organization: Disaster Relief/Community Development -> Non-Profit Disaster Relief/Community Development

organization: -> Disaster Relief/Community Development

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region: Various -> South Asia

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notes: PUNJAB ACTIVITIES: FOOD: Cooked food distribution, biscuits, milk, nan etc SHELTER: NFI: blankets, plastic sheet, kitchen set, shawls for women HEALTH: Medical Camps at Jampur, Khanpur, Layyah ------------------------------ FROM THE SITE: Daily Update of Torrential Rain and Flood situation across the country - September 22, 2010 at 10:30 pm Strengthening Participatory Organization (SPO) SPO Response Flood Situation in Pakistan September 22, 2010 Overview: Over the course of July and early August 2010, Pakistan experienced the worst monsoon-related floods in living memory. Heavy rainfall, flash floods and riverine floods have devastated large parts of Pakistan since the arrival of seasonal monsoon rains on 22 July, 2010. Latest estimates indicate that around 20 million people have been affected by the floods. Assessments are ongoing to ascertain the scale of damages in the affected areas. The official death toll has risen to 1,754, with 2,697 people are reported as injured. The latest NDMA report indicates that over 1,844,850 houses have been either damaged or destroyed. But the figures may rise further as information from different parts is yet to come. Details damage assessment is going on across Sindh and Southern Punjab by UN-OCHA and SPO is also part of joint assessment in Sindh. Data currently available indicates that Shikarpur, Kashmore, Jacobabad, Khairpur, Dadu and Naushahro Feroze have been the hardest hit districts in Sindh. Similarly, districts Layyah, D.G. Khan, Muzzafargarh and Rajanpur are hardest hit districts in southern Punjab. The flood wave continues to make its way through the southern province of Sindh, where millions have been affected from the combined impact of torrential rains and unprecedented water levels in the rivers. Through rapid assessments, humanitarian agencies are identifying desperate needs of affected communities and so far identified desperate needs include: food, clean drinking water and water purification materials, emergency health services, tents and shelter kits, cooking sets, mosquito nets, and other non-food items (NFI). In order to facilitate coordinated humanitarian response in the affected areas and enable humanitarian organizations to have substantial planning for their humanitarian activities, SPO, with the support of its partner organizations, initiated rapid assessments in the affected areas and share it with relevant stakeholders in the form of daily update. Date-wise situational update and rapid assessments of damages caused by torrential rains and floods are available on SPO website and can be accessed on URL http://www.spopk.org. Daily update for 22nd September 2010, providing details of SPO’s response to the emergency situation and relief activities being carried out for mitigation of the miseries of affected communities across the country, is provided below: SPO intervention in Flood affected areas till September 22nd, 2010 Keeping in view the essential needs of displaced communities, SPO teams besides coordination of humanitarian efforts at Provincial levels in Baluchistan -Quetta, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa - Peshawar and AJK - Muzafarabad, have initiated various humanitarian interventions. A brief of relief activities carried out by SPO in Sindh are provided below: Sindh Province: SPO Regional Office Hyderabad: SPO Hyderabad team with the support of various partner organizations, donor agencies and individual philanthropists has carried our various relief activities in the flood affected areas of Sindh. A brief summary of hither to reported activities are provided below: Resource Mobilization: SPO Hyderabad mobilized resources worth 26 million rupees from different organizations and individual philanthropists for carrying out relief activities in flood affected areas of Shikarpur, Sukkur, Ghotki, Matiari and Hyderabad. -> PUNJAB ACTIVITIES: FOOD: Cooked food distribution, biscuits, milk, nan etc SHELTER: NFI: blankets, plastic sheet, kitchen set, shawls for women HEALTH: Medical Camps at Jampur, Khanpur, Layyah ------------------------------ FROM THE SITE: Daily Update of Torrential Rain and Flood situation across the country - September 22, 2010 at 10:30 pm Strengthening Participatory Organization (SPO) SPO Response Flood Situation in Pakistan September 22, 2010 Overview: Over the course of July and early August 2010, Pakistan experienced the worst monsoon-related floods in living memory. Heavy rainfall, flash floods and riverine floods have devastated large parts of Pakistan since the arrival of seasonal monsoon rains on 22 July, 2010. Latest estimates indicate that around 20 million people have been