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MondayApril 30, 2018

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South Asian Conference on Sanitation The Seventh South Asian Conference on Sanitation, SACOSAN-VII took place from April 11-13, 2018 in Islamabad. The Conference present an important opportunity for members countries to reaffirm their obligations to fulfill the human rights to sanitation and water and their commitment under Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 6). It was also an important opportunity to close the gap in the resources needed to achieve the universal access to sanitation and hygiene and address the equity and sustainability challenges facing the sector. Ms. Ghazala Mansuri,

Ms. Ghazala Mansuri, Lead Economist, World Bank spoke on the occasion and referred the research work was done partly through PPAF.

Zartasha Niazi – C&M

PPAF’s participation in Sustainable Economy ForumThe Sustainable Economy Forum was held in Italy from April 12-13, 2018 and a�ended by eminent entrepreneurs, economists, policy-makers, intellectuals, researchers and social players from across the globe. The San Patrignano Community and Confindustria – the association of manufacturing & service industries in Italy - jointly launched the first edition of the Sustainable Economy Forum to discuss the long term solution for the world most pressing issues. The Sustainable Economy Forum was an opportunity to highlight specific and dedicated topical issues directly related to the public good. Mr. Qazi Azmat Isa, CEO PPAF was invited to participate as a panellist in the roundtable discussion of the forum on Social Impact of Responsible Finance. He highlighted the vision for establishing the most responsible microfinance institution in Pakistan. The Pakistan Microfinance Investment Company– which is aiming to have positive social impact on communities by ensuring transparent and responsible financial mechanisms at all levels. He also spoke about how this new microfinance institution in Pakistan is ensuring relief to the communities and people we wish to serve such as responsible and transparent pricing, grievance redressal mechanism, women inclusion, good governance, credit discipline, client awareness, along with financial performance resulting in a positive social impact of successfully graduating communities out of poverty. During the visit Mr. Qazi Azmat Isa also met with Mr. Giorgio Marrapodi, Director General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs & International Cooperation and Ms.Arancha González, Executive Director of the International Trade Centre and discussed ma�ers of mutual interest.

Lead Economist, World Bank spoke on the occasion and referred the research work was done partly through PPAF. In the wrap up session the biggest gaps identified in south Asia that included the missing WASH policy, no proper financing and absence of regulatory procedures. The delegates across South Asia highlighted the main barriers to financing the universal access to sanitation and hygiene and consider the rationale for enhancing domestic resource mobilisation etc. and recommended key actions for members countries and their cooperating partners.

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Consultative meeting on Barriers to Access to Justice for WomenTabassum Baloch – GenCom

I have participated in consultative meeting on Barriers to Access to Justice for Women in Pakistan, the meeting was around three key objectives 1) Barriers to Access to Justice for Women in Pakistan, 2) Integrating women protection and development programmes in Pakistan with the SDG 5 framework and 3) Development of coordination mechanism among different government department and non-government organisations working for promoting and protecting women rights and their development. This event aimed to bring together all stakeholders, including representatives from Women Police Station Islamabad, Islamabad Women Chamber of Commerce & Industries (IWCCI), Federal Ombudsman, Ministry of Human Rights, National Commission of Human Rights, National Commission on the Status of Women, UN

Women, Saferworld, Oxfam, PPAF, US Embassy, USAID, Female Governed Dispute Resolution Center, Jinnah Centre for the Rule of Law, Foundation for Fundamental Rights, The City School, Peace & Development Foundation, District Legal Empowerment Commi�ee, SAHIL, Enterprise & Development Consulting, and many gender justice and rule of law experts including former Secretary Law & Justice Commission of Pakistan participated in the discussion and agreed to form a coordination mechanism/forum working for gender justice and women empowerment at federal level by fostering closer collaboration among government and non-government programmes/initiatives working on the empowerment of women and girls as well as to work for the development of national prevention strategy.

Ms. Tabassum Baloch, Senior Manager/ Gender Coordinator represented PPAF at consultative meeting on Barriers to Access to Justice for Women in Pakistan.

Mr. Qazi Azmat Isa, CEO PPAF addressed at Sustainable Economy Forum in Italy.

The community members were oriented on revenue collection and record keeping ensuring sustainability of the installed solar mini grid system. The training sessions were conducted by Syed Naeem Haider Zaidi, AM HRE.

KfW visit to district AbbottabadShaheen Akhter – LACIP

LACIP arranged a field visit for KfW & invited Mr. Shaukat Ali, Sector Coordinator - Governance, Peace & Rural Electrification to witness the CPI projects including street pavement & link roads being implemented by HADAF in three villages of union council Bagh, District Abbo�abad. Mr. Shaukat Ali along with Mr. Mohammad Nadeem, Sr. GM-LACIP and Mr. Kashan Najeeb, AM-LCAIP were part of the team. The objective of the visit was to assess the quality of work and O & M being done by local community. During the visit, the officials observed that the quality of schemes were as per standard specifications and being looked a�er by the local stakeholders.

