SSEWA-Pak
SSEWA-Pak
Society for Safe Environment and Welfare of Agrarians in Pakistan
Society for Safe Environment and Welfare of Agrarians in Pakistan
Shifting the Power
Shifting the Power is a unique project which supports the organizational capacity building for a better decision making, leadership, and increasing coordination and networking in humanitarian response. The project is being led by Tearfund UK and is supported by 06 Consortium members i.e, Tearfund, Christian Aid, Action Aid, Oxfam, CAFOD and Concern worldwide. The project brings up local organizations to have access to national and international funding opportunities through a shift of power from international organizations to local organizations.
The vision of StP is to support local organization to take their place alongside international actors in order to create a balanced humanitarian system that is more responsive and accountable to disaster affected communities. This project has strengthened local and national organizational capacity for decision making and leadership in humanitarian response. It also develop link of local to national organizations, and at the same time influence international organizations to promote the role of local and national actors through an effective learning and documentation process and how they can approach to make national responses faster, better quality and more effective.
The major activities of the year were conducting a ToT on Emergency Preparedness and Response. The purpose of the ToT was to capacitate SSEWA-Pak Emergency Response Team and staff for better, efficient and coordinated response. This ToT was organized with the collaboration of Aga Khan Agency for Habitat from 29th May, 2017 to 02nd June, 2017. The ToT addressed Basic First Aid, Search and Rescue, Water and Rope Management, Firefighting, Disaster Risk Management and joint simulations. Total 16 staff from different departments participated in the training.
From 25th to 27th May a joint workshop on “Emergency Preparedness & Response Planning” was organized at Indus Hotel Hyderabad by Tearfund. Two SSEWA-Pak staff & Govt. officials Mr. Junaid Mirza Deputy Director Mirpur Khas, Mr. Ghulam Hussain Chana Deputy Director KGM social welfare department & Mr. Mehrab Khaskheli Deputy Controller Civil defense/DDMA Secretary participated in this workshop. SSEWA-Pak and district officials are working together to develop a joint emergency and response plan for district Mirpur Khas.
Through the support of StP, SSEWA-Pak is developing its MEAL Manual. For this, Mr. George Boota (a Consultant from Management Development Institute, Lahore) is assisting SSEWA-Pak to develop this manual. The manual is in finalization process and hopefully will be ready by the end of July, 2017.
For coordination and effective humanitarian response, we have been linked with district authorities, DDMA and other likeminded organizations to increase linkages. During the period, total 15 meetings were done with Government officials 7 with Social Welfare Department 4 with DDMA representatives one with Deputy Commissioner and meetings with ADC I and ADC II Mirpur Khas. By these meeting we agreed on close coordination to develop the district contingency plan and identification of disaster prone villages and developing their emergency response plans.
It’s also a great privilege for SSEWA-Pak for being a member of DRR Forum (National and Sindh Chapter). In this context two meetings have been attended by SSEWA-Pak staff in the month of April and June 2017 at Hyderabad.
The vision of StP is to support local organization to take their place alongside international actors in order to create a balanced humanitarian system that is more responsive and accountable to disaster affected communities. This project has strengthened local and national organizational capacity for decision making and leadership in humanitarian response. It also develop link of local to national organizations, and at the same time influence international organizations to promote the role of local and national actors through an effective learning and documentation process and how they can approach to make national responses faster, better quality and more effective.
The major activities of the year were conducting a ToT on Emergency Preparedness and Response. The purpose of the ToT was to capacitate SSEWA-Pak Emergency Response Team and staff for better, efficient and coordinated response. This ToT was organized with the collaboration of Aga Khan Agency for Habitat from 29th May, 2017 to 02nd June, 2017. The ToT addressed Basic First Aid, Search and Rescue, Water and Rope Management, Firefighting, Disaster Risk Management and joint simulations. Total 16 staff from different departments participated in the training.
From 25th to 27th May a joint workshop on “Emergency Preparedness & Response Planning” was organized at Indus Hotel Hyderabad by Tearfund. Two SSEWA-Pak staff & Govt. officials Mr. Junaid Mirza Deputy Director Mirpur Khas, Mr. Ghulam Hussain Chana Deputy Director KGM social welfare department & Mr. Mehrab Khaskheli Deputy Controller Civil defense/DDMA Secretary participated in this workshop. SSEWA-Pak and district officials are working together to develop a joint emergency and response plan for district Mirpur Khas.
Through the support of StP, SSEWA-Pak is developing its MEAL Manual. For this, Mr. George Boota (a Consultant from Management Development Institute, Lahore) is assisting SSEWA-Pak to develop this manual. The manual is in finalization process and hopefully will be ready by the end of July, 2017.
For coordination and effective humanitarian response, we have been linked with district authorities, DDMA and other likeminded organizations to increase linkages. During the period, total 15 meetings were done with Government officials 7 with Social Welfare Department 4 with DDMA representatives one with Deputy Commissioner and meetings with ADC I and ADC II Mirpur Khas. By these meeting we agreed on close coordination to develop the district contingency plan and identification of disaster prone villages and developing their emergency response plans.
It’s also a great privilege for SSEWA-Pak for being a member of DRR Forum (National and Sindh Chapter). In this context two meetings have been attended by SSEWA-Pak staff in the month of April and June 2017 at Hyderabad.
Last Update August 2017
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