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A Scheme for the Development of an Integrated Poverty Alleviation Program for Thal and Bela of Punjab in Pakistan - 2007-12
Pakistan is a poor country in many terms. According to the statistics of the World Bank, 73.6% of the populationin is below 2 dollar poverty line and 17% of the population is below 1dollar poverty line in the year 2006.
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Mainstreaming livelihood-centred approaches to disaster management
The project focuses on the roles and linkagesbetween vulnerable communities, district and national level governmentinstitutions and humanitarian agencies in regards to disasterpreparedness and mitigation. It examines how these agencies can be mademore responsive to the needs of poor people by adopting alivelihood-centred approach to disaster management.
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Livelihood Options for Disaster Risk Reduction in South Asia
The project strategy is community-based, withstrong emphasis on local-level capacity building for better coping ofnatural hazards like flood, drought, landslide and earthquake.
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The Alternative Strategies for Community-Based Flood Preparedness in South Asia
This initiative demonstrated flood preparednessusing appropriate technology among selected village groups in Chitwan,Nepal, Faridpur, Bangladesh and Hafizabad, Pakistan. Research carriedout in the Livelihood Options project helped to plan out interventionsin the villages chosen for the community-based flood preparednessdemonstration sites.
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Community-Based Flood Preparedness Project- Pakistan
Kot Nizam is a village of Tehsil Pindi Bhattian(district Hafizabad, Punjab - Pakistan ). The village is a victim of a mega development project, namely the motorway between Lahore and Islamabad . The construction of motorway seven years ago has divided the village fields into two sections and has changed the natural water flow. Resultantly, over 200 acres of fertile land, famous for the typical Punjabi yield, have become uncultivable and barren. Livelihood opportunities and the environs became causality because of that.
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