NRC Pakistan - Fact Sheet
Updated October 2014
Basic Info:
Established:
Country Office:
Field offices:
Budget 2014:
Budget 2013:
Country Director:
Phone:
E-mail:
International staff:
National staff:
Core Activities:
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Islamabad
Peshawar, Kohat, D.I Khan, Bajaur, Kurram,
Quetta
18.8 million USD/ 114.8 million NOK
20.1 million USD/ 120.4 million NOK.
Qurat-Ul-Ain Sadozai
+92 51 230 7824-6
pk.info@nrc.no
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Donors:
Main Donors:
NMFA, DFID, ECHO, OCHA, German Government, SIDA, UNHCR
Humanitarian and political context :
Amid growing political uncertainty in Pakistan, the number of displaced population in northern parts of the country
recorded steep increase as the government launched a security forces operation in North Waziristan on June 15.
154,512 families from FATA are already displaced and according to rough estimates one million more people have been
displaced from North Waziristan Agency this year. The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) is in
process to filter the data of the newly displaced families and until date has verified 69 021 displaced families from North
Waziristan. However, the process of verification through NADRA is yet in progress and the exact number would be
available once the screening and verification of data of the newly displaced people is over. The newly displaced people,
majority of them women and children have taken temporary shelter in host communities in DIK, Bannu, Lakki Marwat,
Kohat and Peshawar district of KP.
RETURN
In 2014, the government organised the second-phase for the return of displaced families to their native villages in Tirah
in Khyber Agency. According to UNHCR statistics as of June 30, 2014, around 22,155 individuals which is 63 % of the
total displaced population from the area were assisted to return to their areas of origin in Tirah. 10,877 out of 17,140
displaced families registered by UNHCR in March-April 2013 were assisted in their return in both phase-1 and 2 of the
return process. Around 6,263 families (37% including unregistered families) of Tirah valley are still displaced.
During June, in Kurram Agency, 407 displaced families of Shalozan Tangi were returned to 19 de-notified villages as
security situation in these villages had improved.
Since January 2014, so far the government and humanitarian actors provided assistance to a total of 8837 displaced
people who had returned to their areas of origin in Khyber and Kurram Agency.
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While displacement and return is recurrent phenomena in KP and FATA, those returning to their areas of origin are far
from accessing essential services due to large-scale destruction of their houses and other civil infrastructure due to
insecurity and security forces operations in the FATA region.
The government of Pakistan also continues to host 1.6 million Afghan Refugees and an estimate of one million
unregistered Afghans over the last three decades. It has recently adopted a new Repatriation and Management Policy
for Afghan Refugee beyond 2013, in line with the Solutions Strategy.
NRC priorities for 2014:
NRC Pakistan will continue to reach out to the most vulnerable groups in FATA, KP and Balochistan, where very few
humanitarian agencies are working and the needs of the people are still unmet. NRC has increased its activities and
programmes in South Waziristan and Kurram Agencies to help with the return process of vulnerable displaced population.
NRC also responded in very effective manner to mass exodus of from North Waziristan Agency this year.
NRC Pakistan consolidated its new country set up, strengthening and improving coordination between field offices and
country office in Islamabad, ensuring quality programming, accountability and transparency of the assistance provided to
the affected communities. The Country Office was also shifted to a better location in Islamabad to make it more
accessible.
One of the key focuses for the 2014 is to address the needs of returnees in a more holistic way, hence optimizing
synergies between our core competencies. NRC Pakistan will continue to be an active member in various coordinating
groups and platforms that focus on improving humanitarian response, assessing existing regional gaps from the field and
addressing access issues to the areas of operations.
NRC core activities update in Afghanistan:
NRC has been working in Pakistan since 2001, and is currently one of the largest INGO in KP and FATA. Despite the
deteriorating security situation, NRC is among the few remaining key international organisations providing humanitarian
assistance in Balochistan province. NRC has managed to gradually increase its presence, ensuring staff security by
developing specific access strategies.
Despite access challenges NRC strives to reach to the most vulnerable. During 2013, NRC has scaled up its operations
and through its core competencies provided assistance to 727,925 vulnerable displaced families in the country.
NRC encourages and actively involves displaced persons and host communities in the design, implementation and
evaluation of its programme activities and also ensures equal access and identification of particular needs of vulnerable
men, women, boys and girls.
NRC programmes in Pakistan are focused on assisting Afghan refugees, IDPs, conflict and disaster affected
communities and returnees. NRC actively played its role to make the return process more dignified and informed and
provided NFIs kits to the returning families.
NRC Pakistan provides humanitarian assistance to displaced people through following core competencies.
Emergency Response:
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n continuation of fresh displacement from North Waziristan Agency (NWA) due to the security forces operation which
statred in June 2014, NRC continues it’s response in the emergency situation and to reach the displaced population. In
this context, NRC is responding directly in some districts of KP while providing assistance through Implementing
partner in Bannu district where a major number of the displaced families NWA are residing.
In the third quarter of 2014, NRC provided 29,085 NFI kits to displaced people (5206 NFIs kits in DI Khan and 4131
NFIs kits in Ali Zai, Kurram Agency, 1358 NFI kits to Old & vulnerable displaced families of Khyber Agency in Peshawar
and 851 NFI kits to vulnerable displaced families in Kohat and 15,139 NFI kits to NWA displaced population in Bannu
through the implementing partner. Out of 29085 NFI kits, 2400 NFI kits have been distributed to vulnerable Afghan
Refugees in DI Khan.
During this period NRC also provided Feed & Fodder to 3,345 displaced families for their livestock they have in Bannu
through an IP – AHO. This package of Feed & Fodder for livestock comprises of 6 blocks of Wheat Straw (180 Kg), two
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bags of ICI Vanda (64 Kg) and four Mineral Blocks (18 Kg), a total of 262 Kg per Package for one displaced family
having average of 4-5 large and Small animals.
NRC is also in the final stages of starting response in Bannu for the NWA’s displaced population with active &
respective cluster coordination through its WASH and Education Programmes after the required procedures and
assessments is completed. This intervention to fulfil the needs of displaced population through WASH and Education
Programmes will be carried out through IPs.
Information, Counselling and Legal Assistance (ICLA) and Social Services:
The main objective of ICLA services are to contribute to durable solutions for refugees and displaced persons and
returnees in KP, FATA and Balochistan through Information dissemination, counselling, legal assistance and trainings.
ICLA services are offered in Peshawar, Nowshera (Jalozai IDP camp) Kohat and Lower Dir districts in KP, Kurram,
Bajaur and South Waziristan Agencies in FATA and in Quetta district of Balochistan.
In order to enhance the capacity of relevant stakeholders, ICLA also provided training on Frontier Crimes Regulations
(FCR), Political Parties Act, international human rights, constitutional rights and Housing Land and Property (HLP)
rights.
NRC also run grievance desks for displaced population in Peshawar, Kohat and Kurram Agency and assisted the
beneficiaries through an established referral pathway by recording and referring the grievances to the relevant
stakeholders. In addition, ICLA provided information to the displaced families and returnees through its Information
points. NRC through ICLA program actively participate in protection cluster at KP/FATA level and acts in one district as
Protection Co-lead.
During the third quarter of 2014, NRC ICLA programme assisted 7,939 individuals which includes (6115 Males
and1824 Females) in FATA, KP and Balochistan through various ICLA services.
Education:
NRC education activities are conducted in accordance with the principle that the most vulnerable among displaced
population such as children and youth are provided with relevant educational opportunities and learning environments
that are secure in order to protect the well-being of the learners.
NRC’s Education Team is nearing to completion of the implementation of Accelerated Learning Programme (ALP)
through the 40 established ALP Centers in Charsadda (12), Nowshera (17) and Lower Dir (11). There were 1186
number of beneficiaries/learners during the quarter, mainly displaced and refugee children between the ages of 9 to15
years..
Final assessments were done in the 40 ALP centers, where a total of 576 learners were mainstreamed (186 male and
390 female) in the government and private schools out of the total 1186 reamining enrolled learners. The
mainstreaming number will increase as it is in progress.
Furthermore, the activities for setting up 40 ALP centers (10 in Peshawar and 30 in Dir-Lower) for the Afghan
Refugees, is abandoned due to access problem. However, NRC will be establishing of 70 ALP centers in D.I Khan and
Kohat through the SIDA funding. A minimum of 50% girls will be assisted/educated in the intervention. The education
teams have reported/joined both the stations and have initiated the initial need assessments for Afghan refugees in DI
Khan and NWA’s IDPs in Kohat. In D.I Khan the team has identified 143 learners in the 7 potential locations while the
education team in Kohat district has identified 1083 learners in over 30 villages. Both the teams are identifying potential
Teachers for the ALP centers at the same time.
Shelter:
NRC’s shelter activities aim to enhance physical protection and promote rights of displaced people by improving living
conditions and seeking durable solutions.
The shelter programme incorporates self-help and community based approaches to help construct shelters for the
vulnerable affected families. NRC incorporates Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) resilient elements to enhance protection
of the population against natural disasters. NRC field engineers and monitoring teams closely supervise the
construction of shelters and other structures to ensure their quality and durability.
In addition to shelters, NRC also works on the rehabilitation and reconstruction of damaged schools in the affected
areas.
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During third quarter of 2014, NRC identified 260 vulnerable families in Kurram Agency along with identification of 4
primary schools that require reconstruction and rehabilitation. This project is being funded by funded by NMFA.
Likewise shelter team in Kurram Agency identified 100 house holds to provide shelter facilities to the most vulnerable
families in Kurram to ensure their privacy and protect them from harsh weather. This project is funded by SIDA.
The Assessment of 100 beneficiaries for shelter assistance through German funding is done in Bajaur.
