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PC-II FORM

GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN
PLANNING COMMISSION

CONCEPT PAPER

BAHAWALPUR RURAL DEVELOPMENT


PROJECT –
INTERIM PERIOD PROPOSAL

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PAKISTAN PLANNING COMMISSION
PROPOSAL FOR PROJECT CONCEPT CLEARANCE

Sector:
Sub Sector:

1. Name of the Project:


Bahawalpur Rural Development Project- Interim period
proposal

2. Sponsoring Agency:
Government of the Punjab, Planning & Development
Department, Lahore.

3. Executing Agency:
i). PMU – Bahawalpur Rural Development Project
ii). Communities through Communities Organizations.

4. Location:

Bahawalpur, Bahawalnagar & Rahim Yar khan Districts of


Punjab, Pakistan

5. Time schedule:

a). Commencement date 1st July 2009


b). Likely completion date 30th June 2010.

6. Brief Description and Scope:

Rationale

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The project area comprises of Bahawalpur,
Bahawalnagar & Rahim yar Khan Districts. These are the
least developed districts in Punjab. Surveys of rural
communities in these districts revealed that the most
significant problem was perceived to be the lack of
critical, social and economic infrastructure at the village
level, irrigation water, dilapidated infrastructure & access
to justice. The quality of life was found to be very poor
with inadequate health, education, and other services.
Women identified the lack of water for irrigation &
household use, sanitation, access to health services, and
roads network as major problems. The rural poor also
considered it important to rehabilitate other infrastructure
facilities e.g. community buildings, water supply and
culverts etc. This situation needs to be improved by
appropriate rural development initiatives which should
respond to the perceived needs of the community and
their capacity to implement and maintain. Complementary
investments are needed in the Project area to improve
agricultural, livestock, and small enterprise productivity to
improve the quality of village life.

In order to address the suffering of poor of this


particular area, the Government of Punjab initiated
Bahawalpur Rural Development project (BRDP) in 1997-
98 with the financial assistance from ADB & IDB. This
southern belt had not been receiving the much needed
attention previously mainly because of scarcity of
resources. There was a realization that this area in general
and some of its less developed pockets in particular,
remained punctuated, for decades with scenes of poverty,
deprivation and hunger.

The Project (BRDP) completed its original phase in


June 2007 while surpassing the physical targets and its

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impact on lives of rural population is quite visible. The
project achieved 166 % of its originally envisaged targets
while remaining within the same loan amount. ADB
project completion report issued in December 2008
acknowledged that project remained successful, efficient,
relevant and effective. The performance of PMU was
rated as highly satisfactory.

Despite many gains through projects like this and


a general healthy economic outlook, poverty is still
pervasive and continues to increase due to many
extraneous & heterogeneous factors. This may be mainly
attributed to poor access to land, higher prices of food
items and increased inflation. According to a latest
statement given by Planning commission of Pakistan the
population below the poverty line has been significantly
increased in 2008-09 to 38% which was 22.32 % in 2005-
06 (The Express, Lhr. Feb 15: 2009).

Even with successful implementation of BRDP’s


mandatory development activities in this poorest region of
the Punjab Province during Phase – I, there is much that
still needs to be accomplished. The project area as a
whole still falls in the high deprivation areas of the
province.

In this sequence Government of Punjab is


exploring different options for address the regional
disparities. A project with financial assistance of DFID is
also in pipeline which is expected to initiate in next
financial year. Possibilities of funding from other donors
like IFAD & ADB are also being explored. For the interim
period of one year, the current proposal is submitted
which is planned for addressing the genuine needs of the
poor of area.

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Main Objectives of the Project

The Project is designed to reduce poverty. The


Project aims to increase rural income, employment,
improve quality of life through improvement in
infrastructure services, provision of financial services to
permit increased production, enhance economic and
market activities, and institutional support through
organizational and skill training for beneficiaries in village
communities. The Project’s objectives support the
Government’s strategic objectives of economic and social
development, improvements in agricultural production,
development of rural areas, reduction of poverty, and
environmental & social sustainability.

