PRDS Profile: Non-Profit Working for Relief and Development

Participatory Rural Development Society
(PRDS)
Working for humanitarian relief and sustainable development
P R D S
A Profile

Participatory Rural Development Society: A Profile
Name of the Organization: Participatory Rural Development Society
Acronym: PRDS
Legal Status: Non-profit organization registered under Societies Act of 1860,
Government of Pakistan
Established in: 2004
Date of Registration: 18 March 2008
Registration Number: 840/5/5424
Official Address: House # 7-B, University Road, University Town Peshawar, Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Telephone: +92-91-5854387
Email: prds.pk@gmail.com, info@prdspak.org
Website: www.prdspak.org
Contact Person(s):
Fareed Ullah, Chief Executive Officer
fareed@prdspak.org
faridpb@gmail.com
Cell No: +92-345 9295606
Bilal Karim, Programme Manager
bilal@prdspak.org
Cell No: +92-345 8983324
Geographical Coverage/Presence:
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa:
1. Peshawar
2. Charsadda
3. Mansehra
4. Swat
5. Mardan
6. Malakand
7. Lower Dir
8. Bunir
9. Dera Ismail Khan
10. Tank
11. Nowshera
Federally administered Tribal Areas (FATA)
1. Khyber
2. Mohmand
3. Bajaur
4. South Waziristan

A. Participatory Rural Development Society (PRDS) is a non-profit, non-
governmental and non-political Humanitarian Relief and Social Development
Organization working to help all affected by Disasters, Emergencies and
Conflicts and Poverty in Pakistan. The Organization was established in 2004
and registered under section 20 of Societies Registration Act, 1860.
OTHER REGISTRATIONS INCLUDE
1. Social Welfare Department Government of KPK 3574
2. Social Welfare, Women empowerment, Zakat and Usher Department FATA
Secretariat, Peshawar.
3. SAFRON/Office of the Commissioner Afghan Refugees, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
4. System for Award Management (SAM)
5. DUNS
6. PADOR
B. PRDS IDEALS, PURPOSE AND AIM
Prior to the establishment of PRDS, a consistent need for a transparent,
accountable and solutions based universal platform was steadily felt amongst like-
minded social, developmental, and humanitarian workers with indications to their
respective fields, specialties, competencies, professional experiences, social
interactions, knowledge foundation and distinct intrinsic intellectual and
proficient capacities.
More so, in the light of our dilapidated socio-economic, living and infrastructural
systems and conditions we reached the common understanding and belief to act
proactively, come together, participate and contribute our share, in kind,
allocation of time, energies and potentials, to form an organization that would
stand-up to uphold the ideals of struggling to alleviate poverty, eliminate slavery
and servitude of all forms.
An organization that promotes, devises and endows ways and means to increase
social cohesion and protection of all class, gender, caste and creed, protects the
rights of our people especially women and children, social groups and society
including marginalized and vulnerable persons and communities, and that works
for the sustainable development of our people and communities in all possible
ways. Thus to realize to reality, these ideals and purposes, to form a platform of
an entity that can cater services and support for sustainable development as well
as relief work in times of humanitarian crises, emergencies and disasters to its
people.
With these aforementioned ideals and purpose some like-minded friends from the
social sector congregated and agreed to form Participatory Rural Development
Society and mutually volunteered to provide their services, share their resources,
and contribute by means of their capacities, potentials, abilities and intellect while
promising and aiming to serve from a stage where the above mentioned ideals

PRDS Profile Updated April 2013
can be chased and strived for both as a mission and through following elevated
and more humane, benevolent and civilized ideals without any proceeds or
personal goals in a high-spirited, more rights based, completely participatory,
highly transparent, accountable, cooperative, harmonized and strategically
innovative comportment in all spheres including organizational and strategic
communication mechanisms and to pave the means and methods for PRDS to
reach its mission objectives and goals.
C. VISION
PRDS vision is a self-sustaining, just peaceful and tolerant society.
D. PRDS MISSION STATEMENT
Serve People, alleviate Poverty, and eradicate insecurity.
E. OUR PHILOSOPHY
Total Excellence
F. OUR CULTURE
A culture of Continuous Improvement, Involvement and
Empowerment
G. PRDS Programme Objectives:
PRDS aims to achieve objectives in the following three main thematic areas
through various initiatives:
Sustainable Development
1. To build common perception in favour of new a development
approaches through sensitization and human & institutional
development (HID) at grassroots level.
2. To provide clean water, environmental sanitation, hygiene education,
health, formal and non-formal education, irrigation channels,
community physical infrastructure schemes etc; to the vulnerable
communities of remote areas of FATA and elsewhere in KP.
3. To empower women community of KP and FATA through literacy and
vocational skills and make them useful and earning members of their
families and society.
4. To address the problems associated with street children and to
endeavour for the reduction of child labour by providing children with
education and skills enhancement opportunities.
Disaster Management:
5. Develop and implement Relief, Early Recovery, Rehabilitation,
Reconstruction and Livelihoods Recovery programmes and Emergency

projects (Wash, Emergency Education, Shelter and NFI, Emergency
Food security and Livelihoods and Community Infrastructure) to assist
peoples and communities hit by natural disasters and conflicts in
Khyber Pukhtoon Khwa and FATA
Awareness and Capacity Building
• Raising awareness about gender equity and fundamental rights of the
people especially women and children.
H. CORE VALUES
1. Respect Beliefs of all Stakeholders & Constituents
a) Equity and Justice
2. Sincerity to Humanity
a) Solidarity with the poor
3. Personal Integrity
a) Mutual respect
b) Honesty
c) Independence
d) Simplicity and Humility
4. Accountability and Transparency
I. Working Area
PRDS have deep grass root level community interaction throughout KPK and FATA
and well inform about the traditional norms and culture of these societies and is
therefore, competent enough to implement developmental and humanitarian
programs in the region.
J. Work Approaches
1. Social Mobilization and Community Organization
2. Capacity Building & Skill Development
3. Community Development and Natural Resource Management
4. Disaster risk reduction
5. Advocacy, Behavior Change and Media Communication
K. PRDS SECTORS OF INTERVENTIONS & COMPETENCY
Owing to PRDS capacity and technical abilities the organization focuses five
primary areas of interventions including:
• Sustainable Development
• Emergency Response and Disaster Management
• Awareness and Capacity Building
The above primary sectors are further distinctively subdivided into 14 sub
categories or key areas of interventions:
SUB SECTORS OF INTERVENTIONS AND COMPETENCY

