Public Awareness Campaign On

Climate Change Adaptation in Nawabshah

Report by

Nisar A. Brohi

Climate Change Adaptation Campaign in District Nawabshah

Sangat Development Foundation (SDF) is community based non-
governmental Organization, launched with its mission to work for safe
drinking water and sanitation education especially in remote and
backward areas of Nawabshah.

SDF has taken a number of community-based capacity building and

awareness initiatives, including seminars on different issues
confronting the downtrodden in remote and backward areas.

Sangat Development Foundation (SDF) is member of District Advisory

and Coordination Committee (DCC), WWF-Indus for All programme of
Nawabshah District and also member of Project Implementation
Coordination Committee of ASF Project by SRSP on Agro business
Support Fund.
Sangat Development Foundation has recently been granted membership by
International Human Rights Commission (IHRC) in recognition of its social
services to vulnerable communities of rural areas.

Key activities undertaken by SDF

Seminars and Workshops

Child Health and Nutrition

Child Rights and Role of Civil Society, Supported By Plan
International and District Govt Nawabshah

Consultative workshop with Religious Leaders on “Conservation and
Islam”, Supported by Indus For All Programme-WWF
Pakistan

Education for all in 2015: The Challenges, Supported by UNESCO,
Islamabad

Human Caused Biodiversity Loss and Climate Disruption

Education for All and Role of Civil Society, Supported by Sindh
Rural Support Program (SRSP)

Campaign on CCBs Formation and Mobilization

Held Three Medical Camps in Remote Areas of Nawabshah,
Supported by Taluka Govt Daur, Nawabshah

Project Successfully Completed

 Voter Education campaign in 51 UCs of Nawabshah

Collaboration with Participatory Development Initiatives (PDI)
Supported by UNDP and Election Commission of Pakistan

Project under Implementation

• TB awareness program in Taluka Daur District Nawabshah

Support by The Asia foundation (TAF)

Climate Change Adaptation Campaign in District Nawabshah

Global warming is one of the major burgeoning threats to human
family, which has almost changed the entire climate of the world,
posing very serious threats not only to the eco system and also other
living organism on the world planet. The global warming would be an

indefatigable challenge for the coming generation, if its current

growing trend is not arrested, it would have irreparable losses not only
on the wildlife losses but also a disaster for the human population.
Sangat team has organised a number of consultative meetings in
various rural villages and schools in order to aware the local
community on climate change factors and possible ways to cope with
it, with a view to grapple with growing chronic diseases mostly born
out of warm weather and environmental degradation.

Sangat Development Foundation (SDF) team informed the local

community that around 262 million people were affected annually from
climate disaster between 2000 to 2004. Due to unpredicted
weather/climatic changes, there are many possibilities of unexpected
drought cycles and rain with storms frequent and prolonged in the
world.

Pakistan is also experiencing the effects of climate change; the wildlife

and many other indigenous species are at risk. However, there is badly

Climate Change Adaptation Campaign in District Nawabshah

need of time to have pro environmental friendly policy, to be executed
at the grass root level, in order to protect and promote climate
sustainability.

Nawabshah has badly suffered due to an unexpected climatic changes

occurred since last couple of years in the district. These environmental
and climatic change developments have entire changed the climate of
the district, resulting into disruption of social landscape of the areas.
The district temperature approximately remains above 50C from April
to August. It is also one of the coldest districts of Pakistan only in
winter season.

Due to unexpected rapid climatic changes in the district have also

disturbed its socio-economic landscape since many years. Due to long
spell of warm and hot climate in the district, the local community
especially vulnerable social groups women and children have
developed chronic diseases.

The warm weather and climate changes in the district not merely
affected the human population but also reduced agriculture
productivity at the large scale.

Climate Change Adaptation Campaign in District Nawabshah

However, there is direly need of public awareness campaign and
capacity building of the local communities on meeting the challenges
of the climate change and its possible impacts on the human family
and also other wildlife in the district.

Climate Change Adaptation Campaign in District Nawabshah