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11-A,
Chaman Housing Scheme,
Phone:
831224
Email: pidsrd@ultra.net.pk
Since the
inception of PIDS in February 1999 the initiative
and interaction with senior representatives of Government, with enthusiastic
communities and professionals from development fields has enabled, guided and
conveyed the organization the strong sense that it is doing something for the
healthy and prosperous livelihood of the communities and their future
generations. With its mission and vision to see a disease free society through
provision and promotion of safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene
education with active community participation.
PIDS mainly focuses
on provision of safe drinking water to the rural area communities with the
community involvement, by providing hand pumps and digging wells. It also
imparts health; hygiene and hand pump caretaker trainings to create preventive
health care awareness among the masses.
PIDS also assist
establishing hardware shops in the nearby area. For convenience and easy
availability of spare parts of hand pumps to the villagers in case any spare
part is needed.
The progress
report of PIDS for the year 2000 represents the projects executed and completed by
the organization during the year. A number of hand pumps, pour flush latrines
and lane sewers have been constructed along with technical and health and
hygiene education trainings to master trainers, DEOs, SDEOs, other government
staff, CBOs and community members.
During the year 2000 the following donors
assisted PIDS:
q Government of Balochistan
1.
Public Health
Engineering Department
2.
Local Government
and Rural Development Department
3.
Primary
Education Directorate
q Royal
q UNICEF
q OXFAM
q Insaf Welfare Trust
Water and Sanitation A
Basic Need
Water is
intimately linked to health in several ways. It is important to address the
increasing need for adequate and safe water to protect both people and land.
Preventing Disease
Through WHO
findings over two million people most of them children die each year of
diarrhoeal diseases linked to inadequate water supply, hygiene; and another
million die of water borne diseases such as Malaria. Almost half of the world’s
population has no acceptable means of sanitation.
Improved water
quality, sanitation and personal hygiene significantly reduce the spread of
these and many other water-related diseases, which are currently wide spread.
Lack of improved domestic water supply leads to diseases. Better water
resources planning and management have a similar beneficial impact on the
incidence of vector borne diseases.
Skin and eye
infections are spread when there is lack of sufficient quantities of water for
washing and personal hygiene, and people are unable to keep their hands, bodies
and domestic environments clean and hygienic.
Preventing
diseases helps to alleviate poverty. Most people in
Improving health
Safe water,
adequate sanitation and hygiene education are basic human rights that protect
health, increase the sense of well being and improve economic and social
productivity. In addition water related activities and sports contribute to
healthy lifestyles and longevity.
Sanitation facilities interrupt the transmission of much faecal oral diseases at
its most important source by preventing human faecal contamination of water and
soil. Evidence suggests that sanitation is at least as effective in preventing
disease as improved water supply. However it involves major behavioral changes.
Sanitation is likely to be particularly effective in controlling worm
infections. Adults often think of sanitation in adult terms, but safe disposal
of children’s faeces is of critical importance.
Children are
the main victims of diarrhoea and other faecal oral diseases, and also the most
likely source of infection. Child friendly toilets, and the development of
effective school sanitation programs, are important strategies for promoting
the demand for sanitation facilities and enhancing their impact.
Adequate
quantities of safe water and good sanitation facilities are necessary for
healthy living, but their impact will depend upon how they are used, these
three key hygiene behaviors are of utmost importance:
v
Hand washing
v
Safe disposal
v
Safe water
handling and storage
Handpumps
Access to a
convenient source of clean water brings time saving s and reduced drudgery for
the house hold water carriers- commonly women and children, while easy
availability of water for washing and bathing encourages greater cleanliness
and leads to better living. Other benefits of which the most important is
better health may be less immediately apparent, and will often depend on
additional inputs such as sanitation improvements and hygiene education if
maximum impact is to be obtained from the convenience of hand pumps.
The main objectives of the
programs have been to promote the development and implementation strategies,
which will improve the reliability of the hand pump schemes. Maintenance of the
hand pump is the responsibility of the community as the design of the pump is
easy and suitable for repair by a trained caretaker with basic tools and spare
parts affordable and readily available to the community.
Highest potential for sustainability
is achieved when the community is involved in all phases of the project and is
willing to manage hand pumps maintenance.
·
RNE assisted Rural Development program PIDS installed
102 hand pumps in Loralai, Pishin, Kalat and Khuzdar districts.
·
UNICEF funded Primary Environmental Care program for Girls
primary Schools (PECGPS), 25 hand
pumps were installed in various girls primary schools in the suburbs of Quetta
city and a number of 50 hand pumps in Turbat and Kharan districts.
·
PIDS with the
assistance of UNICEF and Primary
Education Directorate (PED) Government of Balochistan installed 50 hand
pumps in Turbat and Kharan districts. Under SWEET program.
·
PIDS installed
35 hand pumps in Lasbela district under Sanitation
Acceleration program of UNICEF.
·
PIDS installed
40 hand pumps in Ziarat district and 150 hand pumps in Awaran district under Poverty Alleviation Program of Government of Balochistan.
·
PIDS installed 20 hand pumps under Drought relief activities with the assistance of OXFAM in Khuzdar district.
·
PIDS has
entered in to an agreement with Insaf
Welfare Trust for the installation of a number of 100 hand pumps in
drought-affected districts of Turbat, Panjgoor, Chaman and Qila Saifullah of
Balochistan province under drought
relief project. Work on this project will be continued
during the year 2001.
