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STRATEGIC PLAN

2015-2020

GREEN RURAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION

(GRDO) CONTACT US: House # 210, A/1 All Rahim Villas, Qasimabad, Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan Land-Line: 0092-22-2651616 Mobile: 0092-301-3574927 0092-334-2621487 Email: [email protected] [email protected] Website: www.grdo.org.pk

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STRATEGIC PLAN 2015-2020

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Table of Contents Acronyms ........................................................................................................................................ 4

Executive Summary ........................................................................................................................ 5

Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 6

Strategic Directions ......................................................................................................................... 7

Vision .......................................................................................................................................... 7

Mission ........................................................................................................................................ 7

Objectives ................................................................................................................................... 7

Core Values ................................................................................................................................. 7

Guiding Principles ...................................................................................................................... 7

Program Development .................................................................................................................... 8

Key objectives of GRDO’s Program Development .................................................................... 8

Program Development Summary ................................................................................................ 8

Program Development Description ........................................................................................... 11

Strategic Priorities of Program Development ........................................................................... 11

Programmatic Themes .............................................................................................................. 11

Human Rights ....................................................................................................................... 11

Social Development (Livelihood, Education, Healthcare, Infrastructure) ........................... 12

Gender Empowerment .......................................................................................................... 14

Youth Leadership Development ........................................................................................... 15

Cross Cutting ............................................................................................................................ 15

Community Mobilization ...................................................................................................... 16

Advocacy and Networking ................................................................................................... 16

Gender ................................................................................................................................... 17

Environment .......................................................................................................................... 17

Media & Communication ..................................................................................................... 17

Emergencies and Disaster Management ............................................................................... 17

Monitoring & Evaluation ...................................................................................................... 18

Key Strategies ........................................................................................................................... 18

Research and Advocacy ........................................................................................................ 18

Awareness Raising ................................................................................................................ 19

Partnership Building ............................................................................................................. 19

Networking ........................................................................................................................... 19

Service Delivery.................................................................................................................... 19


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Monitoring and Evaluation ................................................................................................... 19

Key Activities under Program Development ............................................................................ 20

Organizational Development and Financial Sustainability ........................................................... 23

Key Objectives of GRDOs’ Organizational Development & Financial Sustainability ............ 23

Strategic Priorities and Direction .............................................................................................. 23

Capacity Building ................................................................................................................. 23

Strengthened Internal Governance and Management ........................................................... 23

Fundraising and partnership .................................................................................................. 24

Key Activities under Organizational Development & Financial Sustainability ....................... 24

Landmark ...................................................................................................................................... 26

SWOT Analysis ............................................................................................................................ 30


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Acronyms BL Bonded Labour BoD Board of Directors CNIC Computrized National Identity Card CSOs Civil Society Organizations CSW Commission on the Status of Women DCC District Coordination Committee DRR Disaster Risk Reduction DVC District Vigilance Committees FFS Farmers’ Field School GBV Gender Based Violence GDP Gross Domestic Product GNP Gross National Product GRDO Green Rural Development Organization HMT Hari Mazdoor Tehrik (Peasant Labours’ Organization) HR Human Resource IEC Information, Education and Communication INGOs International Nongovernmental Organizations M&E Monitoring & Evaluation MGG Millennium Development Goals NFI Non Food Item NGOs Nongovernmental Organizations OGDCL Oil and Gas Development Company Limited SED Small Enterprise Development SEF Sindh Education foundation SEPA Sindh Environment Protection Agency UC Union Council UN United Nations WASH Water and Sanitation & Hygiene WTO World Trade Organization YDC Youth Democratic Council


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Executive Summary Green Rural Development Organization (GRDO) was established in year 1997 by politically motivated peasants and agricultural worker and registered under the Society’s Act 1860. The philosophy behind the establishment of GRDO was to initiating a constant struggle for a society where every peasant and agricultural worker will enjoy complete life having equal rights without any discrimination. In over a decade’s history of community service, GRDO has evolved to a new position as a representative body of peasants, agriculture workers and bonded labour with rights based agenda of empowering the vulnerable groups of society. Along the way it has implemented several advocacy, livelihood and relief projects as well as partnered and networked with local, provincial, national and international organizations strengthening its position as a proactive social change actor. GRDO realizes that its external environment is rapidly changing which affects organizations effectiveness. GRDO acknowledges this inconspicuous transition and have responded sporadically to make itself relevant through a documented long term plan. GRDO desires to manage its change process consciously. We desire to manage our change process consciously. This required a proper strategic planning process for which GRDO needed external technical assistance and this strategic plan is an outcome of institutional capacity building initiatives to strengthen GRDO struggle which was developed through engaging a development professional. In the Strategic Planning workshop a repeat of exercise within organization with key staff, board members and communities a thorough analysis of internal strengths and weaknesses and external opportunities and threats has been carried out. This process has enabled to revisit and revise vision, mission, objective and strategies in line with new realities. As a result, this Strategic plan has been devised (i) to improve and build up relevance, efficiency and effectiveness of social development services; and (ii) to give the ability to withstand and rebound from predictable, irregular and severe events to sustain the process of organizational development. It is envisaged that the way forward proposed in this strategic plan will in turn have significant bearing on Internal Governance, Financial Management and Service Delivery Systems and capacities of organization in future. It is also envisioned that this will ultimately result in enabling GRDO to reach out to, and get the buy in of a wider audience for its program interventions in future.


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Introduction Green Rural Development Organization (GRDO) is a non-political, non-governmental and not-for-profit organization which represents the deprived and underprivileged segments especially landless peasants, agricultural labour and daily wage labour of the far flung areas. GRDO is registered under the Society’s Registration Act of 1860. Green Rural Development Organization (GRDO) has been formed by politically motivated peasants and agricultural workers in 1997 aiming to construct a democratic society where all individuals may entertain their all rights without any discrimination. Green Rural Development Organization (GRDO) has been founded on values of transparency, confidence, participatory approach, team work, commitment and efficiency based on the principles and philosophy of development and co-ordination among all the stake holders in the development process. Its programs reflect successful development practice based on the practical responses to local problems and opportunities. Green Rural Development Organization (GRDO) since its inception is playing an active role for socio-economic betterment and cultural development of the society through applying right based approach. GRDO has successfully been managed and implemented projects on democracy and good governance and achieved remarkable milestones. GRDO has implemented several projects on eradication of bounded labour, raising awareness on democratic values, promotion and protection of human rights of agricultural workers and peasants with support of Action Aid Pakistan, Trocaire International, Global Fund for Human Rights, Law Justice Commission of Pakistan, and International Labour Organization-Pakistan. Green Rural Development Organization (GRDO) has extensive working experience with government and GRDO successfully motivated district government in respective district to take concrete measure to eradicate bonded labourers and rehabilitation of freed families from bondage. GRDO has successfully institutionalized and activated “District Vigilance Committees” (DVC) against heinous form of inhuman activity of “Bonded Labour” in five districts i.e. Hyderabad, Tando Allahyar, Matiari, Tando Mohammad Khan and Jamshoro of Sindh province. GRDO is nominated member on the board of District Coordination Committee (DCC) in district Hyderabad. The DCC is aimed to eradicate child labour in the agriculture and other information industrial sectors. GRDO has also been working closely with ‘Sindh Environment Protection Agency’ (SEPA) to control the environmental degradation and pollution.


