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| Sungi’s Zonal office Mansehra
has arranged accountability forum on 25th April’ 2006 in union council
Kathai Tehsil Ughi. This forum was a regular part of Sungi’s Programme.
It was organized at union council level by the Sungi’s Area Coordination
Council (ACC). Objectives of this forum were:
To mobilize the people and let them aware of their rights.
To bring government, non-government and local representatives at a common
platform where they would interact with the community for accountability
against their duties.
For further information please contact:
Shazia Ishtiaq Zonal Coordinator Mansehra Zone
Contact No. +92-997440067
Email: mansehra.zone@sungi.org
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| District
Disaster Management Forum Abbottabad |
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Sungi Development Foundation has
organized a District Disaster Forum in Abbottabad. This was the second
Disaster Forum after organizing in Mansehra District on February 22' 2006.
The forum held on March 21st' 2006 at Jalal Baba Auditorium Abbottabad.
Sungi's Community Partners from various union councils, district line
agencies, local government elected representatives, district administration
and other civil society organizations were the participants of the assembly.
The prime objective of the assembly was to institutionalize a disaster
forum at the District level. The forum thus established would be a functional
body with clear role and responsibilities during peace and disaster days.
For further information please contact with:
Naeem Ullah
Zonal Programme Coordinator, Sungi Development Foundation
Tel: +92-992333414, 334750
Email: naeem.ullah@sungi.org |
| Conference
on "District Disaster Forum Muzaffarabad" |
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Sungi has arranged conference on
District Disaster Forum in Muzaffarabad which held on 22nd-March'2006.
Sahibzada Hafiz Hamid Raza was the chief guest. The venue for the conference
was Neelum view hotel Muzaffarabad. Objectives of the conference were
discussed by Dr. Manzoor Ahmed Awan. Air Commodore Nonehal Shah highlighted
the importance of community based disaster management practices and systems.
Mr. Shafiq-ur-Rehman presented his views about the role of civil society
in disaster management. At the end of the conference Samina Khan (Executive
Director, Sungi Development Foundation) thanked all the participants. |
| Seminar
on “Role of Women in Post Quake Scenario" |
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Sungi Development Foundation has organized a seminar on Wednesday 8th March’2006
in PC Hotel, Mansehra road Abbottabad. The theme of the seminar was “Role
of Women in Post Quake Scenario". The seminar was started at 10:00am.
Sungi has share its experience of work with women during the disaster and
other scholars had given their talk about the role of women in development.
Sungi has invited community women from different working areas of Sungi
for the seminar. Some affectees women from Sungi’s spontaneous camps
Mansehra had also participated. Also some elected women representatives
of GEP project from Battagram had participated in the seminar.
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| District
Disaster Management Forum Mansehra |
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More than 300 community partners, civil society and district government
of Mansehra, the Earthquake affected district of NWFP agreed to form a Disaster
Management Forum at district level and stressed the need to develop capacity
of the community is disaster preparedness. It was the outcome of conference
on disaster management organized by Sungi Development Foundation in partnership
other stakeholders in Sungi Relief Camp, Beesian, Balakot. District Nazim
Mansehra Sardar Yousaf chaired the session and offered full support to the
idea of community based disaster management system initiated by Sungi with
support of Oxfam Netherlands and Oxfam GB. Air Commodore (Retd.) Naunehal
Shah representing UNDP appreciated the idea and gave useful suggestions
for setting up this forum. He also explained the role of government and
civil society in disaster management. Eminent scholar and Dr. Zafar Altaf
and Idreees Khan Programme Coordinator Oxfam GB shared their experiences
and supported the idea. Manzoor Ahmed Awan Programme Manager Disaster Management
shared the experience of Sungi in community based disaster management and
shared its future plans in this regard. The participants developed objectives,
roles and structure of this forum. Representatives of NGOs, media and government
representatives expressed their views and appreciated the role of NGOs,
INGOs, and Government in earthquake response. Naib Nazim of District Mansehra
appreciated the idea and emphasized the role of local government in disaster
preparedness. Ms Samina Khan Executive Director of Sungi thanked all the
participants.
Click to view Report on the Conference
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| Conference
on "Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation in Developing Countries" |
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Conference on Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation in Developing Countries
held on 25th Feb, 2006 in Islamabad, Pakistan. Sungi has helped HRDN in
organizing this event. Purpose of the event was to bring key stakeholders
for deliberations on what developing countries need to do at national,
provincial and local levels to improve their disaster preparedness capacities.
The conference sessions focused on the following four areas: Disaster
Preparedness, Role of stakeholders & Risk Reduction, Gender issues
and Post earthquake issues and challenges. Besides, a series of District
dialogues were organized prior to the conference to distil real issues
and challenges in the post earthquake scenario.
Disasters are usually abrupt and their impact on people can be mitigated
by preparedness of the communities and governments said Jan Vandemortele,
UN Humanitarian Coordinator here during a conference on “Disaster
Preparedness and Mitigation in Developing Countries”, organized
by the Human Resource Development Network (HRDN) in collaboration with
ActionAid and Sungi Development Foundation.
The event brought key stakeholders of the deliberations on what developing
countries need to do at national, provincial and local levels to improve
their disaster preparedness capacities. The civil society leaders, policy
makers, senior government officials and representatives of the donor agencies
and community members representing disaster hit areas of AJK and NWFP
attended the conference.
for Details visit www.hrdn.net
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| UNDP Emergency
Shelter Project |
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To provide shelter against the extreme cold weather, SUNGI with UNDP launched
a transitional shelter project. Under this project more than 70880 corrugated
galvanized iron sheets were provided to over 6420 families of the earthquake
affected area of Balakot & Battagram.
Click to view Report on the UNDP Emergency Shelter Project
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