Latrines
PIDS also
works for the development of safe hygiene habits of rural and urban communities
of Balochistan. It focuses the on provision of facility with in the compound of
the house. As the female users usually face problems due to absence of house
hold latrine with in the premises of the house. The female usually suffer, as
they have to wait for the darkness of night to envelop the daylight when they
can go outside their houses to meet the need of nature.
To lessen such burden on women PIDS extends
its services by providing the household latrine (HHL) with full community
participation to facilitate the community for construction of HHL.
·
PIDS installed
300 demonstration latrines in Loralai, Pishin, Kalat and Khuzdar districts
under the RNE assisted Rural Development program.
·
PIDS has
installed 50 latrines under UNICEF
assisted PECGPS program around
·
PIDS installed
100 latrines in the relief camps of drought-affected area of Kharan district
with the assistance of UNICEF.
Trainings & Community Mobilization
Training is an
important component of PIDS activities. Its network is working
very effectively in rural communities of the province. Staff in the districts
from local government and NGOs/CBOs has all been regularly trained in the
methodology adopted by PIDS, with emphasis on community
involvement, women involvement/ gender and hygiene education as well as
technical training.
The training
courses were continuously updated to gradually prepare the staff for more
community and women involvement in the implementation methodology. Through
continuous series of trainings, given in a participatory way to all the CBOs
and district staff has been thoroughly exposed to the community-based
methodology. Following trainings had been conducted by PIDS.
·
RNE supported
Rural Development Program, Conducted hand pump caretaker and health hygiene
trainings for males and females of villages of the four districts i.e. Loralai,
Pishin, Kalat and Khuzdar. In these areas 500 men have been trained as hand
pump caretakers and a number of 100 women have been trained in health and
hygiene.
·
UNICEF assisted
Focused Local Area Hygiene Education training under the sanitation acceleration
program for the concerned NGOs and Government staff. A number of 117 trainings
of village, district and provincial level were conducted and a number of 1657
men and women were trained in this program. Including master trainers.
·
UNICEF and GOB assisted PECGPS in
Turbat and Kharan; trainings were imparted to teachers and parents, DEOs and
SDEOs about importance of health, hygiene and safe environment.
PIDS is
working as implementing partner of the QKAEMP with the Dutch assistance. The
objective of the program is to provide safe sanitation to the urban slums of
A number of 9
trainings were conducted in Kharotabad and Mominabad and a total number of 45
women were trained in Kharotabad and 37 women were trained in Mominabad.
PIDS Communication/
Media
Media can increase understanding
of water, health and sanitation and education among the general public; how
health can be improved and diseases reduced through awareness creation and with
the help of the work and activities done. It can also increase commitment from
leaders, religious people, politicians and government to improve the existing
situations.
Besides working directly with the
communities at the grass root level PIDS utmost effort is to remain
in contact with the local media specially the newspapers.
The news items not only mention
the work done by PIDS but also enhance the need
of similar work to be replicated from the other Government, NGO plat form and
by the community it self.
It is ensured that any news item
disseminated from PIDS advances the organizations
objectives and mission. The accuracy of dates, figures and sources are
double-checked.
Project Name: Rural Development Program |
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Donor: Royal |
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Districts: Loralai, Pishin, Kalat, Khuzdar |
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Sr. No |
Handpumps Installed |
Household Latrines |
No. HP Care Taker Trained |
No. Women H& H Trained |
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01. |
103 |
300 |
500 |
100 |
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TOTAL |
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103 |
300 |
500 |
100 |
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Project Name: SWEET |
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Donor: Primary Education Directorate & UNICEF |
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Sr. No |
District |
Handpumps Installed |
Latrine Rehabilitation |
No. HP Care Taker Trained |
No. Women H& H Trained |
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01. |
Turbat |
25 |
25 |
50 |
50 |
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02. |
Kharan |
25 |
25 |
50 |
50 |
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TOTAL |
50 |
50 |
100 |
100 |
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Project Name: PECGPS |
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Donor: Primary Education Directorate & UNICEF |
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Sr. No |
District |
Handpumps Installed |
Latrine Rehabilitation |
No. HP Care Taker Trained |
No. Females H& H Trained |
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01. |
Turbat |
25 |
25 |
50 |
50 |
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02. |
Kharan |
25 |
25 |
50 |
50 |
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TOTAL |
50 |
50 |
100 |
100 |
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Project Name: Sanitation Acceleration |
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Donor: UNICEF |
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Sr. No |
District |
Handpumps Installed |
No. HP Care Taker Trained |
No. Of Govt. /CBO Officials Trained |
No. Females H& H Trained |
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01. |
Bela |
35 |
67 |
106 |
346 |
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TOTAL |
35 |
67 |
106 |
346 |
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Project Name: Poverty Alleviation Program |
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Donor: LGRDD Govt. of Balochistan |
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Sr. No |
District |
Handpumps Installed |
No. HP Care Taker Trained |
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01. |
Ziarat |
40 |
80 |
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02. |
Kalat |
14 |
28 |
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TOTAL |
54 |
108 |
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Project Name: Drought Relief Activities |
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Donor: OXFAM |
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Sr. No |
District |
Handpumps Installed |
No. HP Care Taker Trained |
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01. |
Khuzdar |
20 |
40 |
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Total |
20 |
40 |
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Project Name: QKAEMP |
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Donor: RNE |
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Sr. No |
District |
Sewer Lane RFt |
No. H & H Trained Females |
No. HHL Distributed |
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Area |
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01. |
Kharootabad |
2485 |
45 |
70 |
02. |
Mominabad |
1148 |
37 |
46 |
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Total |
3633 |
82 |
116 |