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Hope on the Horizon

How the Refugee Affected and Hosting Areas

Programme contributes to the achievement of

the Millennium Development Goals

Copyright 2013United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)Refugee Affected and Hosting Areas Programme (RAHA)

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Editor: Mustafa Nazir Ahmad (Media and Communication Officer, RAHA)Photo Credits: Huma Akram/RAHA Staff

Printed in June 2013 by PrintMatic, IslamabadCover and Layout Design: PrintMatic, Islamabad

UNDP is the UNs global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries throughknowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. We are on the ground in 166 countries,working with people on their own solutions to global and national development challenges.

As countries develop local capacity, they draw on the support of UNDP and our wide range of partners. Worldleaders have pledged to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, including the overarching goal of cuttingpoverty in half by 2015. UNDPs network links and coordinates global and national efforts to reach these Goals.Our focus is helping countries build and share solutions to the challenges of:

Democratic GovernancePoverty ReductionCrisis Prevention and RecoveryEnergy and EnvironmentHIV/AIDS

UNDP helps developing countries attract and use aid effectively. In all our activities, we encourage the protectionof human rights and the empowerment of women.

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TheRefugeeAffectedand Hosting AreasProgramme(RAHA)was launched in 2009to caterto theneedsof the people affected by the presence of in Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa andFATA. Through a variety of interventions, ranging from livelihood trainings to financial and technicalsupport for community physical infrastructure projects, the programme aims at compensating for thesocial, economicand environmental losses sufferedby therefugeehostingcommunities.

RAHA achieves this goal while working for the accelerated achievement of the Millennium DevelopmentGoals(MDGs).The followingMDGs arethe centrepieceof thedevelopment effortsunder RAHA:

documents some of the successes of RAHA and their contribution to thegovernmentsachievement of theMDGs, thus bettersituatingthe programmein theoverall developmentcontextof Pakistan.

Thesuccess stories included in thecompilation havebeen classifiedunder theseMDGs,though someof theinterventions may contribute to the achievement of more than one of them. Additionally, it has also beenspecifiedthattheparticularinterventionhelpsachievewhichofthefollowing ofRAHA:

Greater socialcohesion through communityempowerment.Improved livelihoodsand localeconomies.Restorationof socialservices andinfrastructure.Improved accessto socialprotectionfor co-existingPakistaniand Afghancommunities.Restorationand improvementof theenvironment.Return of IDPs anchored and absorption capacity created by small-scale community-basedre-integration initiatives.

As these success stories demonstrate, RAHA has not only brought about a positive change in the lives of thetarget populations, particularly of the most vulnerable groups such as women and the disabled, but alsohelped theGovernmentof Pakistan bycontributing tothe achievementof itstargetsunder theMDGs.

MDG 1: Eradicate extreme povertyan d hunger.

MDG 3: Promote gender equality and empower women.

MDG6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases.MDG7: Ensure environmental sustainability

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1.2.3.4.5.6.

Afghan refugees

MDG 2: Achieve universal primary education.

MDG 4: Reduce child mortality.MDG 5: Improve maternal health.

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MDG 1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger

MDG 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education

MDG 3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women

MDG 4: Reduce Child Mortality

MDG 5: Improve Maternal Health

MDG 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases

MDG 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability

A Stitch in Time Saves NineWheels of Fortune

Ensuring His Familys SurvivalWhere There is a Will, There is a WayFeeling at Home

Educate a Woman, Educate a Generation

Breaking the ShacklesMobilising Communities for Womens EmpowermentSolar Solutions

They Can Because They Think They Can

Lightening Up LifeBreaking Barriers, Building BridgesBringing Life Back to Normal

Journey Towards a Bright Future

Improving Health and Hygiene of Poor Communities

The Road to Success

RAHA beneficiaries also include children, our hope fora better future (District Swabi).


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RAHA DISTRICTS

PESHAWAR

QUETTA

BALOCHISTANI R A N

SINDH

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CHAGAI

KillaAbdullah

PISHIN

KILLA

SAIFULLAH

LORALAI

ISLAMABAD

PUNJAB

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KhyberPakhtunkhwa

BUNER

HARIPUR

LOWER DIR

NOWSHERA

SWABI

FATAAGENCY

Balochistan

FATA

Chagai

Killa Abdullah

Killa Saifullah

Loralai

Pishin

Quetta

Buner

Haripur

Lower Dir

Nowshera

Peshawar

Swabi

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

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Around 4,000 Afghan refugees live in the Sindh Gharavillage of Union Council Khazana Payan on the outskirtsof Peshawar. They used to enjoy cordial relations with thelocal community until the resources started to dwindle andlivelihoodopportunitiesbecamescarce.

Our elders welcomed the Afghan refugees, even allowingthem to settle on common lands in villages besidesdesignated government camps, but now we need the samelands for ourselves, says Ikhtiar Ahmad, who is working topromote social cohesion in Sindh Ghara under the RefugeeAffected and Hosting Areas Programme (RAHA).

With time, the common adversary of Afghan refugees and thelocal community in the village remained the floods in theShalam river that wreaked havoc each year following the

monsoon season.

After the devastation wrought by the 2010 floods, IkhtiarAh ma d s Kh eg ar a (C oo pe ra ti on ) We lf ar e Yo u thOrganisation, which has been working in the area since2004, sought financial and technical support from RAHA toconstructa floodprotectionwall.

Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges

The 100-feet long flood protection wall, which wascompleted at a cost of PKR3.4 million in June 2012, nowprotects both the local community and the Afghan refugees,greatlyhelping in re-establishingthe bondbetweenthem.

The wall is an outcome of joint efforts by two communityorganisations, one mens and womens each, in line withRAHAs focus on gender. These community organisationslater gel together as village organisations to address largerdevelopmental issues.

Sindh Ghara has also benefitted in terms of othercommunity-implemented projects such as retention walls,irrigation channels and street pavements to go hand inhand with training in marketskillsfor community memberstohelp theminitiateincomegenerationactivities.

The wall is an outcome of joint effortsof two community organisations, onemen's and women's each, in line with

RAHA's focus on gender.

This intervention has contributed to the achievement ofRAHA ER 5: Restoration and Improvement of the Environment


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