PRF applies sustainable livelihoods approaches that provide a framework for addressing poverty and vulnerability in both development and humanitarian contexts. They have emerged from the growing realization of the need to put the poor and all aspects of their lives and means of living at the center of development and humanitarian work, while maintaining the sustainability of natural resources for present and future generations.

Sustainable livelihoods objectives aim to increase the sustainability of poor people’s livelihoods through promoting:

 
  • Improved access to high-quality education, information, technologies and training and better nutrition and health.
  • A more supportive and cohesive social environment.
  • More secure access to, and better management of, natural resources.
  • Better access to basic and facilitating infrastructure.
 

FOCUSED AREAS

AGRICULTURE AND LIVELIHOODS PROGRAM
Protect and improve household food security, including asset base, through increasing access and availability to food and means of production. Rehabilitation of agricultural sites and people associated with agricultural business.
FORMAL EDUCATION
  • Increase enrolment and retention of school going population (aged between 5-18 years) with emphasis on gender equity and inclusiveness while address socio-cultural barriers that hinder the enrolment of girls and children with special needs through community mobilization and sensitization, and by combating violence in the school place.

  • Facilitate the integration HIV prevention education for teachers, youth and children into education.

  • Improve teacher competence through in-service training, mentoring and provision of basic incentives.

  • Provide psychosocial training to teachers in emergency affected areas and psychosocial outreach to children through child-friendly spaces and integrate life-skills based approaches.

  • Facilitate the availability of adequate and relevant basic education materials, kits and supplies.

HEALTH CARE PROGRAM
  • Improve availability of and access to health care services for communities, with special focus on vulnerable groups such as women and children, through mobile clinics or strengthening of existing services, as well as through the promotion of health-seeking behavior.

  • Improve quality of health care and treatment, including malnutrition with special focus on health infrastructure (physical equipment and supplies, including drugs for malnutrition treatment and human resource capacity).

  • Improve health information management system to ensure availability of reliable data on the health status of the population.

  • Ensure availability of health education material on prevention of targeted diseases (malaria, TB, AWD, HIV/AIDS).

NUTRITION PROGRAM
  • The overall objectives is to lower the incidence of malnutrition avert excess mortality due to malnutrition and promote better nutritional status among populations in the affected areas.

  • Initiate and facilitate intensive SFPs, including community-based nutrition actions, to the access of nutritionally vulnerable populations to emergency nutrition response.

  • Promote appropriate infant and young child feeding practices.

ADVOCACY PROGRAM
  • Effective advocacy with relevant stakeholders and parties to conflict to promote adherence to human rights law with emphasis on humanitarian concerns.

  • Institutional capacity building of Government and civil society entities at all levels for effective prevention of and response to protection challenges with a particular focus on the most vulnerable.

  • Human-rights based approaches are mainstreamed in the program design and delivery of all PRF programs.

  • Community capacity enhanced for protection of the most vulnerable.

  • Facilitate the availability of conducive environment for durable solutions for protracted displaced populations.

WASH (WATER, SANITATION AND PROMOTION OF HYGIEN)
  • Increase access to sustainable water and sanitation services to reach the most vulnerable targeted areas and population.

  • Increase awareness among target population and support in connection with safe environment and hygiene issues.

  • Empower local community institutions and WASH authorities in target areas in managements of water and sanitation facilities.

YOUTH CAPACITY BUILDING
  • To stimulate community development and transformation by offering the youth in the target area access to vital information and other basic educational activities that will raise their awareness about urgent development issues; and strengthen their participation and decision- making within the society on matters affecting their own lives.

  • Establishment of centers to help the target youth groups, public and community-based organizations access affordable information technology services.

  • Provide training facilities and assist establish youth forums, to enable them meet regularly, discuss, exchange and share ideas, learn about themselves and others. Understand their own problems, and identify their needs in relation to their existing social, political, cultural and religious structures, and take actions to direct and control their own future destiny.

  • Discourage the youth from becoming members of armed militias, and organizations, with negative ideologies, by providing them with skills for alternative source of income generation including computer skills, entrepreneurship skills, enhancement of English language ability, management skills for youth organizations, leadership skills and learning of non-violent ways of living and resolving conflicts, through training, and appropriate reading materials.

  • Encourage and assist the youth for equal opportunities to express their views, fully participate in development activities, and grow up with good human behaviors that can suit modern societies, on their own terms, through establishment of youth debate clubs, production of youth newsletter, magazines, entertainment facilities, and become updated by accessing appropriate information.

  • Enhance the target youths’ knowledge and literacy levels by providing access to educational information and appropriate reading materials through well-equipped library services, reading clubs and audio-cassette listening forums etc.

  • Enhance the academic English language performance of students at primary, secondary and tertiary institutions through access to reading materials, participation of inter-school debate clubs and reading clubs.

  • Strengthen and enhance the capacities and performance of community- based youth organizations through accessibility to modern development books and materials, and training programs.

GENDER
  • One of the realities that we need to remember and address is that, when women “trespass” in spaces that were previously completely male-dominated there is often a penalty. In education and in the workplace that backlash often takes the form of sexual harassment, humiliation, violence.

  • Supporting women in non-traditional jobs is crucial in not only making long-lasting change in their lives but also help break social taboos.

  • A proven way to overcome many systemic barriers to a woman’s success has been increased participation by women in local, regional and national legislation as empowered change agents.

  • When mothers are educated and empowered to make choices in their lives, they enable their daughters to go to school.

  • There has been much progress in increasing access to education, but progress has been slow in improving the gender sensitivity of the education system, including ensuring textbooks promote positive stereotypes.

  • If we want girls to be able to complete education we have to end child marriage. We also have to seriously address sexual harassment of girls.

INTERFAITH HARMONY
  • Providing strategies and solutions for Inter-Faith Harmony in accordance with the Basic Islamic Sources.

  • Create social awareness and improve collective common sense in the society regarding Inter- Faith Harmony.

  • Develop mutual understanding among different religious sects of the society.

  • Eliminate the sense of insecurity and injustice among the religious minorities.

  • To ensure social justice and fair distribution of socio-economic resources.

  • Create an environment of fore-bearance, tolerance and co-existence in the society.

  • To suggest the actions and steps for the revival of Islamic concept related to Inter-Faith Harmony.

  • Highlight the role of media in the promotion of Inter-Faith Harmony.

  • Highlight the role of Universities, Religious Institutions, Governments, Religious Scholars, Civil Societies, Judiciary and Legislation Institutions to address the challenges to Inter-Faith Harmony.

HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE
  • The PRF focuses on supporting the needs of people in Pakistan including refugees, facing a series of overlapping emergencies, including extreme weather events and the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • The PRF has a multi-sectoral approach covering the themes of health, education, protection, food security, shelter, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), and refugees.

  • The PRF also focuses on the lifesaving response activities including food security and livelihood assistance, nutrition programs, primary health services, including water and sanitation, women’s health, and education support, as well as shelter for displaced people.

HUMAN RIGHTS
The PRF is committed to emphasize respect for human rights and focuses on the following;
  • Right to health
  • Worker’s right
  • Right of education
  • Freedom of expressions
  • Violence against women & girls.
  • Freedom of religion & belief.
  • Valueing diversity.