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Social
Development Sector |
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Development Sector has shouldered the responsibility of institutional
building at grassroots level to support in bringing about
a social change, thus taking the vulnerable and marginalized
communities to the sustainable stage of development and self-reliance.
It has social mobilization as a core activity and entry point
followed by different development interventions including
social and physical service delivery projects and coordinating
and networking along with emphasis on gender balance and good
governance. The main objectives of the programs are to mainstream
the poor into a socio-economic development process and reduce
their vulnerability. |
Salient Objectives |
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Enable democratic and participatory action
resulting in institutionalizing social justice, as a basis
of socio-economic development.
Make
VDOs development oriented, sustainable and responsive to local
needs and priorities
Highlight
social development issues, gender discrimination, governance,
and globalization; and create a forum for discussion and broad-based
partnership to make some efforts for the solution of these
issue. |
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Social Mobilization Process |
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Safwco
has used social mobilization, since the initial stage, as
a tool to empower community to organize them into self-governing
groups, or community organizations, and initiate and control
their own personal and communal development. In this context
a well developed social mobilization model is followed. Social
mobilization model of Safwco encompasses dynamic and spacious
community partaking as mandatory for gaining ownership, in
a way to make innovations not seen as externally imposed.
Safwco believes that unless the communities are well organized
in the form of organizations (VDOs), no intercessions and
initiatives can successfully be followed for development at
grassroots level. Thus spiraling to the communities to sustainable
parameters is pivotal and paramount ambition that Safwco has
been pursuing. In order to procure at the envisaged stage
of sustainability of the communities, Safwco follows effectual
and enduring touchstone mechanism; the salient constituents
of that prolific benchmark are furnished as follows: |
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Communities' Participation and Input: |
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The very crux of getting the communities
directly involved in development initiatives is to pave ground
where they feel obsessed with the delusion of grandeur leading
to the sense of ownership and responsibility among them.
Safwco
believes in the philosophy of providing equal opportunities
to men and women without any discrimination. As the women
of rural areas are the most ignored section of society, therefore
Safwco focuses on development of women through gender ladder
activities and creating an enabling environment for their
socio economic growth leading towards their empowerment. Thus
the objective of gender development program is to balance
gender gap and promote active involvement of women for their
leadership development. In this context, Safwco, since its
inception has been in the forefront in raising voice, via
seminars, workshops, walks and publications, against the heinous
and atrocious form of injustice clothed in terms of Honour
killing to women in the rural areas of Sindh.
Human
Resources and Gender Development: Prior to mobilizing and
generating natural resources in physical environ, Safwco deems
indispensable to nurture the human resources in terms of skills
and expertise among the communities. If people are not capable
of handling the natural resources, it falls flat to rejuvenate
the resources available at their disposal. |
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Coordination and Linkages: |
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After
the institutionalization of communities with men and women
as active actors, it is vital that they should have easy access
to and linkages with service delivery sectors of Safwco and
all the departments and organizations (Government and Non-government
) which are likely to be of some support for them. Safwco
builds such bridges between the communities and support organizations,
government departments, donor agencies, academic and research
institutes engaged in similar pursuits for information and
experience sharing and mutual collaboration. |
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Rain
Flood 2007 (new updates) |
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Annual
Activity Report DMER-SAFWCO (NEW) |
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Disaster
Management and Emergency Relief (2006) |
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Images
of distribution of Emergency Relief supported by CRS
(2006) |
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Images
of distribution of Emergency Relief supported by OXFAM |
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Images
of Emergency Relief supported by UNICEF(2006) |
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