Awareness sessions on Solar Mini Grid SystemsSyed Naeem Haider Zaidi -HRE

The end user awareness sessions for installed solar mini grid system were conducted in village Shah Hassan Khel of district Lakki Marwat with the community members on April 13, 2018. The objective of the training sessions was to create awareness among the users of community on installed solar PV systems and provide basic knowledge about the usage and sustainability so that the community members can avail the optimum advantage of the installed solar systems for longer time. During the sessions, billing mechanism was also discussed with the community members to orient them on revenue collection and record keeping for ensuring sustainability of the installed system.

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Q : How was your experience at ARE Awards ceremony?A : Alliance for Rural Electrification (ARE) works as a forum to advance access to clean energy and energy services in developing and emerging countries, its members consist of whole value chain of renewable energy sector. I recently represented PPAF at the 4th ARE Energy Investment Forum cum Award ceremony held in Catania, Italy where PPAF was awarded for its renewable energy initiative. There, I also got an opportunity to network with several stakeholders engaged with decentralized/distributed clean energy projects and share PPAF’s contribution towards poverty alleviation in the off-grid rural se�lements.The Business Matchmaking Day –featured a series of panel discussions with selected development finance institutions (DFIs) and private sector representatives. Over 135 participants took part in more than 450 B2B meetings where participants had chance to meet with potential business partners.

Q : How PPAF Renewable Energy programme is different from other countries?A : PPAF’s RE programme is unique because in our case ownership of the project lies with the end users (community). The community institutions have project, audit and operation & maintenance (O&M) commi�ees who identify their needs, implement the project and take responsibility of its operation and maintenance. Depending on size of the project, the O&M commi�ee is transformed into a community owned public utility that owns the system/equipment, operate the plant, decides the tariff, collects the revenue from connected households and hire services of a trained operator. The local community uses the revenue for project’s sustainability.

Q : Tell us about future strategy for RE implementation & sustainability?A : As part of future strategy, efforts are underway to transform knowledge and experience gained in implementation of off-grid clean energy projects into sustainable and replicable business model that can help in empowering beneficiary communities through productive use of renewable energy.

Mr.Nafees Ahmed Khan � General ManagerRenwable Energy (RE)

A Learning & Sharing session was held at PPAF in connection with the Earth Day. Ms. Jubilee Bano, a development practitioner shared her experience in managing a grassroot level initiative for solid waste management in Lower Dir. Under the initiative community groups were formed focusing women and children. Awareness sessions were conducted for them on environment protection through safe disposal of solid waste. The groups were linked to the local scrap collectors and were sensitized to contact the municipal administration for ensuring collection of waste from the houses. The communities are now living in a cleaner and healthier environment.

Learning & Sharing session on Earth DayRaabiya Babar – C&M

Ms. Jubilee Bano, a development practitioner shared her experience on managing a grassroot level initiative for solid waste management with team PPAF during the learning & sharing session.

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Q : What does innovation mean in PPAF’s context?A : Innovation is the practical implementation of an invention, while invention is the first occurrence of an idea for a new product or process. Basically, innovation is the a�empt to carry invention out in to practice. Within PPAF, we define innovation as an improvement in any process or product allowing itself to ensure be�er service delivery, solutions and products for ending poverty, restoring hope and securing the future.

Q : How do you envision the practical implementation of innovation within PPAF?A : Practically, we see innovation as a two-stream work at PPAF. We will be sourcing internal and external innovation. Currently, we are focusing on mechanisms for external sourcing, such as building collaborations with different organisations and conducting researches. In the next financial year, we will start working on internal sourcing of innovation.

Q : You mentioned collaborations; can you elaborate what these collaborations are?A : We are currently engaging different organisations for collaborations, such as the National Incubation Centers (NICs), universities, accelerators and donor bodies. One example of this is our partnership with NIC Karachi, where we will explore ways to take SDGs focused startups to our communities for testing products and solutions for poverty alleviation. Another side of this will be connecting our communities based young persons with business ideas to NIC Karachi for incubation.

Ms. Neelam AzmatInnovative Intervention Specialist

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&Training on Gender and Organizational Change atthe International Training Centre of ILO in Turin, Italy

Gender & organizational changeA9011195 - Turin (Italy), 9-13 April 2018

A GenCom team comprising Ms. Summaira Faisal, Mr. Muhammad Umair Bu� and Ms. Raabiya Babar recently a�ended a five days training on Gender and Organisational Change at the International Training Centre of ILO in Turin, Italy. The exposure enabled the participants to understand change management and decision making processes and how they may affect gender issues within the organisation. Some of the topics covered during the training included context and concepts of managing change, understanding barriers to gender equality, role of individual in promoting change and leading organisational change to gender equality. The training provided participants a seven step roadmap for promoting gender equality in the organisation with establishing readiness to change as the first step. The trainers stressed that gender equality and effectiveness go together. They discussed organisational models and their characteristics and deliberated on different approaches and tools to engendering organisational change. The trainers shared that bringing about an organisational change with respect to gender equality is not something easy to achieve, also it is important to first clearly identify the desired or the anticipated change, followed by identification of agents of change who could lead the change process. However, like all other processes the organisational change process also needs constant monitoring to help understand that what needs to be sustained and what needs to be changed.

