GOAL AND RISK MATRIX FOR PROJECT GRANT APPLICATIONS
All development projects granted through Forum Syd are required to contribute to Forum Syd’s expected overall goals:Marginalised people living in poverty have democratic influence and access to basic rights; and results exist that show changes towards a sustainable, equal society.
State the overall project goal:
Ten registered, capacitated andgender sensitive Labour Community Organizations (LCOs) are operatingas change agents in their communities through promoting and ensuringtheir basic rights in two districts of Punjab province
Expected results / Target groups / Indicators and baseline values. / Sources of verification / Risks and risk management
State project goal here
Along with developing further, tenregistered LCOs are functioningfor the promotionof and to ensure the rights of marginalized people through evolving informed opinion, developing their linkages, enhancing their opportunities to eradicate poverty in outreach areas of Lahore and Sheikhupura districts / Total number of beneficiaries will be approximately 12705 persons (6740 women & 5965 men)
Study circles:
2500 women 2000 men
Capacity building Trainings
100 women &50 men
Participation in interfaith harmony
400 women & 200 men
Meetings
3600 women & 3600 men
Training for learners of skill centres 40 women & 35 men
Students of skill centres 100 women & 80 men /
- Expansion inthe agenda and activism of LCOs by including new subjects e.g. interfaith harmony, involving youth through skill centres to reducepoverty, focussing on public health and environment issues for improved wellbeing of people
- Remaining five LCOs are registered
- Participation of women in activities (at least 50%), in membership (at least 40%) and at executive body positions (at least 35%)
- LCOs and people negotiating at least 30 issues of common interest every year with local authorities to resolve them
- Around 15-20 % of trained youth earing their living and at least 20-30% saving income
Pictures
Published material in monthly newsletter “Labour Education”
Sharing at LEF facebook account
Printed media coverage
Office files / State risks and risk-managing measures here
Note: Corruption risk and the relevant preventative and capacity-strengthening measures must always be specified.
1 Risk: Efforts by the state to control nationalorganizations (especially those receiving foreign funding) and international organizations(having offices in Pakistan) through introducing some further processes of registration
2 Risk: Disturbing law and order situation
Risk Management:
(Both risks are relevant broader issues)
1 Risk: Networking and campaign with existing organizations to sort out a joint strategy to deal with the situation.
LEF has decided to get registration with Economic Affairs Division and to get certificate from Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy to avoid and restrictions
2 Risk: There is some improvement in law and order situation generally. Situation is already comparatively better in Lahore and Sheikhupura districts and it is expected that project activities will be implemented without any disturbance
Note: At least one sub-goal is to describe what the project has achieved towards strengthening the local civil society and/or LEO.
State sub-goal 1 here
For creating a demand, LCOs continuously evolving the discourse of human rights with specific focus on gender, workers’ rights, public health, environment and promoting interfaith/ wide-ranging harmony /
- Increased knowledge and understanding of approximately 12525 persons on socio, economic situation, human, labour, political, economic rights, underlying reasons of intensifying poverty, importance of political participation and representation, HIV/AIDS, public health, environmental issues and gender to understand, claim and access their rights
- Bridgingwidening gap as number and variety of actors (different religions, sects, gender identities etc.)attending the events to increase interfaith harmony and to live and work collectively
- Wider dissemination of project developments through at least 6 yearly reports published in monthly Newsletter
Reports of study circles and training workshops
pictures
flexes of the events
Field visits reports
Planning and motivational visits reports
Reports and pictures of interfaith harmony events / 1.Risk : Chances of corruption in LEF financial system or in LCOs
2.Risk: challenges faced by people to allocate time to participate in project activities as majority are daily wagers
Activities 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 etc.