There are 60 additional shelters under SIDA funding for which assessment and selection of beneficiaries is in progress
in Bajaur Agency. Similarly 150 beneficiaries in South Waziristan Agency have also been finalized to receive shelter
assistance from NRC under German funding. The construction of shelters for all these beneficiaries is in progress.
However, for the 60 additional beneficiaries, it will be started in October and will be completed during 4th quarter of
2014.
Water, Sanitation, Hygiene Promotion (WASH) and Community Projects:
NRC Pakistan provides essential WASH services to the displaced population to improve access to water and sanitation
facilities, strengthen hygiene practices and to reduce the exposure and risk to WASH related diseases in the affected
communities.
During third quarter of 2014 the bidding process for 10 Hand pumps for North Waziristan’s displaced families in District
D.I Khan has been completed and the evaluation committee has finalized the selection of contractor. The selection of
sites for hand pumps have been verified by the Quality Control team. Similarly, the selection of contractors for 6 WSS in
SWA, 5 WSS in Bajuar and 6 WSS in Kurram agency has been done and the contractor has started mobilization on
ground. For the rehabilitation of 7 Tube wells in Kohat, assessment, technical documents and selection of contractor
has been finalized. The physical work for these schemes will soon be started.
On sanitation part the construction work on 270 latrines in Kurram and 300 in D.I Khan is in progress. The request for
first instalment of Cash for Work has been initiated for latrine beneficiaries in Kurram Agency where NRC is proceeding
with integrated approach where latrines are constructed for shelter beneficiaries. Moreover, beneficiary selection for
150 latrines is being done in South Waziristan Agency and 50 emergency latrines in Kohat to displaced families.
Hygiene awareness activities were also carried out among target population focusing on hand washing practices, water
safety methods and importance and use of latrines. Total 13 sessions have been conducted in which 145 persons
participated. Hygiene kits were also distributed in these sessions
Food Security
To help improved food security and livelihood opportunities, the NRC Food Security projects contribute toward
improving access to food, generate more sustainable livelihoods, accelerate recovery and promote self-reliance for
displaced population in Kohat, Peshawar, Bannu and DI Khan districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Province and
Kurram Agency in FATA.
During the third quarter of 2014, NRC’s Food Security Programme conducted training on kitchen gardening for 1050
individuals and other vocational training for 420 individuals. All training participants were provided with kitchen
gardening and business tool kits for their respective trainings to facilitate them with income generation activities.
NRC extended short-term employment opportunities to 899 beneficiaries by engaging them in “cash for work” activities
of agriculture based infrastructure rehabilitation. About 995 most vulnerable displaced families were assisted with
unconditional cash grants.
4430 households were provided with animal feed and fodder in KPK and FATA (Peshawar/ Kohat/ DIK/ Bannu and
Kurram). NRC, with the assistance for local partner (Asian Humanitarian Assistance-AHO) distributed feed and fodder
for animals to 3345 households of displaced families of North Waziristan Agency (NWA) in Bannu District of Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa . During this quarter about 7795 families were provided assistance under various activities in Food
Security programme.
During the third quarter of 2014 NRC Food Security program in Balochistan carried out the following activities through
funding of Norway Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Market Assessment to explore the most demanding vocational trades for Afghan refugees.
Assessment and identification of 150 beneficiaries (76 Male and 74 female).
Assessment and identification of 200 individuals for live stock and poultry trainings and poulty package
distribution as per the vulnerability.
3 days Training on home based livestock and poultry training among the selected 200 beneficiaries.
Poultry package among the 200 trained beneficiaries have been delivered.
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Vocational trainings for 150 beneficiaries (76 male & 74 Female) have been initiated.
Apart from the NMFA funded Food security interventions, Food Secuirty Programe in Balochistan has another
project, “Skills Development and livelihood opportunities for Afghan Refugees in Balochistan RVs” supported by
UNHCR. The project is for Afghan refugees from the refugee villages and from the urban area of Quetta. The
following activities have been complete.
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Market Assessment to explore the most demanding vocational trades for Afghan refugees situated in
Quetta, Pishin and Loralai districts.
MoU have been signed between NRC and Department of Labor and Manpower to conduct the male
vocational trainings at respective TTCs of districts.
Assessment and identification of 270 beneficiaries (135 Male and 135 female) have been completed in
Quetta, Pishin and Loralai in various refugee villages.
Vocational trainings at Quetta and Loralai have been initiated through Technical training centers functioning
under the department of Labor and Manpower in Balochistan. On the other side female trainings will be
conducted through local institute registered with Technical Testing Board.
Protection and Coordination:
In NRC Pakistan, advocacy and protection activities remain focused on promoting the rights of refugees and displaced
population in Pakistan and their access to assistance and protection. Our leading role in emergency response, our
presence and often leadership position in working groups, clusters, and humanitarian meetings, give space to advocate
for more principled humanitarian assistance.
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