Monthly Narrative Report for May-2018

Of

UCBPRP Maintenance Phase

Districts Shikarpur, Kashmore & Jacobabad

Report By SRSO-MER Section Head Office Sukkur

Executive Summary:

The Union Council Based Poverty Reduction Project (UCBPRP) has successfully completed its tenure in August 2013 and achieved its set objectives and materialize huge portfolio in form of community institutions and the gigantic intervention. Ensured the linkages between poor households, line agencies, and other service providers and between government social protection programs and the poorest.

The project has helped as well as enabling the poor communities to improve their social indicators relating to health, environment, and education, especially for women and children.

UCBPRP created a sense of understanding among the poor women to undertake economic activities for the wellbeing of their household; the intervention included asset building for income generation, small enterprises, improved agriculture practices, vocational skills as means of business, and the choices to have access to financial resources are larger than before the project, which built the confidence of the target community (Women) to make productive investments from the resources they have been managing collectively through the huge network of their Village Organizations and Local Support Organizations at gross rout levels.

To extract the maximum benefit on regular basis it was indispensable that there must be a proper follow-up and the maintenance in the respective districts to sustain the outcomes in the rural communities. During the maintenance phase, the tendency of routine meetings of these institutions has been promoted to make it on a regular basis and further efforts being under taken to promote and enhance the culture of savings in these gross rout level organizations by making the strict monitoring and participation.

In September-2013 the SRSO have started the formal activities of the maintenance phase in both the districts, initially the teams have focused the recovery and re-disbursement of community investment fund in the different village organizations with the effective support of local support organizations.

The Union Council Based Poverty Reduction Project (UCBPRP) Jacobabad has successfully completed its tenure in 30th June 2015 and achieved its set objectives. In July 2015 SRSO has also started activities of the Maintenance Phase in District Jacobabad. SRSO focused the Recovery and Re-Disbursement of CIF with Support of Local Support Organizations (LSOs).

As ofMay2018, PKR: 1,202,422,966 received from the different beneficiaries who received the CIF loans under the regular program in three districts. Besides the recovery teams also emphasis the beneficiaries to consider for group landing in order to foster the maximum benefits by utilization the same amount with increment from the seed money of LSOs.

Apart from recovery, the re-disbursement was given massive importance therefore as ofMay-

2018, PKR: 1,365,825,262 have been Re-disbursed in different beneficiaries who returned the

MPR for the Maintenance Phase in district Shikarpur, Jacobabad, and Kashmore @ Kandhkot

Executive Summary District Wise progress As of March2018 30-April18 As of April-2018