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Strategic Directions Vision Discrimination Free Society with Equal Rights for all

Mission Empowering communities economically, socially, and politically to build a discrimination free society

Objectives • To promote and protect human rights to eliminate discrimination • To ensure peace through promoting interfaith harmony and justice • To eradicate bonded labour through adopting research based advocacy and sensitization of

stakeholders • To empower marginalized communities through building their socio-economic and political

capacities • To ensure food security and livelihood through promoting sustainable agricultural methods • To improve resilience of underprivileged communities to future shocks through community-

based disaster risk reduction (DRR) practices and mechanisms

Core Values • GRDO respects the rights, culture and dignity of all people and stakeholders it is working

with • GRDO considers all human beings are equal irrespective of gender, caste, creed, beliefs,

affiliation or political commitment • GRDO gives top priority to the interests of the vulnerable groups such as women and

children • GRDO believes in participatory approaches in all its work and intervention. • GRDO opposes discrimination of all kinds

Guiding Principles • GRDO is an open, secular, non-sectarian, democratic institute, not linked with any particular

religious, political or ethnic ideology. • GRDO is committed to build a responsible and equitable society where everyone have

access to basic needs and rights and have an equal opportunity to participate in democratic and development process

• GRDO respects and ensures sovereignty of all its stakeholders


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Program Development Key objectives of GRDO’s Program Development • Promote and protect human rights of peasants, agricultural workers and minority’s and

seeking policy changes for equal rights through advocacy, research and information dissemination.

• Promote economic development for poverty alleviation through small enterprise development and livelihoods especially for young girls and women of freed families.

• Promote environment sustainability at all levels • Increase access to education, health, water and sanitation through community participation • Respond to humanitarian emergencies by helping people cope with crisis, through disaster

risk reduction, emergency relief, preparedness and post-crisis recovery.

Program Development Summary Programmatic Themes • Human Rights

• Social Development o Livelihood, o Education, o Healthcare, o Infrastructure Development

• Gender Empowerment • Youth Leadership Development

Cross Cutting • Community mobilization • Advocacy and Networking • Gender • Environmental Sustainability • Media and Communication • Emergencies and disaster Management • Monitoring and Evaluation

Key Strategies • Research and Advocacy • Awareness Raising • Partnership Building • Networking & Lobbying • Service Delivery • Monitoring and Evaluation

Key Activities Human Rights: • Conduct research studies on farmers, minority, women, children and human rights

violations and other social, economic and political issues for policy advocacy. • Development and publication of IEC material (research, translation of international

conventions (UN conventions), Pakistan Constitution, Case stories, brochures, leaflets,


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posters, newsletters • Organize peace walks / demonstrations / seminars / workshops/conferences • Increased access to information about basic human, socio-economic and political rights of

people by organizing theatre performances • Development of Human Rights Manual • Development of Video documentary on plight of bonded labours, child labour, and socio-

economic conditions of those who freed from feudal private jails • Organize Talk Shows on radio / television • Launching of advocacy campaign on social media farmers, minority, women, children and

human rights violations and other social, economic and political issues for policy advocacy • Organize Trainings on human rights and democratic practices for human right defenders

and peasants activists • Conduct coordination / networking meeting with all stakeholders i.e. communities,

government, international community which includes funding sources • Increase empowerment of communities especially women through social mobilization,

organization and capacity building and facilitation to form women’s association to assert and protect their collective rights.

Social Development: Livelihood:

• Enhance skills of poor families especially women through establishing skill development centres and provision of skills in various marketable trades.

• Increase level of incomes through small enterprise development (SED) and linkages building with support system, marketing of products prepared especially women through conduct and participation in exhibitions.

• Development of gender based food and agriculture value chain • Organize training of farmers in improved and sustainable methods of cultivation, efficient

water usage, poultry forming, livestock management • Raising awareness on Kitchen gardening and establishment of nurseries

Education: • Improve access to education through establishing shelter schools for children in very

remote areas in collaboration with government and other donor agencies. • Increased enrolment of poor and working children (dropout and new) in schools by

launching campaign, motivating parents and creating necessary financial and kind support. Healthcare:

• Improve health status of peasants and labours through increased provision of health facilities and access to health services for women and children.

• Decrease Mother and child mortality rates and improve reproductive health through raising awareness on basic healthcare, hygiene, timely vaccination, mother and child healthcare, reproductive health, balanced nutrition, anti-drug campaigns, water born diseases, sexual transmitted diseases, Hepatitis

• Improve health hygiene practices though awareness raising workshops, seminars, and mother and teacher meetings etc about sanitation, hygiene and communicative diseases.

• Conduct coordination meetings with government health department regarding remote


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areas where vaccination is not taking place Infrastructure Development:

• Construction of low cost housing units on specific land of GRDO for peasants, agriculture workers and daily wage labours freed from feudal private jails

• Launching of advocacy campaign for getting peasants, agricultural workers and daily wage labours registered with government to ensure their ownership rights over houses

• Provide basic WASH facilities to freed labour at their temporary campsites and construct permanent WASH facilities at specific land of GRDO for peasants, agriculture workers and daily wage labours freed from feudal private jails

• Ensure safe drinking water for peasants, agriculture workers and daily wage labours freed from feudal private jails through installation of hand pumps and construction of water supply schemes.

Gender Empowerment: • Increased awareness of communities on early marriages (child marriages) and other gender

issues through seminars and awareness raising sessions. • Development of complain mechanism and form legal advisory boards to provide legal

assistance to GBV victims • Organize counselling sessions with GBV victims • Empower communities especially women through imparting training on gender issues, and

policy reforms in their support. Youth Leadership Development: • Investigate current trends and ideas for youth leadership development. • Identify the specific social and developmental issues that the youth in your target

population face. • Mobilize youths to form Youth Democratic Councils (YDC) • Design and Establish Political Education School • Develop training manual and conduct training on the topics of Governance; Accountability,

Transparency and Democracy. o Socio – Economic and Political situation analysis. o Role of State and Civil Society o Globalization, Market Economy and Political Instability o Water and Energy crisis in Pakistan o Rule of law, Peace and Injustice o Developing and Monitoring of Social Watch Indicators o Training on Advocacy and Networking.

