Project Final Report ONL

ANNEX 1.
Narrative reporting format for 3rd
phase response projects
A. General details
Reporting period 1st
April 2014 to 31st
October 2014
Project number given by
Oxfam Novib
A-03884-02-506614
Title of the project Linking Home Based Workers to Private Sector Market
Name of Partner
Organization
Fast Rural Development Program (FRDP)
Exact location of the
project
(Please attach a list of all
the villages in which the
project is executed)
District Khairpur Mir’s, Taluka Kingri, UC Hadal Shah &
Kot Mir Muhammad
Villages 1. Darya Khan Shaikh 2. Faiz Muhammad
Phulphoto 3. Faqeer Muhammad Rahoojo 4. Hafiz Taj
Muhammad Narejo 5. Imam Bux Shar 6. Rafiq Jamali 7.
Soomar Mallah 8. Tagyal Mohyal 9. Fazal Faqeer Rahoojo
10. Khair Muhammd Jatoi 11. Sajan Maheser one 12. Sajan
Maheser Two 13. Elyas Mangejo 14. Gul Hassan Mangejo
15. Soomor Katpar 16. Aamin Shah 17. Mulla Ghulam Ali
Total project duration
(months)
7 Months
Start date of the project in
the field
1st
April 2014
Reporting Period 1st
April 2014 to 31st
October 2014 ( Final Report)
Objectives of the project
(overall and per sector)
The prime objective and purpose of the project is to Enhance
living conditions of home based workers by providing them
opportunities to be skilled at desired proficiency for livelihood
improvement.
Total number of
beneficiaries planned
306
% per sector
(Division of total
beneficiaries in percentage
per Sector)
100% Female
B. Project background
1. Describe briefly any relevant changes, which have occurred in the local situation
within the project context. If the problems as described in the original proposal have
changed, describe these changes and how they affect the possible continuation of the
project.
It has been learned that women home based workers usually come from the poor lower or
lower middle income background and from various age groups possess very little or non-

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education at all. Young girls of aged 06 to 14 are working and helping their mothers in making
and finishing the tasks assigned to them by middle men against extremely low remuneration
while working 10-12 hours daily under conditions that are frequently harsh, Unhealthy and
hazardous. FRDP worked for those home based workers of UC Kot Mir Muhammad and UC
Hadal shah to reduce the role of middle men and link home based workers to market.
2. Demonstrate if and how this project still fits within the context. So, what is the link of
the project with other initiatives in the same sector? And what difference does the
project make to the sector?
Context is right
The overall project made potential-prospective for FRDP to build capacity of home based
workers for helping them to link with markets and to be well prepared to reduce the chance of
middle man for hand-made production.
C. Project achievements in the reporting period
Baseline Survey
A baseline survey was conducted to meet the needs of targeted communities, demographic
ratio was found total households in the seventeen villages are 1077 with a total population of
7558 and around 300 households directly depend on different types of home made products
and handicrafts like local handmade bed sheets, pillow sheets, caps, mats and embroidery.
100 mobilization meetings with HBWs
Team conducted 100 mobilization meetings with home based workers in seventeen villages to
educate them for hand-made production.
5 orientation workshops/Seminars
According to target of orientation, team could not ménage seventeen villages in five
orientations to follow the socially norms of society, women could not gather at cantered place,
therefore seventeen workshops were arranged, per workshop per village.
Formation of 17 CIGs
Team formatted 17 village level committees comprised of 18 members in a committee, total
target resulted 306.
Identification of 306 women for training
By following the minimum target for training 306 women were identified from committee
members of seventeen villages.
Organize 14 trainings for 306 home-based workers
Identified women were successfully trained in 14 trainings that strategies to link with markets
were told and reduction the role of middle man was realized.
60 awareness sessions
Team conducted sixty awareness sessions to direct and indirect beneficiaries in seventeen
villages.
Conduct Market Assessment