S. No

Name of Activity District Project Target

Target Achievement Target Achievement Target Achievement

1 CIF (No of Groups to be formed in UC under group lending strategy

Shikarpur - - - - - - -

Kashmore - - - - - - -

Jacobabad - - - - - - - Sub Total - - - - - - -

2 No of Group to be given CIF Shikarpur - - - - - - -

Kashmore - - - - - - -

Jacobabad - - - - - - -

Sub Total - - - - - - -

3 Total No of Beneficiaries (under Group Lending Strategy)

Shikarpur - - - - - - -

Kashmore - - - - - - -

Jacobabad - - - - - - -

Sub Total - - - - - - -

4 No of Communities formed regarding supervisory roles

Shikarpur - - - - - - -

Kashmore - - - - - - -

Jacobabad - - - - - - -

Sub Total - - - - - - -

5 No of Small Enterprises to be created through group Lending

Shikarpur - - - - - - -

Kashmore - - - - - - -

Jacobabad - - - - - - -

Sub Total - - - - - - -

6 No of LSOs to be given CIF Shikarpur - - 37 - - - 37

Kashmore - - 25 - - - 25

Jacobabad 16 - 16

Sub Total - - 78 - - - 78

7 LSO Members trained in Managerial & CIF Appraisal

Monitoring Training

Shikarpur - - 13 - - - 13

Kashmore - - - - - - -

Jacobabad - - - - - - -

Sub Total - - 13 - - - 13

S. No

Name of Activity

District Project Target

Target Achievement Target Achievement Target Achievement

8 LSO members trained in

Book keeping training

Shikarpur - - - - - - -

Kashmore - - - - - - -

Jacobabad - - - - - - -

Sub Total - - - - - - - 9 LSO

members to be sent on Exposures Visits

Shikarpur - - - - - - -

Kashmore - - - - - - -

Jacobabad - - - - - - -

Sub Total - - - - - - -

District Wise progress As of April 2018 Progress of May 2018 As of May 2018

S. No Name of Activity District Achievement Achievement Achievement

1 CIF Recovery 1

st Cycle

Shikarpur 341,846,625 453,000 342,299,625

Kashmore 274,652,500 38,000 274,690,500

Jacobabad 201,387,430 415,000 201,802,430

Sub Total 817,886,555 906,000 818,792,555

2 CIF Recovery 2

nd Cycle

Shikarpur 216,421,507 2,386,000 218,807,507

Kashmore 143,323,250 1,145,000 144,468,250

Jacobabad 179,963,950 3,793,000 183,756,950

Sub Total 539,708,707 7,324,000 547,032,707

3

CIF Recovery Cumulative (Cumulative 1

st& 2

nd)

Shikarpur 558,268,132 2,839,000 561,107,132

Kashmore 417,975,750 1,183,000 419,158,750

Jacobabad 381,351,380 4,208,000 385,559,380

Sub Total 1,357,595,262 8,230,000 1,365,825,262

4

Amount of CIF Re-disbursement (1

st Cycle)

Shikarpur 291,025,759 453,000 291,478,759

Kashmore 227,966,250 0 227,966,250

Jacobabad 166,879,700 180,000 167,059,700

Sub Total 685,871,709 633,000 686,504,709

5

Amount of CIF Re-disbursement (2

nd Cycle)

Shikarpur 214,921,507 2,386,000 217,307,507

Kashmore 142,645,250 0 142,645,250

Jacobabad 152,621,500 3,344,000 155,965,500

Sub Total 510,188,257 5,730,000 515,918,257

6

Re-Disbursement of CIF Cumulative (1

st& 2

nd

Cycle)

Shikarpur 505,947,266 2839000 508,786,266

Kashmore 370,611,500 0 370,611,500

Jacobabad 319,501,200 3524000 323,025,200

Sub Total 1,196,059,966 6,363,000 1,202,422,966

Districts

CIF eligible HHs PSC

(0-18)

Beneficiaries House holds

New beneficiaries covered during maintenance phase

HH covered through CIF as of

May 2018

Remaining Eligible HHs as of May 18

Shikarpur 47,783 40,239 1,184 41,423 6,360

Kashmore 37,744 35,863 720 36,583 1,161

Jacobabad 40,159 18,371 5,592 23,963 16,196

Total 125,686 94,473 7,496 101,969 23,717

Recovery & Re-disbursement through community Institutions: (involvement of rural women)

After execution of maintenance phase of UCBPRP, the social mobilization teams of all three districts have been proactively engaged and spared much time on the mobilization of masses that the village organizations must have to ensure the 100% recovery of already disbursed CIF under the umbrella of local support organizations in their respective districts. During the regular visits, the teams were significantly facilitated by the senior professionals from the head office as well as district offices on various aspects which has been remained the core concern of rural communities and the priorities of field teams in the recent context of proper recoveries and revolving of CIF amounts.

Now after such sort of facilitation, the outreach and confidence of teams have been enhanced and their interaction with rural communities has also been improved, which resulted in the vital progress of community institutions for recoveries and revolving of CIF. Through these efforts and steps, the sustainability of CIF intervention made in UCBPRP, becoming more assured in rural areas.

Social mobilization teams (SMTs) doing good work, that making possible for the respective LSOs to access each and every VO in their union council and having concrete dialogues with their community institutions and their office bearers for the apparent purpose of CIF recoveries and its effective utilizations, as well as disbursement of same amount in other new households who are willing and has their micro investment plans at household level. Not only this, these LSOs are also making their best, that the incremental amount of CIF may also be provided to such households who have very tangible plans for their livelihood purposes.

In addition to this, LSO office bearers are also paying special attention to the utilization of CIF amount and it has been emphasized on households to make the possible use this amount to open up their livelihood options at the household level. Furthermore, the urge was made in the household to protect and enhance their existing livelihood sources and means with their possible efforts.

The maximum involvement of VOs/LSOs has started to put a positive impact on the recovery and the rural community genuinely realizes that the revolving of CIF amount would have additional benefits. The communities have been consistently unaware about the continuous recycling of CIF amount which had suspended after the dual flooding in 2010 and followed by rainfalls of 2012 in three UCBRPR districts.

Now with this approach the community and the respective LSO office bearers clearly demonstrating their role and getting well involved with their community level institutions for the development of their respective areas through the community is driven initiatives and approaches. The efforts of rural women have created a great zeal in other rural women which, additionally strengthening the women empowerment, and emerging as the effective way to alleviate poverty. The involvement of rural women in various social events, activities programs have significantly restricted the occurrence of violence against women in these three districts.