• Establish Information and Resource Centre (IRC) • Conduct Seminars/ Dialogues/Youth conferences • Organize Exposure visits/study visits and recreational activities


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Program Development Description

Strategic Priorities of Program Development GRDO’s vision, mission and strategic priorities for delivering services to communities and society at large are inspired and driven by Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The goals are intended to increase an individual’s human capacities and advance the means to a productive life. MDGs assert that every individual has the right to dignity, freedom, equality, a basic standard of living that includes freedom from hunger and violence, and encourages tolerance and solidarity. The MDGs emphasized three areas: Human Capital, Infrastructure and Human Rights (Social, Economical and Political) with the intent of increasing living standards. Human rights objectives include empowering women, reducing violence, increasing political voice, ensuring equal access to public services and increasing security of property rights. The goals were intended to increase an individual’s human capabilities and "advance the means to a productive life". The MDGs emphasize that each nation's policies should be tailored to that country's needs; therefore most policy suggestions are general. Human rights are essential to achieving and sustaining development. The Millennium Declaration, adopted by all the world’s leaders in 2000 recognized the link between human rights, good governance and development. As of 2013, progress towards the goals was uneven. Some countries achieved many goals, while others were not on track to realize any. A UN conference in September 2010 reviewed progress to date and concluded with the adoption of a global plan to achieve the eight goals by their target date. New commitments targeted women's and children's health, and new initiatives in the worldwide battle against poverty, hunger and disease. They represent our commitment to work with people affected by poverty, social exclusion, conflict and natural disasters. Protecting rights and building human capacities and security are the strategic interventions GRDO will focus. In line with MDGs framework, following key strategies will help us achieve our goals.

Programmatic Themes • Human Rights • Social Development

o Livelihood, o Education, o Healthcare, o Infrastructure Development

• Gender Empowerment • Youth Leadership Development

Human Rights The term ‘human rights’ refers to those rights that have been recognized by the global community in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations (UN) Member States in 1948, and in subsequent international legal instruments binding on states.

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The Universal Declaration is a landmark document. It recognizes that a world in which all human beings enjoy freedom of speech, freedom of belief, freedom from want and freedom from fear is the highest aspiration of all humankind. The global community recognized that it is equally essential to ensure that economic or social power does not dispossess the less powerful of their ability to meet their basic needs. In addition, international human rights law obliges states to take positive steps to ensure the realization of human rights, with a particular obligation to assist the most disadvantaged or vulnerable sectors of society. However, every child, woman and man is entitled to enjoy his or her human rights simply by virtue of being human. It is this universality of human rights. Human rights are premised on the recognition of the equal worth and dignity of every human being regardless of any distinguishing characteristic such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. This gives rise to the twin fundamental principles of equality and non-discrimination. Considering the violation and exploitation of fundamental human rights of indigenous communities, GRDO aims to address the issues in order to reduce poverty and marginalization of peasants, agricultural and daily wage labour, and minorities. Together with building assets of children, women and minorities, GRDO aims to bring changes in attitudes, roles and behaviour that are essential for mainstreaming the more marginalized segment of the society.

Social Development (Livelihood, Education, Healthcare, Infrastructure) The worst situation in livelihood, education, healthcare of peasants and agricultural and daily wage labour led GRDO to keep an especial focus on these sectors as a key to social development. Livelihood: Agriculture remains a significant economic activity in Pakistan, employing nearly 45% of the total workforce. While it generates about a quarter of the national GDP, the agricultural sector is not very productive. Skewed landownership and exploitative production practices remain significant factors in perpetuating this lacklustre agricultural performance. The share of Sindh province in Pakistan's agriculture value added accounts roughly for 25 percent. Sindh is typically rich in rangeland resources (about 55% of its land surface). The share of agriculture in Sindh GDP, which was 30% in 1999–2000, is estimated to have drastically declined to about 20% during the last five years due to a variety of physical, sociological and institutional framework factors. One of the main institutional constraints in Sindh is the highly skewed land ownership pattern and defunct tenancy system. Peasant (Haris) of Sindh today faces grave atrocities and exploitations. They depict the worst picture of slavery in the 21st century, while no political party has a clear and comprehensive program for their liberation and no provision can be seen in fiscal budgets for welfare of peasants of Sindh. There are many aspects of this injustice, in which landlords, traders and local and international capitalism are involved side by side. Presently, the feudal system is the number one enemy of the Haris of Sindh and the State institutions are fully supporting these feudal lords. Currently among other provinces, Sindh has the highest incidence of absolute landlessness, with 26% or two million households have no land, while 26 percent of 700,000 household possess the lowest share in land. Majority of the rural people have agriculture as major source


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of livelihoods in Sindh. It employs 13.46 million people having 7.74 million as rural and 5.72 urban workforce. But for the majority, working arrangements in agriculture wage work, tenant farming, share cropping –are exploitative and/or yield little earnings. GRDO, under its thematic area “Social Development”, prioritize Livelihood as top priority of peasants and agricultural workers. GRDO aims to improve the livelihoods and economic security of peasants and agricultural workers through in-kind support to restore and/or protect the farm production capacities and off-farm income generating activities of vulnerable peasant families, to enhance the skills and knowledge base of men and women peasant farmers, landless people and unemployed youth through technical support in post-harvest management and vocational skills and empowering peasant organisations, youth and women groups, etc and their constituent Hari members to enhance their natural resource base (land, water, vegetation, etc) while strengthening their resilience to future shocks. Education: Article A-25 of the Constitution ensures compulsory and free primary education to children aged 5-16, while Articles 37-B and 38 of the second chapter of the 1973 Constitution, also guarantee free basic education. The Article 26 (1) of the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights guaranteed (in 1948) that every human has right to basic education. Article 28 of the Universal Charter of Children’s Rights in 1989 accepted that all children have right to basic education. The second target of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs designed in April 2000) include basic education for 100% of the world by 2015 but this target remains unachievable in many parts of the underdeveloped world such as Pakistan. The reason for the deterioration of education in government schools in Pakistan, especially primary and secondary education, is that the standard of educational expenditure set by the UNESCO is minimum 4% of the GNP, but Pakistan during last 66 years has been spending on an average only 2% of the GNP. The state of education in Sindh is best reflected in its literacy figures and in the serious disparity between rural and urban areas. The Sindh has the largest number of ghost schools in the country and thousands ghost teachers draw government salaries. The education sector in Sindh is faced many challenges; major being very low enrolment level, rural and gender disparity, and low level of quality education. Besides, the alarming fact that there is a large number of out of school children, even those in the systems are not performing and learning outcomes are less than optimal. There are also issues of large number of closed schools and poor infrastructure in functional schools. In light of worst conditions of education systems, quality and infrastructure, GRDO has put its special concentration over educational awareness with particular focus on girls’ education. GRDO Education program aims to strengthen existing schools system to bring socio-economic and sustainable development in the region. The focus of the GRDO is centred chiefly on improving education standard at primary and secondary levels and providing extra curriculum opportunities to address the needs of youth in rural and remote areas. Healthcare: In Sindh maternal health facilities and proper reproductive care is not available at the required scale. Many women, especially in rural localities, find themselves at risk due to poor provision and lack of access to knowledge and health professionals. Low levels of maternal health and nutrition coupled with high fertility rates lead to high mortality and morbidity among mothers