1.1, Yearly plan of LEF
1.2, Arrangements and conduction of study circles
180 study circles (6 X 10 X 3 =180)
1.3, Arrangements and conduction of 2,two daycapacity building training workshops (2 X 3= 6)
1.4, Collection of information, report writing, printing and distribution of reports in monthly Newsletter
1.5, Uploading of project activities at facebook account of LEF
1.6, Weekly monitoring and supervision visits(52*3= 156)
1.7, Planning and motivational visits to conduct interfaith events (3*3=9)
1.8, Arrangements and organization of 3 events to promote interfaith harmony
1.9, Submission of monthly, six monthly and annual reports / (25*180=4500)
2500 women 2000 men in study circles
(25*6=150)
100 women and 50men in training programmes
Total 600
400 women
200 men in events / Baseline:
People are generally unaware about their rights due to low literacy rate and lack of efforts by the state and its institutions
People lack information about where to access for their civic rights
There is a lack of information amongst workers around existing labour laws, situation and violations of workers’ rights
There is a lack of published materials regarding labour rights. Only few articles per year appearing in print media
According to World Report 2017: Human Rights Watch: Chapter/Pakistan women, religious minorities, and transgender people faced violent attacks, insecurity, and persecution, with the government failing to provide adequate protection and hold perpetrators accountable. In March (2016), at least 74 people were killed and 338 others injured in a suicide bombing in a public park in Lahore. The primary target of the attack was Christians celebrating Easter.In 2009, Pakistan’s Supreme Court called for improved police response to cases involving transgender people, and to ensure the rights of transgender people to basic education, employment, and protection. However, despite the court order situation remained same. / 1.Risk management:
LEF has developed an effective system of financial management with clear division of roles and authorizationto avoid any corruption
Human Resources, Administration and Financial Manual was developed to prevent and deal with illegal acts such as theft, deception, manipulation of accounting entries, bribery and corruption. Which deals with:
- Whether any criminal prosecution is likely or desired and how the investigation should proceed
- The recovery of losses incurred to LEF by taking action through the court
- If and how to dismiss employee in order to minimize the knock on effect of that action
- What action is to be taken to prevent reoccurrence of that kinds of incidents
LEF’s audits are done by listed company of chartered accountants
Child Protection Policy, Gender Policy, Conflict of Interest Policy, Security Policy and Cost Allocation Policy (developed during the last three years) are strictly followed by the staff
LCOs will be facilitate to learn how to manage their accounts and ensure transparency (already in practice)
2.Risk Management:
LCOs will be facilitated to adjust time according to the availability of community people
LEF staff will arrange meetings according to the convenient time of workers
State sub-goal 2 here
5 registered and 5 under registration process LCOs demonstrate their capacity and competence through further Increasing their membership including women, appointing women on executive body positions and functioning as a bridge between communities and duty bearers /
- Registration of remaining 5 LCOs
- Membership of every LCOs reaches up to approximately 1000 members
- Proportion of women in membership remains at least 40%
- Proportion of women holding executive body positions remainsat least 35%
- Approximately 500 persons obtain necessary documents to pursue for their rights
- LCOs and members demonstrate their skills and ability in terms of establishing and expanding linkages with approximately 30 civil society organizations and government institutions to get information and to access their rights
Membership records,
Pictures
Coverage in newspapers
Reports in LEF Newsletter
Copies of token numbers of National Data Base and Registration Authority
Office files / 1.Risk: Lack of skills and efforts by some LCOs to take active part in the implementation of the project
2.Risk: Restrictions on girls and women to participate in project related activities, to become members and to join executive bodies
Activities 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 etc.
2.1, Facilitation to develop Yearly Development Plans of LCOs
2.2, Approximately 1 monthly meetings in every LCO to discuss organizational matters and to disseminate information(10*12*3=360)
2.3, Facilitation to apply for registration
2.4, Follow up of the process of registration
2.5, Maintenance of membership record and organizational activities
2.6, Monitoring by LEF
2.7, Monthly staff meetings with Social Mobilizers and teachers of skill centres
2.8, LEF monthly staff meetings
2.9, Annual assessment meeting in regard with preparing annual monitoring report
2.10, Facilitation to LCOs members in demonstrations, resistance activities, public meetings etc.