Events and Initiatives of community institutions (VOs& LSOs)in three districts:

In May-2018, different activities, initiatives, and events are carried out by the rural women from the platform of their community institutions, to foster the development work in gross root levels by promoting the community driven development. The district wise details on those all activities, events, and initiatives by communities given as under:

District Jacobabad:

Initiatives during May 2018

LSO Khubsoorat GB Meeting:

LSO Khubsoorat Awaz (UC Allanpur,

Taluka Garhi Khairo) conducted general

body meeting at VO Qaim Din Tanwri.

Mr. Manzoor Jalbani (District Manager),

Mr. Javed Ahmed (Unit Incharge) and GB

members actively participated. LSO &

SRSO staff discussed progress of LSO, LSO

regular meetings, LSO General Body

meetings, LSO CIF Revolving, Record

Keeping and saving.

MER Head Office Officials participated

in CIF Cheques Disbursement:

CIF cheques were disbursed among 20

Beneficiaries (Amount: 3,000,000) of VO

Muhammad Pahanwar, UC Garhi Chand,

Taluka Jacobabad. Mr.Bakht Ali SPO-

MER, Sona Khan SPO MER SRSO-Head

office) and SMT staff participated in this

activity.

VO Routine meeting and Introduction of

BISP WeT:

A VO routine meeting was conducted in VO

Fazul Brohi, UC Garhi Chand regarding CIF

Recovery, Record Keeping and also DM

SRSO Jacobabad Mr. Manzoor Jalbani

conducted introductory dialogue of BISP

WeT and briefly mentioned aims and

objectives of the BISP WeT program.

CRPs Training:

CRPs training event organized at SRSO District

office Jacobabad and SRSO office Thull, training

was started with the recitation of Holy Quran

verses. After recitation, DM SRSO Manzoor

Jalbani welcomes Ambreen Chandio and CRPs

for participating in the event. These CRPs are

selected from CO/VO & LSO, which aims going to

support in registration of BISP beneficiaries,

enrollment of children, BBC formation.

DM SRSO Manzoor Jalbani overall briefed

about the SRSO introduction and the objective

of the today’s training and further process and

roles & responsibilities of BISP Waseela e

Taleem. He appreciated the efforts of CRPs and

also paid thanks to all guests for timely

participating in this activity.

District Kandhkot:

Initiatives during May 2018

Dr. GR Samejo Team Leader EUCBPRP

participated in LSO Roshni UC Tangwani

BoD meeting. They discussed and planned

for CIF Recovery and Linkages. While

preparation for EU impact assessment of

UCBPRP was main agenda of this LSO

meeting.

DM SRSO Kashmore@Kandhkot Mr. Ahmed

Samejo participated in VOs Meetings and

discussed for CIF Recovery and saving on 02-

05-2018.

On 03-05-2018 DM & DFO SRSO

Kashmore@Kandhkot conducted meeting with

ABL Manager for the activation of VO & LSO

dormant accounts. ABL Manager assured his all

possible support regarding activation of VO &

LSO dormant accounts.

On dated 17-05-2018 at Vo Aqil Sabzoi UC

Haibat LSO Benazir built linkages with PPL-

Pakistan Petroleum Limited welfare trust for

arrangement of mobile medical camp at village.

PPL officials agreed and arranged Mobile

Medical camp for villagers, Where OPD check

up and medicines were provided to patients. VO

members paid thanks to PPL for arranging

Mobile medical camp for poor patients of VO

Aqil Sabzoi.

DM SRSO Kashmore@Kandhkot Mr.

Ahmed Samejo visited VO Muhammad

Afzal Bhangwar regarding CIF Recovery

on dated 05-05-2018. VO members

assured timely submission of CIF

recovery and also decided to collect

saving fees from each VO member

monthly in order to strengthen their

community organizations-COs and

Village Organization VO Muhammad

Afzal Bhangwar.

Video Documentary consultant visited

VO Rasool abad UC Gulwali and

conducted visual interview of Mrs.

Rokeena Shahid LSO Roshni treasurer

on the behalf of successful case study of

road to success, the video documentary

was made by RSPN consultant team on

17 May 2018.

On dated 07-05-2018 participated in

meeting at DC office. Mr. Sarfraz

Channa DECO Quality Education project

pariciapted in coordination meeting at

Deputy Commissioner Office Kandhkot.

