DELTA
STRENGTHENING CITIZENS’ VOICE THROUGH ADVOCACY (SVCA)
PROJECT OVERVIEW
Development, Environment, Legal Aid, Technical Support &Advocacy Association (DELTA) is a NGO, registered with the Directorate of Social Welfare since 1996. DELTA has been active on many fronts since the past 17 years in completing social sector projects working with donor agencies like UNICEF, AUSAID and USAID funded projects amongst many others. DELTA is working from its head office in Islamabad and its regional office in Peshawar.
Currently DELTA is implementing a project called Strengthening Citizens Voice through Advocacy (SVCA), supported by USAIDs’ ‘Citizens Voice Project’ (CVP) to. The project aims at highlighting corruption in key public departments and emphasizes strengthening transparency and accountability mechanisms. CVP is based on the understanding that there is a big gap between the government and the public of Pakistan and overall communication can be termed as weak; and that the absence of substantive public debate and discussion about key social, economic and political issues often impairs the lack of public trust and confidence in government institutions and in civil society.
1. PROGRAMMATIC INTERVENTIONS
The Citizens’ Voice Project (CVP) is based on the understanding that the links between the government and the governed in Pakistan are weak; and that the absence of substantive public debate and discussion about key social, economic and political issues often exacerbates the lack of public trust and confidence in government institutions and in civil society.
DELTA in pursuit of its Mission Statement: To serve humankind, work for poverty eradication, improve environment, and raise quality of life, through empowering people, using the rights based approach, by working for “Changes for the Better”, formulated a project to counter corruption and strengthen transparency and accountability mechanisms via inculcating awareness among citizens of their rights. With the support of the CVPA, DELTA is implementingthe ‘Strengthening Citizens Voice through Advocacy (SCVA) Project. The following activities will be implemented under the project.
2. PROGRAM OUTPUTS AND DELIVERABLES:
Activity |
Outputs |
Deliverables |
1.Consultants Hired to Conduct Research |
Listing and Analyses of institutions, policies and legislations and framework for Citizens Charter |
Consultants’ report, framework for Citizens Charter and 20 key messages for IEC |
2. Awareness Campaigns on Available Forums/ Structure through IEC |
Posters/ fliers designed, printed and disseminated |
10,000 posters and 50,000 fliers delivered |
3.radio campaign |
a 4 months campaign designed and executed |
outreach to 40,000 listeners established |
4.Citizens Groups for Redressal of Issues |
Citizens Groups formed for Redressal of Issues |
Citizen groups formed and engaged on 3 themes (police/ education/ health/ LG&RDD) |
5.Engaging Press Clubs & Associations Effectively: |
14 meetings conducted |
21- 40 press releases issued + 30 events/ news reported in news |
6. Workshops/ Mass Meetings: |
5 workshops and 2 mass meetings for community/ students conducted to Contribute to Citizens’ Charter of Demands |
750 participants (500 mass meetings and 250 round table ) attend |
7. District Level Round Tables: |
4 RTs conducted to Contribute to Citizens’ Charter of Demands |
100 participants attend and contribute to charter |
8. Engagement with Elected Representatives of Major Political Parties |
Elected representatives / political parties engaged to secure their commitment |
200 participants attend conferences from elected representatives and political parties community |
40,000 radio listeners,
0,600 participants (400 mass meetings and 200 workshop participants),
0,100 Districts 4 RT participants
0,200 Conferences participants
0,70 Media and lawyers participants at moots
500,000 IEC material viewers (at least 10 people view a flier)
540,870 direct beneficiaries who inform/ discuss ith 10 family and friends,
Total 5000,000 indirect beneficiaries
KEY RESULTS :
The following key results are expected from the project:
By the end of the project noticeable improvements expected, due to our activities contribution to achieving this (as per the key results provided in RFA) are follows: