Poor and poorest households provided cash grants for essential necessities and in-kind support of total work of PKR 602 million
Million people reached from 3.5 million households with COVID-19 community awareness interventions and social protection enhancement support
Community Institutions (55,705 COs, 12,335 VOs, 1,414 LSOs) engaged to undertake COVID-19 awareness campaigns and response activities
(56% Women) Trained Community Volunteers undertaking Public Awareness Campaigns on Preventive Measures for COVID-19 pandemic
Provinces including GB, AJK and Newly Merged Districts
Districts
Tehsils
Rural Union Councils
Task-forces & special committees set-up by the provincial & district authorities with active membership of RSP officials
Task-forces & special-committees set-up by the district authorities with active membership of community volunteers and community leaders
IEC material on COVID-19 COVID-19 (pamphlets, brochures, leaflets, posters and banners) distributed and displayed in communities
Awareness campaigns undertaken using mobile loudspeakers, announcements in local mosques and other local methods
Face-masks provided to communities and health facilities from total 167,352 face-masks made by 20,143 community members (67% women) to meet the local needs
Households provided assistance for registration with the GoPak’s Ehsaas Emergency Cash Programme
The Rural Support Programmes Network and it’s partner RSPs are working with the local governments and other international donors to undertake numerous activities to raise awareness against COVID-19, in a bid to reduce the spread of the virus in rural communities such as
RSPs have a large, national outreach having presence in 149 out of total 156 districts of the country. Since inception, RSPs have mobilised over 8.4 million rural households (with an estimated population of about 54 million) into a network of 498, 200 community institutions of the people.
RSPs are actively working on anti-COVID-19 response with communities in 126 districts across Pakistan, in 2,983 union councils through involvement of 69,454 community institutions, with a membership of 1 million people. The response activities are ongoing in all provinces, Gilgit-Baltistan and AJK in close collaboration with the government authorities.
Working closely with Community Institutions to address the challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic. This network provides an ideal outreach to rural communities, particularly in remote, rural Pakistan.
RSPs are encouraging communities to help the most needy households amongst them. This is true self-help and community philanthropy. We see it in hundreds of villages across Pakistan – members of Community Institutions buying rations, using their own saving or collecting funds to feed the poorest in their villages.
RSPs are relaying critical messages to communities in villages and in some cities and towns regarding social distancing, hand washing with soap, and staying home to stay safe during the current national lockdown. Messages in rural areas are being spread mainly through community institutions, via phone messages created for this purpose, through community activists, and restricted meetings between RSP staff and activists, strictly observing social distancing. In towns RSPs have put up banners for messaging and are using loudspeakers to convey these.
RSPs are working closely with community activists in taking safety messages to communities. These activists are providing hygiene kits, where funds are available. Kits consist of soap, masks including cloth masks in some areas, stitched by women who were trained in vocational skills by the RSPs) and sanitizer.
RSPs are facilitating the private sector and philanthropists by identifying the most needy households, to provide food, and cash grants.
suspected cases identified and referred to ICT health department
(41% women) contacts traced on request of ICT health department
(74% women) benefitted from community awareness raising sessions
(60%women) provided IEC materials (pamphlets, brochures, leaflets)
(42% women) individuals benefitted from chlorine spraying in rural areas
poorest families supported to access public social protection initiatives
poorest families provided in-kind support ie essential food items, soaps, sanitizer, etc;
(70% women) face-masks distributed
(30% women) provided hygiene-kits
individuals (49% women) benefitted form COVID-19 awareness SMS sent;
(47% women) individuals reached via mosque announcements and mobile announcements for enhancing community awareness on COVID-19 and preventive measures
