LEAD Pakistan - February Activities Update

Leadership Development Programme for Reproductive Health launched

LEAD Pakistan launched a two year project on Enabling Effective District Leadership for Reproductive Health in Pakistan, in partnership with the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The project aims to create a model of leadership development and facilitation in Khairpur and Lodhran districts of Pakistan.
www.lead.org.pk/lrh

Applicants beware--Project Proposal Writing Course

LEAD Pakistan invites applications for Distance Learning Module on Project Proposal Writing. The four week module is starting from March. The course is designed to enable the participants to develop and complete a project proposal, conforming to commonly accepted requirements of funding agencies.
www.lead.org.pk/ppw

LEAD Int’l volunteerism project highlights

LEAD Pakistan has delivered a project on volunteerism in earthquake hit area of Tehsil Balakot, with the financial aid from LEAD International. Besides creating a Disaster Response Network (DRN) consisting of 150 volunteers and six CBOs, a database-cum-web portal has also been developed to materialise two objectives.

First objective is to maintain centralised information about rescue and response specific skills, location, availability and willingness of volunteers to volunteer within and outside their region. Second objective is to enable external relief agencies’ access to information available on the web portal, so that in case of occurrence of a hazard in Balakot Tehsil or elsewhere they could seek DRN-Balakot’s instant support to initiate rescue operations.
www.lead.org.pk/volunteerism

Stakeholder sessions on climate change conclude

Issue of climate change was highlighted during the two stakeholder sessions on climate change, recently conducted by LEAD Pakistan in Lahore and Karachi, with the assistance of British High Commission.
The participants deliberated and came up with key issues, possible solutions, key players and their roles in the sectors of agriculture/food security, water, environmental impacts, ethics and governance issues.
www.lead.org.pk/acc

Release date: Monday, March 10, 2008