Civil Society
1. Social Mobility Meeting with Women Self Help Group (SHG)
The SHG team made 32 field visits to conduct meetings with SHGs and got the report from 92 women SHGs. There are 92 women groups with 865 members total saving is PKR 765,310/= and loan 431,550/=. The SHG team taught the leaders and members about record keeping and also talked about finding solutions for local issues in the village. Most of the SHG groups are saving and meeting regularly. SHG staff encouraged SHG members because they are doing good work. In some groups, there were some issues in the team resolved by conducting SHG meetings. The SHG team checked the record, and there is a need for improvement in the record-keeping by animators.
2. Celebration of Universal Women’s Day
The SHG team and area animators decided to celebrate universal women’s day at the cluster level on 8th March 2022. In 2022, the project has not allocated a budget for the celebration of the event. Therefore, the SHG & VDG group members, area animators, and the team decided to organize the event in one cluster and the women SHG group will cover all administrative costs of the event. The area animator Mr. Narain & Mrs. Bhagi Narain conducted meetings with VDG and SHG members in the Meerabad cluster. All cluster members agreed and each SHG contributed an allocated amount for the event. It was the first time when the community took initiative and organized the event with their resource.
The event was based on two programs. One program is organized separately for women and another program was organized for men. The KCDP civil society team led the men’s program, Rev. Shamoon took the session and discussed the role of women in our society, family, and community. Girls education is also one of the most highlighted topics in the program.
The women’s day event was based on the following activities.
1. Introduction of the KCDP & Cluster level approach
2. SHG & VDG Groups Introduction
3. Mrs. Bhagi Narain (Area Animator) shared her life change story among other women at the event
4. 10 SHG members shared their success stories in the small business with other women
5. Theatre Performance
6. Note of thanks by guest
3. Monthly Animator Meetings
There are ten animators (six men/six women) are working in the project. Every month the animators attend the monthly meeting/training from KCDP staff. The purpose of the training was to enhance the capacity of animators. The KCDP’s team prepared the monthly meeting agenda for the animators and strengthened their capacity according to the need and help required. During the monthly meeting the animators are responsible to submit the all monthly reports to KCDP department.
Below table shows detail of groups and villages managed by Animators and KCDP team this table is