• WASH
• Livelihoods and Food Security
• Community Infrastructure
• DRR and DRM
• Health
• Education & Literacy
• Renewable Energy
• NRM-Agriculture & Livelihood Development
• Gender
• Slavery and Servitude
• Social Cohesion and Protection
• Social Mobilization and Human Institutional Development
• Awareness , Research and Development
L. PRDS GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE
• Governance Structure and Decision Making
PRDS is formally governed by a seven member Board of Directors which is
supreme policy making body. The Board meets twice a year, assess progress and
provide policy guidelines. The Chief Executive is the members of the board. The
board is headed by a chairman who alongside other board members is all
prominent figures and worked on several senior management positions in highly
reputable national and international organizations in different parts of the world .
The Chief Executive ensures the implementation of polices provided by the board
and, stand answerable to the board of governors on the implementation of
policies and progress of the organization.
A Senior Management Team Which include senior staff member of organization,
of which the chief executive is a member, meets on regular basis. It assesses
progress and frames for day to day management policy. Decisions are to be taken
with consultation and consensus.
Good governance within the organization is ensured through numerous policy
tools and guidelines, approved by the board of governors which include but is not
limited, Human Resource Management Standards, Financial Management
Standards, Field Operation Manuals and several other monitoring tools.
All PRDS policies and guidelines are strictly designed with disregard to cast, creed,
race, language, gender, disability and religion and adherence to international
humanitarian and social development standards.

PRDS has developed PRDS Programme Section with two strategic sub sections
including Programme Development (PD) and a Programme Implementation (PI).
The Programme Section is led by the Specialist Programme Manager while the
sub sections including Programme Development Section and Program
Implementation Section is supervised by highly competent officers/coordinators
for program development and implementation. Principles of efficiency and
economy prevail to maintain stringent selection and highly competitive, proficient
and enabled staff that is capable and empowered to implement high quality
planning and implementation and maintaining rich efficacy on international
standards in humanitarian relief and sustainable development sector
interventions for successful high productivity low cost paradigm.
Meanwhile a Specialist Operation Manger is leading the PRDS Operation
Section including sub system sections:
1. Finance,
2. Administration, HR and
3. Logistics /Procurement
This is again managed by professional managers, officers and assistants. The
Admin, Finance and Logistics sections is providing support role to Programme
Section including program development as well as program implementation
activities.
The Chief Executive Officer spearheads the over-all organizational
responsibility.
• Building Potentials
PRDS program will contribute to address poverty and aims to improve the
standard of people’s lives. Remaining responsive to the aspirations and needs of
the people, it hinges on the core values of harnessing indigenous resources,
innovative strategies and models, cost effectiveness and efficiency, synergy and
maximization of benefits, and investment in and tapping of people’s potential
through economic and effective mechanisms with transparency and accountability
as its core operational values.
Detailed sector-wise profiles and competencies can be found in separate
files/documents or on PRDS website www.prdspak.org
PRDS past Experience Sectors Specific:
Food Security:
• Emergency Food Security and Livelihoods
• Agriculture and Livestock
• Cash grants (conditional/unconditional)
WASH:

• Emergency Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation
• Health and Hygiene Education
• Hygiene Kits Distribution
Community Restorative Activities:
• Community Physical Infrastructure Scheme (Link Road, DWSS, Sanitations,
Flood protection walls, culverts , water channels etc.)
• Cash for work
Emergency Education:
• Community Mobilization for Enrollment
• Formal education
• Non formal education
• Psycho-social support
Social Mobilization
• Mobilization and organization of underprivileged communities for their social
and economic empowerment
• Awareness raising regarding various issues
• Village Surveys (Development of village Profiles)
• Formation of Community Based Organizations and Women Organizations
(CBOs/WOs)
Health
• Free Medical Camps
• First Aid Trainings
• Social Accountability
• Primary care management
Human and Institutional Development (HID)
• Training of CBOs/WOs through training workshops, focus group discussions,
debate competitions
• Development of resource centers and libraries for CBOs
• Focus Group Discussions on various topics and themes related to
development and empowerment of the proletariat
• Debating competitions in identified schools in the underprivileged
communities
Education
• Refugees Education Programme (REP) for afghan refugees in Peshawar Valley
(15 REP Schools)
• Physical rehabilitation of abandoned and low performing government
primary schools
• Adult literacy (particularly for lactating mothers & female under 10-15 age
groups)

• Formation of Parent Teacher Associations (PTAs), where parents are actively
involved in decision making for improvement in school operations
Livelihoods:
• Social Mobilization
• Identification of Potential Trainees
• Skills Trainings
• Market Linkages and Development
Emergency Shelter and NFI:
• Shelter
• Distribution of NFI package