On dated 11-05-2018 VO Hurmat Golo

conducted routine meeting with VO and

BDG members. Where DM and SMU

staff participated. VO members

discussed about timely revolve of CIF

and BDG members also presented their

newly made products. SRSO team

appreciated their efforts for poverty

reduction at household level.

LSO Qalandar Shahbaz conducted BoD

meeting. Mr. Ahmed Samejo (District

Manager), Unit staff and GB members

actively participated. LSO & SRSO staff

discussed progress of LSO, LSO regular

meetings, LSO General Body meetings,

LSO CIF Revolving, Record Keeping and

saving on 12-05-2018.

On dated 28-05-2018 CIF data review by

Audit committee team held at district of

SRSO Kandhkot.

On dated 14-05-2018 DM conducted

meeting with LSO Gulshan BoD members

at unit office Kashmore regarding CIF

Recovery and Linkage. LSO BoD members

said that they will start strong coordination

among all VOs for CIF recovery and

revolve, they also ensured that conduct

coordination meetings with other

organizations, Government and Private

sectors for stability of their LSO.

District Kashmore@Kandhkot team started

NAVTTC 2nd batch of phase IV on 28-05-

2018.

On dated 13-05-2018, organized quiz

competition program at Cluster school Wahid

Bux Bijarani, in this program Finance officer

and District admin participated in the last

awards & prizes were distributed among

winners of the competition.

During reporting period New academic

session books were distributed at Cluster

School Wahid Bux Bijarani, Cluster School

Shahzado Bahalkani, Cluster School Wahib

Bux Bijarani.

Coordination meeting was conducted with

TEO Kandh Kot regarding support of

Government Education in Enrollment on 03-

05-2018.

On dated 07-05-2018 DM conducted meeting

with DDO primary to support in Enrollment at

Waseela-e-Taleem program.

During reporting period different activities of

BISP WeT project activities were carried out

with the support of COs/VOs and LSO. CRPs

Identification, BBC formation, Enrollment

Camp, Progress review meeting and

coordination meetings with stakeholders were conducted in order to achieve desired outcomes of the

project. RSPN Cluster II Officials and SRSO head office Officials also become part of BISP Wet activities.

District Shikarpur:

Initiatives during May 2018

LSO Asifa UC Shabirabad Chairperson and

SRSO SMU team members saved village

Qadir Bux Pahore from a big loss by calling fire brigade timely and saved village.

VO Ameer Bux Shujra bilt linkages and arranged one mobile hos[ital camp at VO, Where 200 patients

were treated and medicines were provided to patients and also Mobile hospital was having sugar and

Hepatitis test facility 50 patients Sugar and hepatitis were checked at mobile hospital at doorsteps of

patients.

During reporting period PINS Program

introduction dialogue was conducted at

LSO Ujagar UC Rahimabbad VO

Roshanbabd, LSO Insaf UC Zarkhail at

VO Hasanabad and LSO Awami UC Pir

Bux Shujra VO Kaloo Odhano. Where

PINS staff According to the agenda team

started the dialogue with Recitation of

Holy Quran and LSO Leaders welcomed

the whole Participants and asked team to

introduce their names to the participants.

After that LSO office bearer brief the LSOs

work done by them and invite to team

member for conduct dialogue. Team

member share the meeting objectives to

the participants and also share the discuss

on issues of mal nutrition, its causes,

reasons through brain storming exercise

and through asking questions that could

urge the participants to share their

experiences of mal nutrition and food

insecurity. As the participants’ responses

various they understand the basic cause is

poverty, ignorance, unaware, less

consideration to cleanliness and health,

less concentrate of male to female while

pregnancy, women are deemed less than

male, society generally consider women

less and treat them unequal. Where they

give reason of food insecurity that they

have less opportunity of earning

livelihood, they work on share crop or

work on landlord land. Participants shown

keen interested in appreciated PINs staff

for this new project and ensured their

support with team.

LSO Kiran UC UC Hamayoun

conducted BOD Meeting regarding

CIF revolving and LSO office and LSO

bank account at VO Nizam deen

Bharchond. All BOD members

participated. These agendas were

discussed. LSO Regular meetings,

LSO General Body meeting and

Election, LSO CIF Revolving, LSO

Bank account, LSO office, Activation

of VOs bank accounts. In this meeting

SMU Shikarpur team also participated

and discussed briefly with LSO BOD

Members on mentioned agendas.

SINDH RURAL SUPPORT ORGANIZATION (SRSO)

SRSO Complex,

SHIKARPUR Road,

SUKKUR

Website: www.srso.org.pk