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.

Scaling up Rural Sanitation in Flood Affected & High Polio Risk Districts (RuSFAD Phase I & II)

PLAN-donor

Donor: Plan International

Duration: Phase I : June 2011 to May-2012

Phase II: Oct-2011 to Oct-2012

 

Major Activities

  • Community mobilization focusing especially on school Children;
  • Defecation trenches;
  • Sanitation facilities;
  • Hand washing facilities through the provision of materials and cash incentives;
  • The RuSFAD project highly focused and invested in a capacity-building program through which SRSO covered 2,000 villages with physical target achievement of the Capacity building of Community stakeholders through the Training of Community Resource Persons.
  • Teachers were trained on PATS followed by training Masons trained for alternative low-cost sanitation options with the linkage of trained entrepreneurs/sanitation marts funded for community facilitation;
  • Demo Latrines are Constructed, WASH facilities are provided to Schools & 43 Villages of Latrine, and Drinking Water & Sanitation facilities;
  • Hygiene Messages were conveyed through IEC material, Interactive Theatres & Print/electronic media;
  • Distribution of Hygiene kits among school Children with the immediate result of adopting Hand washing & water boiling practices.
  • The construction of 83,808 new latrines/CLTS by the community itself & declaration of 1,775 Villages Certified as Open Defecation Free (ODF) are the remarkable achievements of the project.
  • The Plan International introduced new approach to bioremediation solutions through NBS with the construction of 2 wetlands for the treatment of domestic and industrial wastewater to bring water quality parameters under the limits of National Environmental Quality Standards (NEQS). The reclaimed water can be used for agricultural purposes or discharged into rivers and water bodies without disturbing the aquatic ecosystem. These wetlands were constructed in Ghotki and Khairpur Districts.