SECTORAL COMPETENCIES AND INDIVIDUAL SECTOR WISE PRDS PROGRAM
COMPETENCY 1: Emergency Response & Disaster Management
Emergency Response Humanitarian Relief & Disaster Management
BACKGROUND
Time exposes human beings to great global and local anxiety in the forms of war,
earthquakes, strife, hunger, drought, floods and other disasters. When calamities
strike, people look for relief and support. Our goal is to work with all partners to
make sure that the victims, no matter where or who they are, get the emergency
assistance they need. In disasters delays are deadly and timely response requires
financial and human resources. PRDS from its own pockets as well as from its
donors and contributing partners provides and seeks to provide and or strives for
the cause of providing relief assistance to all those in distress and need during
emergencies and disasters.
We are proud of our work and feel that we need to always improve on our ability
to provide and to deliver emergency and humanitarian relief more quickly,
equitably and effectively and to take immediate action to alleviate acute human
suffering.
Responding to humanitarian disasters is not only a moral imperative, but critical
for development, as a single minute of natural calamity takes away decades and
centuries of human and public efforts.
Emergency rescue, relief and disaster risk reduction and management are the
areas of PRDS concern in order to deal with all emergencies in strategic and
systematic manners as each plays its contributing role to reduce and minimize the
impact of a disasters and emergencies while keeping the core values of humanity,
impartiality and neutrality intact.
Development efforts are increasingly at risk. A faltering global economy, food and
energy insecurity, conflict, global climate change, declining ecosystems, extreme
poverty, and the threat of epidemics seriously challenge progress towards
improving social welfare and economic growth in many developing countries
Pakistan is a disaster prone country and especially Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa (KPK)
and FATA are more prone to Natural as well as manmade disaster. The KPK
province and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in the last 4 decades
generally and the last decade specifically is faced with considerable repetitive
climatic and manmade disasters and emergencies that caused loss of life,
resources as well as mass displacements and environmental migrations. These
include the Earthquake in October 2005, the ongoing droughts and floods that
have crumbled the national economy as massive gaps in energy sectors as well as
the governments’ use of military force to curb militant insurgencies throughout
the FATA and KPK has instilled the largest displacement ever in the country’s
history.

Emergency Response Program Vision
Participatory Rural Development Society’s emergency programs seek to meet the
needs of affected populations through implementation of qualitative pre and post
mitigation responses and are founded on fulfilling the rights of disaster affected
populations to live with dignity with our self imposed obligatory social
responsibility in enabling capacities and empowering communities for response
preparedness, collective mitigation and post disaster or emergency
responsiveness. Every year millions of people around the world are affected by a
wide variety of calamities, from natural disasters to chronic conflict. Disaster
affected populations have a right to humanitarian assistance as enshrined in
international law.
PRDS adheres to international standards to the greatest extent possible in all of its
emergency work to ensure that disaster-affected populations are at least able to
meet their basic right to live a life with dignity. We work directly with affected
communities and local partners to help restore and strengthen their pre-disaster
capacities. PRDS responds to natural disasters and complex emergencies including
conflicts involving intra-state conflicts with regional implications. Complex
emergencies can result in massive numbers of refugees and internally displaced
persons, gross violations of human rights and large-scale disruption of people's
livelihoods. Complex emergencies are often exacerbated by natural disasters.
Today, more than 30 million people are displaced on earth. 20 million are
internally displaced within their countries and others have taken refuge in other
countries. These numbers doubles every seven to eight years.
Vision
Our Emergency Preparedness and Response vision is: to promote social justice,
solidarity and compassion through timely emergency preparedness and response
that addresses the needs of the most vulnerable.
Mission
We engage our resources to fulfill our mission and foster hope for our
communities and populations by:
1. Working together as equal stakeholders
2. We build upon clear systems and procedures to share leadership
3. Strengthen existing and building new networks of partnerships and
relationships
4. Strengthen local capacities and promote community ownership of
emergency response
5. Achieve qualitative standards in programming
6. Access, attract and acquire material and financial resources relevant and
appropriate to each emergency or disaster
• For timely response to these disasters PRDS plan to create an
Emergency response fund, this fund under the PRDS umbrella will
be utilize for all kind of emergency responses in the region.

Emergency Preparedness, Mitigation and Response
PRDS will conduct emergency work wherever it is needed based on the needs of
the affected population, PRDS capacity and that of our partners to respond, and
the presence of other partners. PRDS adapts what and how it does in emergencies
is according to changes in the operating environment as well as within PRDS. This
ability to recognize changes and trends and to adjust accordingly contributes to
our shifting role in emergency preparedness and response.
We approach our emergency response programming with our distinct local
environment and geo-political and strategic shifts in conditions and vulnerabilities
through a framework of saving lives, supporting livelihoods and strengthening civil
society as well as pre-disaster preparedness and mitigation programming through
building capacities of communities for preparedness, mitigation and post
emergency or disaster management. We work with affected communities moving
from emergency relief, rehabilitation, reconstruction post emergency
management and development.
In addition, PRDS helps communities to prevent future disasters through peace
building programs with a focus on preventing violent conflict.
Nutrition and Food
We will provide food for the general population and malnourished individuals
when people's normal ability to access food is disrupted by disaster especially
addressing immediate food security needs while promoting activities that support
sustainable livelihood.
Health
The need for primary health care increases in emergency settings and is critical to
any emergency intervention in order to minimize mortality. PRDS will implement a
range of emergency health interventions such as support to local health
institutions to meet vital health needs, provision of field health workers and
traditional healthcare human resources as well as access to basic medicines.
Agriculture
PRDS EP’s often include activities such as providing access to supplies for
agricultural recovery and providing technical assistance to farmers to facilitate
their return to production as soon as possible. Provision of technical agriculture
and livelihood development trainings, tree and fruit plantations, livestock and
livelihood development, kitchen gardening, seeds, fertilizers and agriculture
inputs are also deemed essential by PRDS who will seek means and methods to
provide these in emergencies.
Shelter and Community Infrastructure
Programs with temporary shelter also include materials that can contribute to
permanent housing construction. PRDS housing and community infrastructure
programs focus on community-led construction that is appropriate to the setting
generally but this may also vary from case to case.