affected by the floods. Assessments are ongoing to ascertain the scale of damages in the affected areas. The official death toll has risen to 1,754, with 2,697 people are reported as injured. The latest NDMA report indicates that over 1,844,850 houses have been either damaged or destroyed. But the figures may rise further as information from different parts is yet to come. Details damage assessment is going on across Sindh and Southern Punjab by UN-OCHA and SPO is also part of joint assessment in Sindh. Data currently available indicates that Shikarpur, Kashmore, Jacobabad, Khairpur, Dadu and Naushahro Feroze have been the hardest hit districts in Sindh. Similarly, districts Layyah, D.G. Khan, Muzzafargarh and Rajanpur are hardest hit districts in southern Punjab. The flood wave continues to make its way through the southern province of Sindh, where millions have been affected from the combined impact of torrential rains and unprecedented water levels in the rivers. Through rapid assessments, humanitarian agencies are identifying desperate needs of affected communities and so far identified desperate needs include: food, clean drinking water and water purification materials, emergency health services, tents and shelter kits, cooking sets, mosquito nets, and other non-food items (NFI). In order to facilitate coordinated humanitarian response in the affected areas and enable humanitarian organizations to have substantial planning for their humanitarian activities, SPO, with the support of its partner organizations, initiated rapid assessments in the affected areas and share it with relevant stakeholders in the form of daily update. Date-wise situational update and rapid assessments of damages caused by torrential rains and floods are available on SPO website and can be accessed on URL http://www.spopk.org. Daily update for 22nd September 2010, providing details of SPO’s response to the emergency situation and relief activities being carried out for mitigation of the miseries of affected communities across the country, is provided below: SPO intervention in Flood affected areas till September 22nd, 2010 Keeping in view the essential needs of displaced communities, SPO teams besides coordination of humanitarian efforts at Provincial levels in Baluchistan -Quetta, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa - Peshawar and AJK - Muzafarabad, have initiated various humanitarian interventions. A brief of relief activities carried out by SPO in Sindh are provided below: Sindh Province: SPO Regional Office Hyderabad: SPO Hyderabad team with the support of various partner organizations, donor agencies and individual philanthropists has carried our various relief activities in the flood affected areas of Sindh. A brief summary of hither to reported activities are provided below: Resource Mobilization: SPO Hyderabad mobilized resources worth 26 million rupees from different organizations and individual philanthropists for carrying out relief activities in flood affected areas of Shikarpur, Sukkur, Ghotki, Matiari and Hyderabad. -------------------------------------- LOCATIONS: National Centre House No. 429, Street 11, Sector F-10/2, Islamabad Tel: (+92-51) 2104677, 2104679, 2104680 Fax: (+92-51) 2112787 Email: info @spopk.org Peshawar House 15, Street 1, Sector N/4, Phase-4, Hayatabad, Peshawar. Tel: 091-5811792,5810021 Fax: 091-5813089 Email: peshawar@ spopk.org D.I. Khan House No.2, Street No. 2, Wensam Housing Society, Dera. Ismail. Khan Cannt. Tel: 0966-713231 Fax: 0966-712231 Email: dikhan @spopk.org Quetta House 55-B, Near Working Women Hostel, Jinnah town, Quetta. Tel: 081-2870750, 2870752 Fax: 081-2870751 Email: quetta@ spopk.org Turbat Pasni Road, Turbat, Mekran. Tel: 0852-412333,412240 Fax: 0852-413884 Email: turbat @spopk.org Hyderabad Plot No. 158/2 Behind M. Usman Deplai Scholars Academy, Alamdar Chowk, Grid Station Qasimabad, Hyderabad. Tel: 022-2654725, 2655399, 2655712 Fax: 022-2652126 Email: hyderabad@ spopk.org Karachi G-22, B/2, Park Lane Clifton Block 05 Karachi Tel: 021-5836213, 5873405 Fax: 021-5873794 Email: Karachi @spopk.org Multan House No.(339,334), Block D, Shah Rukan-e-Alam Colony, Multan. Tel: 061-6772995, 6563604 Fax: 061-6772996 Email: multan@ spopk.org House No: 76-A, Sher Shah Block, New Garden Town, Lahore. Tel: 042-35863211, 35863212 Fax:042-35863213 Email: lahore @spopk.org Muzaffarabad House No: 35-B, Upper Chattar, Muzaffarabad. Tel: 058810-34432 Fax:058810-34415 Email: muzaffarabad@ spopk.org
region: Punjab -> Various