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FRDP team conducted market assessment of Sukkur market, a leading market in trade and of
Khairpur market to recommend strategies.
Development of Market Strategies
FRDP M&E Officer and BDO after deeply assessment of market set a dozen of strategies to
help HBWs to link with markets and to eliminate the role of middle man.
Identification/Selection of 34 women to work as marketing persons
A deep seated survey was carried out in seventeen villages to identify and to select 34 women,
two women per village, for working as marketing persons that was not followed due to society
circumstances therefore combination of male 4 and female 30 was focused for marketing
purpose.
3 Advocacy workshops
Three advocacy workshops were held with government line departments, Business men, civil
society and NGOs to address the problems and issues of home based workers.
Coordination meetings with chamber of commerce
Chamber of commerce is not active in district Khairpur Mir’s, Coordination meetings held
with DCO, DO Social Welfare to share updates and ask them for coordination with home
based workers to get them out from facing matters.
2 Exhibitions
Exhibitions were staged in Khairpur city where marketing persons from community and
NGOs set their stalls to sell their products, more than two hundred visitors came in per
exhibition and purchased crafts. Civilians, socialists, political leaders, government officers
were invited and media cell recorded on going activity and captured sharing of visitors in eye
of camera.
2 exposure visits
Exposure visits to assess the market dynamic were arranged of Sukkur and Khairpur markets
in which 34 targeted marketing persons participated and assess the market demand and get
orders from shopkeepers for production of craft items.
End line Survey
Post KAP survey given to individual consultant for the transparent reporting and share the
learning’s of the project, Consultant hired the local enumerators and conducted the data from
the villages, the sample size for the post KAP is 10% and 5 FGD’s was conducted in the
working area, Draft report will be shared soon & final post KAP report will be shared by Next
week.
Please fill out the table.
Note on beneficiaries: please give number of direct beneficiaries, and indirect
beneficiaries. Indicate individuals desegregated by gender, and not households.
Beneficiaries reached in one sector could be the same beneficiaries as mentioned in
another sector. Please don’t add up, try to avoid double Counting.
Activity Number of
Activities
Beneficiaries Male Female Indirect
beneficiaries

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Orientation
Workshop
17 364 00 364 All participants
exchanged their
learnt by
replicating in the
community
Formation of
CIGs
exchanged their
learnt by
replicating in the
community
Enterprise
development
exchanged their
learnt by
replicating in the
community
Identification
of women as
marketing
persons
exchanged their
learnt by
replicating in the
community
Advocacy
Workshop
exchanged their
learnt by
replicating in the
community
Exposure visit 2 68 12 56 All participants
exchanged their
learnt by
replicating in the
community
Exhibition 2 342 211 131 All participants
exchanged their
learnt by
replicating in the
community

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Note on outputs / outcomes:
Note on beneficiaries: please give number of direct beneficiaries, and indirect
beneficiaries. Indicate individuals desegregated by gender, and not households.
Beneficiaries reached in one sector could be the same beneficiaries as mentioned in
another sector. Please don’t add up, try to avoid double Counting.
(Please share conciliated outcomes of so far completed activities)

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The activities
undertaken
were very
effective and
fruitful as it
involved
variety of
concerned
persons
including
home base
women
workers,
NGOs,
officials of
government
line
departments,
media
personnel,
workers and
representativ
es of labour
organizations
, and socialist
with whom
basic issues
of women
and the
objective of
project was
Planned objectives, or
output/ outcomes in
this reporting
period/per sector
Achieved outputs /
outcomes in this
reporting period/per
sector
Achieved outputs / outcomes since
the start of the project/ per sector
Number of
people
intended to
be reached in
this
reporting
period/per
sector (male
& female)
Actual number
of people
reached in this
reporting
period/per
sector (male &
female)
Total
number of
people
reached
since the
start of the
project
(male &
female)

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shared to
meet
ultimately
outcome of
project,
positive
change was
found by
FRDP after a
continues
efforts.
Sectors (fill
in only
relevant
sectors)
(see annex
for
description
of sector)

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Baseline
Survey
Demographic and
sector wise data
collection of
communities to meet
their needs
Conducted survey in
targeted 17 villages
Based line conducted and information
gained regarding targeted women
7558 Male 4103
Female 4355
Male 4103
Female 4355
100
Mobilization
Meetings
with HBWs
Soft mobilization
meetings with HBWs
to educate them about
crafts production
Conducted 100
mobilization
meetings with
direct and indirect
beneficiaries of
17 villages
Meetings have been conducted with
beneficiaries in 17 villages to provide
them knowledge of hand made
products.
343 Female 343 Female 343

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17
Orientation
workshops/S
eminars
Introduction of
organization, donor
agency and project aim,
objective and activities.
Conducted 17
orientation
workshops in targeted
communities, per
workshop per village.
17 orientation sessions have been
conducted
Formation of
17 CIGs
Selection of
representative members
in 17 village
committees
Formed 17 village
committees
comprised of 18
members in a
committee.
Targeted village level committees have
been formed that representing issues,
problems of home-based workers on
external level.
Identification
/selection of
306 women
for training
Through Training Need
Assessment in local
context.
Identified 306 women
from 17 villages for
training purpose who
rotating the massage
at indirect
beneficiaries.
306 women have been identified and
selected for training purpose.
Organize 17
trainings for
306 home-
based
workers and
members of
trade unions
are trained on
Capacity building of
300 home-based
workers in 17 trainings
and having minimum
18 participants in every
training.
Trained 306 women
from 17 villages.
306 women have been trained to
acknowledge the aim, objective,
linkage with marketing, diminished
role of middle man.

