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Themes for the Program Areas of HUJRA:
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To address its program areas, HUJRA believes in the principle of prior applied research to constitute basis for services delivery in the program areas. However HUJRA will only take up activities based on applied research with partner organizations on component sharing basis and will facilitate custodian communities and line agencies through technical assistance. The following will constitute strategic programs for HUJRA.
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- Applied Research will provide basis for Advocacy and Lobbying to bring shift/change in the prevailing development policies for each of the program area of the organization;
- Networking with partner organizations:
- For support, experience sharing and learning
- For strength of program areas
- For partnership development with NGOs, CBOs, GOs, Research and education institution;
- Planning, monitoring and evaluation will be integral parts of each of the program areas;
- Training and capacity building of HUJRA itself and its partner organizations with development of print & electronic resources & an education center will be nucleus of its awareness raising;
- Modification and development of local social institution for achieving goal and objectives of HUJRA through information dissemination.
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Program Areas of HUJRA:
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| Based on its vision, mission and to achieve its goal, the following constitute major program areas for HUJRA |
- Natural Resource Management (NRM)
- Built Environment (BE)
- Human and Institutional Development (HID)
1. Natural Resource Management
A. Forests B. Wildlife C. Non Wood Forest Products D. Livestock Management E. Agriculture
2. Built Environment
Built environment is the term used in broader sense for the conditions created by the human to safeguard themselves from the nature. Within the process settlements are formed of different scale. Traditionally the socio-political order, in the region, ensured land, building materials and services for the housing needs of different segments of the society, without any cash transactions. In the last three decades that system has been eroded and new institutions are yet to emerge to replace; therefore it is resulted in the conditions of built environment. HUJRA intended to conduct in participatory manner with the stakeholders for increasing the understanding of the situation and to help them to mobilize the resources for the improvement. The recently emerged local government system is the potential partner in the process which on one hand can help them to understand the problems and on the other hand to enhance their technical capacity to address these issues and to ensure active participation of the beneficiaries through component sharing. In the long run, it has to influence the policy makers to bring shift in their policies to make it according to the requirements and to ensure their participation. To operate and maintain it in a better way land use planning and zoning is also of special concern to HUJRA, as on one side valuable agricultural land is colonized for housing purpose and on the other hand the settlements are extended to the hill slopes, having its own dynamics. In most of the cases these sub divisions takes place with out expert inputs and create problems of accessibility, sanitation, drainage and so on. There is a need for planning by laws, yet to be developed. In all these efforts HUJRA intend to establish partnership with other organizations/institutions to valorize and to share experiences. HUJRA has to be equipped with a technical and research team to carry out these tasks.
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A. Water and sanitation
Water supply system in rural and urban areas needs attention in terms of operation and maintenance and extension. HUJRA intends to provide technical inputs to the communities and local councils to enable them in operation and maintenance as well as carrying new projects.
Most of the communities lack sanitation facilities and the communities initiatives need technical support to carry out such projects to keep their settlements clean and hygienic. HUJRA intends to build its own capacity having a technical team and to share experience with other organizations already working in these areas.
B. Planning and Zoning
Population growth and related factors have led to haphazard growth of the settlements on one hand and overcrowding & congestion problems on the other. HUJRA intend to conduct research and develop planning and zoning guidelines in cooperation with local communities and councils. The problems of accessibility, occupation, of hazardous areas, blockage of drainage are some of the issues.
C. Accessibility
Expansion of settlements without regulatory control and high price of land have worked to shrink the roads and streets, which creates lot of accessibility problems. HUJRA intends to conduct researches and initiate processes with the relevant stakeholders to reduce the ill effects and provide alternatives.
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3. Human and Institutional Development
Research and strengthening of traditional social institutions and building their capacity for enabling them to effectively respond to the emerging realities of change, is one of the main focus area for HUJRA. The tribal historical background based on strong local institutions and weak broader level regional institutions existing in the valley are still widely acceptable and possess the capacity for effective involvement in development process. Family as a unit rather individual is playing an effective role in resource management and decision making and makes bases for institutions like Hujra & Jirga. The market economy is weakening these institutions and bureaucratic attitudes are consistently bypassing the family based institutions in development interventions. Apart from newly emerged urban institutions like trade federations and associations, HUJRA intends to meaningfully involve these traditional institutions and relevant stakeholders in the overall development process and build their capacity for playing effective role in the face of new challenges and opportunities. To play its proper role in achieving the goal HUJRA will focus on the following main areas of intervention. |
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1. Legal status and rights
There is a lot of space for the improvement of the status of women an weak segment of the society in the existing legal system and ideal Islamic system. HUJRA intends to provide support to the communities by making easy understanding of both to improve their present status especially of women.
2. Access to information
In the modern day context information became a powerful tool for gaining better position. HUJRA intends to create a regional level information center, where all the relevant information will be collected, organized and stored, which will be disseminated to the communities, individual researchers and concerned organizations for empowerment, education and awareness raising.
3. Facilitation and formation of public forums
Conventionally in the operation area of HUJRA public forums like Hujra, Jirga etc. in villages were had responsibility of managing and controlling resources, social coherence, discussions and interactions for development. HUJRA intends to facilitate the process of revival of these forums with modern tools and techniques for public debates and interests.
4. Capacity building
Communities of the area are familiar with the concept of self-help and self-management, as they have practiced it traditionally in the form of collective actions like ‘ashar'. Due to superficial outside view, centralized structures and extending market economy, the communities are gradually loosing this character with out appropriate institutional alternatives. HUJRA intends to prepare the communities for self-help, self-management and self-reliance. HUJRA intends to provide social and technical guidance using proper need assessment and training packages as tools with the concept of action research for appropriate alternative models.
5. Networking and linkages
Many people and organizations are doing the same activities with the same objectives without a common understanding for maximum benefit. HUJRA will play a role of catalyst to bring all these developmental actors into a broader framework by creating their linkages and networks.
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