mission: Values * Partners/communities We believe in sovereignty of and equity with our partners. * Owners/employees/supporters Ownership of our mission is based on mutual trust, honesty, professionalism and transparency. * Process Our process is based on an understanding of roles and responsibilities, which include accountability, ethnic impartiality and effective participation. * Improvement Creativity and innovation is the hallmark of all our efforts. * Citizenship As a citizen of this country we believe that everyone should access their basic rights and discharge their obligation with same fervour. Organizational Structure SPO is a national civil society organization. Its national centre is in Islamabad, but it has eight regional offices in Multan, Hyderabad, Peshawar, Quetta, Karachi, Lahore, Turbat and Dera Ismail Khan. Besides that one project office in Muzafarabad with two sub-project offices in Neelum and Bagh, and six temporary project offices are contributing to achieving SPO’s goals. The national center’s role is to co-ordinate activities of all the regional centers and in addition to its corporate functions provides technical support and guidance on issues such as programme policies, strategies, funding and networking. The regional centers are directly responsible for implementing SPO's strategy in the field. SPO is a not-for-profit organization, with well-laid policies and procedures to facilitate the work. SPO is an equal opportunity employer with staff strength of 141 permanent staff along with 110 short-term project staff, volunteers and interns. SPO is among the few organizations that have a special job quota for physically challenged individuals. SPO has an elaborate Human Resource Development plan for the professional growth of SPO staff. It includes trainings, both at home and abroad, exposure visits, conferences, seminars, study grants etc. SPO has formulated around twenty policies and procedures along with five manuals that guide the team in administrative and programmatic functioning. The systems and procedures reflect upon the stress laid by the organization on transparency and accountability. SPO has been able to reach out to people in more than sixty districts of the country thus reaching out to fifty five percent of the geographical area of the country through various interventions. Implicit and inherent in the struggle for improvement is the stress on quality. Not aiming for immediate, short-term results, but doing the spadework that is building capacities, fostering networks, raising awareness for long-term, sustainable impacts. SPO’s stress on quality can be witnessed both in its program work, and in its own operations and processes. -> Values * Partners/communities We believe in sovereignty of and equity with our partners. * Owners/employees/supporters Ownership of our mission is based on mutual trust, honesty, professionalism and transparency. * Process Our process is based on an understanding of roles and responsibilities, which include accountability, ethnic impartiality and effective participation. * Improvement Creativity and innovation is the hallmark of all our efforts. * Citizenship As a citizen of this country we believe that everyone should access their basic rights and discharge their obligation with same fervour. Organizational Structure SPO is a national civil society organization. Its national centre is in Islamabad, but it has eight regional offices in Multan, Hyderabad, Peshawar, Quetta, Karachi, Lahore, Turbat and Dera Ismail Khan. Besides that one project office in Muzafarabad with two sub-project offices in Neelum and Bagh, and six temporary project offices are contributing to achieving SPO’s goals. The national center’s role is to co-ordinate activities of all the regional centers and in addition to its corporate functions provides technical support and guidance on issues such as programme policies, strategies, funding and networking. The regional centers are directly responsible for implementing SPO's strategy in the field. SPO is a not-for-profit organization, with well-laid policies and procedures to facilitate the work. SPO is an equal opportunity employer with staff strength of 141 permanent staff along with 110 short-term project staff, volunteers and interns. SPO is among the few organizations that have a special job quota for physically challenged individuals. SPO has an elaborate Human Resource Development plan for the professional growth of SPO staff. It includes trainings, both at home and abroad, exposure visits, conferences, seminars, study grants etc. SPO has formulated around twenty policies and procedures along with five manuals that guide the team in administrative and programmatic functioning. The systems and procedures reflect upon the stress laid by the organization on transparency and accountability. SPO has been able to reach out to people in more than sixty districts of the country thus reaching out to fifty five percent of the geographical area of the country through various interventions. Implicit and inherent in the struggle for improvement is the stress on quality. Not aiming for immediate, short-term results, but doing the spadework that is building capacities, fostering networks, raising awareness for long-term, sustainable impacts. SPO’s stress on quality can be witnessed both in its program work, and in its own operations and processes.

