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Project Area Map4

Project Steering Structure5

Forward6

1. Back Ground of KP- Southern Area Development Project7
2. Executive summary and progress8

1. Establishment of PMU and DIUs and Hiring of staffs for KP-SADP8
2. Orientation workshop for the staff of KP-SADP and district Line 9

Department of Lakki Marwat, Tank and DI Khan

1. Coordination with Divisional and district Administration at field level.9
2. Linkages with the stake holders9
3. KP-SADP web site developed10
4. Approval of work plan for the year 2013-2014 for KP-SADP10
5. Selection of Union Council for the implementation of project activities11

1. Community Development Support12
2. Community Driven Support14
3. Base Line survey in the selected UCs in the project operational district15
4. Project human resources and procurement 16
5. Monitoring and Evaluation17
6. Annexure-I -Status of staff of PMU and DIUs19
7. Annexure-II- Training/ Workshop Organized20
8. Annexure-III- List of Selected Union Councils for year 2013-14 21

for interventions

1. Annexure-IV. Status of procurement of Goods As of 30th Se:201322

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Project Area Map

I am extremely delighted to share that KP- SADP has successfully completed and achieved the targets set during the quarter from July- September 2013.

The Southern Area Development Project (SADP) is one initiative of the Government of KhyberPakhtunkhwa, provisioning peace, justice and socio-economic development through good governance, for the three least developed and crisis hit districts of KP i.e. DIKhan,Tank and Lakki Marwat. Undoubtedly,KP-SADP supports the government’s strategic objective to strengthen on-and off-farm income generating activities for the southern most districts of the KP province. These districts are characterized by poverty and poor development indicators and faced the brunt of militancy crisis. A large population of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) arrived in these districts has further burdened the limited economic and natural resources available to the local populations. The KP-SADP will directly respond to the needs of the local population for improved productivity through sustainable livelihoods in the agriculture and associated sectors. The project will also makes a conscious effort to reach out to the ultra-poor including women, youth, disabled and elderly households by providing asset building intervention and promoting their participation in economic activities with skills enhancement for the youth.

With the mandate to“reach the un-served and underserved low-income communities in the southern districts of KP” the project ventured this endeavor.

I am delighted to observe that the strategic decisions taken by the PSC for shifting

PMU from Peshawar to DIKHAN bearing fruit in the form of exciting results. Nevertheless, the CFY 2013– 2014 being the launching year warranted diligent efforts, which I believe have palpably being rendered and I hope the team commendable spirit would take the project to its logical peak in times to come.

This First Quarterly Progress Report (QPR) for the period from July-September 2013 highlights the progress achieved during the reported period. Secondly, it will serve as an effective mean for course correction on regular intervals at a stage when the project has practically over-shot its set targets.

I am also thankful to the world Bank and the Provincial Government Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for the continuous support and facilitation in the implementation of project , who enable the KP-SADP to launch the project.

FAIZ MUHAMMAD KHAN

PROJECT DIRECTOR

KP- Southern Area Development Project is a multifaceted developmental initiative of the Provincial Government for the recovery and rehabilitation and speedy uplift of three least developed and crisis hit Southern Districts i.e. D.I. Khan, Lakki Marwat & Tank, of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The Project is funded by the Multi Donor Trust Fund, World Bank (MDTF-WB) grant, Project targeted completion date is June, 2015. The Project is 100% funded by the Multi Donor Trust Fund, World Bank (MDTF-WB) with the total Cost of Rs.1704.060 (million) i.e. (US$ 18 .000 million)

Local Government & Rural Development Department is the implementing Agency and it will be executed through Project Management Unit (PMU) with its field offices, i.es Districts Implementation Units (DIUs), at District of Lakki Marwat, Tank and DI Khan.

The Project main objective is to strengthen the capacity of the targeted communities and to improve their livelihood options by providing them opportunities and access to social and productive infrastructure through their active involvement. The KP-SADP will reach out toun-served and under- served low income communities in the project operational areas.

Project Components

These Objectives will be achieved through following key components:-

A: - Community Development Support

B: - Community Driven Investment Program

B1– Social Infrastructure

B2 – Productive Infrastructure

B3 – Asset Building for Ultra-Poor

C: - Project Implementation Support

The Project documents of KP-SADP envisaged that during the project period in the three project operational area 50 union council, 150 villages, and 14000 house hold will be coved. Moreover, approximately 100,000 beneficiaries will be benefited from the project.

The Project is designed on the World Bank Time tested Community Driven Development (CDD) Approach, for the post conflict environments, in areas with poor track records of service delivery with main focus on quick development of the affected communities.