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and also children, particularly in the rural areas. The lack of such healthcare endangers the life of the mother and the child. In Sindh the fertility rates average at 6.0 births by women by the age 45-49 and more than 4,000 mothers die every year due to pregnancy related issues. Consequently, poor women's health in Sindh is as much a medical as social problem. Underlying factors here are the lack of awareness of and attention to, women's health needs; women's lower education and social status; and social constraints on women and girls, including the practice of seclusion. Thus, GRDO has adopted a holistic approach to women’s health which includes both nutrition and health services and special attention to be given to the needs of women and the girls at all stages of the life cycle. In view of the high risk of malnutrition and disease that women face at all the three critical stages viz., infancy and childhood, adolescent and reproductive phase, focused attention will be paid to meeting the nutritional needs of women at all stages of the life cycle. Infrastructure Development: Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its subsequent reaffirmation at the 1996 UN Habitat Conference, adequate shelter for all has been recognized as a basic human need. Pakistan has been facing shortfall of about six million housing units. In 1998, there were 19.3 million housing units nationwide with an average of 6.8 occupants. Surveys indicate that 40% of the population of Sindh is chronically poor. This mammoth proportion of population, which is scarcely able to arrange two square meals a day, is unable to purchase houses for their family. More than 80 percent rural workers do not own their houses. They live under the age-old feudal system, which does not grant them right to shelter. In this regard, GRDO aims to strive for the ownership rights of peasants and agricultural workers on houses. GRDO takes efforts to get all human settlements that are situated on the state land of any kind held by any civil and non civil government departments/institutions, in rural area, be registered. Moreover, GRDO aims to help out communities to construct and manage Community Infrastructure projects which are actually their basic prioritized needs. Low cost housing for peasants, agricultural workers and daily wage labour is top priority of GRDO’s programmatic theme of Infrastructure Development under Social Development. Provision of basic WASH facilities is also priority area of GRDP’s infrastructure development program.

Gender Empowerment Two thirds of the world’s illiterate adults are female and over 65% of its poorest people are women and girls. United Nations identified the rural women as a catalyst for change if the objective of eradicating poverty is to be attained. Women and gender development is a cross cutting theme in all interventions. The Third United Nations Women’s Conference in Nairobi in 1985 was one of the first international forums that made explicit the linkages between sustainable development and women’s involvement and empowerment as well as gender equality and equity. The 1990's have seen increasing recognition of the centrality of women's empowerment to the success of development programs. The empowerment of women was essential to the declarations and platforms for action of the 1990 World Conference on Education for All, the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, the 1993 Human Rights Conference, the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, the 1995 World Summit for Social Development, and the Regional Preparatory Conferences for the 1995


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Fourth World Conference on Women. This increased appreciation for and understanding of women's pivotal role in the development process has also been reflected in the goals and priorities of organizations and agencies in the United Nations system. The UN Secretary General endorsed the seven priority areas in his opening remarks to the 49th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in March 2005, in New York and combat violence against women and girls was one of the top seven priorities of MDGs. The Millennium Project Report identifies the mounting of vigorous campaigns to combat violence against women as a possible “quick win” action that should be taken to accelerate achievement of the MDGs. The goal is to mobilize leadership at the national, regional and global levels to make violence unacceptable. In the last decade, the issue of violence against women has moved from the shadows to the foreground of commitments to attain sustainable development. Women’s rights advocates have mobilized within and across countries and regions to secure significant changes in national, regional and international standards and policies addressing gender-based violence. Worst gender disparity in rural areas of Sindh province has led GRDO to focus more on gender equality and empowerment through mainstreaming them in development process. GRDO intends to bring women and girls in a leadership role to ensure their access to their fundamental rights, resources, and opportunities by providing them a space to utilize their full potential, skills and knowledge for individual and collective development. GRDO believes that women are faced with economic, social, cultural, political and religious discriminations in the society. Thus, GRDO will rigorously focus the betterment, welfare, empowerment of the women and work to narrow the Gender gap.

Youth Leadership Development In order for youth to be prepared to work in partnership with adults, they need to develop and/or enhance their leadership skills. Leadership training prepares youth to manage time, work as a team, set goals, start conversations, facilitate meetings, and make effective presentations. Promoting youth leadership development is a great way to promote positive life skills learning. To fully participate with adults, youth also need to be informed about the adult perspective of the problem, challenge or issue being discussed: the jargon that adults use to describe their work; and strategies for approaching the work. In other words, we need to be sure the field is level for all of the players. Youth development is a process that prepares young people to meet the challenges of adolescence and adulthood through a coordinated, progressive series of activities and experiences that help them to become socially, morally, emotionally, physically, and cognitively competent. Youth leadership is an important part of the youth development process. Youth leadership is both an internal and an external process leading to (1) the ability to guide or direct others on a course of action, influence their opinion and behaviour, and show the way by going in advance; and (2) the ability to analyze one’s own strengths and weaknesses, set personal and vocational goals, and have the self-esteem to carry them out.

Cross Cutting • Community mobilization • Advocacy and Networking


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• Gender • Environmental Sustainability • Media and Communication • Emergencies and disaster Management • Monitoring and Evaluation

Community Mobilization Community Mobilization is an approach that enables people to organize for collective action, by pooling resources and building unity required to resolve common problems and work towards community advancement. In this regard, GRDO facilitates a process that empowers women and men to organize their own democratically self-governing grassroots level institutions which enable them to initiate and control their own personal and collective development. GRDO focuses more on organizational development, capital formation for sustainable development through capacity building and socio-economic development. GRDO initiates processes through which communities are sensitized for a positive change and wellbeing. GRDO uses community mobilization as tool to motivate marginalized, ignorant and poor communities to bring them in mainstream. GRDO Community Mobilization is aimed at creating a major thrust to solve problems of national magnitude by promoting participation of all possible sectors and civil society, mobilization of local resources, use of indigenous knowledge and enhancement of people’s creativity and productivity through mass campaign.