notes: ACTIVITIES: FOOD: Cooked food distribution, biscuits, milk, nan etc SHELTER: NFI: blankets, plastic sheet, kitchen set, shawls for women HEALTH: Medical Camps at Jampur, Khanpur, Layyah ------------------------------ FROM THE SITE: Daily Update of Torrential Rain and Flood situation across the country - September 22, 2010 at 10:30 pm Strengthening Participatory Organization (SPO) SPO Response Flood Situation in Pakistan September 22, 2010 Overview: Over the course of July and early August 2010, Pakistan experienced the worst monsoon-related floods in living memory. Heavy rainfall, flash floods and riverine floods have devastated large parts of Pakistan since the arrival of seasonal monsoon rains on 22 July, 2010. Latest estimates indicate that around 20 million people have been affected by the floods. Assessments are ongoing to ascertain the scale of damages in the affected areas. The official death toll has risen to 1,754, with 2,697 people are reported as injured. The latest NDMA report indicates that over 1,844,850 houses have been either damaged or destroyed. But the figures may rise further as information from different parts is yet to come. Details damage assessment is going on across Sindh and Southern Punjab by UN-OCHA and SPO is also part of joint assessment in Sindh. Data currently available indicates that Shikarpur, Kashmore, Jacobabad, Khairpur, Dadu and Naushahro Feroze have been the hardest hit districts in Sindh. Similarly, districts Layyah, D.G. Khan, Muzzafargarh and Rajanpur are hardest hit districts in southern Punjab. The flood wave continues to make its way through the southern province of Sindh, where millions have been affected from the combined impact of torrential rains and unprecedented water levels in the rivers. Through rapid assessments, humanitarian agencies are identifying desperate needs of affected communities and so far identified desperate needs include: food, clean drinking water and water purification materials, emergency health services, tents and shelter kits, cooking sets, mosquito nets, and other non-food items (NFI). In order to facilitate coordinated humanitarian response in the affected areas and enable humanitarian organizations to have substantial planning for their humanitarian activities, SPO, with the support of its partner organizations, initiated rapid assessments in the affected areas and share it with relevant stakeholders in the form of daily update. Date-wise situational update and rapid assessments of damages caused by torrential rains and floods are available on SPO website and can be accessed on URL http://www.spopk.org. Daily update for 22nd September 2010, providing details of SPO’s response to the emergency situation and relief activities being carried out for mitigation of the miseries of affected communities across the country, is provided below: SPO intervention in Flood affected areas till September 22nd, 2010 Keeping in view the essential needs of displaced communities, SPO teams besides coordination of humanitarian efforts at Provincial levels in Baluchistan -Quetta, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa - Peshawar and AJK - Muzafarabad, have initiated various humanitarian interventions. A brief of relief activities carried out by SPO in Sindh are provided below: Sindh Province: SPO Regional Office Hyderabad: SPO Hyderabad team with the support of various partner organizations, donor agencies and individual philanthropists has carried our various relief activities in the flood affected areas of Sindh. A brief summary of hither to reported activities are provided below: Resource Mobilization: SPO Hyderabad mobilized resources worth 26 million rupees from different organizations and individual philanthropists for carrying out relief activities in flood affected areas of Shikarpur, Sukkur, Ghotki, Matiari and Hyderabad. -> PUNJAB