Seed Distribution

Sindh Self Assessment Report

OVERVIEW:

By all estimates, the 2010 floods wreaked the most havoc in Sindh. With exception of the number of deaths and bridges damaged, Sindh topped the list of affected provinces in every other category. In fact, the number of homes destroyed in this province was greater than the cumulative sum of all the others, including Azad Jammu & Kashmir. Despite the fact that the authorities had two weeks to prepare for the flood (unlike KPK & Punjab) poor decisions were made that resulted in massive flooding in Northern Sindh and bordering areas in Baluchistan. Further down the Indus, just outside of Sukkur, it was decided that Aliwan Dam would not be breached; another poor decision that resulted in the vast majority of the flooding south of Sukkur would not have taken place.

UNOCHA estimates that:

  1. 411 lives were lost and 1235 people were injured.
  2. 876,194 homes were damaged or destroyed.
  3. 5,655 schools were incapacitated.
  4. 151 health care facilities were rendered inoperable.

Per the NDMA, losses to livestock, farmland and irrigation systems in Sindh are as follows:

AGRICULTURAL LAND / LIVESTOCK / IRRIGATION CANALS
882,995 Acres / 54,064 / 433

PROGRAM INITIATION

IKF field staff travelled to Sindh on October 28th to do a preliminary assessment of the flood affected areas and to evaluate potential partners.

THE INTERVENTION

Based on the fact that the destruction in Sindh was roughly equivalent to that suffered by the rest of the country, and in keeping with the IKF mission to provide flood relief to subsistence farmers, an intervention here was never in question. Interventions in the following 7 flood affected districts were proposed: Jacobabad, Shikarpur, Kashmore, Sukkur, Dadu, Jamshoro and Thatta. Like that of KPK, the goal here was to restore approximately 10% of the farmland in time for the Rabbi crop.

PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION

DISTRICT / PARTNERS
JACOBABAD, SHIKARPUR & KASHMORE / SINDH RURAL SUPPORT ORGANIZATION
DADU & JAMSHORO / PAK AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
SUKKUR / INSAF WELFARE ORGANIZATION
THATTA / PAK MARINES, IMRAN ISMAIL
  • Given the scale of the work and lack of capacity in the province, it was decided that seed would be distributed through implementing partners.
  • Partners were chosen based on the basis of mandated criteria.
  • The IKF Field Team communicated qualification criteria, transparency requirements and distribution process training to partners.
  • Seed was transported to warehouses in each district a few days prior to distribution events.
  • The IKF appointed monitors and deputed one member of its staff from Lahore to monitor as many distributions as possible; nearly 40% of all distribution events were covered.
  • The IKF field team provided coordination for GEO television crews to cover each event.

PROGRAM IMPACT

Sindh was perhaps the most difficult province in which to operate. Corruption, even in the social sector, was far more pervasive then in the other provinces. As such, most, if not all NGOs’ that operated here through implementing partners, received largely inconclusive data with regards to impact of their programs. The IKF was no exception to this. However, the scale of the IKF seed distribution here coupled with the high quality seed that was being provided in this package ensured that the public response to the program received much local print media attention in every district where intervention took place. The IKF distributed through its implementing partners enough seed to restore 85,276 acres of farmland; just under its target of 10%.

The table below illustrates the breakdown of distribution by district.

AREA SERVED / FARMERS BENEFITTED / BAGS DISTRIBUTED
Jacobabad / 24,730 / 49,286
Shikarpur / 3,895 / 10,290
Kashmore / 2,310 / 10,547
Jamshoro / 3,309 / 6,000
Sukkur / 1,000 / 1,500
Dadu / 1,472* / 4,000
Thatta / 2,621* / 5,000*
SINDH TOTAL / 39,327* / 85,297*(9.6% of Total)

*complete data not yet rec’d, so numbers are subject to change.

  • According to partner data, the IKF seed touched a minimum of 225 villages in more than 50 UC’s in 7 Districts.
  • GEO provided news and ticker coverage of at least one distribution point in each district where distribution events took place.

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