Advocacy and Networking Advocacy: Advocacy is about creation, reform or influence to amendment of policies but also about effective implementation and enforcement of policies. Advocacy is a means to an end, another way to address the problems that organizations are aimed to solve through other programming strategies. Advocacy is the deliberate process of influencing those who make policy decision. Considering the importance, GRDO includes advocacy in each of its themes and it seems necessary to adopt advocacy tools to highlight and make matters publicly. GRDO advocates creating a discrimination free society where everyone could enjoy equal rights. GRDO advocacy campaigns focuses on socio-economic status of peasants, agricultural workers, daily wage labours and bonded labours. GRDO also strives through launching advocacy campaigns to bring bonded labour, child labour and gender inequality to an end. Provision of quality education and adequate healthcare services to peasants and agricultural workers and freed labourers Networking The term network and networking are presently widely used, not least in the NGO sector. In spite of their apparent novelty, the practice of networking is probably as old as mankind. It is well known that people everywhere and in all times take measures to capitalize on their social relations in order to deal with the challenges of life. Networking thus, is a new name for an ancient practice. Networking is a mechanism that links people and organizations that share some kind of common goal. Networking facilitates interaction between experts in different areas and promotes the sharing of ideas and information between the NGOs and the people. The networking also helps to seek issue-based information in the sectors that they are working


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in. It explores techniques to support community groups and enables NGOs to increase institutional capacities. Hence, GRDO while working to highlight the plight of peasants, agricultural workers, daily wage labours and bonded labours considers networking at national and international level an essential part of its struggle. So far, GRDO builds up its relations with international and national coalitions and shares its experiences, challenges and coping strategies. This approach helps to spread messages widely and attain successfully favour at national and international level on peasants and agricultural workers’ issues.

Gender Considering the importance of the gender, GRDO have developed a Gender and Anti Sexual Harassment Policy and focuses more on increasing participation of women in entire its struggle. Giving due respect and dignity to women has built up repute of GRDO and peasants and agricultural workers have allowed their female members of family to actively take part in development interventions and join hands in struggle of getting basic rights over livelihood resources.

Environment Natural capital can play an important role to boost the economic growth and to accelerate the pace of development. However, there is a growing concern of environmental degradation in the country which if not checked and rehabilitated can exacerbate poverty. Also, the learning on ground suggests that unless communities are appropriately involved at all levels (from planning to implementation) of execution of the activity, none of the initiatives get sustained. GRDO will strive for optimum natural resource management through participatory approaches and introduction of new techniques for promotion of agriculture, forestry, water resource management and livestock.

Media & Communication It is internationally accepted principle that in any struggle communication is key element to maintain link with stakeholders. Without effective communication at grassroots and governmental level, tasks can never be achieved. Considering the importance of communication, GRDO strengthen its relations with media and engage electronic and print media in entire its interventions and activities. GRDO regularly provides information to media personnel and pays frequent visits and conducts meetings with journalists and keeps them informed about GRDO activities and struggle. However, media also plays a vital role in advocacy campaign of GRDO and through their valuable inputs; voice of deprived and unprivileged peasants is heard in power corridors. In addition, GRDO activities including advocacy campaigns, protests, seminars, training workshops, get together, rallies, theatres, consultative meetings and relief and rehabilitative activities receive significant coverage in reputable local, regional and national newspapers.

Emergencies and Disaster Management Climate change is an emerging threat for our planet. It has manifested in disasters of unpredictable frequency and intensity in different parts of world. Sindh is facing multitude of impacts ensuing from climate change phenomenon. The Super Floods of 2010 and the cyclones of 1999 and 2007 are grim reminders of the fact that we are negotiating a serious challenge


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posed by climate change. About 90% of the natural disasters in Sindh are due to the changing climate. The most alarming thing is that the frequency of these natural disasters is going up with 60% occurring in the past ten years. The region/province is susceptible to wide-ranging hazards from droughts to floods to earthquakes to cyclones. Disasters and calamities are among the sources of poverty. Disasters ruin the lives, snatch the livelihood means and destabilize the whole society. No social development program can overlook the disasters. Geographically and socio-politically, many areas in the country are highly prone to both natural and man-made disasters. Emergency relief is a vital part of GRDO’s work to create lasting solutions to poverty. Poor communities/peasants/agricultural workers lack the basic resources to cope with the struggles of everyday life. When disasters strike, that struggle becomes all but impossible without external assistance. GRDO is committed to help communities recover and rebuild after disaster strikes.

Monitoring & Evaluation All development activities need a careful and watchful eye to ensure proper and result oriented implementation process. GRDO ensures participation of communities in monitoring process by holding regular meetings and community conferences. Beginning from field, monitoring network is spread up to periodic review workshop held on each quarter and Board of Directors’ meeting. In these meetings and workshops various issues are discussed at length and discussion is incorporated with objectives and planning. It strengthens the system and staff capacity and capability. GRDO’s M&E unit plays an active and pivotal role in organization in order to achieve the targets and to review overall performance of the organization. It performance regular monitoring and reporting of all projects, management, organization and imitations of inter as well as external evaluations. Through these tools, techniques and strategies M&E presents a true picture of the state of organizational affairs. The variations are recorded and analysis of causes is made accordingly. Lesson learnt are identified for future planning. M&E provides continuous feedback on the impact of GRDO’s work to the management as well as other development partners. These all activities show the importance of sections role. M&E is like a transparency and litmus paper for an organization through which every activity could be seen accurately.

Key Strategies • Research and Advocacy • Awareness Raising • Partnership Building • Networking & Lobbying • Service Delivery • Monitoring and Evaluation

Research and Advocacy GRDO will continue to pursue advocacy & research on various social, political and economical issues by developing linkages with government and other CSOs. Women, human, labour and farmers’ rights violation and role of institutions are among focus of the organization. Advocacy consists of different strategies aimed at influencing decision-making at the organizational, local,


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provincial, national and international levels. Advocacy strategies can include lobbying, social marketing, information, education and communication (IEC), community organizing, or many other tactics. For its campaign, GRDO will use all the means including print and electronic media to create mass awareness.

Awareness Raising GRDO will continue to raise awareness on different issues of discrimination against the women and children in the society and policy makers. GRDO will arrange different type of activities such as rallies, walks, seminars etc to raise awareness among the different stakeholders on the different issues of violence against women and children.