COMPETENCY 2.Water, Environment and Sanitation
SUB-SECTOR-PROGRAMME AREAS
A. Integrated water resources development and management
B. Water resources assessment
C. Protection of water resources, water quality and aquatic ecosystems
D. Drinking-water supply and sanitation
E. Water and sustainable urban development
F. Water for sustainable food production and rural development
G. Impacts of climate change on water resources
Unsustainable utilization of natural resources, shortage in infrastructure facilities
and lack of access in clean drinking water & irrigation water, sanitation, roads
network, industries, markets and health facilities contribute to rising poverty,
dilapidated conditions in terms of quality of life and livelihoods. Additionally PRDS
deems Freshwater and land resources are an essential component of the earth's
hydrosphere and an indispensable part of all terrestrial ecosystems.
Surveys, in KPK and FATA, show that only 25% of the total households have taps
for safe drinking water. 68% households of the total population does not have
access to drains for wasted water, 43% of households do not have a latrine while
more than 70% of the houses share single latrine. Most of the people cannot
properly utilize their land due to the lack of tube wells and irrigation canals in the
area. Only 5-8% of the people in the area are engaged in reasonable professions
while the remaining portion of the population is either peasants or engaged in

laborious work and it is difficult for them to make both ends meet. The
backwardness of FATA is represented by the absence of livelihood opportunities
in great measure. On the other hand the unsustainable utilization of natural
resources in the area due to the lack of resources and the neglect of the
government has further compromised this situation. Moreover, unemployment,
especially in youth, is causing privation and frustration which consequently leads
to the emergence of radical and extremist tendencies in the region.
FATA and KPK region is not only strategically located but it also has abundant
natural resources ranging from natural water, wind, solar energy, forests, mineral
resources, coal, oil and gas reserves etc. Moreover, the inhabitants of this terrain
are historically democratic, naturally leaders, morally excelled and intellectually
superior who are unfortunately caught in the grip of terrorism and extremism. The
American Senate has passed the Kerry Lugar law approving 1.5 billion US Dollars
to be paid annually to the government of Pakistan and more importantly
establishing Reconstruction Opportunities Zones (ROZs) in FATA in order to have
tariff-free access to the American market regarding the products to be produced
by the industry in FATA. Having the potential of natural resources in the region it
needs to be properly managed in order to diversify the prospects for livelihood for
the poor people. In fact, this region offers both the problems, as poverty is
rampant/infrastructural facilities are lacking, and also opportunities in view of the
availability of natural resources in FATA/KPK.
Owing to the importance of the Water, environment and sanitation sectors PRDS
intends to extend a comprehensive Physical Infrastructure Programme
throughout KPK and FATA that will seek to cater the local communities and serve
for contributing to poverty alleviation and improvements of living conditions as
well as livelihoods through water environment and sanitation infrastructure
development and natural resource management especially in the area of land and
mountain management as well as renewable energy sectors.
The Programme comprise interventions in drinking and irrigation water supply
schemes: hand pumps, tube wells, submersibles, pipes, storage tanks, boring and
water course lining etc. In addition interventions have been made in sanitation
that is expected to reduce health costs in poor communities. Being cognizant of
the need to diversify the sources of energy in the area in the face of energy deficit
and its bearing on the livelihoods of the locals that make it necessary to produce
renewable energy through alternative sources which is not only feasible due to
the availability of natural resources but is also effective and sustainable, PRDS will
involve in solar water pumping and electrification.
PRDS also seeks to extend partnerships and cooperation to donor and partner
organizations like the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund to extend Drought
Mitigation and Preparedness Programme as well as the construction of mini dams,
check dams, water shed management, and efficient irrigation technologies in
FATA. .

Effectiveness and Sustainability being important factors of the overall strategy,
PRDS Wash program will continue to be implemented through participatory
mechanism ensuring the community’s contribution to the cost of the projects and
allowing them greater freedom in planning and management of these projects. It
will also generate a sense of ownership in the local population. It not only fulfills
the basic needs of the community but the participatory approach through which it
is provided also acts as a catalyst for institutional development at the grass roots.
It enhances the managerial skills of the community and by mobilizing community
resources for collective action. We also expect the partnership and support of
PPAF especially to include Drinking water supply schemes, Sanitation, Link Road,
Culverts and Irrigation Schemes.
FRESH WATER RESOURCES
The freshwater environment is characterized by the hydrological cycle, including
floods and droughts, which in some regions have become more extreme and
dramatic in their consequences. Global climate change and atmospheric pollution
could also have an impact on freshwater resources and their availability and,
through sea-level rise, threaten low-lying coastal areas and small island
ecosystems.
LAND RESOURCES
Land is normally defined as a physical entity in terms of its topography and spatial
nature; a broader integrative view also includes natural resources: the soils,
minerals, water and biota that the land comprises. These components are
organized in ecosystems which provide a variety of services essential to the
maintenance of the integrity of life-support systems and the productive capacity
of the environment. Land resources are used in ways that take advantage of all
these characteristics. Land is a finite resource, while the natural resources it
supports can vary over time and according to management conditions and uses.
Expanding human requirements and economic activities are placing ever
increasing pressures on land resources, creating competition and conflicts and
resulting in suboptimal use of both land and land resources. If, in the future,
human requirements are to be met in a sustainable manner, it is now essential to
resolve these conflicts and move towards more effective and efficient use of land
and its natural resources. Integrated physical and land-use planning and
management is an eminently practical way to achieve this. By examining all uses
of land in an integrated manner, it makes it possible to minimize conflicts, to make
the most efficient trade-offs and to link social and economic development with
environmental protection and enhancement, thus helping to achieve the
objectives of sustainable development. The essence of the integrated approach
finds expression in the coordination of the sector planning and management
activities concerned with the various aspects of land use and land resources.
PRDS Activities
• 4 Drinking water Supply Schemes in Swat from UNDP Fund
• 4 street pavements In Swat from UNDP Fund

