Donor/s:  Planning & Development Department– Government of Sindh and World Bank

Duration:  18 months 2023-2024

Target Group/s:  Semi-skilled and unskilled rural laborers of the flood-affected areas

Covering Districts:  (9) Sanghar, Shaheed Benazirabad, Naushahro Feroz, Khairpur, Kamber-Shadadkot, Larkana, Shikarpur, Jacobabad, and Ghotki.

Project Objective/s:

SFERP Component 2 Livelihoods Restoration aims to conduct a public works program across the most affected districts of Sindh in the 2022 floods, in the first phase of six months (June 2023 onwards). The initial phase of the program will focus on the 14 most impacted districts.  The works will operate on the concept of a ‘double dividend’, where the ‘first dividend’ is improved village-level physical infrastructure, and the ‘second dividend’ is income generation for the flood affectors in the villages (40% of whom will be from vulnerable groups). The twin objectives of the works are:

• Build or rehabilitate village-level public/community assets and physical and natural infrastructure to sustain urgent basic services (clean water supply, sanitation, local roads, watershed interventions, and other climate-resilient assets).
• Provide income support to poor, vulnerable households through short-term, intensive, semi-skilled, and unskilled labor so they can meet essential needs.