Sindh Floods Emergency Housing Reconstruction Project
Donor/s: The World Bank and the Government of Sindh
Duration: 2023-2025
Target Group/s: Flood-affected households
Covering District/s: 5- (Khairpur), (Shikarpur), (Jacobabad), (Larkana), and (Kamber-Shahdadkot).
Project Objective/s:
- The housing reconstruction would be beneficiary-driven.
- The grants would be released directly to the beneficiary’s bank account in tranches, linked to verified stages of construction and adoption of prescribed multi-hazard resilient standards.
- Efforts will be made to facilitate eligible beneficiaries to open bank accounts through simplified processing requirements.
- To meet these requirements, the Project will contract credible, qualified, and reputable Implementation Partners.
Major Activities:
- Assessment / Validation Survey
- Assistance to the beneficiary
- Opening of Bank Account
- CNIC / B Form Registration
- Succession Certificate
- Guardianship certificate.
3. Establish a Grievance Redressal Mechanism
4. Organizing / Conducting Training along with supporting training for artisans on guidelines for multi-hazard resilient housing:
- Facilitate SPHF in the training of skilled craftsmen in key trades using practical demonstration, on-the-job training, and written/visual training material,
- Orientation and Training of the homeowners who are also self-builders
5. Provision of training, progress mapping, and issue-based training/advice through a cascade of field presence:
- Establish a Central Training Unit to serve as a training facility as well as an Office secretariat at the Taluka/District.
- Socio-Technical Assistance [STA] Teams.
- Establish Village Reconstruction Committee [VRC].
- Establish gender desks at the district level.
- Engage a team of skilled Craftsmen to form Mobile Demonstration Teams [MDTs].
Priority inclusion of vulnerable groups.
6. Environmental and social screening of all settlements/villages.
7. Continues monitoring of field activities and guiding the beneficiaries in construction works.