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END HONOR CRIME Sohail Manzoor

Programe Manager

Social and Human Protection

National Rural Support Programme, Islamabad, Pakistan

Outline

• Introduction to NRSP

• Overview of the project

• Challenges

• Key Achievements

• Lesson Leant

• Recommendations

National Rural Support Programe

NRSP

• Largest Not for Profit Development Organization – setup

by Government of Pakistan 1992.

• Approach ; Social Mobilization and Community

Participation

• Presence in 56 districts allover Pakistan

• Working for Poverty Reduction and improvement in quality

of life

• Integrated and multi sector interventions

INTRODUCING | NATIONAL RURAL SUPPORT PROGRAMME

HARNESSING PEOPLES’ POTENTIAL

NRSP Programme Districts

56 Districts

Gwadar

Turbat

Awaran

Khuzdar

Panjgur

Chagai

Quetta

Zhob*

BALOCHISTAN

Mardan

Gilgit

Fata

Malakand Shangla

Swat

Ghizer

Astore

Chitral

Rahimyar khan

Attock

Lodhran

Vehari Multan

Faisalabad

Toba Tek Singh

Sahiwal

Khushab

Mianwali

Bhakkar

Chakwal

Bahawalpur

PUNJAB

Lahore

Rajanpur

Karachi

Thatta

Dadu

Badin Tharparkar

Mandi

Bahauddin

Umarkot

Sanghar

Shaheed

Benarabad

SINDH

Matiari

Jamshoro

Hyderabad

Mirpur khas

Tando m. Khan

Tando allayar

Skardu

Diamer

Kotli

Poonch Sudhnuti

Bhimber

Mirpur

Bagh

Muzaffarabad

Neelum

JAMMU & KASHMIR Disputed Territory

GILGIT BALTISTAN

Rawalpindi

Jhelum

Sialkot

Gujranwala

Jhang

Sargodha

Pershawar

Khanewal Pakpattan

Dera ghazi khan

Muzaffargarh

Lasbela

Nowshera

KPK

Dera Ismail khan

Islamabad

Charsadda

Swabi

Sukkur

Steps undertaken Social Mobilization

• Collection of Benchmark data: “Preparation of a Village Profile

• Poverty Score Card

• Formation of local NGO (CBO) - “The Community Organization”

• Preparation of Portfolio of Opportunities

• Household Level

• Group Level and

• Village Level

NRSP’s Thematic Areas

• Institutional Development and Advocacy

• Social Protection and Humanitarian Works

• Livelihoods

• Enterprise Development for Poverty Alleviation

• Education, Health and Sanitation

Key Statistics

0.15 M Community Organizations

2.30 M HHs members of Cos (52% are women members)

4.29 M Loans (37% loans to women)

4.09 M Beneficiaries of Micro Health Insurance (37.3% women)

2.02 M Members trained under Human Resource Development

Programe (53% women)

1.09 M Beneficiaries under Community infrastructure Dev. schemes

2.27 M HHs benefited from Natural Resource Mgt. Programe

• Presently NRSP is implementing 59 projects in various district with various

donor agencies. The total value of the projects are 11.2 Billions

End Honor Crimes Project

Honor Crimes

Honor crimes are acts of violence, usually murder, committed by male family members against female family members, who are held to have brought dishonor upon the family.

Criminal law amendment act 2004

• The Criminal Law (Amendment) Act amends Sections

299, 302, 305, 308, 310, 311, 316, 324, 337, 338 of the

Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and Sections 345, 401 of the

Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) to ensure more

effective trial of cases of the so-called honour killings.

• The Act also inserts a new section (310A), which

penalizes giving of females in marriage as part of a

compromise to settle a dispute between two families or

groups with hard punishment may extend to 10 years but

shall not be less than three years.

Project Overview;

Objectives

• To Assess the perception of local community, lawyers,

judges, Police and other stakeholders about honour

crimes in project districts

• To create awareness among the stakeholders about end

honour crime through training and promotional material

• To aware the stakeholders about criminal law amendment

act 2004

• To get aware the stakeholder to play their role to end

honour crime

• Formulation of policy recommendations through

consultative process

Project Overview

Implementation Partners

• National Commission on the Status of Women

• National Rural Support Programe

• Rozan

Project Duration

• April 2009 to June 2010

Project Districts

• Rajan Pur (South Punjab)

• Mir Pur Khas (Sindh)

Project Overview

Project Clients

• Local communities

• Law enforcement agencies

• Judiciary

• Lawyers

• Doctors

• Representative of civil society organization

• Human Rights activists

• Religious Leaders

• College girls / teachers

• Opinion makers and local political activists

Project Overview

Project deliverable

• Benchmark assessment on honour crime at district

Rajanpur ( Punjab )& Mirpur Khas ( Sindh)

• Training need assessment – all stakeholders

• Design of training programme

• Development of Training modules

• Development of IEC Material

• Conduction to TOT for Project Staff

• Implementation of Training Programme

• Interfaces at regional and national level

• Policy recommendation

Challenges

Challenges

• The project faced challenge as to date no project has

been undertaken for the purpose of ending honor crimes

in Pakistan, this project was the first of its type, and

• The issue of Honor Crime itself and selected project area

was also very sensitive (District Rajan Pur and Mirpur

Khas).

• Natural disaster - Heavy Floods in 2010.

• Collection of information about unreported honor crimes

• Bringing the all stakeholders on one table

• Poor Law and Order situation in Project districts

especially in Tribal areas of Rajan Pur.

Challenges

• Project faced many challenges not at the implementation

level but also at start;

• Project was designed and signed in 2007 and start in 2009. due to

high inflation, currency exchange gain and loss rate, the total value

of the project budget reduced significantly.

