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Social Development
Social
Development Sector has shouldered the responsibility of
institutional building at grassroots level to support in bringing
about a social change, thus taking the vulnerable and marginalized
communities to the sustainable stage of development and
self-reliance. It has social mobilization as a core activity and
entry point followed by different development interventions
including social and physical service delivery projects and
coordinating and networking along with emphasis on gender balance
and good governance. The main objectives of the programs are to
mainstream the poor into a socio-economic development process and
reduce their vulnerability.
Salient Objectives
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Enable
democratic and participatory action resulting in
institutionalizing social justice, as a basis of socio-economic
development.
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Make VDOs
development oriented, sustainable and responsive to local needs
and priorities.
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Highlight
social development issues, gender discrimination, governance, and
globalization; and create a forum for discussion and broad-based
partnership to make some efforts for the solution of these issue.
Social Mobilization Process
PIPHRO has used
social mobilization, since the initial stage, as a tool to empower
community to organize them into self-governing groups, or community
organizations, and initiate and control their own personal and
communal development. In this context a well developed social
mobilization model is followed. Social mobilization model of PIPHRO
encompasses dynamic and spacious community partaking as mandatory
for gaining ownership, in a way to make innovations not seen as
externally imposed. PIPHRO believes that unless the communities are
well organized in the form of organizations (VDOs), no intercessions
and initiatives can successfully be followed for development at
grassroots level. Thus spiraling to the communities to sustainable
parameters is pivotal and paramount ambition that PIPHRO has been
pursuing. In order to procure at the envisaged stage of
sustainability of the communities, PIPHRO follows effectual and
enduring touchstone mechanism; the salient constituents of that
prolific benchmark are furnished as follows:
The very crux
of getting the communities directly involved in development
initiatives is to pave ground where they feel obsessed with the
delusion of grandeur leading to the sense of ownership and
responsibility among them.
PIPHRO
believes in the philosophy of providing equal opportunities to men
and women without any discrimination. As the women of rural areas
are the most ignored section of society, therefore PIPHRO focuses
on development of women through gender ladder activities and
creating an enabling environment for their socio economic growth
leading towards their empowerment. Thus the objective of gender
development program is to balance gender gap and promote active
involvement of women for their leadership development. In this
context, PIPHRO, since its inception has been in the forefront in
raising voice, via seminars, workshops, walks and publications,
against the heinous and atrocious form of injustice clothed in
terms of Honour killing to women in the rural areas of Sindh.
Prior to
mobilizing and generating natural resources in physical environ,
PIPHRO deems indispensable to nurture the human resources in terms
of skills and expertise among the communities. If people are not
capable of handling the natural resources, it falls flat to
rejuvenate the resources available at their disposal.
After the
institutionalization of communities with men and women as active
actors, it is vital that they should have easy access to and
linkages with service delivery sectors of PIPHRO and all the
departments and organizations (Government and Non-government )
which are likely to be of some support for them. PIPHRO builds
such bridges between the communities and support organizations,
government departments, donor agencies, academic and research
institutes engaged in similar pursuits for information and
experience sharing and mutual collaboration
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