Theprogress report covers the activities carried out by the KP- Southern Area Development Project an Overview of these activities are as under,

1. Establishment of PMU and DIUs and Hiring of staffs for KP-SADP.
2. Orientation workshop for the staff of KP-SADP, district Line Department.
3. Coordination with Divisional and district Administration at field level.
4. Linkages with the Stake holders (district Line Departments, meeting with elders/ villagers and observatory visits in the project operational district
5. KP-SADP web site developed
6. Approval of work plan for the year 2013-2014
7. Selection of Union Council for the implementation of project activities
8. Progress under Community Development Support
9. Base Line survey in the selected UCs in the project operational district
10. Project human resources and procurement

Details of each activity are as under

1. Establishment of PMU and DIUs and Hiring of staffs for KP-SADP.

The Project Management Unit was established in Peshawar. Soon after the establishment of PMU the DIUs was also established in the respective project operational district of DI Khan, Tank and Lakki Marwat.

The recruitment of staff for PMU and DIUs was carried out by a consulting firm FIFCON, which were hired for the purpose in order to ensure transparency in the recruitment. Sector specialist as well as Administrative support staff for the PMU as well as for the DIUs was hired following competitive process that is advertisement, short listing of candidates and interview.

The staff hired were posted in the respective DIUs and made operational. Similarly, equipments and vehicles and motor cycles purchased and provided to the field staff of DIUs.

Status of staff hired for PMU and DIUs is attached at Annexure-I.

1. Orientation workshop for the staff of KP-SADP and district Line

Department of Lakki Marwat, Tank and DI Khan.

An orientation work shop was arranged for the staff of PMU, DIUs as well as for the district line agencies of DI khan, Tank and Lakki Marwat.

The purpose of the orientation workshop was to acquaint the project staff as well as the district line agencies about the KP-SADP, about the CDD approach, scope, and objective, methodology of the projectand implementation mechanism.

Ms. Salma Omer, Co-Task Team Leader from the World Bank, Islamabad also attended the inaugural session of the workshop. Speaking on the occasion, she highlighted the crucial flagship role of this project as a community-driven initiative in a conflict sensitive area.

Chief RD, P&D Department also attanded the workshop on behalf of Secretary P&D Department and appriciated the efforts of the project for arranging the work shop.

Details of training workshop arranged is attached at Annex-II

1. Coordination with Divisional and district Administration at field level.

The Project Management has maintained close coordination both at divisional level that is with Commissioner Bannu and DI Khan as well as with the respective Deputy Commissioner of Tank, DI Khan and Lakki Marwat (who are also chairman of DRC for KP-SADP).

1. Linkages with the stake holders

The District Implementation Units in the project operational areas of DI Khan, Tank and Lakki Marwat have established linkages with the distract line agencies in order to explain the KP-SADP and obtain secondary data of the developmental activities carried out and affected during the flood or any other reasons and required rehabilitation, reconstruction etc.

Linkages and contacts were also carried out and observatory visits were also carried out. The KP-SADP project objective were explained and discussed with the villagers in orders to obtain their views and knows about the problems they are facing etc. The response was very positive and they very openly discussed their problems.

1. KP-SADP web site developed

Another remarkable progress was made and a web site was developed ( and made online. Furthermore, official Emails of PMU as well as DIUs staff have been prepared and intimated to all concerned.

All the information pertain to KP-SADP are updated regularly.

1. Approval of work plan for the year 2013-2014 for KP-SADP

The Project Steering Committee (PSC) chaired by the Additional Chief Secretary approved the work plan (physical and financial target) for the year 2013-2014. The total portfolio of KP-SADP for the year 2013-2014 is PKRRs 785 Millions, which is 8.29 million US $.

Component wise financial allocation is as under.

The implementations of the work plan have been intiated.

1. Selection of Union Council for the implementation of project activities

The project documents of KP-SADP envisaged that KP- SADP activities will be implemented in UCs. UCs \Villages has been selected for project interventions in line with following criteria.

1. Security of the Area/UCs
2. Accessibility of the Targeted CBOs/EIGs/CEIGs to the nearby urban centers and markets
3. Willingness of local community \people to participate in the project interventions
4. Better chances of scalability and potential impact
5. More people have the opportunity to get the intended benefits.
6. Better chances of involving ultra poor groups in targeted interventions
7. Inclusiveness and gender
8. Higher chance of potential CBOs/ EIGs\ CEIGs
9. Broader participation/inclusiveness
10. Responsiveness of CBOs/EIGs/CEIGs for contribution

The objective of the project is to reach un-served and underserved low income/ marginalized communities in the selected districts of DI khan, Lakki Marwat and Tank.

