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Pakistan
FY 2001 Program Description and Activity Data Sheets
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FY 2001 Program
USAID helps address these and other basic human needs with funding through the PNI to two U.S. NGOs resident in Pakistan, The Asia Foundation (TAF) and the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF). They, in turn, work with Pakistan NGO partners. Beneficiaries are Pakistan's rural and urban poor, primarily women and girls.FY 2001 is the final year of funding for TAF and AKF and, through them, their local NGO partners in Pakistan. The funding will meet and bring to conclusion the USG life-of-program funding commitment to these NGOs and their beneficiaries, and allow achievement of their performance targets in geographical areas targeted by USAID assistance.
ACTIVITY DATA SHEET
PROGRAM: Pakistan
TITLE AND NUMBER: Pakistan NGO Initiative, 391-001
STATUS: Continuing
PLANNED FY 2000 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $3,000,000 ESF
PROPOSED FY 2001 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $2,205,000 ESF
INITIAL OBLIGATION: FY 1995 ESTIMATED COMPLETION DATE: FY 2002Summary: The Pakistan NGO Initiative (PNI) accesses and delivers improved social services to the poor, especially to women and girls. PNI works with, and through, NGOs on the following: 1) basic education and community-based learning, 2) literacy and skills development, 3) reproductive health (including family planning), 4) maternal and child health care, 5) income generating activities, 6) local NGO and community-based organization (CBO) capacity building, and 7) policy advocacy at the national, provincial, and local levels.
The beneficiaries of USAID assistance are the rural and urban poor, especially women and girls, primarily in two of Pakistan's four provinces: Sindh Province in the south, and the Northwest Frontier Province in the north. Approximately 80 local NGOs and their target populations are benefitting directly from PNI funding and technical assistance. All community members indirectly benefit from activities that create and strengthen community-based development organizations and their links to local, provincial and national government.
Key Results: Expected results in targeted geographical areas include: 1) increased percentage of girls attending and completing primary school in the rural areas; 2) greater influence of women in household decision making; 3) increased access by couples to three or more modern methods of contraception; 4) increased number of women with incomes of more than Rs.1000/year; and 5) increased number of NGOs and CBOs formally engaged in networking for social services delivery and policy change.
Performance and Prospects: PNI had formal evaluations in 1997 and 1999. It is doing well, and has proven to be an effective framework, both for providing humanitarian assistance to needy, targeted groups and geograpical areas, and for keeping the U.S. engaged with a central player in South Asia's regional development and stability. PNI is helping build a stronger civil society, while improving the ability of NGOs to deliver services more effectively through CBOs. PNI has enabled NGOs and CBOs to work through "webs" or "clusters" to maximize impact. Women's empowerment has been a central theme and, as a result, more women are becoming active participants in household decision-making as they become more literate and healthy, contribute to household income, and become more aware of their rights.
TAF estimates that more than 1,000 teachers and 9,000 students have directly benefitted from their programs. And with their local partners, TAF has developed a reproductive health counseling methodology with accompanying educational cards and cassette tapes. In FY 99, TAF began formation of both provincial and national health networks to promote and support use of the counseling methodology and materials. In FY 99, AKF's Urban Health Program worked with provincial and national Polio Week activities, setting up immunization sub-centers, supplying vaccines and maintaining records. Under AKF's new micro-finance program, some 2,000 women have received small loans from a network of 14 local NGOs and CBOs.
Possible Adjustments to Plans: None.
Other Donor Programs: PNI operates independently of the Government of Pakistan (GOP), and is being coordinated with other major donors such as the Asian Development Bank, the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Canadian aid, and the European Union. All donor programs are focused on Pakistan's priority needs as defined in its World Bank-supported national Social Action Plan (SAP). SAP encourages NGO and private sector participation in the delivery of social services. Thus, PNI highly complements other donor programs and national priorities.
Principal Contractors, Grantees or Agencies: The Asia Foundation, the Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A., and local NGOs and CBOs in Pakistan.
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