Overview
Where Concern works
In the North West Frontier Province, one of the provinces most severely affected by the 2005 South Asia earthquake, Concern is working on recovery and rehabilitation programmes in the Siran Valley and sub-district Balakot in Mansehra.
In Siran Valley, Concern is assisting approximately 16,000 people in earthquake recovery and rehabilitation, while in sub-district Balakot, Concern is implementing earthquake recovery and livelihoods rehabilitation activities, targeting 45,000 people.
In Quetta City, Balochistan Province, Concern’s urban development programme aims to achieve sustainable improvements in the lives of the slum dwelling urban poor through improved participatory governance, access to environmental health facilities, vocational skills enhancement and advocacy for the protection of human rights.
Concern is also striving to improve the lives of Quetta’s street and working children by providing over 1,800 children attending three drop-in-centres with food, hygiene facilities, child-focused health education, life skills and vocational training.
In the isolated and drought-affected district of Awaran, under the auspices of the Awaran Rural Development Programme, Concern is working with local partners to improve access to water for domestic and agricultural purposes, to increase access to health care, and to increase livelihood opportunities through vocational training.
In Punjab Province, through the Rawalpindi Urban Development Programme, Concern is working with local partners, and supporting around 300,000 urban poor people to realise their rights and strengthen their capacity to take action to improve access to basic services, within the recently devolved government structure. Activities include the strengthening of urban management systems, increasing access to primary health care, improving access to water and sanitation and developing more livelihoods opportunities.
Concern’s Rawalpindi Rural Development Programme aims to make sustainable improvements in the health and livelihoods of 45,000 people, in sub-district Kotli Satian, with an emphasis on environmental conservation. Water and sanitation facilities are being improved, as are livelihoods opportunities through training and enterprise development and the formation and strengthening of community based organisations.