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organization
management
and
collective
bargaining
and
marketing
(Per training
18
participants

60 awareness
sessions will
be conducted
to create
awareness
among other
stakeholder
regarding the
issues of
HBWs, role
of ILO and
UNIFEM,
ILO
convention
102 and
labour policy
for HBWs in
other South
Asian
countries
Raising awareness
sessions to create
awareness in home-
based workers.
Raised 60 awareness
sessions in HBWs of
17 villages
60 awareness sessions have been
conducted that helped participant gain
concrete information regarding national
and international policies that state
about women empowerment and labour
law with their rights etc
Conduct a
Centre
Assessment
for
Identification
of business
stakeholders
for linkages
development
Development
of Marketing
Assessing the
identification of
business stockholders
for linkage
development
Conducted
assessment of market
to link with business
stack holders
Centre assessment is conducted and
linkages and marketing strategy
identified

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Strategy
Identification
/selection of
34 women to
work as
marketing
persons
Reorganization of 34
women to work as
marketing persons
Identified and
Selected 23 women
and 11 male from 17
villages as marketing
persons.
34 persons are serving as marketing
persons
34 Male 11
Female 23
Male 11
Female 23
3 Advocacy
workshops
will be
conducted
with HBWs
and groups of
other
stakeholders
to share the
progress and
develop
agreed action
plan.
Raise the voice of
HBW
Shared the voice of
HBWs with chamber
of commerce, NGOs
and government
department sides.
3 advocacy workshops are conducted
that have helped HBWs boom their
voice to be heard regarding HBWs
rights
189 Male 123
Female 66
Male 123
Female 66
2 Exhibitions Exhibition for women
hand-made items
Conducted 2
exhibitions with
different stack
holders, marketing
persons and local
NGOs
Model exhibition has been installed in
order to display the crafted work of
targeted women
342 211 131
2 exposure
visits.
Exposure visits for
dynamic of market
Conducted exposure
visits of Sukkur
markets and Khairpur
markets for dynamic
of market.
Exposure visits to other model have
been conducted
68 Male 12
Female 56
Male 12
Female 56

D. Reflections on project achievements in the reporting period
Achieved activities having enough change in HBWs progress and performance as role of
middle man has strongly been 90% rejected in targeted communities, home based
workers have been educated and been provided proper knowledge of new products and
linked them to markets. Value of self-employment is certainly owned by people therefore
the purpose of activities to link HBWs to market is at satisfactory step. Exposure visits
and exhibitions revealed the fact and massaged to working women about right path to
earn good and to deny contacting with middle man anymore. It was noticed at the
begging of project women so far are engaged with different kind of hand making items
but are not having justice due to interfere of middle man that is gradually eliminating
after having awareness sessions.
1). Objectives and outputs / outcomes
The objective of linkages HBWs with market is to generate a chance of self-earning who
have been facing many challenges and issues for many years, FRDP addressed
reasonable issues with trade unions to take them out from ingrained situation toward
healthy life with the support of self employment producing handicraft items, FRDP also
made page on social media where items displayed for the purchasing, if any one need
these products FRDP team sharing the contact numbers of those HBWs who making
these products for direct purchase, FRDP also felled need of some micro credit
institutions so contacted many local MCI’s for microfinance purpose, finally Khushali
Bank came in action to help them out providing loan for producing craft and to sustain
their lives. Khushali Bank intallay started the working with three villages to pilot the
project then move for other villages. Some beneficiaries are getting loans and purchasing
machines or required equipments for hand-making products, completing own needs by
producing craft and to link with markets without contacting any middle man.
a. Principal objectives
The standard objective is to generate a way for home-based workers to reach at markets
and reducing the role of middle man and get more profit on their products which is not
possible in presence of middle men. Three hundred beneficiaries polished by FRDP are
key-informative to replicate those learnings in targeted communities, here it does not end
there would be a big number of indirect beneficiaries as the trained beneficiaries will
rotate their skill to others and will generate large number of skilled persons in community
to eliminate role of third hand and communicate directly in markets for own products.