During 2013-2014 25 UCs were selected for intervention of the project activities. District wise summary of UCs is as under

For the selection of these union councils the DIUs collected basic information, secondary data and hold meetings and discussions with the communities, government line departments and other developmental agencies in the districts. Beside this all the rural union councils are graded on the prescribed criteria of the project by conducting field visits by the project staff and holding meetings with the communities.

Details list of district DI Khan, Tank and Lakki Marwat is attached at Annexure-II.

1. Community Development Support

Community Mobilization is a process by which thoughts of the people are concentrated and transformed into a communal consideration for development that would benefit everybody equally. For this, community are provided with social guidance and those willing to develop a transparent platform for improvement ,organize themselves into community organizations.

KP-SADP utilizes social mobilization as its primary means of supporting the marginalized rural communities. The mobilization of communities in terms of formation of CBOs/EIGs is the pre- requisite for the execution of project activities provided in the project documents.

The community plays a vital role in any participatory developmental project. Social mobilization process under KP-SADP calls for formation of CBOs/EIGs.Apart from new formations, the project facilitated revitalization of already existed CBOs Also, the already formed\engaged organizations are being strengthened to ensure that the responsibilities of O&M are clearly embedded within their routine functions. This would broaden the base of organized communities; thereby ensuring the distribution of benefits on a large scale.

As of September 2013, the KP-SADP has achieved remarkable progress under formation of CBOs in the project operation district of DI Khan, Lakki Marwat and Tank and formed/ revitalized 60 Community Organizations, with 1957 members (43 male CBOs with 1458 members, and 17 female CBOs with 499 members).

The Pie charts show the gender wise formation of CBOs in terms of %age

District and gender wise details of formation of CB)s & membership are as under

1. COMMUNITY DRIVEN INVESTMENT

The overall Project goal is to create livelihood opportunities through providing infrastructure and associated services for the rural population. The KP-SADP would support this outcome through rehabilitation and provision of rural infrastructure affected or damaged by the conflict, as well as new infrastructure identified by the local communities. The Project would support CBOs/Economic Interest Groups (EIGs) to plan and prioritize their development needs through a participatory process.

Physical infrastructure component has three sub-components that respond to the social infrastructure, productive infrastructure and addressing the asset building needs of the ultra-poor and most vulnerable groups including women headed households, disabled, elderly, and other socially and economically marginalized groups. A clear distinction between public and private infrastructure would derive from social and productive nature of these infrastructures. The social infrastructure would mostly include public goods e.g. schools, health facilities, water, sanitation, access/feeder roads. Whereas the productive infrastructure has a larger menu that revolves around productive activities leading to livelihood opportunities.

Sub-Component B1 – Social Infrastructure

This would include rebuilding, improving and/or developing social service infrastructure. The Project would finance social infrastructure identified in the CAPs that are public-good subprojects for example minor repairs of local schools, feeder roads, culverts, bridges, drifts and stock routes, boreholes (with or without pumps), community health facilities, potable water supply facilities, rural electrification, community water storage tanks, etc.

Sub-Component B2 – Productive Infrastructure

This sub-component would operate on an open menu and provide infrastructure as engine of economic growth in the affected communities. The Project would finance small scale physical and socio-economic infrastructure, income-earning assets and extension service-type subprojects. In addition, sub-component will also cater to provision of one to three key infrastructures that may be a collective demand for the selected districts for instance inter-districts link roads, etc.But most of the subprojects will revolve around livelihood related activities in the agriculture and livestock sectors with on-farm and off-farm activities. The examples may include vocational training/skill development centers, community grain storage facilities, community agro-processing facilities, cattle trough, small to medium irrigation schemes, resting points (along stock trading routes), livestock water pools, etc. Additionally on-farm technology improvement such as solar convergence of water pumps, drip and sprinklers for small scale irrigation, agricultural machines (power tillers and processing equipment e.g. maize shellers, oil press, rice thresher, drying platforms, fruit processing/packaging equipment, etc.) would be financed.

Sub-Component B3 – Asset Building for Ultra-Poor

This would focus on specifically addressing the development needs of the ultra-poor and most vulnerable groups in the targeted villages, particularly groups not covered by the government safety net programs. Emergency assistance to vulnerable groups would include re-acquisition of lost asset e.g. home/shelter or income source (livestock, poultry, etc.). The objective would be to relieve the stress from the vulnerability in order for these groups to regain their lost assets and rejoin the economic activities.