Gender Development

Gender And Development (GAD) Program of PIPHRO developed different strategies to contribute and achieve Millennium Development Goals:

• MDG1 to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger,

• MDG3 to promote gender equality and empower women, &

• MDG7 to ensure environmental sustainability.

PIPHRO GAD is a cross cutting program of the organization. It implements gender policies and monitors it in all the projects and the programs of the organization operational in 2 districts of Sindh. PIPHRO GAD program has benefited 9560 members of 331 community organizations, 192 village based women entrepreneurs, 174 school management committees members, 85 LHWs and 165 TBAs.

PIPHRO Gender and Development Program designed and executed different strategies in the following way.

1. Strategy I: Capacity Building

2. Strategy II: Research

Following researches conducted on gender perspective

Bbaseline survey of Marginalized Areas (key findings)

78% of the women have been married before 20 years of age, early marriage trend is still prevalent. Nearly 90% of the women in age groups of more than 40 had 5 or more children. 52% of the husbands are literate as compared to 14% of women.

 

PIPHRO's School Health Screening Survey

The survey found a number of boys stunted among the screened children, 1293 out of total 7089 boys in the sample. Similarly 2223 girls were stunted among the total 14158 girls screened for abnormalities.

3. Strategy III: Training

GAD program provides the opportunity to staff as well to build their capacity. In this connection 15 trainings were conducted for PIPHRO's staff in which 15 staff members have been trained. In this year total 2 exposure visit were organized for staff of different institutions. GAD program has strengthened 130 community organizations and groups in previous year and built the capacity of 1450 members of communities.

4. Strategy IV: Services

Community organizations are integral part of PIPHRO in all community based interventions. PIPHRO social mobilization strategy starts from the mobilization of smallest group formation on each 5 to 8 households get trained by PIPHRO GAD Program in different topics of social mobilization and organization management. Later they form a network at each union council level where chairperson of each VDO represents his /her village.

 

Following are the different models of mobilization events the GAD program use for community mobilization.

• Service Introduction (Taarufi Program)

• Formation & Strengthening of Community Organizations (Tanzeem ki Tarbiat - Rehnuma)

• Awareness Raising Session (Shaoori Nashast) With Men & Women

• Interactive Theatre (Bedari Natak)

• Women Support Group (Madadgar Sahelyan)

• Life Skill Base Education (Nojawano me zindagi ki maharaten)

• Special Event (Khasoosi Sargarmi)

5. Strategy V: Women Empowerment

PIPHRO Gender and Development Program serves to promote all above rights of women and all project’s interventions are women focused and provide equal opportunities to women in every sector of development. Following are the contribution of GAD program to promote socioeconomic status of rural women. PIPHRO has established 60 women community organizations, in which 800 women are members. 30 community women were provided loan for small enterprises, livestock and agriculture. 10 Marvi workers received loan to continue family planning services. 50 community women received training in embroidery and stitching. 5 community women got jobs at their door step through PIPHRO as PIPHRO community based staff. 10 teachers trained in record keeping, quality assessment & class room management 30 women members of COs trained through PIPHRO capacity building training module. 100 training sessions conducted in different districts of Sindh with women organizations/groups in which 9500 women trained. International Women day celebrated with the support of Karachi based NGOs. International Women day was celebrated at district office Badin.

6. Strategy VI: Publications

PIPHRO GAD program developed many publications (see publications link) in collaboration with Information & Communication Resource and Human Resource and Institutional Development Program. Training manual for Capacity building of COs, Technical Training Manual, Family booklet for mother and child health.