Partnership Building There are huge resources available with the support system especially, the government that should reach the deserving people. GRDO will continue to sensitize support system and work as a bridge between communities and social development agencies/NGOs, government system, corporate sector such as banks etc to facilitate flow resources to the poor and needy.

Networking There is an issue for which mass mobilization and collective efforts of organizations are required to transform existing socio-economic structures and foster social change. Networking also helps in accessing and sharing information, capacity building and training, accessing donor funding etc. GRDO will continue to work with organizations and networks to highlight development issues in concerted manner and remain effective part of civil society movements. For this, GRDO will retain membership of existing networks, acquire other likeminded groups and form networks of its own beneficiaries.

Service Delivery The prevalent service delivery mechanisms greatly lack quantity and quality, efficacy and effective to reach out to communities based on their genuine needs. People cannot wait for life to meet their basic needs of education, health, water and sanitation. If sate machinery which has prime responsibility to respond is slow, needs should be met through alternative mechanisms. There is a strong need for service delivery organizations that have deep roots and good understanding of socio-economic conditions and qualified people.

Monitoring and Evaluation Within development community, there is a strong focus on results which helps explain growing interest in M&E. Until recently, M&E has primarily met donor needs for proving or legitimizing the purpose of the program by demonstrating the effective use of resources. However, there is a growing awareness of the need for practitioners to conduct their own evaluation activities in order to increase understanding of development results, which in turn lead to increased learning and improving within their organization. This LEARNING function enhances organizational and development learning to increase the understanding of why particular interventions have been more or less successful. Additionally, this understanding informs decision making and potentially improves performance.


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Key Activities under Program Development Programmatic Theme Key Activities Human Rights • Conduct research studies on farmers, minority, women, children

and human rights violations and other social, economic and political issues for policy advocacy.

• Development and publication of IEC material (research, translation of international conventions (UN conventions), Pakistan Constitution, Case stories, brochures, leaflets, posters, newsletters

• Organize peace walks / demonstrations / seminars / workshops/conferences

• Increased access to information about basic human, socio-economic and political rights of people by organizing theatre performances

• Development of Human Rights Manual • Development of Video documentary on plight of bonded

labours, child labour, and socio-economic conditions of those who freed from feudal private jails

• Organize Talk Shows on radio / television • Launching of advocacy campaign on social media farmers,

minority, women, children and human rights violations and other social, economic and political issues for policy advocacy

• Organize Trainings on human rights and democratic practices for human right defenders and peasants activists

• Conduct coordination / networking meeting with all stakeholders i.e. communities, government, international community which includes funding sources

• Increase empowerment of communities especially women through social mobilization, organization and capacity building and facilitation to form women’s association to assert and protect their collective rights.

Social Development Livelihood • Enhance skills of poor families especially women through

establishing skill development centres and provision of skills in various marketable trades.

• Increase level of incomes through small enterprise development (SED) and linkages building with support system, marketing of products prepared especially women through conduct and participation in exhibitions.

• Development of gender based food and agriculture value chain • Organize training of farmers in improved and sustainable

methods of cultivation, efficient water usage, poultry forming,


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livestock management • Raising awareness on Kitchen gardening and establishment of

nurseries Education • Improve access to education through establishing shelter

schools for children in very remote areas in collaboration with government and other donor agencies.

• Increased enrolment of poor and working children (dropout and new) in schools by launching campaign, motivating parents and creating necessary financial and kind support.

Healthcare • Improve health status of peasants and labours through increased provision of health facilities and access to health services for women and children.

• Decrease Mother and child mortality rates and improve reproductive health through raising awareness on basic healthcare, hygiene, timely vaccination, mother and child healthcare, reproductive health, balanced nutrition, anti-drug campaigns, water born diseases, sexual transmitted diseases, Hepatitis

• Improve health hygiene practices though awareness raising workshops, seminars, and mother and teacher meetings etc about sanitation, hygiene and communicative diseases.

• Conduct coordination meetings with government health department regarding remote areas where vaccination is not taking place

Infrastructure Development

• Construction of low cost housing units on specific land of GRDO for peasants, agriculture workers and daily wage labours freed from feudal private jails

• Launching of advocacy campaign for getting peasants, agricultural workers and daily wage labours registered with government to ensure their ownership rights over houses

• Provide basic WASH facilities to freed labour at their temporary campsites and construct permanent WASH facilities at specific land of GRDO for peasants, agriculture workers and daily wage labours freed from feudal private jails

• Ensure safe drinking water for peasants, agriculture workers and daily wage labours freed from feudal private jails through installation of hand pumps and construction of water supply schemes.

Gender Empowerment • Increased awareness of communities on early marriages (child marriages) and other gender issues through seminars and awareness raising sessions.

• Development of complain mechanism and form legal advisory boards to provide legal assistance to GBV victims


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• Organize counselling sessions with GBV victims • Empower communities especially women through imparting

training on gender issues, and policy reforms in their support. Youth Leadership Development

• Investigate current trends and ideas for youth leadership development.

• Identify the specific social and developmental issues that the youth in your target population face.

• Mobilize youths to form Youth Democratic Councils (YDC) • Design and Establish Political Education School • Develop training manual and conduct training on the topics of

Governance; Accountability, Transparency and Democracy. o Socio – Economic and Political situation analysis. o Role of State and Civil Society o Globalization, Market Economy and Political Instability o Water and Energy crisis in Pakistan o Rule of law, Peace and Injustice o Developing and Monitoring of Social Watch Indicators o Training on Advocacy and Networking.

• Establish Information and Resource Centre (IRC) • Conduct Seminars/ Dialogues/Youth conferences • Organize Exposure visits/study visits and recreational activities


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Organizational Development and Financial Sustainability

Key Objectives of GRDOs’ Organizational Development & Financial Sustainability • Improve Organizational Systems i.e. governance, policies, procedures, and M&E,

Operations, • Develop and implement resource mobilization strategy

Strategic Priorities and Direction Since inception, GRDO has continued to develop its interest in organizational development. GRDO tend to improve its work processes which have resulted in increased professionalism in finance, human resources and program management. A team culture permeates all of the work along with a willingness to share ideas. This has resulted in the development of a talented group of people who are constantly searching for new and improved ways of making a difference. GRDO desires to valuable social development organization that offers constructive work environment, best project management, human resource and financial practices. Through putting in place required financial resources, technology and relevant infrastructure, systems and competent human resources, GRDO will achieve enviable institutional effective and quality. GRDO desires for creating a lasting impact. To manage change in the organization, GRDO will regularly assess its progress for improvements in financial and other resources and guide people to gain specific capabilities and expertise. GRDO’s strategic priorities are highlighted below:

Capacity Building GRDO will strengthen staff capacity building mechanism to timely and effectively respond to challenges of field work, organization development and fundraising. GRDO takes serious note of skill development needs of people in the organization. GRDO will build a diverse team that is motivated, knowledgeable, skillful, and accountable and confidently delivers organization’s mission. GRDO capacity building urge will not remain limited to own organization but will reach out to its beneficiaries and local partners in order to improve human resources for managing and solving problems on sustainable basis.