G E N D E R B A R O M E T E RThe Gender Barometer is our new initiative that aims at sharing gender disaggregated trends and challenges from various socio-economic sectors. This time we are sharing with you the gender-wise student enrolment statistics at various levels in educational institutions of Pakistan.

According to ‘Pakistan Education Statistics 2016-17’ by the Academy of Educational Planning and Management (AEPAM), the out of School Children have increased from 22.6 Million (2015-16) to 22.8 Million (2016-17).

55%45%Primary

56%44%Middle

58%42%High

61%39%Higher Secondary

54%46%Pre-Primary

GENDER WISE DISTRIBUTION OF ENROLMENT

The gender wise distribution of enrolment shows that the percentage of females enrolled is less than male students at every level (Pre-Primary-Higher Secondary).

2,029,2933,031,511

Primary(Age 5.9 +)

3,142,558

Middle (Age 10-12+)

2,424,120

High (Age 13-14+)

3,087,234

Higher Sec (Age 15-16 +)

3,371,612

2,553,863

3,204,111

There are more females out of school at all educational levels as compared to males (aged 5-16).

PAKISTAN - OUT OF SCHOOL CHILDREN BY GENDER

LACIP-II signs FinancingAgreement with SABAWON

A small ceremony was held at PPAF office to sign a financing agreement between PPAF and SABAWON under LACIP-II. The ceremony was a�ended by PPAF management, LACIP team and SABAWON

Asadullah Saleem– LACIP

officials. The agreement is for implementing ID, CPI and LEP interventions in four union councils of district Lakki Marwat. The agreement is initially for design phase of the project. During this preparatory phase, social mobilisation activities and proposals for CPI and LEP component would be completed. The agreement is for period of nine months completing on December 31, 2018. With signing of this agreement, LACIP second phase has formally started. Mr. Qazi Azmat Isa, CEO PPAF and Mr. Muhammad Tariq, ED SABAWON signed the agreement for

implementation of LACIP-II in Lakki Marwat.

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PPAF and UNHCR Pakistan have joined hands to take forward the poverty graduation approach with the poorest members of the Afghan refugee population in an effort to graduate them up the poverty scales and simultaneously providing sustainable livelihoods for them and their families. PPAF Projects unit conducted two days orientation workshop for Youth Organisation at Que�a followed by another for CERD staff at Swabi to acquaint them on the implementation phase of UNHCR funded project “Poverty Graduation Pilot for Afghan Refugee families in District Pishin and Swabi”. The event aimed at orienting them on project goals and outputs, its key components and implementation approach. A total of 22 staff members from both of the partner organisations were trained in the two districts. Besides project staff, core staff members from the finance and procurement units of the partner organisation also participated in two events to clarify their role in the

Ishtiaq Ahmed – PPAF Projects

Orientation on Poverty Graduation Pilot for Afghan Refugee families

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Members of the ISO & ESM , C&M and HR carried out immersion visit at the Dhero Village in Swat on 24th, April, 2018. During the visit, the officials met with members of the local community, visited the school, mosque and community medical unit.

The village Dehro is situated in Union Council Bar Aba Khel in Tehsil Kabal, Swat and comprises of 200 households. The community members from Dhero explained that the construction of roads by PPAF and their partner organisation LASOONA has improved their ability to transport their agricultural produce to the market.

The PPAF team learned that people are more engaged and organised and looking forward to resolve their issues including tackling water shortage and conservation of trees in the area to prevent adverse climatic effects affecting the area due to deforestation. Furthermore, the local people now have a be�er understanding for the need to educate their children, including both boys and girls. There is currently a demand by the local community to have a middle school for girls in the village, since the nearest middle school is quite far away.

Another positive aspect discussed during the visit was inclusion of women in the local community with respect to addressing their needs and providing solutions to their problems.

Immersion visit to Kabal, Swat Farshad Iqbal – C&M

World Environment Day is the most important day for encouraging worldwide awareness and action for the protection of our environment. With “Beat Plastic Pollution” as the theme for this year, the Communications & Media team in collaboration with the ESM & ISO unit conducted an activity at Asogay Government Primary School, Swat to create awareness among children to conserve the environment and to plant trees to fight the impact of global warming and climate change. 20 primary level students from Asogay Government Primary School participated in the activity, where they were given a brief overview of the impact of global warming and climate change by Mr. Tariq Ashraf, GM - ISO & ESM a�er which Ms. Sana Saeed, AM - C&M, Mr. Rehan Uddin Khilji, SME - ISO & ESM, Mr. Farshad Iqbal, SME- C&M, Ms. Rafea Ahmed, ME - HR conducted the activity with children to create earth pots from used plastic bo�les, negating the idea of reusing plastic bo�les for drinking purpose which is hazerdous for health.

World Environment Day- Beat Plastic Pollution Sana Saeed – C&M

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