ACTIVITIES: FOOD: Cooked food distribution, biscuits, milk, nan etc SHELTER: NFI: blankets, plastic sheet, kitchen set, shawls for women HEALTH: Medical Camps at Jampur, Khanpur, Layyah ------------------------------ FROM THE SITE: Daily Update of Torrential Rain and Flood situation across the country - September 22, 2010 at 10:30 pm Strengthening Participatory Organization (SPO) SPO Response Flood Situation in Pakistan September 22, 2010 Overview: Over the course of July and early August 2010, Pakistan experienced the worst monsoon-related floods in living memory. Heavy rainfall, flash floods and riverine floods have devastated large parts of Pakistan since the arrival of seasonal monsoon rains on 22 July, 2010. Latest estimates indicate that around 20 million people have been affected by the floods. Assessments are ongoing to ascertain the scale of damages in the affected areas. The official death toll has risen to 1,754, with 2,697 people are reported as injured. The latest NDMA report indicates that over 1,844,850 houses have been either damaged or destroyed. But the figures may rise further as information from different parts is yet to come. Details damage assessment is going on across Sindh and Southern Punjab by UN-OCHA and SPO is also part of joint assessment in Sindh. Data currently available indicates that Shikarpur, Kashmore, Jacobabad, Khairpur, Dadu and Naushahro Feroze have been the hardest hit districts in Sindh. Similarly, districts Layyah, D.G. Khan, Muzzafargarh and Rajanpur are hardest hit districts in southern Punjab. The flood wave continues to make its way through the southern province of Sindh, where millions have been affected from the combined impact of torrential rains and unprecedented water levels in the rivers. Through rapid assessments, humanitarian agencies are identifying desperate needs of affected communities and so far identified desperate needs include: food, clean drinking water and water purification materials, emergency health services, tents and shelter kits, cooking sets, mosquito nets, and other non-food items (NFI). In order to facilitate coordinated humanitarian response in the affected areas and enable humanitarian organizations to have substantial planning for their humanitarian activities, SPO, with the support of its partner organizations, initiated rapid assessments in the affected areas and share it with relevant stakeholders in the form of daily update. Date-wise situational update and rapid assessments of damages caused by torrential rains and floods are available on SPO website and can be accessed on URL http://www.spopk.org. Daily update for 22nd September 2010, providing details of SPO’s response to the emergency situation and relief activities being carried out for mitigation of the miseries of affected communities across the country, is provided below: SPO intervention in Flood affected areas till September 22nd, 2010 Keeping in view the essential needs of displaced communities, SPO teams besides coordination of humanitarian efforts at Provincial levels in Baluchistan -Quetta, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa - Peshawar and AJK - Muzafarabad, have initiated various humanitarian interventions. A brief of relief activities carried out by SPO in Sindh are provided below: Sindh Province: SPO Regional Office Hyderabad: SPO Hyderabad team with the support of various partner organizations, donor agencies and individual philanthropists has carried our various relief activities in the flood affected areas of Sindh. A brief summary of hither to reported activities are provided below: Resource Mobilization: SPO Hyderabad mobilized resources worth 26 million rupees from different organizations and individual philanthropists for carrying out relief activities in flood affected areas of Shikarpur, Sukkur, Ghotki, Matiari and Hyderabad.