Strengthened Internal Governance and Management GRDO prioritizes the element of governance as a critical factor for organization strengthening. GRDO also emphasize putting in place an empowering and motivating work environment that reflects gender balance, ethno-religious diversity, and technical specialization in our staff and volunteers. Moreover, GRDO is in a continual process of developing and implementing policies, procedures and systems. This process will be streamlined and strengthened through more proactive board and management motivation.


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Fundraising and partnership To achieve organization’s mission, GRDO will continue to enhance its fundraising activities. The continuity in the inflow of financial resource being the life blood of any organizations is critical strategic need GRDO will have to target. GRDO will focus fundraising activities that promote awareness of its work and position as trusted, professional not-for-profit organization. The GRDO will establish strategic partnerships and network with key factors involved in poverty Alleviation and Community Development. The GRDO will organize mini roundtable discussions with its development partners and other stakeholders with a view of informing them about the programs of the strategic plan and identifying possibilities for partnership and financing.

Key Activities under Organizational Development & Financial Sustainability Programmatic Theme Key Activities Capacity Building • Impart trainings for staff at local and international level in

the field of; o Organizational management o Financial management o Accounting o Management and information systems o Monitoring and Evaluation o Proposal and report writing o Communication skills o Resource mobilization o Arts of Social Mobilization o Record keeping and documentation o Office automation, and internet connection o Usage of social media o Organize local and international exposures

Strengthened Internal Governance and Management

• Conduct regular BoDs’ meeting • Conduct regular management meetings • Conduct staff reviews and appraisals • Conduct regular audits • Establish M&E Unit and develop M&E mechanism • Review, development and implementation of Polices i.e.

HR, Finance, Operations, Risk Management, partners safe guard policy, staff benefits policy, M&E Policy, and others as per requirement

• Regular networking/coordination meetings with government, INGOs UN agencies, communities

• Ensure proper security arrangements, • Proper documentation and compilation of previous

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• Development of organ gram • Ensure proper delegation of authority • Development of individuals’ emails • Re-designing of website /creation of social media i.e. face

book, twitter, blog, team viewer, linked In • Designing of E-newsletter • Printing of business cards • Development of employee ID cards • Publication of annual report / brochure, leaflets, profile • Implementation of planner • Establishing endowment fund and development of

strategy • Proper inventory recording, assets tagging, dead stock

maintaining, • Develop organization’s assets

Fundraising and Partnership • Conduct need assessment as per requirement • Proposal writing (restricted and unrestricted) • Regular meetings and reports sharing with international

NGOs and UN agencies • Regular coordination with government line department • Organize periodic forums with INGOs, Govt. functionaries

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Landmark Advocacy on Bonded Labour

GRDO successfully launched and completed 172 kilometres on foot” Long March from Jhudo city to press club Hyderabad as part of awareness rising against bonded labour. This long march was completed in 12 days and passed through 15 towns with more a participation of more than 10,000 people. The main objective of this march was to sensitized common masses on the issue of bonded labour and release of Manu Bheel family. GRDO theatre group performed street theatres during the march and also held village dialogues and cultural programs during the long march. GRDO also successfully launched and completed 50 kilometres “on foot” “Long March" from Judho to Kurni press club more than 5000 people participated the march

Institutional Development

Hari Mazdoor Tanzeem (Peasant labourer’s Organization) is a pressure group established by GRDO to help bonded labourers at gross-root level. Geographical, logistical, and financial limitations have made it hard for GRDO to reach at all places where there are issues of Bonded Labour. In situations like this, HMT workers are available to help victimized at their door step and or in their village. This makes easy for bonded labourers to approach them. HMT tries to solve the conflict locally but reports GRDO when there is a big problem. GRDO organizes trainings on human rights, women rights, labour rights and organizational management and finance management for HMT group leaders and these trained team members of the GRDO further replicate trainings at local level with financial support of the GRDO. In the March of 2005, GRDO also held a provincial consultative workshop on “Bonded Labour” with 250 participants from government line departments, civil society organizations, and peasant organizations attending the event and discussed the issues associated with bonded labour and solutions. GRDO has also organized number of seminars, workshops, demonstrations, rallies, village dialogues, theatres groups on the issue of bonded labour across Sindh province.

Release and Rehabilitation of Bonded Labourers

GRDO also supported more than 28,000 persons getting their freedom from notorious places of bonded labour in districts of Sanghar, Mirpur Khas, Badin and Umerkot, Hyderabad, Tando Muhammad khan, Nawabshah, and Thatta. GRDO provided them legal, financial and moral support and also supported them in temporary shelter, travel expenses, getting legal aid through advocates and paid the court fees for their legal cases and matters. With the continuous lobbying, GRDO finally was able to get legalised residence camp for 575 families at Sikandar Abad, Taluka Kotri of Jamshoro district and in village Mate Khan of taluka Latifabad of Hyderabad district. Purchased 29.5 acres of land at Deh Sukhpur, UC Hoosri, Deh Widh & Deh Mori UC Tando Haider of taluka and district of Hyderabad to help provide


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residential plots to freed bonded labourers living in different camps. So far, GRDO has supported more than 100 families to earn a respectful livelihood through sill development training and financial support to develop micro enterprises. GRDO has also supported more than 1000 families to get jobs for one of the family member of each family in Nooriabad Industrial Area of district Jamshoro.

Peace Building Peace building through Sports Under this theme 11 children from released bonded labour families of marginalized communities were sent to India to play cricket there to promote Peace between India and Pakistan. They played friendly tournaments in 10 mega cities of India and met with Prime Minister of India and also met with governors and high officials of different provinces and attended several public, social and cultural gatherings in India. World famous and renowned Bollywood star Mr. Sanjay Datt also hosted a dinner for these “Peace Cricketers”. On their arrival back to homeland, Prime Minister of Pakistan also met them. These children played a fund raising match in India in which more than Rs .1 million were donated for Tsunami affected communities. Peace Conferences Every year GRDO holds an “Annual Peace Conference” to address the issues of Interfaith and ethnic conflicts in Sindh. Peace March Delhi to Multan GRDO’s activists participated in the Peace March from Indian capital to the Multan city of Pakistan People to people contact between conflicting countries In year 2004, GRDO’s activists travelled to India with a group of small growers from people to people platform to promote peace in the region. Telephonic Conferences GRDO has organized 3 telephonic conferences of under 15 children of India and Pakistan. The children from India gathered at Lucknow, Jaipur, Rohtak and Pakistani children assembled at Office of Green Rural Development Organization (GRDO) at Hyderabad in years of 2005, 2006 and 2007. World Social Forum 2005 Karachi In World Social Forum at Karachi, a total of 315 activists of GRDO participated in different events.

