resource Management
 Innovative Climate Adaptation Project

65.  Awareness, Capacity Building Advocacy and Networking
on Climate Change in Balochistan
 Community Based Disaster Risk Management and
Livelihood Project In Drought Flood And Cyclone Prone
Areas Of Pakistan
 Emergency & Disaster Management Centre Project
 Capacity building of PDMA/DDMA and Civil
 Society for Improving Disaster Risk Management
 in Balochistan
 Drought Mitigation and Preparedness Project
 Khuzdar

67. Evacuation

69. Humanitarian Response : Balochistan
Earthquake

70. Humanitarian Response :
Balochistan Earthquake

71. Cash support to Balochistan Earthquake Victims

73. Relief Support After PHET Cyclone in
Coastal Sindh

81. Relief Support to Sindh flood IDPs Who
moved to Balochistan

99. Community Participation in WASH Construction Process [
Toilets, WASH Rooms and Laundry Spaces, Hand pumps etc]
 Engineering designs discussed with the local communities
including women
 Besides keeping in view SPHERE Standards local
communities especially women were involved in site
selection process
 Final BOQs were shared with the local communities
including women
 Village Relief Committees acted as Construction
Monitoring Committees to oversee the construction
process
 Local communities were preferred as skilled and unskilled
labour

143. Village Level DRR Plans

144. District Level Disaster Management
Planning

145. Climate Change and DRR Advocacy

146. Village Level DRM Plans

147. Community Mobilization on
DRM and Climate Change

148. Climate Change & Disaster
Risk Reduction Program

149. Climate Change and DRR Program

150. Climate Change & Disaster
Risk Reduction Program

162. Finally….
It is all about PDI team …….