b. Operation specific objective (please use indicator(s) and source(s) of verification)
 Linkage home-based workers to market and reducing the role of middle man to
improve their living condition through earning optimum livelihood
 Build capacity of direct beneficiaries on trainings, mobilization meetings,
awareness sessions about advanced with modern tool and technique to promote
and sell their crafted items on good-prices
 Address all social and economical problems faced by home-based workers in
advocacy workshops, seminars and meetings with trade unions, government line,
chamber of commerce and NGOs to identify with possible solutions.
Intervention pre-set and design layout that were kept during trainings sessions:
All training sessions incorporated were based on the principles of participant cantered
learning. It was intended that participants should be active in each training session.
The facilitators run the discussions through participatory methods such as
brainstorming, small group discussions, role play, case studies, and question and
answer sessions retarding the objective of project.
Specific Objectives of the project are as under
 Diversified rural livelihood support to Home based workers
 Enhance living conditions of home based workers by providing them opportunities to
be skilled at desired proficiency for livelihood improvement
 Developing linkages of home based producer cooperatives to minimise the role of
middle-men
 Raise the voice for rights of home based workers
 Addressed social protection issues of home based workers
2). Activities
S# Activities Planned Achieved
1 Baseline Survey Accomplished as planned
2 Mobilization meetings with HBWs Accomplished as planned
3 3 orientation workshops/Seminars Accomplished as planned
4 Formation of CIGs Accomplished as planned
5 Identification of women for training Accomplished as planned
6 TNA of women Accomplished as planned
7 Awareness sessions Accomplished as planned
8 Market Assessment Accomplished as planned
9 Development of Market Strategies Accomplished as planned
10 Identification/Selection of 34 women to work as
marketing persons
Accomplished as planned
11 Advocacy workshops Accomplished as planned
12 Coordination meetings with chamber of
commerce
Accomplished as planned

13 Exhibitions Accomplished as planned
14 2 exposure visits Accomplished as planned
15 End line Survey Accomplished as planned
3.) Beneficiaries
The direct beneficiaries 306 hundreds and 34 that work as marketing persons have been
trained that will rotate the given massage and skills to indirect beneficiaries to reduce the
role of middle man and to link with markets in order to earn good living through their
crafts items.
4). Challenges
FRDP to encourage women to direct contact in market and reduce the role of middle
man, while it was noticed during the implementation of project, many communities
do not let their women for outside as market visit due to local culture, in such critical
condition FRDP mobilized men and women and showed extreme sympathy for their
economy condition to direct link with markets, finally succeeded.
Coordination with different microfinance institution was carried out but response by
them was disappointment therefore Khushahali Bank started only three villages as
pilot project and after that they increase it further villages.
5). Monitoring and evaluation
All ongoing activities were monitored and evaluated by M&E Officer to ensure the
progress, success, failure, strengthen and weakness of project, all gaps used to be shared
with team in meeting and strategies were recommended for future implementation,
Executive Director FRDP also visited project area and share it thoughts with team &
meet with stockholders about the current project progress sharing, somehow team was
oriented time by time if needed to achieve the project activities successfully.
6). Planning for next reporting period
Describe briefly the planned activities for next reporting period (indicate the
changes from what was planned)
All activities have been successfully finished in project.
S# Activity Scheduled Date Venue All brought
forwarded

8) Room for any reflections and/or comments, human interest stories and cases, and
photographs.
RUBEENA…….. A HBW
In a village Fazil Faqeer Rahojo, lives a thirty-nine year old woman, Rubeena with the
responsibility of six children and a husband. She lives in extremely poor conditions, with
no proper sewage system, thus attracting various diseases. She has no separate working
place instead she works at her own from for approximately nine to ten hours a day. In
return she only gets 300 to 500 Rs. Moreover she also has to deal with the problem of
inconsistency of availability of work.
Rubeena is solely dependent on the
middle man for work and although she
knows the exploitation the middle man
carries out, she is reluctant to argue in
fear of losing work. She lives under a
constant threat of uncertainty and
according to her just can’t afford to take
any risks. Her troubles don’t end here, as
she is embroidery maker she has to face
many health issues as well. Her hands,
especially her fingers are all bruised, she
now has a bent backbone due to long
hour’s constant work and she also seems
to have trouble with her eyesight.
Her mobility is restricted primarily because her husband doesn’t allow her to go to the
market alone. She is dependent on the males of her family to get her raw materials and
sell the finished goods in the market. She has absolutely no market information and lacks
of skilled training makes her work inefficient. All she asks for is her rights. She requested
skill trainings, easy access to market and its information, easily accessible sales outlet
and social security. She’s been an embroidery maker for almost six years, but she cannot
see circumstances get any better. The ever increasing inflation and her ever decreasing
income do not seem to jell together well.

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