• initially project was designed for two years but due to lengthy

procedures in fulfilling some basic requirements of the donor, the

project delayed and then duration reduced from 24 to 15 months.

• Lengthy procurement procedures of donor agency causes delay in

appointments of project staff

• During implementation phase, project also faced issues regarding

delay in release of funds.

Challenges

• Significantly low understanding on Criminal law

amendment act 2004 of all Stakeholders

• Women participation in project activities at field level

especially in tribal areas.

• Acceptance and reorganization of “honor killing ” as a

crime by the community and local activists.

• Participation of officials from law enforcement agencies in

training because of shortage of staff.

• Identification of gaps in criminal law amendment act 2004

and policy recommendations

Challenges

• Although project duration and budget reduced by the

donor but NRSP did not change the number of project

activities / interventions, NRSP contributed significantly

to accomplished the project interventions in its original

design.

Achievements

Achievements

Staff Training completed

• Project management got scholarship to attend an

international training “ tackling discriminations at work

place” in Turin, Italy. And trained three managers.

• Professional staff trained through project orientation

training and subsequent training of trainers at local level.

Staff Training

Achievements

Baseline Survey conducted

• Benchmark assessment on honour crime at district

Rajanpur ( Punjab )& Mirpur Khas ( Sindh) conducted by

project team

• Training need assessment conducted for all stakeholders

• Tailor Made training programme for community , public

and private stakeholders designed.

Baseline Findings

Honor Crimes

Types of Honor Crimes

• Domestic Violence

• Karokari

• Wani / Sawara

• Suicide

• Murder

• Sale

• Physical Punishment

• Mental Torture

• Sexual harassment

Major causes of honor

crime

• Marriages

• Early marriages

• Wattasatta

• Forced marriages

• Love marriages

• Property Disputes

• Political Conflicts

• Poverty

• Lack of Education

Reporting Issue

Reported cases

2%

Cases not reported

98%

Reporting of Honour Crimes

Stakeholders Knowledge about Criminal

Law amendment Act 2004

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

Community members

Religious Leaders

Police officer Judges Advocates Representatives of civil society organizations

Doctors Tecahers

Yes

No

Honour Crimes – Offense Committed

Brother 21%

Father 15%

Mother 10%

Uncle 12%

cousin 11%

Unknown 3%

Relatives 9%

Beloved 11%

spouse 7%

Self 1%

Honour Crimes

Achievements

Training and Advocacy Material developed

• Training Manual Developed for the capacity building and

awareness of communities

• Training Manual Developed for the capacity building and

awareness of public and private stakeholders

• IEC Material Developed for all stakeholders

• Training of Trainers Conducted on training manuals and

use of IEC material;

IEC Material and Training Manuals

Baseline Report and Evaluation

Achievements

Capacity building and awareness programme

implemented

• 100% planned training events conducted with

communities in both districts

• 100% planned training events conducted with officials of

public and private institutions in the both project districts

• 100% awareness meetings conducted in the both project

districts by using IEC Material

Training of law enforcement agencies

Taking oath - No more honor Crimes

Achievements

Provincial and National Consultation

• 100% provincial consultation workshops conducted

• National consultation workshop conducted

• Policy recommendations developed in the light of

recommendations received during provincial and national

consultation workshops

Policy Recommendation

Policy Recommendations

Project has developed policy recommendations on

criminal law amendment act 2004 and its effective

implementation through national and provincial

consultation workshops, which includes

• Role of Government Departments in ending crimes in the

name of Honor

• Role of Law Enforcement Agencies

• Role of Judiciary

• Role of Civil Society

• Role of Media

• Capacity Building requirement.

Policy Recommendations

• Despite the acceptance of the illegality of honor killings

and honor crimes, there remain a number of fundamental

issues in the Act, due to which the Act remains largely

ineffective and does not provide relief to the victims, as

civil society and human rights activists had envisioned

and urged. The gaps in the Act are summarized below.

• Punishment for honor crimes is not mandatory, which makes the

purpose of introducing the legislation redundant.

• The provisions of waiver and compound ability, which almost

certainly cover the way for compromises, particularly since most

crimes of this nature take place within close members of the family,

remain valid in cases of honor crimes. [No exclusion of the

provisions of Sections 309, 310, 311, 338E PPC in the case of

honour crimes]

Lesson Learnt

Lesson learnt

• Integrate the learning of this project with social

mobilization training in RSPs for awareness

• Need to utilize training modules and IEC material

developed under this project at larger scale.

• Need to work on occupational health issue of worker

women (especially women working in agri sector and

industry )

• Although honour crime is the social issue and directly linked with the mind-set of the society so there is need to change the mid set of people through social mobilization.

• Poverty may be the main cause of such offense therefore the activities should devise in which income, education and health of people could be gear up.

• NCSW should play the vital role in implementation of the criminal law amendment 2004. The programme should arrange for the all stakeholder across Pakistan. The commission should establish the office at district level for providing the guidance of public officer who directly or indirectly involve in the implementation of criminal law amendment 2004

Lesson learnt

• Multi - sectoral approach should follow by the NCSW and

coordinate different government institution which can

reduce the honour related crimes.

• Human rights, women rights, should includes in the

educational curriculum so that children could aware their

rights and take care when they reach the adult age.

• Promote Public Private Partnership to help in raising

awareness about gender issues and ensuring that the

basic human rights of women are respected.

Lesson learnt

Recommendation of Evaluation Report

• Curricula at the professional training academies should be

updated to include the information on latest laws passed

by the assembly, especially police and judicial training

academies need to get this information.

• Need to scale up this project, this is a worthwhile task to

eliminate violence against women from the society

• Law related to women should be translated into simple

and understandable languages

• The commission (NCSW) should establish its sub offices

at district level to facilitate and spread its work on the local

level

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