Scope
The Project’s scope includes women development,
rural sanitation, community training and institutional
support. The Project is designed as demand-driven, i.e.
responding to the perceived needs of the community. The
Project will be implemented using a process approach
and selection criteria to ensure responsiveness to the
needs of communities. The selection criteria will ensure
that the poverty reduction objective is met.

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Project components
The physical targets proposed under Bahawapur
Rural Development Project include

Sr. Total Project Total Cost


Component / Sub Component Units
No. Targets (Rs. Million)

Women Development sub-


1 (No) 15 15.00
projects

2 Rural Sanitation (No) 35 175.00

3 Community trainings (Persons) 1000 15.00

4 Fertilizer & Seed banks (No) 10 10.00

5 Community Service Centers (No) 15 15.00

Communal Agricultural
6 (No) 15 15.00
implements

7 Rural Infrastructure (No) 30 45.00

8 Improved Access to land (No) 200 10.00

PMU 50.00

TOTAL COST 350.00

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Rural sanitation

Sanitary conditions in rural areas of the Project are


miserable. This project will respond to this need including
construction of simple, low cost drainage & sanitation
facilities in Project area. Following low cost sanitation
improvement activities will be executed in 35 villages
during the project period.

a) House hold latrine construction / promotion of its


use/ social marketing campaign against open
defecation.
b) Primary open surface drains with street
pavements.
c) Secondary main trunk & sludge carrier
d) Oxidation pond & Disposal of Waste Water

1. Women Development Centers

Women segment of rural society cannot be


ignored in development process. Under this project 15
women development centers will also be established
in project area after assessing the potential and
demand for skills in female communities. The women
development centers are designed specially for female
communities. Women groups will be formed through
Female SOs by community mobilization process.

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These groups will manage to get mutated a piece of
land in the name women organization. A building
which will have a training hall and one office room will
be constructed along with boundary wall. Certain
machines as per the requirement of women
organization will be provided to center which may
include simple sewing machines, rita machines,
computerized embroidery machines etc. supporting
furniture will also be provided to these centers. These
centers will serve as hub of women activities in the
area. These will launch training courses for various
skills and will also help rural women for marketing of
their products. Typical local crafts will also get
promoted through these centers.

2. Communal Agricultural implements

Improved access to agricultural implements will


have a direct impact on crop yield. Under this
intervention, community organizations will be formed
which will be provided with agricultural implements on
matching grant basis. The implements required will be
identified by community themselves as per need of their
specific area. A small shed for retaining of these
implements will also be provided to community on a piece
of land duly mutated in the name of community
organization. Total number of agriculture implements
centers will be 15 during the current project period.

3. Fertilizer & Seed banks

Currently Pakistan is facing huge problem of


fertilizer shortage. The severity of problem is being further
aggravated by hording of fertilizer by dealers. It is

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proposed that communities of specific locations where
the severity of problem is high may be mobilized and
linked with fertilizer manufacturing companies for
providing dealership. Same mechanism can be utilized
for easy access to seed. Through these fertilizer and
seed banks, supply of quality seed and fertilizer may be
ensured among the poor. Timely availability and easy
access to both these key inputs will have a significant
contribution in enhancing the productivity of all crops.
Under current project 10 fertilizer and seed banks will be
established on trial basis.

4. Community Service Centers

Community service centers will be established


through community organizations. This center will be a
micro-enterprise with the combination of various
agriculture produce processing machines linked with one
power source under one roof. This center will be a base
for value addition of agriculture produce like wheat
grinding, chili grinding & oil extracting machine along with
packing unit for output. Moreover milk cream extracting
machines may also be provided under this scheme.
Community service center will be established in 15
villages during this project.

