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Introduction |
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HANDS Gender and
Development program addresses the needs of rural community and has long been
articulating as cross cutting theme of organization and its programs, based on
integrated development approach to create an enabling environment to flourish
the skills of women and men and ensure its applicability in development work. |
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| Objectives |
- To form and strengthen the community organizations.
- To mobilize and motivate communities and to promote equity and equality based gender justice in intervention areas of HANDS.
- To enhance skills of COs through training, and establishing entrepreneur center.
- To advocate social issues with all stakeholders and to enhance their capacity to deal with the issues.
- To develop public & private partnership for good governance.
- To facilitate community organization in the process of development.
- To ensure women’s autonomy, access to resources and to empower them in decision making.
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Intervention
Sectors
- Social mobilization
- Capacity Building
- Skills enhancement
- Upliftment of communities economic status.
- Advocacy and networking
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| Projects’ operational under the program |
- Adolescent
Development Project.
- Sustainable Health Services Project.
- Tawana
Pakistan Project.
- RCC-
An Early Childhood Development Project.
- Adolescent Health & Life Skill
Project.
- Social
Mobilization for Micro Financing Project.
- HANDS &
ESRA Adult Literacy Project.
- Universal Primary Education Project.
- Primary
Health Care Extension Project.
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| Strategic steps |
- Identification of communities.
- Situation analysis for need assessment.
- Formation, strengthening and capacity building of
COs through trainings.
- Support initiatives of local communities towards
development.
- Orientation /sensitization of staff and community
regarding Gender & Development.
- Strengthening of networks for upliftment of COs
status.
- Networking with other NGOs, GOs.
- Advocacy on social issues to achieve the vision of
gender and development.
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- Established
& strengthened 1920 COs/ groups with 17727 members.
- Developed
Gender code of conduct
- Developed
Gender policy.
- Updated
CBP Manual.
- Held
3820 meetings with all stakeholders.
- Conducted
two seminars on violence against women, more than 600 participants
attended.
- Organized
a workshop on gender development for internal staff.
- Organized
a two-day workshop on facilitation and presentation skills for NGOs.
- Arranged
national level exposure visit of GAD team.
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Organized world population day.
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Organized rally on peace.
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Arranged two exposure visits for members of WOs.
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Conducted 26 trainings of CBP for men and women
COs.
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Organized women day at Hyderabad.
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Established entrepreneur training center at Hala.
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