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Issue #5 2013January -Apri l

PCC Link Road Board at District Charsadda

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pdateLIVELIHOOD SUPPORT & PROMOTION OF SMALL COMMUNITYINFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTBMZ Mission visits DistrictCharsadda

LACIP signs MoU with (ATIN) Applied Technologies Institute (NLC)

The LACIP PMU organized a eld visit for the BMZ Mission in th

District Charsadda on the 9th of April, 2013. The team visin

Charsadda comprised of PPAF C.E.O Qazi Azmat Isa along, Kf

Director Anna Chrisne Janke, KfW Program Manager Haroo

Razzaq, Senior Group Head PGS Zaar Pervez Sabri and GM

LACIP Masood Khalid.

PPAFs Partner Organizaon SRSP facilitated the team in theld and called upon community organizaons to give present

ons on the impacts of the CPI Schemes constructed in the

village; the Mission also met with livestock asset transfer ben

ciaries in the Union Council Mandani.

LACIP signed a MoU with Applied Technologies Instute (Naonal Logiscs

Cell) (ATIN) on 17th of April, 2013. ATIN is a subsidiary of Naonal LogiscsCell Pakistan. This MOU would enable specic need based vocaonal train-

ings to be provided to the selected community members in the idened

areas through ATIN in collaboraon with Partner Organizaons under

LACIP.

The iniave will have a direct impact on the trainees livelihood as they

will be trained in advanced laboratories with highly technical machinery

which will build their capacity in accordance with up to date technology

being used in various industries. Once the community members complete

their training, they will be awarded degrees and cercaons which will

exponenally increase their chances to nd employment overseas as well

as within the country.

Quarterly


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Multi Sectoral Planning Brainstorming Sessionheld by LACIP PMU

The Mul Sectoral Planning (MSP) brainstorming session was held at PPAF on the 17th of April, 2013. HELVETAS Consultant, M

Mehmood Hemani acted as lead moderator where he created an open forum discussion for innovave ideas and models of MSP to b

implemented at the Union Council level in the LACIP Districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Ms. Arjumand Nizami, Mr. Nadeem Bukhari an

Ms. Roshan Ara from Swiss Intercooperaon gave their input regarding various tools to carry out comprehensive market assessmenand determine value chains. As a result of the brainstorming session, it was decided that the District Haripur would be chosen as

pilot District under LACIP where the proposed MSP would be implemented over the coming months.

Coordination Meeting of LACIP Livelihood ComponentPartner Organizations with DeputyDirector NLC

The purpose of the coordinaon meeng between LACIPs

Partner Organizaons and the NLC Deputy Director Mr

Zeeshan Hashmi was to introduce the programme of train-

ing community members from LACIPs ve Districts.

The Deputy Director NLC explained that the process of se-

lecng the right candidates for training was imperave and

that the trainees would be divided into batches so as to

provide comprehensive training to a large number of com-

munity members. Mr. Zeeshan presented and answered

queries on the level and types of trainings that would be

conducted over a period of 3 to 6 months in the city o

Dina.


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Shooting of LACIP Documenta

in District D.I. Khan

The Interacve Resource Center (IRC) team is develop-ing the documentary for all the ve Districts under

LACIP. Shoong for the District of D.I Khan was complet-

ed in the month of February, where LACIPs D. I. Khan

Partner Organizaons assisted the team in the eld.

Footage of Interviews of community members, asset

transfer beneciaries and shots of physical infrastruc-

ture schemes in seven Union Councils was collected by

the IRC team.Mr. Marn Dietz of Swiss Intercooperaon held an exercise with com-

munity members regarding value chain linkages being created by the

farmers enterprise groups in the District Charsadda. He explained the

advantages of common interest groups and how livelihood enhance-

ment goals could be accomplished through the right linkages within the

local markets.