2.11, Facilitation to LCOs and communities to access government institutions for attainment of basic rights
2.12, Monitoring visits by LEF management / (20*360=7200)
3600women and 3600men / Baseline
Hardly any development oriented and membership based organizations exist at the grassroots level in project areas
According to the estimates, only around one percent workers are organized in trade unions
Due to existing customary practices women are not visible in organizations and especially at leadership positions
Punjab Fair Representation of Women Act 2014 demands that all boards of statutory organizations, public sector companies, committees as well as task forces shall have 33% women representation. This Act enshrines proportional representation of women in all administrative leadership posts including departmental heads and in in trade unions as well
People lack information and hesitate to access duty bearers and employers to access their rights
People lack information, skills and resources regarding preparing/obtaining documents to access their rights / Risk Management
1 Risk: Capacity building trainings will cover the gap in skills.
Monitoring visits will help LCOs to come up with their problems
Active young members of the LCOs will be encouraged to discuss the issues within LCOs so that LCOs can change from inside and new leadership emerges
Close liaison with different departments (e.g. Water and Power Development Authority, Literacy, Health and Environment departments, National Data Base Registration Authority, Punjab Commission on the Status of Women) will be maintained to mitigate the chances of LCOs reluctance to access service delivery and development related institutions
Risk 2: LCOs will use their gained capacities to foster gender equality.
Repetition of the previous work of LCOs in communities will dispel the reluctance of people to let women and girls participate in project activities
Gender awareness will be a must topic in study circles and training sessions to make people aware about women’s rights
On-going efforts will be there to facilitate LCOs to invite and motivate women to be the part of LCOs structures
State sub-goal 3 here
Three skill centres every year playing an instrumental role in involving/mobilizingyouth, including girls in terms of enhancing their opportunities for income generation and income saving to reduce poverty /
- Approximately 180 youngpersons learn, enhance their skills and entrepreneurial knowledge
- Around 15-20 % of trained youth earing their living
- At least 20-30 % trained youth saving income
- Around 100 – 150 persons are being referred by LCOs to other institutions for getting trainings and financial support toenhance their livelihood options
Learners records
Follow up data
Pictures
Reports / 2 Risk: Expectations of people regarding material benefits e.g. employment, cash grants etc.
Activities 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 etc.
3.1, Selection of the areas for establishing centres in collaboration with LCOs
3.2, Advertisement about the initiation of centres
3.3, Development of a selection criteria for the learners
3.4, Centres established and functioning
3.5, Supervision of the centres by LCOs and LEF
3.6, Yearly entrepreneurship development training
3.7, Documentation of the centres activities / (20*3*3=180)
100 women
80 men
(25*3)=75
40 women and 35 men / Baseline:
According to the Pakistan’s first ever official report on multidimensional poverty in 2016, launched by the Ministry of Planning, Development and Reform, nearly 39 % of Pakistanis live in multidimensional poverty.Pakistan’s Multidimensional Poverty Index showed a decline, with national poverty rates falling from 55% to 39% from 2004 to 2015.
An estimated 103 million or 63 % of the population fall under the age of 25 years in Pakistan while 15 % of the youth is unemployed. Due to widespread poverty, the majority of youth in Pakistan do not have the opportunity to proper education and skill enhancement.
There are approximately 12 million home based workers in Pakistan, making up almost 20% of the country’s total labour force and the proportion of women in the home based sector is around 80%. These home based workers are not covered under any law.
Youth lack information and financial means to enhance their skills in terms of earning livliood / Risk management
2 Risk: Efforts and ongoing discussion to sustain the motivation of partner CBOs and community about the importance of collective work and for mitigation of misunderstandings and wrong expectations
Links with social safety net institutions and financeproviding institutions will be developed for improved access and for better paid jobs
STU can add their risk if required
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