Emergency and rehabilitation programme team discuss future strategy
ERP fourth quarterly meeting was held in Bagh on June 6 -- 7, 2006. The meeting was attended by ActionAid ERP staff and field co-coordinators working at Bagh, Muzzaferabad and Mansehar. It was a two day meet which included follow up and review of ActionAid (ERP) work in Bagh followed by a field visit to a Sheikh Baradri and village (khilla Uttar).
The ERP staff and field coordinators briefed the participants on project update and overview on program and organizational issues highlighting the internal & external issues regarding the emergency work related in the Area. They also shared the 3-year Strategic Plan, future Policy and Advocacy plan with participants. Waqar Ahmed and Iftikhar Mahmood provided the update on finance and admin issues.
Meeting with Sheikh Baradri and their Problems
The Shiekh Bardri is living in AJK for the last 200 years but they have never been provided any sort of citizenship right. These people are the sanitation workers and are treated as ethnic minority. After the October 8th earthquake they didnt receive any support neither from the Government nor from the development sector.
ActionAid provided shelter to these landless people on the Government owned land. ActionAid played a vital role in organizing and supporting these vulnerable groups to initiate their own rights movement in the area. While talking to the community ActionAid
representatives stressed on included women in the planning process at all levels and that women should participate in the rights movement.
Meeting with Khilla Uttar
Khilla Uttar is a small village of total 60 families and ActionAid provided shelter to 52 families in the area. ActionAid is the only organization providing support in this village as no other government or Non-government organization is working in the area. ActionAid provided shelter, livestock (Buffalos and Goats), consumables, seeds (Maize) and blankets as well as cash grants to the affected families in this village.
