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  • December 21, 2015
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Women Empowerment & Role of SPPAP

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We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.” —Sheryl Sandberg

A seminar regarding “Women empowerment and Role of SPPAP” was conducted on December 9, 2015 at Bahawalpur. The Project Director in his opening remarks stated that SPPAP has especially focused the women by providing them valuable assets/trainings in a way so that women of the poor communities could feel sense of ownership and fully empowered. He emphasized that “Women are the integral part of the society and development is impossible without women empowerment and participation in the overall process”. He expanded upon the need of effective role of women as several of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) deal with the situation of women. The target of Goal 3 is the elimination of gender disparity. Goal 4 seeks to reduce child mortality, and Goal 5 aims to improve the health of mothers. But the empowerment of women and the strengthening of their position in society is the aim of the other MDGs as well. Women play a crucial role in the fight against extreme poverty and hunger (MDG 1). Girls and women lag far behind boys and men in progress toward achieving universal basic education (MDG 2). No progress at all can be made in the fight against HIV/Aids, malaria, and other endemic diseases (MDG 6), unless women are included. And without the participation of women, it will be impossible to ensure environmental sustainability (MDG 7).

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Development Objectives

The project objective is to increase incomes of 232450 poor households by enhancing the employment potential of the people and increasing agriculture productivity and production through;
• Assets Transfer (Small Ruminants 02 goat package);
• Low-Cost Housing for poor women
• Vocational / Entrepreneurship Trainings;
• Small Scale Demand Driven Community Physical Infrastructure (CPI) Schemes;
• Revolving fund for Agriculture, Livestock & Enterprise Development
Food Banks etc.

Project District’s

1- Bahawalpur

2- Bahawalnagar

3- Muzafargarh

4- Rajanpur

5- Rahim Yar Khan

6- DG Khan

7- Mianwali

8- Khushab

9-Bhakkar

10-Layyah

Targetting Group

Targeting Approach of SPPAP: Project is following three unique targeting approaches i.e. Geographical Targeting, Poverty Targeting and Gender Targeting. Firstly, SPPAP has focused on the poorest union councils in the poorest tehsils of ten less developed/backward districts.  Secondly, SPPAP is following a focused poverty approach by using the information generated by the BISP National Poverty Score Card Survey (NPSC) to identify households in the poorest poverty bands (0-23). Thirdly, SPPAP is highly gender sensitive project and inclusion of women ensured by specifying women as either sole beneficiaries of an intervention or by specifying quotas for them

Outcomes of Project

The principal outcomes expected from the project include enhanced capacity for sustainable livelihoods through asset transfers, enhanced capacity for employment and productive self-employment, enhanced access to basic services, increased productivity and production of agriculture produce and strengthened local capacity for agriculture and livestock service provision. The principal outcome expected from project management is efficient and cost effective use of project and complementary donor resources to achieve the development objective.

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