• Installation of 02Hand Pumps in Community Building Swat from
UNDP Fund
• Installation of 06 Hand Pumps in Govt. School Swat from UNDP
Fund
• Installation of 02 water pump in 02 Govt. Schools Swat
• Capacity Building of 21 CBOs on O&M in District DI Khan from UNDP
Fund
• 40 Hygiene Awareness Session to male and female community
members in district swat funded by ERF /UNOCHA
• 07 Street Pavements in DI Khan from UNDP Fund
• 06 Street Pavements in Tank from UNDP Fund
Fund
Fund
• Rehabilitation work in 16 BHUs in District Charsadda including
Provision of Drinking water funded by CESSD ( Cowater Inc.) and
capacity building of 16 Primary care management committee
(PCMC) on project management and operation and maintenance
(O&M).
• Currently PRDS is implementing UNDP Funded early recovery
project in South Waziristan agency. The project will implement 18
Community Infrastructure schemes which include Drinking water
supply, water channels, and protection wall and link roads.

COMPETENCY 3. Health
SECTOR OBJECTIVE
PRDS delivers health services and intercede by striving to improve and enhance
the health status of marginalized and affected communities focusing on provision
of comprehensive, primary health service including but not limited to mother and
child healthcare to reduce the infant mortality (IMR), Under Five, and Maternal
Mortality Rate (MMR) and morbidity rate in FATA and Khyber Pukhtoon Khwa
(KPK)-Pakistan.
Background
Inadequate health facilities, lack of resources and rampant growth rate
contributes to degraded health conditions and status in Pakistan. More so, mal
nutrition, lack of education, cultural and traditional limitations by male dominance
and negative behavior in terms of willingness to access and utilize available health
facilities further distorts health indicators.
The KPK and FATA presents worsened health conditions in terms of facilities and
services compared to other parts of the country. Owing to certain known reasons
health-care facilities are either lacking or poorly accessed. The lack of access to
quality health services contributes to high mortality rates for infants and children
less than five years of age as well as mothers. Considerable inputs and service is
needed in universal immunization, disease prevention, health promotion, and
curative and rehabilitative services.
In 1999, 36% of children under five year’s age were considered malnourished.
About 45% of the deaths in Pakistan are attributable to communicable
(contagious) diseases, which are in turn linked to social and environmental factors
such as unsafe drinking water, malnutrition, over-crowding, low vaccine coverage,
poverty, and high illiteracy rate that are frequently encountered in most parts of
the country. Morbidity and mortality from diarrheal diseases and acute
respiratory infections remain at a very high level among children. The Federal
government’s allocation for health to the extent of Rs. 6 billion in the fiscal year
2009-10 bears ample testimony to the government’s potential to effect change.
The poor health situation of FATA can be better assessed from the available
health facilities. There are only 577 doctors available for a population of more
than 4 millions which means that there is only one doctor for 6239 people. There
are only 280 Lady Health Visitors (LHV) for around 1.8 million female populations
whereas for 6428 females there is only one LHV available.
PRDS Health Programme Interventions
PRDS Current Activities in Health Sectors
Interventions in health sector are underway in District Charsadda with the
Support of Communication for Effective Social Service Delivery (CESSD) a Project
of Cowater International. The project aim is to rehab. 23 Health facilities in District
Charsadda through PCMCs (Primary Care management Committees)
Strategy and Interventions

Under PRDS programme for health, improvement of primary / basic and or
mother and child health services through life cycle approach at the facility and
community levels is suggested. The capacity building of health staff for
strengthening their service delivery will also been undertaken. To prove helpful in
basic health services and to address health needs of poor and marginalized
segments in the FATA & KPK. Improving basic health services, mother and child
health, imparting awareness and education on health, hygiene, and nutrition,
control of communicable diseases, provision of vaccination to avoid disability,
providing reproductive health services at different levels, capacity-building of
health staff etc are the immediate intervention areas of concern for PRDS.
PROGRAMME AREAS
• Primary Health Care (PHC) Services
Formation or provision of static and outreach services through
development of basic community health care facilities and outreach
health staff, social mobilization and community based workers (like TBAs
and CMWs) and MCH community health service through door step
accessibility.
• Building Community Health Networks
Establish a network of TBAs, CMWs, LHVs, FHWs, and social organizers
throughout FATA and KPK and supervised by Medical officers/doctors and
field supervisors. PRDS seeks to enhance awareness and knowledge at the
household level, as well as that of the health service providers, teachers,
community members, about issues in MCH, immunization, Acute
respiratory Infection (ARI), Control of Diarrheal Diseases (CDD), Essential
Newborn Care (ENC), Nutrition and Micronutrients. The network of
workers will provide preventive and curative services. The TBAs are
providing door step services by visiting pregnant women, infants, and
under five children.
• Enhancing and Strengthening Of Immunization
a. Registration of Children for immunization
b. Child Health Days
C. Awareness Sessions for Improved Child health-care
• Family Planning
• Health Hygiene/Sanitation Education
1. Awareness Education
2. Teachers and Education Staff Training on Health Hygiene Issues
• Capacity Building of Line Departments and Local government institutions
• Formation of Health Committees
• Strengthening of Existing Health Facilities
a. Provision of Equipment
b. Trainings of Primary Health Care Staff
• Advocacy
a. Promotion of Vaccination

