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Objective:
Poverty reduction in the rainfed areas of the Punjab through improved livelihoods
opportunities and governance.
Sponsoring Agencies
Planning and Development Department; (P&D), Government of the Punjab, through
Agency for Barani Areas Development (ABAD), Rawalpindi.
Executing Agency
ABAD through Project Management Unit (PMU) SLBAP.
Implementing Agencies
i. Districts Governments and respective district line agencies.
ii. Area Electricity Companies (concerned)
iii. Union councils (UCs), Citizens Community Boards (CCBs), Non-Governmental
Organizations (NGOs), Community Based Organizations (CBOs) and Community
Organizations (COs) and Women Community Organizations (WCOs).
iv. The Secretaries of the Government of the Punjab of following departments
a. Agriculture Department
b. Livestock and Dairy Development
c. Forestry Wildlife and Fisheries Department
d. Social Welfare / Community Organization Department
e. Communications & Works Department
f. Literacy & Non Formal Basic Education Department
g. Local Government & Rural Development
Immediate Objectives :
To improve socioeconomic status of poor population through better natural resources
management through improved productive, physical, and social infrastructure
identified by the elected UCs members and the civil society;
To reduce poverty of the marginal and poor population through targeted community
based initiatives and support to off-farm income generation activities
To improve the literacy and level of skills through vocational training, specially to the
Project Location:
The proposed project will be implemented in 206 predominantly barani UCs located in 18
tehsils spread over ten districts of the Punjab. The Union Councils with at least 75% area
under barani cultivation have been selected for project support. The location and number of
selected UCs is presented in Table 1.
TABLE 1:
Serial
1.
2.
3.
4.
Number of UC
9
18
7
7
5.
6.
7.
Sialkot
Narowal
Khushab
8.
Mianwali
9.
Bhakkar
10.
Layyah
Total
Kharian
Pasrur
Narowal
Khushab
Noorpur
Mianwali
Isakhel
Piplan
Bhakkar
Darya Khan
Kalurkot
Mankera
Layyah
Choubara
Karor
28
23
29
19
10
12
13
9
1
2
6
6
5
2
206
Project Components:
The primary lesson learned in past and on-going project in barani areas is that, while there
are many technical interventions, which can be used to alleviate poverty and enhance the
quality of life in barani areas, the key to success is to generate ownership of interventions
by the beneficiaries themselves. To a large extent this means that the beneficiaries should
have a major role in both selecting and implementing project financed interventions, which
they themselves see as important in improving their livelihood.
A corollary of this approach is that, if beneficiaries are to be involved in selecting their
preferred interventions then it is very difficult to determine a priori, what these
interventions might be and thus to quantify exactly what activities and expenditures will be
undertaken during project implementation. On the other hand, it is possible to identify
rather closely the number and type of beneficiaries to be involved in project activities.
Based on past experience, two general types of intervention are envisaged: (i) medium
scale public sector interventions such as the provision of rural access roads, electricity,
water storage or conveyance structures, range improvement, erosion control, social
forestry, and the provision of social infrastructure and (ii) fairly small scale but intensive
activities which can be undertaken by small community groups, such as livestock health
improvement, the promotion of improved agricultural practices, the provision of dug wells,
on-farm water management and conservation activities and training program in literacy or
non-farm livelihood activities.
Under current circumstances in Punjab province it is most appropriate for the former type
of investment to be identified at the village and UC level and implemented by the District
Governments and govt. of Punjab and for the latter type to be identified and implemented
within communities with the assistance of a qualified and experienced RSP. The proposed
Project will thus consist of two main components; a UC Development Component (UCDC)
designed to identify and implement demand driven medium scale interventions and a
Targeted Poverty Alleviation (TPA) designed to scale-up on-going poverty targeted
activities currently being undertaken by the Rural Support Programmes (RSPs) to a greater
or lesser degree within barani communities of the project area. These two main
components will be supplemented by support components aimed at assisting over all
project management, providing technical support to the UCs in project identification,
proposal preparation and monitoring: enhancing the capacity of the district line agencies to
assist with project implementation, and literacy eradication. The project components thus
will be as follows:
1
the RSP, NGO or local company will act in an advisory capacity at both the district and the
UC level to assist in the implementation of the component. The role of the these advisors
will be, firstly to help the District Administration and the Ucs administration to understand
the Project concept, secondly, to assist in the preparation and evaluation of the proposals,
and, thirdly to assist in implementation supervision of project interventions.
Implementation will be undertaken under the district technical line agency staff. The staff
and their offices will be provided technical and logistic support under the Project as
appropriate, for the interventions being undertaken. Agencies to be supported will include
the district departments of agriculture, livestock, and dairy development communications
and works (C&W), forestry, Community development and soil conservation. Some
interventions such as rural electrification and range management improvement will entail
non-devolved functions. For these relevant provincial or national agency will be retained by
the district Govt. to under take implementation.
seed multiplication by selected farmers within community groups. ABAD will directly
implement the agriculture research component. A mechanism for targeting agricultural
research to the needs of communities is out lined at Appendix B.
Subcomponent 1.3: Off-farm income generation
Improvements to off farm income in employment and small and micro business can also
result in major benefits to the population of Barani Areas. Under this component, the
project will provide funding and consultancy to the two RSP's working in project area to
change the current focus on vocational training to a demand based employer linked effort
in partnership with the government vocational training agency Technical Education and
Vocational Training Authority (TEVTA) and other vocational training providers with whom
the RSP's already are in partnership. The project will assist RSP's to develop entrepreneur
attitudes and small business management training linking the RSP's to the internationally
known programs. In trades where self-employment and small business is possible
vocational training will be linked to entrepreneurship training, small business training and
micro finance as well as follow up business development services.
District Offices
Arshad Waraich
District Project Manager Sialkot
Muhammad Saghir
District Project Manager Narowal
Mohammad Rehan Nabi
District Project Manager Gujrat
Dr. Tahir Ismail
District Project Manager Jhelum
Abdul Ahad Malik
District Project Manager Mianwali
Naseer Abbas
District Project Manager Bhakkar
Consultants:
Richard Bond
International Project management Specialist (IPMS)
Ejaz Ahmad
National Consultant Community Development NC(CD)
Consultant Firms:
curriculum development for women's literacy training through the promotion of livelihood
skills, as well as non-formal education. It will also provide teacher training in the use of
the curriculum materials
The activities will be aimed directly at small groups of between 10 and 15 women
participants. Under the supervision of the RSP staff working at each UC, local NGOs will be
recruited to identify particularly vulnerable and poverty-affected groups and to organize
Women's Community Organizations (WCOs) among them.. As groups are formed the
methodologies worked out under the LSTNETA will be applied to a combined program of
skills development and literacy eradication. Skills to be emphasized will include such
activities as small-scale domestic livelihood enterprises such as livestock raising, market
and kitchen gardening, small scale handicrafts, food preparation and tailoring as well as
basic skill such as household health and sanitation, child care, dietary improvement and
food preservation and basic household finances. The particular skills to be learned will be
decided upon by the groups themselves. Support for group formation and supervision will
be financed by the project.
One of the roles of the RSP will be to provide linkages to government agencies, which
provide advice and undertake programs in the areas of skill development selected by the
group members. Another will be to establish links to rural finance agencies, which may be
able to provide funding for enterprise development. If suitable, the WCO's will be turned
into borrowers' groups for financing provision by rural finance agencies. This possibility
may prove an incentive for group formation in the first place and also a very real incentive
for literacy promotion.