CONCEPT NOTE ABOUT ORGANIZATION
CONCEPT NOTE
ABOUT ORGANIZATION
1. Name of Executing Agency : Janak
Development Association
2. Registration No : DSW/NWFP/1692
3. Date of Registration : 23 August 2000
4. Project Area : Rural Area of Shakardara –Janak-
Dhand Saghri, Tehsil Lachi, District
Kohat – NWFP, Pakistan .
5. Head Office : Village : Rakhman Abad (Dhand
Saghri),
Distt : Kohat
6. Contact Person
: Sadiq ur Rehman (President)
0332-9779390, 0922-213109
7. Email Address
: vojdacbo@yahoo.com
DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION OF THE PROJECT AREA
General
1. The target area is located in Union
Council Rural I and II of
Shakardara-Dhand Saghri of District Kohat, NWFP. The area is extremely backward
and is devoid of the basic needs of life i.e. clean drinking water, roads, hospitals,
schools of quality education and electricity etc. The whole area of the two
union councils consists of over 100 villages and more than 8000 households.
More than 80% of the area is hilly, rocky and barren land. There are three main
sources of income in the area:-
- Farming on limited lands.
- Livestock farming on wild waste lands.
- Government Service- mostly low paid petty jobs.
Farming
2. Farming in the area is carried
out with very primary tools like bullocks because of the lack of awareness and
low productivity. Operational costs of modern technology like tractors and its implements
cannot be afforded by the locals. Generally each house hold (HH) has 3 to 4
acres of arid agricultural land on the average. Wheat is the major crop grown
in the area, that too if it rains in time. The entire area is rain- fed and
annual rainfall ranges from 10 to 13 inches with high uncertainty. The area has
gone through a complete drought for the last five years. Consequently, the
situation is nearly matching to a famine. Because of all these factors, 90 % of
local people below the poverty line have increased manifold further.
Livestock
3. Livestock is the second
biggest source of income in the area. But production of milk and bi-products is
low as the range land of the area is lacking grass and water due to the
aforementioned reasons. The number of cattle is also decreasing as the people
seem to have no attraction in livestock rearing hence adding to the poverty.
Government Service
4. Most of Government Servants
belong to the Armed Forces. But because of the saturation, this ray of hope is
fading away now. Some of the labour cadre is working in District Faisalabad,
which is 400 KMs away from the area. So joining Army or finding petty labour is
also becoming difficult and unavailable for the dwellers of the project area.
It has become even harder to secure a reasonably good job due to very low
education level—rather illiteracy.
Education
4. The education level in the area is
very low. Only about 10% of the total male
population has received basic primary education while less than 2 % have
attained the graduate level degree. The reason behind this is a lack of good
quality education institutions and perpetual poverty. The situation is worst
looking on the women side, as 98 % of them are totally illiterate. Due to low
income, people cannot afford to send their children outside the area. They are
craving for good and quality education, specially the basic primary education
for both males and females, in order to secure their future and to protect
their wards against social evils including the extremists.
Health
5. There is not a single good hospital in
the whole area. Patients are brought to Shakardara Civil
Hospital District Civil
Hospital Kohat and to big hospitals in
Peshawar which
are about 100 to 160 KM away from the farthest village.
Women’s Responsibility
6. As they are illiterate,
therefore, their duties are confined to fetch drinking water, to graze cattle
in the rangeland and to bring fodder for cattle from hills. 100% women and
girls are involved in the farming and livestock rearing.
PROPOSED PROJECTS
7. PROJECT TITLE :
Rural Poverty Reduction Project (RPRP)
8. PROJECT INITIATIVE :
- Rain water conservation by construction of rainy
water-dams on the basis of participatory approach and social mobilization.
- To construct four model schools, both for males and
females, from pre-primary to Higher
Secondary level.
JUSTIFICATION AND OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECTS
9. The project area is entirely rain-fed
with annual rainfall of 10-13 inches. There is no clean drinking water. The
ponds and wells are the main sources of drinking water. Agricultural production
is consequently very low. Present agri-products cannot meet the domestic needs
of the people. Rainwater conservation is one of the two solutions for irrigation
and livestock, the other is uplift irrigation schemes from River Sindh (
flowing for about 30 Km while touching the target area). In Phase1, the
rain-fed dams are proposed in the project area for soil & water
conservation to reduce the poverty. To construct 5 major dams, 12 medium size
dams and 12 small size dams (all rain water-fed), and develop at least 7
pastures/range lands in the project area for enabling the people to enhance
their sources of income_ thus alleviating the poverty of at least 100000 people.
10. To provide water for animals in the rangeland
and fodder in the fields by water conservation and irrigation respectively.
11. To provide clean drinking water, sanitation
and promote health education in the project area.
12. Recharging ground water resources,
encouraging the tree plantation, enhancing the
agri-livestock production and to
protect environment as far as possible.
13. To raise two model schools
from Pre-primary to High Secondary Level at two different locations, firstly
for imparting quality education to children ( at least 1000 children including
60 % females per school), secondly to enhance the adult literacy of the people
including 60 % women, and thirdly to train all the teachers of the existing government
schools in the area.
14. To organize the community
through the implementation of the proposed projects by introducing economic
activities for better living standards.
15. To construct one 20-bedded good
quality hospital in the area of Dhand Saghri.
16. By implementing the above
projects, seven of the Millennium
Development Goals are likely to be achieved in the project area by 2015.
PROJECT DURATION : 30 Months.
PROJECT BUDGET : Total Cost : 585937.5 Euro
EC Contribution : 439453.1 Euro (75%)
Community Contribution : 146484.4 Euro (25%)
EXPERIENCE
Financial assistance received to
date :
Project Amount Purpose Date Donors
Hand Pumps Rs. 425,000/- Drinking water Apr 1997 UNDP
Micro Credit Rs. 1,200,000/- Poverty Reduction 1997 UNDP
Sanitation Rs. 562,363/-
Pit Latrine
1999 UNDP
Breeding Centers Rs. 50,000/- Good Breeds of 2001 UNDP
Live Stock
Water Reservoir (mini-dam)
with Drinking Water Rs 1,770,066/- Drinking water Feb 2002 TVO/EC
Supply Scheme
Earth-filled Ponds 1,500,000/- Live Stock 2006 DFID/LPRP
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