Good Governance and Democracy

GRDO has been active in organizing demonstrations on the issue of women involvement in electoral process. GRDO thinks that women must be the part of policy making process as the legislation is of no use if it is not gender sensitized or balanced. GRDO conducts workshops on the importance of vote and holds protests against the reduction of seats for women in the National, Provincial and District Assemblies. GRDO has trained the members of 5 Union Councils on governance under “Devolution Plan”. GRDO publishes a monthly newsletter “Himmat” (Courage) that is part of GRDO’s


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efforts to promote good governance, democracy and labour rights. Education GRDO has Established 12 non formal schools to provide basic education to

the released bonded labour children and children from poor and marginalized communities, where an approximate 693 children are getting quality education. GRD also held lobbying meetings with official of education department to take over above schools run by GRDO and declare these schools a “Government Schools”. GRDO has always promoted the concept of “Children Friendly Schools”, and in doing this, GRDO has arranged number of exposure visits to child friendly schools exposure visits, and art classes where child assemblies were arranged to attract and get the attention of children and their parent to words education. Most recently, GRDO has signed an agreement with Sindh Education foundation (SEF) and United Energy Pakistan Limited to open a school at village Sodho Bheel UC Nabi Sar of district Umerkot, and at village Muhammad Bux Brohi and Zawar Shahan Malookhani in district Sanghar. More than 425 students are enrolled in the schools and getting free of cost quality education.

Healthcare GRDO has been instrumental in organizing awareness meetings with community members and arranged lectures on health issues, especially on preventive care, immunization, sanitation & water borne diseases. GRDO also worked and lobbied the officials of provincial health department and local government to get support for communities living in camps established by GRDO for freed bonded labour. GRDO also provides medical support to the released bonded labourers through a mobile dispensary and an ambulance service.

Gender and Women Development

GRDO considers women must be the integral part of the process of development because they are the half of the Pakistani population and no policy can be implemented without their active inclusion. GRDO organizes “Bi-Annual Women Assembly of Working Class Women”. These assemblies bring the women of far-flung areas together. This has provided them a unique platform to network themselves as working women. This network is now getting a momentum and speedily becoming a movement against the discrimination based on gender. GRDO supports the women with this network by arranging trainings on gender sensitization and trainings on self-employment. GRDO also organizes workshops, seminars, walks and theatres on the issue of honour-killings. GRDO undertakes awareness activities to empower women in decision making.

Youth Development

GRDO organizes leadership training camps for poor and marginalized youth and under privileged youth together to main stream the released bonded labour. GRDO has also organized cricket championship tournaments of youth groups of bonded labourers to promote healthy activities.


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Agricultural Development

GRDO also started “Farmers’ Field School” (FFS) at village Sher Khan Malokhani in district Matiari to educate farmers on “Integrated Pest Management”, and “On-Farm Water Management” and “Organic Farming”. GRDO also held “Community Dialogues” with farming community on effects of excessive use of fertilizer and pesticide in farming. GRDO also organized demonstration rallies, organised workshops and seminars to aware farming community on adverse effects of GMOS and corporate farming. GRDO also launched awareness campaign on WTO agreement and its impacts on Pakistan and Sindh. GRDO also remained active part of resistance movement against mega projects on river Indus, causing acute water shortage in Indus delta which may destroy fragile bio-diversity of Indus Delta thereby seriously effecting livelihoods of fishing communities and destroying precious mangrove forests and degrading coastal areas.

Environmental Protection

GRDO has successfully mobilized people against environmental pollution created by Zeal Pak Cement Factory and drainage of industrial waste in nearby water channels. GRDO mobilized people against deforestation in Khathar Forest area, mobilized people against land degradation and pollution by OGDCL (a state owned oil and gas oil exploring company) in Tando Alam oil field in district Hyderabad. GRDO also organized number of lobbying meetings with environment protection agency officials to take up the matter at provincial level.

Fredric Douglas Freedom Award 2009

GRDO women activist received “Fredric Douglas Freedom Award” on 13th October 2009 at Los Angles, USA. GRDO activist Ms. Veero Kohli and Dr. Hyder visited United States of America on special invitation to receive the award which consisted of a Statue and 20,000 US dollars. 500 freedom fighters and activists from 26 countries around the world were nominated by different organizations but Ms. Veero secured the award globally.

Humanitarian Aid in Disaster 2010-2011

During the supper flood 2010 and disaster caused by torrential rains in 2011 GRDO with the financial assistance of Trocaire International, ICCO and philanthropist provided Food support, Cash & NFI to 1100 families in Jamshoro, Tando Muhammad khan & Umerkot Districts. GRDO supported 15000 released bonded labourers get their Computerized National Identity Cards (CNICs) through lobbying with NADRA (registration authority) and respective local governments. GRDO also mobilized more than 12000 released bonded labourers submit their applications to help them register themselves as “Registered Voters”.


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SWOT Analysis

Internal Strengths Internal Weakness • Committed and hardworking team • Friendly working environment • Professional and Committed Team having

international exposure • Experience team in programmatic themes • Professional theatre group • Low cast service delivery • A few assets and inventory present with

the organizations (Printer Laptop, Desk top, Camera)

• 29 acres land (Organizations property) • Co-ordination with local NGO’s and

Government department • Positive approach, how to utilize resources • Organization’s Registration • Clear Vision/Mission/objectives • Resource Centre at Azad Nagar • Publication • Established Policies • Local Issues Knowledge • Bank Accounts • Membership /Affiliation • Well developed Website

• Lack of technical skills • Lack of insufficient resources i.e. human,

financial and physical • No implementation on existing policies • Shortage of assets • No proper documentation (Meeting

minutes, record keeping etc) • No Annual Reports • No branding and marking

(Broachers/leaflets and other printed material)

• Lack of Long Term Strategy • Lack of Proposal Writer

External Opportunities External Threats • Acceptance within community/target

population • Existence of volunteers cadre in

community (HMT members) • Good relation with different stakeholders • Networking with regional, national,

international networks and forums • Donor and Support Institutions • Close linkages/relations with print and

electronic media

• Socio political threats • Feudalism • Local Tribes and inter and intra community

feuds • Climate change threats • Shortage of funding • Encroachment on GRDO’s property (land)

by political influential/feudal

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