Value chain exercise with Farmers

Enterprise groups from Charsadda

Mr. Johannes Heickmann from KfW holds a meetingwith LACIP PMUKfW Project Manager Crisis Response Asia Mr. Johan-

nes Heickmann convened a meeng with LACIP PMU at

PPAF on 20th February, 2013. Present at the meeng

were, Project Manager KfW Mr. Haroon Razzaq Qureshi,

Senior Group Head Mr. Zaar Pervez Sabri, General

Manager LACIP Mr. Masood Khalid .

The agenda of the meeng was to contemplate and

discuss the level of progress of Partner Organizaons in

all the Districts, and which measures should be iniated

in order to increase overall ulizaon of the Project in a

shorter span of me.

Mr. Masood Khalid introduced the idea of LACIPs own

Management Informaon System database. He further

explained that it would be uniquely tailored to t all thereporng and monitoring requirements of the Donor in

terms of speedy access to monthly and quarterly pro-

gress reports on the web and other detailed analysis

regarding all the components under LACIP.


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LACIP PMU team of Ayyaz Khan, Nasrul-

lah Khan and Zeeshan Azam held a

meeng with SRSP eld sta in Char-

sadda to discuss issues regarding the

Livelihood component progress and ex-

peding the process of asset transfers.

Elections begin in Community Organizations in

Charsadda and Buner

Session on formation of District Development Forums inD.I. Khan

LACIP PMU held a discussion session wit

all D.I. Khan Partner Organizaons o

19th of March, 2013 to iniate the fo

maon of District Development forumThe parcipants from the Partner Organ

zaons explained the various issues an

hurdles prevalent at the District level an

how they can be overcome.

To increase coordinaon amongst all th

Partner Organizaons working und

LACIP in D.I. Khan, it was decided that c

ordinaon meengs between the Partn

Organizaons in D.I. Khan would be he

each month to pace up the process

Through the iniave taken by Ayyaz Khan and Taimur Jehangir of LACIP PMU,

Partner Organizaons under LACIP, SPADO and EPS have commenced elecons

within their newly formed community organizaons by adapng a vong system

with symbols and logos assigned to candidates in the villages.

LACIP PMU visits SRSPin Charsadda

LACIPs Management

Informaon System

(MIS) will be deployed

online in the month of

June, 2013

Documentaries for theDistricts of Swabi and

D.I. Khan have been

completed and will be

uploaded on the LACIP

Webpage.


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Physical Infrastructure Schemes completed in Chitral

Restoring the benets of exisng culvable land

Prevenng Plants, trees and crops from wilng

Increasing land value by providing sucient water for the exisng lands

Reducing water losses due to seepage and leakage

Increasing food, fodder and fuel sources by bringing more area under culvaon

Increasing income generaon opportunies for the local community members

Time saving by providing water through any obstrucon to the culvable lands

Posive eect on environment.

BeforeAfter

Kuju Bala Irrigation Channel

Connecon of the

village to other areas

through modern

communicaon

means.

Increase in the agri-

cultural produce by

increasing mobility

to the other villages.

Improvement in the

economic life of the

villagers by enhanc-

ing economic acvi-

es.

Reducon in work-

load on the villagers

by decreasing the

distance to the near-by villages.

Time saving by

providing direct ac-

cess to the nearby

villages where they

hold culvable lands.

Shaghore Mori Foot Bridge

After

Before

#Benefits

#Benefits


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Restoring the benets of exisng culvable land

Prevenng Plants, trees and crops from wilng

Increasing land value by providing sucient water for the exisng lands

Reducing water losses due to seepage and leakage

Increasing food, fodder and fuel sources by bringing more area under culvaon

Increasing income generaon opportunies for the local community members

Time saving by providing water through any obstrucon to the culvable lands

Posive eect on environment.

#Project Progress Summary as of April 2013

Assets Transferred InitiatedCommunity Organizations

Small & Medium Infrastructure Schemes

Completed

518 2411,1931,592

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