5. Community Trainings

One major reason of increasing poverty in rural


areas is lack of skills which can help anyone to earn
his livelihood. Majority of rural labour is unskilled and
their wages are too low to compete with the increasing
inflationary pressure. Idea is to arrange various
trainings (for getting employment or self-employment
in the village and outside the village) for rural

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communities at their door step by using available
institutional and non-institutional resources. Non-
institutional resources may include the skilled workers
of various trades who are engaged in rural areas like
electrician, plumber, artisan, mobile repairing
technicians, motorcycle mechanic, welder, sweet
maker etc. Buildings of BRDP funded community
enterprises and women development centers may also
be utilized for the purpose. Ultimate objective of these
trainings is to produce a skilled lot of rural workers
who will be able to enhance their earnings while
working on various on-farm and off-farm trades but in
rural areas.

One thousand rural workers will be skilled from


various institutional and non institutional sources. They
will also be provided with a small toolkit after successful
completion of trainings. Through this intervention one
thousand families will get additional income through these
skilled hands.

6. Rural Infrastructure

Project will implement 30 schemes of rural


infrastructure which may include bridges, culverts,
soling, sheds for common use, diggies, animal
drinking ponds, musafir sheds etc. project will ensure
that intervention proposed under component will
provide benefits to communities in general.

7. Improved access to land

Access to land is identified as one of main hurdles


in decreasing poverty in area. Land is too expensive that

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poor can never think of owning a piece of land. Even its
rent is too high that it is beyond the capacity of poor.
Hence this factor critically curtailing the economic
opportunities of poor families who are engaging in
farming since generations. Now they just have to rely on
tenancy for survival of their families. IFAD is interested in
improving access to land for poor through utilizing the
available government land. BRDP has proposed another
option for improving access of poor to land. Under this
model, a community organization of landless or very
small farmers will be formed who will get a big piece of
land on rent which may range from 50-100 acres on the
platform of that community organization and then they will
distribute this land on subsidized lease terms among their
community members. This will be an alternative strategy
for improving access to land where government land is
unavailable. Under this component 1000 acres of land will
be leased through community platforms.

Institutional Support

The PMU will be responsible for management and


coordination of the Project and will implement the
Project’s institutional support component. The PMU,
headed by Project Director, will have an Implementation,
Engineering and Finance / Administration Section.
Implementation and Finance/ Administration Section will
be headed by Deputy Project Directors while the
Engineering Section will be headed by Senior project
Engineer. The current staff shall continue (protected with
current pay and allowances) under the PMU.

7. Period of Implementation:

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i) Planned Commencement

date: 01-07-2009

ii) Expected Completion date:

30-06-2010

8. Cost (In Million Rupees):

Rs. 350.00 million

9. Financing Plan:

i) Government Contribution:

Through Budgetary Resources

i) Federal PSDP Nil

ii) Provincial PSDP 93%

iii) SDP Nil

b) Through Non-Budgetary Resources


(i.e. Self-Financing, Country Participation,
Bank Borrowing, Equity etc.) 7%

ii) Foreign Contribution:

Amount of Technical Assistance.

Amount of Capital Assistance. Nil


(Specify whether grant or loan)
Total (a+b):
% of Total Cost:

c) Name of Possible Donor Agency/Country. (Indicate whether


any contact already established):

Nil Details will be


worked out

10. Requirements: once proposal


is accepted.
Equipment

(Indicate major items and estimated value)

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Material (Specify items)

iii) Training

(Indicate: (i) Field (ii) Duration (iii) Local/Foreign)

iv) Foreign/Local experts (In man-months)

v) Books and Journals

Whether included in the 7th plan and allocation made:

This project is in line with the current Government Policy


of Poverty Alleviation.

Whether Feasibility study carried out/proposed to be carried out:

Recently completed project i.e Bahawalpur Rural


Development Project was operational in these Districts.
The evaluation reports show that concept is beneficial.

Status of PC-I

PC-I shall be formulated once concept is cleared by


competent forum.

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