Thursday 29 November 2012

Permanent One room shelter for flood affected population in Charsadda Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa
1st February 2011 To 31st December 2011


The worst floods in
the living history of the country hit the country in monsoon 2010. The floods
left millions of people across the country homeless. To respond to the needs of
the flood affected population for shelter FRD started construction of 1000
permanent rooms accompanied by a kitchen and wash room for the vulnerable
families in district Charsadda. The Project was supported by UNHCR with funding
from Japanese Government. The methodology of the project implementation had
been involvement of the beneficiaries in the decision making process. In each
village of intervention FRD formed one community organization of men and one
community organization of women. Both the organizations were provided
orientation on vulnerabilities and were asked to identify the vulnerable
families in the village who need shelter support. Both the organizations
prepared an independent list of the deserving beneficiaries and handed it over
to the field staff of FRD. In the follow up Field staff of FRD carried out a
door to door assessment of the identified beneficiaries and corrected if there
had been any vulnerable beneficiary left out. The door to door assessment of
FRD team members was meant to bring the neutrality and impartiality to the assessment
as well as verification of the assessments by the community. After the
beneficiaries selection the technical team of FRD provides technical guidance
and lay out for shelter construction. The shelter construction requires
contribution from beneficiaries in the form of unskilled labor and some
material below the plinth level. FRD provides material and skilled labor. The
design of all the shelters comply with basic disaster risk reduction measure
such as raised plinth level, framed structure and capacity building of the
beneficiaries in disaster risk reduction.

Keeping in view the dire need for the shelter in the area, and the progress of
FRD on the shelter, FRD has renewed its agreement with UNHCR, whereby UNHCR
supported an additional 700 families as well with regard to their
shelter. So total number of beneficiaries families for this project turns to be
1700 with a population of about 10,068 individuals. In all the selected 100% of
the women headed, Child headed and physically handicapped headed households
have been assisted.



Before closing of the
Project FRD had received so many requests from poor and vulnerable families who
could not receive the assistance due to scarcity of resources and a huge need.
FRD had identified some savings in its various heads and communicated with
UNHCR to allow for construction of additional shelter 43 for the
vulnerable families. UNHCR people were kind enough to allow for additional
construction of shelters and community infrastructure in two villages

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