mission: Values * Partners/communities We believe in sovereignty of and equity with our partners. * Owners/employees/supporters Ownership of our mission is based on mutual trust, honesty, professionalism and transparency. * Process Our process is based on an understanding of roles and responsibilities, which include accountability, ethnic impartiality and effective participation. * Improvement Creativity and innovation is the hallmark of all our efforts. * Citizenship As a citizen of this country we believe that everyone should access their basic rights and discharge their obligation with same fervour. Organizational Structure SPO is a national civil society organization. Its national centre is in Islamabad, but it has eight regional offices in Multan, Hyderabad, Peshawar, Quetta, Karachi, Lahore, Turbat and Dera Ismail Khan. Besides that one project office in Muzafarabad with two sub-project offices in Neelum and Bagh, and six temporary project offices are contributing to achieving SPO’s goals. The national center’s role is to co-ordinate activities of all the regional centers and in addition to its corporate functions provides technical support and guidance on issues such as programme policies, strategies, funding and networking. The regional centers are directly responsible for implementing SPO's strategy in the field. SPO is a not-for-profit organization, with well-laid policies and procedures to facilitate the work. SPO is an equal opportunity employer with staff strength of 141 permanent staff along with 110 short-term project staff, volunteers and interns. SPO is among the few organizations that have a special job quota for physically challenged individuals. SPO has an elaborate Human Resource Development plan for the professional growth of SPO staff. It includes trainings, both at home and abroad, exposure visits, conferences, seminars, study grants etc. SPO has formulated around twenty policies and procedures along with five manuals that guide the team in administrative and programmatic functioning. The systems and procedures reflect upon the stress laid by the organization on transparency and accountability. SPO has been able to reach out to people in more than sixty districts of the country thus reaching out to fifty five percent of the geographical area of the country through various interventions. Implicit and inherent in the struggle for improvement is the stress on quality. Not aiming for immediate, short-term results, but doing the spadework that is building capacities, fostering networks, raising awareness for long-term, sustainable impacts. SPO’s stress on quality can be witnessed both in its program work, and in its own operations and processes. -> Values * Partners/communities We believe in sovereignty of and equity with our partners. * Owners/employees/supporters Ownership of our mission is based on mutual trust, honesty, professionalism and transparency. * Process Our process is based on an understanding of roles and responsibilities, which include accountability, ethnic impartiality and effective participation. * Improvement Creativity and innovation is the hallmark of all our efforts. * Citizenship As a citizen of this country we believe that everyone should access their basic rights and discharge their obligation with same fervour. Organizational Structure SPO is a national civil society organization. Its national centre is in Islamabad, but it has eight regional offices in Multan, Hyderabad, Peshawar, Quetta, Karachi, Lahore, Turbat and Dera Ismail Khan. Besides that one project office in Muzafarabad with two sub-project offices in Neelum and Bagh, and six temporary project offices are contributing to achieving SPO’s goals. The national center’s role is to co-ordinate activities of all the regional centers and in addition to its corporate functions provides technical support and guidance on issues such as programme policies, strategies, funding and networking. The regional centers are directly responsible for implementing SPO's strategy in the field. SPO is a not-for-profit organization, with well-laid policies and procedures to facilitate the work. SPO is an equal opportunity employer with staff strength of 141 permanent staff along with 110 short-term project staff, volunteers and interns. SPO is among the few organizations that have a special job quota for physically challenged individuals. SPO has an elaborate Human Resource Development plan for the professional growth of SPO staff. It includes trainings, both at home and abroad, exposure visits, conferences, seminars, study grants etc. SPO has formulated around twenty policies and procedures along with five manuals that guide the team in administrative and programmatic functioning. The systems and procedures reflect upon the stress laid by the organization on transparency and accountability. SPO has been able to reach out to people in more than sixty districts of the country thus reaching out to fifty five percent of the geographical area of the country through various interventions. Implicit and inherent in the struggle for improvement is the stress on quality. Not aiming for immediate, short-term results, but doing the spadework that is building capacities, fostering networks, raising awareness for long-term, sustainable impacts. SPO’s stress on quality can be witnessed both in its program work, and in its own operations and processes.