Terms of Reference (TORs) for the Final Evaluation of Sindh Drought Resilience Program (SDRP) in Umerkot and Tharparkar, Sindh March 2021
1. Background
Concern Worldwide is an international, non-governmental, humanitarian organization dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries. Concern has been working in Pakistan since 2001, when it initiated an emergency response program to address the Afghan refugee crisis in Balochistan. Concern later moved into emergency, early recovery, and long-term development programming in Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Punjab and Sindh. Concern has been implementing the USAID/ Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) -funded Sindh Drought Resilience Program (SDRP) in Tharparkar and Umerkot districts of Sindh, Pakistan. The basic objective of this program is to increase the resilience of vulnerable communities to mitigate and cope with ongoing drought and other natural disasters. The program is in line with national DRR and USAID/ BHA’s priorities aimed at to assist in early recovery and building resilience of droughtaffected communities, which are extremely vulnerable and exposed to drought risk. With the support of USAID/ BHA, Concern is providing assistance to the drought affected population through Sindh Drought Resilience Program (SDRP) with following key objectives:
- To increase the resilience of vulnerable communities to mitigate and cope with ongoing drought and other natural disasters and to strengthen local institutions’ capacity in target districts to manage natural disasters;
- To increase the resilience of drought affected vulnerable communities and local institutions through mobilization, awareness raising, capacity building, better planning and early warning system to holistically reduce the loss of lives and mitigate the drought effects;
- To improve food security and livelihoods option of the target drought-affected communities of districts Tharparkar and Umerkot
- To help people restore and improve their livelihoods and support key market systems to return to full functionality and to reduce the economic and social impact of disasters.
- To build resilience of drought affected communities against WASH associated public health risks thorough improved access to water, and hygiene knowledge and practices.
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