b. Utilization and strengthening of BHUs & RHCs

COMPETENCY 4. Education
Education & Literacy Program
Education is a basic human right, and determined as the most effective socio-
economic investment. Pakistan’s support for education has always been poor,
with less than 2 percent of GDP allocated to this sector until 2002. The present
allocation is around 3 percent, which is still, less than the recommended percent
by UNESCO.
Official figures show that literacy rate in Khyber Pukhtoon-Khwa Province (KPK)
for both sexes is 35.41%, while for FATA the figures are too low as only 17.42% of
people are educated most of whom have got education at the primary level only.
Out of this 35.41% figure ratio of male literacy is 51.49% while that of female is
18% only. Similarly, in FATA, the ratio of male literacy is 18.82% and that of female
is 3% only, which is equal to none.
The multiple Cluster Indicator Survey (MICS) in FATA shows that 69.3 % of FATA
Youth between 15-24 years population is illiterate and only 30.7 % are literate.
The percentage of literate 10+ year’s population in FATA is 33.8% male and 7.5%
females.
Poverty and backwardness is the direct corollary of lack of education. Similarly,
socio-economic agonies and bad governance are the fuel behind radicalism,
extremism, fundamentalism, dogmatism and subsequent terrorism as well as
exposing our children to poverty and its related implications like involvement in
child labor, drugs and drug trafficking, child trafficking and child abuse etc. Easy
access to free, qualitative, innovative and affordable education will surely
mainstream our children to education. Resultantly; their accumulative energies
will be tapped into a recipe of pro-state and not anti-state activities.
The recent intermittent disasters and complex emergencies, in the KPK and FATA,
including earthquake, floods, droughts and more recent internal displacements in
result of Pakistani security forces armed pursuit and operations against
fundamentalist-religious militant insurgency that was challenging the state’s writ
has completely tumbled down whatever was left little of the education
infrastructure.
The brutality of militants in Malakand division and later on the military operations
did not only forced millions of people to leave their home and disrupt their
children’s education, it also caused heavy destruction and damage to school
facilities in areas of active conflict,
More than 1500 schools have been reported damaged and at least a 1000 alone in
the Northern districts of KPK including 231 destroyed while 431 partially damaged
only in Swat. 248 of these were girls’ schools. The school destruction began a year
earlier than the operations as the Taliban, with their psycho-fanatic over drive to
wipe the concept of girl education from the page of the country’s history in the
name of peace and religion.

It may be unrealistic to rebuild within months what has been developed in
decades but a systematic link is to be retained to maintain children to be going to
school in fact to increase enrolment to prevent children joining radicals and
extremists.
Adding to poverty and owing to conditions the inimical literacy rates and the
meager infrastructural and diminutive available human resources of Malakand
division, Bajaur, Mohmand, Khyber, Orakzai, Kurram, North and South Waziristan
received tremendous setbacks that will further impact the future of these areas
into oblivion and will contribute to indicators which has indirectly effected and
restricted other indices to remain at their lowest like physical infrastructure,
livelihood opportunities, environment and sanitation etc. Thus, it is of utmost
importance to help restructure, rehabilitate and redevelop these areas especially
the education and health systems of these areas for their survival and hope of
clinging to humanity.
Apart from infrastructure children are in a trauma and elders confused due to the
overwhelming impacts of continuous mishaps and concomitant crises. There is an
urgency to address the essential needs of education, because even a few days of
lost education can lead to decreased retention from one grade to the next. For
girls and boys adolescence often marks the end of their education opportunities
for poverty and protection related reasons.
Considering the conflict affected and the host communities more than 1.5 million
children are to be provided education facilities and services to reach the pre-
conflict educational status including access and infrastructure.
AFGHAN REFUGEES
Additionally, when we talk about children in KPK and FATA, it would be unfair to
speak about the Afghan refugees who have been living in camps and host
communities for the last four decades. Afghan Refugees have also remained the
consequential recipients of turmoil and crisis in the last four decades and Afghan
Refugee Children are especially affected by the changing geo-strategic
maneuvering of geo-political players’ and stakeholders.
Problems at hand include but not limited to:
1. Negligible education facilities and status.
2. Illiteracy
3. Harsh education conditions
4. Scarce Access
5. Diminished enrolment
6. Children and women were the prime sufferers of all these activities as
their movements were bound and restricted by anti-social insurgent
elements justified in the name of religion and orthodoxy
7. Rare educational activities even in times of peace
8. physical infrastructure of schools,
9. Teacher shortage,

10. Poor teaching and assessment methods,
11. Teacher absenteeism,
12. Unproductive teachers training,
13. High level of corporal punishment,
14. Low level of community participation in schools,
15. Little budgetary allocations all contribute to low enrolment and high drop
out rates.
16. Lack of quality health services and facilities including school health
systems
17. Severe and present risk of mines, UXOs, IEDs and ERWs.
18. Continued threat of prolonged conflict and war like situations.
19. Child soldiery
20. Child Abuse
21. Child trafficking
22. Child Labor
23. Early Child Development
24. Safe drinking water
25. Hygiene
26. Sanitation
Emergency Education
With the Support of Education Cluster KP and UNOCHA under Emergency
Response Fund (ERF) PRDS is currently implementing a pojrect of Establishment of
temporary learning centres in Distt Swat. In which PRDS has established 20 TLCs in
12 UCs of Swat.
Rehabilitation of Govt. School
With the Support of UNDP Funded Community Infrastructure Project PRDS
Rehabilitated 10 Partially Affected Govt. Primary Schools in Three UCs of Tehsil
Khwaza Khela Swat.
PROGRAMME MISSION
1. Education For All
The Constitution of Pakistan states “remove illiteracy and provide free and
compulsory secondary education” to all citizens (Article 37 Constitution of
Pakistan).
2. A world Fit for Children
This program will look to fulfill the Millennium Development Goals MDGs of ‘a
world fit for children’, “the Declaration on Education for All” and in compliance
and support of “the FATA Sustainable Development Plan 2006-2015”.
3. Child Friendly Schools
More importantly, this program will look to cater the need for development of
Child Friendly Schools
4. Repairing Marks and Imprints of War
Conflicts leave devastating marks on infrastructures and imprints on minds.
Careful and considerate methods must be adopted to urgently cope with the after
effects of war. Especially the children and women face trauma and psychological
losses alongside the immeasurable and irreparable physical and emotional losses

brunt by losing near and dear ones. Continuous and long-term efforts, facilities
and services are required to completely revive the affected people from the
traumas and setbacks of war.
5. Opportunity for a Planned Initiative
The only mentionable positive implication of conflicts and emergencies are the
opportunity to redevelop infrastructures and social-culture norms in a manner
that people felt should be done but could not be achieved prior to the conflict.
This opportunity to seriously plan is a blessing in disguise if utilized properly.
Especially when we want to plan for our children upon whom our future depends.
PRDS EDUCATION PROGRAM
PRDS and its partners promote and support access to quality basic education for
all. The agency stands in solidarity with the most marginalized populations and
works to effect individual, structural, and systematic changes. Afghan Refugees
have also remained the consequential recipients of turmoil and crisis in the last
four decades and Afghan Refugee Children are especially affected by the changing
geo-strategic maneuvering of geo-political players’ and stakeholders.
PRDS Education programming is based on continuous dialogue and reflection for
improved performance. Special emphasis is given to working with the social
agencies our shared commitment to provide and promoting interventions based
on principles of social justice and our respect for human life and dignity.
PRDS has three priorities for its education programming:
1. Access and Equity
2. Quality Education
3. Community Participation
We focus and prefer our education programs by combining provision of nutrients
and supplements with education activities that focus on improving the quality of
education, girls' access to education, support for teachers, health/hygiene
education and services for students, school infrastructure improvement, and
increased parental and community involvement in schools. The participants in
these expanded school feeding programs are mostly pre-school and primary
school students in rural, food insecure regions. School feeding activities in post
emergencies and conflicts have a special emphasis on drawing girls to school.
In the short-term, school feeding can encourage children to enroll in school and
attend regularly because they receive a meal at school. Through the school meal,
children receive essential nutrients, which improve their ability to learn. This meal
is also an incentive for parents to send their children to school because they know
their children will eat well at school, and that they will not have to use limited
family funds and time to prepare a midday meal.
Beneficiaries
Beneficiaries and participants in PRDS' education projects are school-age children,
their parents and other members of the larger community, teachers and
administrators, and local grassroots project partners. Education programs focus
primarily on primary or pre-primary grades but not limited to and are

implemented through both the formal education system and informal learning
environments. Informal learning environments provide basic education to groups
that have traditionally been excluded from schooling and strengthen parent and
community organizations to become a positive force for improving education.
Background of PRDS Education Program
PRDS is constantly evaluating and improving its education programming and
recently expanded its focused more on primary education.
• Promoting girls' education
• Strengthening parental/community involvement in education
• Improving access to education
• Improving the quality of education
• Improving infrastructure and school environments
• Promoting inclusive education
• Promoting adult education and literacy
• Promoting early childhood development
• Promoting health/hygiene/nutrition/sanitation through schools
• Promoting education for peace building
• Promoting vocational training and life skills
• Promoting short-term food security in emergency situations
• Protective education and promotion of protection issues
• Mine risk awareness to children parents and teachers
• child counseling and post trauma child care
• Specific activities that meet these programming goals include:
• Distributing micronutrient supplements to improve students' health
• Providing parents, teachers, communities and children with hygiene and
nutrition education
• Improving teachers' skills and directors' school management techniques
• Providing take-home rations to encourage the enrollment and attendance
of girls and other marginalized groups
• Initiating information and education campaigns to raise awareness of the
importance of issues such as girls' education
• Strengthening Parent Teacher Associations to increase community
involvement in education
• Improving school sanitation and infrastructure by repairs and
maintenance
• These activities provide a more holistic approach to child development
and a more comprehensive support for primary education.
Technical Partners and Donors
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA)
• Emergency Response fund and Education Cluster KP
• International Labour Organization (ILO)
• CESSD ( Cowater International)
• International Rescue Committee

Local partners include:
• Education ministries
• Parent-teacher associations (PTAs)
• Umbrella PTA groups such as National Parents' Associations
• Charities and education promotion and development groups specializing
in education
• Local not-for-profit organizations active in education
1. Non Formal education
PRDS Plan to start a non formal education programme for illiterate adult men and
women in FATA and KPK. For this purpose PRDS will hire local teachers.
2. Special Education
PRDS have started survey of special children in UC mathra of District Peshawar
and plan to establish a school for these special children.

