LACIP

Case Studies

Small and Medium

Infrastructure
Livelihood Support & Promotion of Small Community Infrastructure Project

The Shama of Majokey

The program Livelihood Support & Promotion of Small Community Infrastructure Project (LACIP) is co-financed by the Federal Republic of Germany through KfW. The total Project cost is 31.5 Million Euros and is being executed by Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) from April 2012 to December 2015. LACIP targets 127 Union Councils in 7 target Districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa i.e. Buner, Charsadda, DI Khan, Swabi, Chitral, Haripur and Nowshera.

Background and Identification

Village Majokey is one of the villages of Union Council- MC- 2 Parang of Charsadda. It comprises of 280 households and a total population of 2,520. Majority of the population resides in the main village, whereas some of the farmers are living in small hamlets on agriculture fields. Majority of the population comes under the category of ultra poor and their main source of income comes from working as private servants, farmers, driving taxi/chingchi and daily wages labors. The flood of 2010 severely hit the area and affected the village communications system as well as completely destroyed the existed drinking water supply and sanitation system. Women and children had to walk several kilometers to bring water from alternate sources, which was a cumbersome task on its own. According to the situational analysis carried out, major problems of the area were identified which included lack of drinking water supply schemes, unpaved streets, drainage and sanitation issues, lack of link roads and lack of water availability for irrigation purposes. The lack of health care facilities and no proper arrangements of wastewater and solid waste disposal paved the way for risk of water borne diseases and other seasonal diseases i.e. malaria, diarrhea and skin infections.

Process
The targeted community approached LACIPs Partner Organization SPADO for registration and formed a Male Community Organization named Shama constituting 23 members along with a president and a general secretary. The Community Organization developed a village development plan, which highlighted a drinking water scheme (DWSS) as one of their priorities. Shama forwarded a resolution to LACIP, along with technical and financial assistance needed for the DWSS scheme. The Partner Organizations social and technical team proceeded and visited the site for socio economic survey before implementation of the project. After the approval of PPAF, the Community Organization was intimated to open a bank account where 15% of the total cost of the scheme was borne by the community and 85% paid by PPAF. In order to ensure smooth implementation of the scheme, the Community Organization constituted three different committees, project committee, audit committee and maintenance committee. The role of these committees was to check the quality of the work, transparency and ensure the maintenance of the scheme.

Implementation and Impact

LACIPs Partner Organization proceeded with the implementation of 6 environmental friendly small and medium infrastructure schemes of Hand Pumps in the village, which are being maintained by the community. In totality, the direct and indirect beneficiaries from these 6 hand pumps are 280 Households of village Majokey.

I have no words to express my happiness when heard about the drinking water supply schmes in our village. I got membership in community organization and upon the consensus of neighbors I requested SPADO to install the scheme near to our house because of my disability. Earlier, it was very difficult to fetch water from far distances. After decreased work load, I have enrolled my two daughters in nearby government school.

Begum Bibi - Community Organization Member Shama

Small and Medium

Infrastructure