SINDH RURAL SUPPORT ORGANIZATION

EMERGENCY RESPONSE

Against Rain & Flood-2022

SRSO Distributions

  • Rs.1.37 billion by extending
  • Their immediate relief and recovery
  • Services to 186,331 families of
  • Pakistan under SRSO Flood
  • Emergency Response 2022
  • From August-December 2022.

Delivering Accelerated Family Planning in Pakistan (DAFPAK) Project

UK Aid PSI RSPN

Donor/s:  Population Services International (PSI) and UKAID

Partner/s:  Rural Support Programs Network (RSPN)

Covering Districts: (Shikarpur), (Jacobabad), & (Kamber-Shahdadkot)

Duration:  1st December 2017 – 30 June 2024

Target Group/s:  15-49 Age group Married Women

Project Objectives:

The project aims to create an enabling environment for women, girls, and men to avail healthy reproductive choices; increase the availability of family planning services and products in uncovered rural areas, and strengthen accountability through increased transparency and stringent monitoring. DAFPAK focuses on community mobilization by utilizing Community Resource Persons (CRPs) and community institutions (CIs).

  • The PSI-Supported Family Planning Program in Pakistan is a four-year project that aims to create an enabling environment for women, girls, and men to avail healthy reproductive choices; increase the availability of family planning services and products in uncovered rural areas, and strengthen accountability through increased transparency and stringent monitoring. 
  • Over the next four years, this program will focus on the community using Community Resource Persons (CRPs), trained local social volunteers who will go door-to-door within their respective catchment areas to refer women to scheduled outreach camps where they may access family planning counseling and services from qualified Family Welfare Workers/Lady Health Visitors. 
  • The program’s objectives include converting young married couples of reproductive age into new users of family planning services, converting users of traditional contraceptive methods to users of modern contraceptive methods as well as the strategic upscaling of ‘Business in a Box’ — a micro-entrepreneurship venture intended to help make contraceptives sustainably accessible.
  • The community-wide sensitization of men, women, and adolescents on reproductive health issues through disseminating information on family planning services;
  • The creation of Village Health Committees (VHCs) to represent the entire community and bring behavioral change through demand creation for birth spacing.
  • Women empowerment through the ‘Business in a Box’ venture, which incentivizes door-to-door service continuity by helping CRPs set up profitable businesses;