Ongoing and Completed Projects:
Project Name When Sector/s of
project
Area Total Budget Supported By
Skill Development Trainings
Project (Refugees affected and
hosted areas-RAHA)
March – May
2013
Livelihoods Peshawar PKR
2,893,280/-
RAHA - UNDP
Community Infrastructure
Project (UNDP Early Recover
Programme)
1st
Dec, 2012
–31st
May
2013
Community
Infrastructure
South
Waziristan
Agency
170,000 US $ UNDP
Emergency food Security
support -South Waziristan
Agency
1st Oct,
2012-10th
March 2013
Food Security South
Waziristan
138851.44US
$
ERF (UNOCHA)
Citizen Engagement in social
services delivery (CESSD) -
Health Project
Feb 2011 -
Ongoing
Health Charsadda
5 Million PKR
CESSD Project of
Cowater Int.
Female Adult Literacy Centers Education Charsadda By NCHD under
CESSD Project of
Cowater Int.
Restoring Com. Based
Infrastructure
15th
Oct,
2011-31st
May 2012
Comm.
Infrastructure
D I KHAN
DISTRICT
149, 814 US$ UNDP
Restoring Com. Based
Infrastructure
15th
Oct, 2011
– 31st
May
2012
Comm.
Infrastructure
TANK
DISTRICT
140,371 US$ UNDP
Rehab. Of Community
Infrastructure
Feb to June
2011 -
Community
Infrastructure
Swat 15831500
PKR
UNDP / people of
Japan
Emergency Education Project April 2011 –
Sep. 2011
Education Swat 250,000 US $ UNOCHA/
Emergency Respons
Fund (ERF)
CASH FOR WORK 25th
Oct 2010
to Dec 2010
Livelihood Charsadda
District
12000 US $ International Labour
Organization (ILO)
Refugee Education
Programme (REP)
From Oct 1,
2010 to Dec
2012
Refugee
Education
Peshawar
Valley
IRC handed over to
PRDS- project has
been operational
since 1992
Detail wash assessment of
Munda and Uthmanzai
Refugees Camps
Nov. 2010 WASH Charsadda PKR 25,000/- For UNHCR
Cash Grants Distribution Aug – Sep,
2010
Cash Grants Nowshera PKR
1250,000/-
Pakistani Communit
in England
Distribution of 20 NFIs in
Chowki Drab (Nowshera) August 2010
NFI Nowshera 84,000 local philanthropists
Distribution of clothes , Shoes
(6000 Pairs cloths and 3000
Shoes)
August 2010 NFI Charsadda ,
Nowshera
PKR
4125000/-
Collected through 4
relief camps for floo
affected people in
Peshawar
Distribution of Ramdan Food
Package in 105 Families
August 2010 Food Panda khel,
Charsadda
125,000 local philanthropists
Joint assessment (PRDS team August 2010 Agriculture Nowshera, Agriculture Cluster

participates ) Charsadda
and
Peshawar
lead by FAO
Skill Development Training
(for Women)
May 2010 to
July 2010
Livelihoods New Abdai
Jamrud
Khyber
agency
360,000 PRDS (saving and
local philanthropists
Future Plans of PRDS
For future interventions PRDS plan to carry out different activities with the
support of UN Spcialized Agencies (UNDP, UNHCR, UNICEF, WHO, FAO, WFP and
ILO) ,on self help, through PRDS member’s contributions, Individual Donors,
INGOs and other donor organizations and partners in Different areas of KPK and
FATA. Below is the list of interventions.
• Emergency Response ,Disaster Management and Climate Change
As Pakistan is a disaster prone country and specially KPK and FATA are more prone
to Natural as well as manmade disaster. For timely response to these disasters
PRDS plan to create an Emergency response fund, this fund under the PRDS
umbrella will be utilize for all kind of emergency responses in the region.
• Women Rights and Gender Issues
PRDS intend to work on women right and gender issues in future
• Health
PRDS has its current programme of health and intend to work on child health and
maternal health in future across KP and FATA.
• Education
3. Non Formal education
PRDS Plan to start a non formal education programme for illiterate adult men and
women in FATA and KPK. For this purpose PRDS will hire local teachers.
4. Special Education
PRDS Intend to work on special education and is planning to establish a school in
Peshawar
• Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Livelihoods
Currently PRDS is working on poverty alleviation and sustainable livelihoods and
this sector is part of PRDS programme, however PRDS wants to extend this in
future.
Food Security and WASH
Currently PRDS is working on food security and Water Supply sanitation and
hygiene education and will work in future as well.
Social Mobilization
PRDS intend to expand its social mobilization programme to other areas of KP and
FATA. Community Organization (COs) will be formed both for male as well as

female. This will be an ongoing process for future interventions of PRDS in FATA
and KPK.
Community Infrastructure
PRDS is working on this and plan to work in future is well.
Strength of PRDS
1. Training Expertise
PRDS have capacity of conducting a range of trainings in the fields of:
• Training of Teacher (ToT) & TNA
• Social Organization Techniques (SOT)
• Development Planning & Management (DPM)
• Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA)
• Project Cycle Management (PCM)
• Logical Framework Analysis (LFA)
• Participatory Monitoring & Evaluation (PM&E)
• Proposal & Report Writing
• Implementation Methods in Participatory Water Supply and Sanitation
Projects
• Accounts and Book Keeping, and Financial Management
• Training of Teacher (ToT) & TNA
• Sphere Standards
2. Technical Expertise
PRDS technical capacity includes:
• Writing Text Books
• Research Papers
• Conducting Assessment and Assessments Report
• Technical Proposal (Education, Health, Wash etc.)
• Watsan (surveys, Feasibility reports, BoQs, Estimates and Technical
Proposals)
3. Links in FATA and KPK
• PRDS has good links at the grass root level at Peshawar, Mardan,
Charsada, Mansehra, Nowshera, Swat, DI Khan and Tank while at FATA in
Bajuar, Khyber, Mohmand Agency and FR Peshawar. At the moment more
than 200 Community Based Organizations are linked with PRDS.
4. Linkages
As the team of PRDS has working experience with different national and
international Organizations, Since establishment PRDS has developed wide of
linkages with the public & Private Sector
5. Board of Executive
PRDS has 7 Executive members on its Board.
6. Coverage Area

In KPK PRDS Work in Peshawar, Charsadda, Nowshera, Mardan, Swat, Malakand ,
Lower Dir,
Mansehra, DI Khan and Tank While in FATA PRDS area of Interventions are
Khyber, Kurram , Bajaur and
Mohmand Agency
Organizational Membership:
• Human Resource Development Network (HRDN) Islamabad
• GCPEA - Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack
• Global Development Network
• Pakistan Social Accountability Network (PSAN)

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