Community productive infrastructure program is to provide support to the partner communities for improving local infrastructure and services for enhanced productivity and improved quality of life. Sungi involves the partner communities in the identification, design, construction, operation and maintenance phases. Operation and maintenance committees are formed to ensure the sustainability of the schemes. Sungi is of the view that improved infrastructure sustainability contribute to the development of the area and lead to increased economic activity and poverty reduction.

Community productive infrastructure program is to provide support to the partner communities for improving local infrastructure and services for enhanced productivity and improved quality of life. Sungi involves the partner communities in the identification, design, construction, operation and maintenance phases. Operation and maintenance committees are formed to ensure the sustainability of the schemes. Sungi is of the view that improved infrastructure sustainability contribute to the development of the area and lead to increased economic activity and poverty reduction.

Key Focus:

Over the year 2005, in continuity of its efforts to reduce rural poverty and improving the local communities’ accessibility, the program focused towards provision of productive infrastructure facilities in select parts of Sungi’s working areas. The program completed a total of 177 schemes against an annual target of 82 projects. Through these initiatives, a total of 86 villages were covered benefiting 63,427 people (52 percent female). The program invested a total of Rs 37.6 million and the community contribution remained Rs 9.7 million. It is significant to highlight that the CPI construction work provided daily wage earning opportunities to local poor labours as Rs 6.2 million were paid as labour cost. On an average, each labour earned Pak Rs 3,000 per month for three months period. For sustainability of its initiatives, the program engaged partner communities at all stages of the projects. Project review committees, each comprising ten active members of the concerned VCs, were formed. These committees remained effectively looking after the operation and maintenance (O&M) of these schemes.

The program had adopted multi-pronged strategies to extend the benefits of its interventions to benefit poor and marginalized sections of the communities. The program preferred small scale projects and women identified needs were addressed at a priority basis. Out of total 177 schemes, ninety-six schemes were completed with female village committees. Similarly, forty-seven percent of the total schemes were small scale projects.

In response to the natural disasters , being a rights-based organization, Sungi carried out humanitarian assistance work in the affected areas. In first half of the year 2005, the program cleared 53 KMs of links road (which were blocked due to land sliding and snow) and provided financial and technical assistance in re-construction of five hundred damaged households in select parts of the working areas. After the October’05, to ensure availability of safe drinking water, the program restored forty-three water supply schemes in five union councils benefiting 30,100 people. Furthermore, Sungi carried out infrastructure damages assessment studies and the problems were communicated to the respective local government officials.