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Pattan Delopment Organisation

Relevant Experience: Pattan Development Organization has a long experience in community based disaster
preparedness/mitigation, handling of large-scale relief operations and rehabilitation programs. Pattan has also
been using its field-based learning to influence policy makers. Since 1993, Pattan had provided training to more
than 80 NGOs/CBOs in disaster preparedness.

Drought 2000: In response to the drought situation, Pattan dispatched a small team consists of gender and
disaster experts to the province of Sindh to assess the drought situation and determine the nature of its
interventions.

Contact with GOs and Civil Society Organizations: Pattan gave a presentation to the Emergency Relief Cell,
Cabinet Division, Islamabad on drought situation and the way government has been handling it, formed a network
of Islamabad based NGOs. Pattan team also met Additional Relief Commissioner, Sindh, Deputy Commissioner
Dadu, Assistant Commissioner, Mahar – Dadu, Additional Deputy Magistrate, Dadu, Deputy Inspector General
Police, Hyderabad range, and SSP Dadu. To ascertain opinion of political groups, political leaders and activists
were contacted in Hyderabad and Dadu. Leaders of CBOs and NGOs were also consulted.

Sindh Police offered logistic support to Pattan for drought assessment. Dadu Police also requested Pattan to
provide disaster management training to local CBOs/NGOs and Police officials.

Capacity building of local CBOs and Police: Pattan organized a three days workshop in district Dadu, attended by
31 CBOs/NGOs and police officials. The training content included conceptualization of disaster, capacity and
vulnerability analysis, water purification, gender issues in disaster, food for work, community participation in
disaster and introduction to Participatory Rapid Appraisal and some of its tools that can be effectively applied in
need assessment in drought affected areas. The training was combined with one day fieldwork in drought affected
areas.

Formation of Disaster Reduction Network: At the end of the workshop, participants formed a relief committee
and network, which would work together to address short (relief assistance) and long term (disaster mitigation)
problems in regard to drought and floods in district Dadu. The network would also assist local administration in
need assessment and relief operations. The network consists of 31 CBO/NGOs and Dadu Police will provide
support to this network. The network will prepare a disaster reduction plan for Dadu on long term basis.

The information in this report is collected by Pattan’s team through the application of PRA tools during their visits
to drought affected areas. The team was provided logistical support by the SSP office, Dadu.

Pattan’s team visited 18 affected villages in Kachhoo area of tehsil K.N.Shah, Johi, and Mahar (Faridabad, Shah
Godro, Mian Naseer Shah, Soba D, Pat Gul Moh, Gul Bubber Kasbo, Wahi Pandi, Chini, Tando Raheem Khan, Gaji
Shah, Thul, Goth Subo Dottani, Salari)

Water Purification: Pattan has provided chlorine and Musaffa to local CBOs and Police for more than 1500 households for water purification.Please contact us should you need further information.