Climate Change Adaptation & Rehabilitation of Flood Affected 7,000 families in Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan

Associaiton for Humanitarian Development (AHD) has developed this proposal to initiate, design and implement an effective rehabilitation & livelihood intervention strategy targeted at the poor and the disadvantaged communities living in Gilgit & Hunza districts. In this regard three districs slecetd District Gilgit 140 villages, in 06 months project time frame, this project will focus on efforts in three districts Gilgit Baltistan and Hunza i.e. Taluka Gilgit and Hunza 140 villages selcted respectively. The project will focus 7,000 families to intriocue AHD nadi filter innovation and 140 villages included 7,000 famikies. The strategic approaches, outlined in this proposal, will leverage with the ongoing efforts of donor agencies in mitigating disasters and reducing the vulnerability of the communities. This project specifically contribute towards increasing skills, sustainabke solutins and safe drinking water and smoke free cooking technolgies, livelihood opportunities of the marginalized people in the project target area, taking into account the natural risks and disasters and ensuring communities’ long-term livelihood sustainability. The project will examine disaster prone areas and, on the basis of participatory cosnutlations, it will build up strategic efforts to build the capacity of the local communities to face any future disasters at their own.
 
Community activities play an important role as a front-line of flood management. Because Integrated Flood Management (IFM) seeks for practical aspects of managing floods, community participation becomes fundamental and essential for each stage of the management, that is preparedness for, response to and recovery from flood disasters. In general, the communities perform different roles in flood management such as:
·      assessing the needs and capability of the community;
·      making provisions for emergency situations;
·      raising awareness;
·      managing information for future references;
·      training and capacity-building;
·      networking, monitoring and reporting;
·      planning and interface with government institutions; and
·      resource mobilization.
 
The project will also make efforts to increase skills and knowledge of the targeted beneficiaries in planning income-generation activities and organizing community-based institutions. The project will provide working models that are not only applicable to target communities in the project area, but to all flood prone areas in the country. The main features of the project are:
·      DRM Capacity Building: The community mobilization and capacity building play a pivotal role in developing the capacity of the community to face floods and emergencies in future. This project will focus on capacity building on disaster risk management program in order to equip the rural communities to cope with emergencies in future.
·      Safe Drinking Water: After capacity building, the most important problem that is faced by most of the rural communities is safe drinking water. In rural communities, the main sources of drinking water are rivers, ponds, or lakes, people are left with no adequate supply of water for drinking, cleaning and bathing purposes. The layers of vulnerability to which the villagers are exposed are complex and manifold. Deterioration of safe drinking water availability poses severe health risks. Today, people rely on polluted water from a small canal and there is need for establishing access to safe drinking water. This project will focus on providing AHD Nadi Filters that are proved to be the best water filter option especially in rural areas.
·      Fuel Efficient Cooking Stove: Normally, the rural community uses firewood as source of fuel for cooking purposes. In addition to other problems, the floods have also seriously affected the availability of fire wood. Moreover, the traditional method of cooking also consumes more firewood and it is also not environment friendly. Therefore, this project will also focus on resolving this problem on long term basis for effective utilization of scarce resources.
Model fuel efficient cooking stove of AHD model is famous and saving about 5 kg per day wood from extra burning,
 
Project Methodology
The project will adopt the following components while implementing the methodology to achieve the expected results:
·      CBO formation and capacity building on DRM
·      Provision of Safe Drinking Water
·      Introduction of Fuel Efficient Stoves
 
Component B
Provision of Safe Drinking Water Nadi Filter Technology in Gilgit Baltistan 7,000 families
Component Budget Euro 226,852/=
Component Description:
The bio-sand nadi filter is designed from local made mud nadi to protect the good microbes in the sand which would be destroyed if the sand was allowed to be churned up or drained of water. They require a stable surface to live on with a constant supply of dirty water and oxygen to feed on. The sand in the filter provides an enormous surface area for them to live on and they multiply to fill this space. This takes two to three weeks to establish. In the meantime the water is far better than before even after a day or two.
 
AHD aims to support the most vulnerable communities of the Pakistan and make them access to Safe Clean Drinking Water, which is more rare to find for daily use and especially for drinking purpose. AHD makes it possible through its innovative technology of Bio Sand Nadi Filter which filter and kill the bacterial germ in its filtration process. AHD will train the trainer from the community and construct a model BNSF at their village then they will become able to construct at their door step. Normally, following method is used to provide sustainable solution:
·      Formation of CBO’s
·      Area Selection   
·      Survey of the Area                 
·      Meeting in Community
·      Identification of Problem
·      Provide awareness about Bio Sand Nadi Filter (BSNF)
·      Training the Community
·      Construction of BSNF
Objectives
·      To provide access to safe and clean drinking water by provision of Bio-Sand Nadi filter units.
·      To organize Training of Trainers (ToT) workshops at the selected villages in the project area in order to train people to assemble the Nadi Water filters at their own.
 
Proposed Activities
The main activities that will be undertaken in each village:
·      The preliminary visits of the selected villages
·      Coordination meetings with the villagers and the village CBO
·      Arrangement of TOT workshops about Nadi filter assembling
Monitorable Deliverables/Outputs:
·      7,000 households get Bio Sand Nadi Filter installed in their homes
·      7,000 households get training on how to make BSNF at their own
·      7,000 households start using safe drinking water purified through BSNF

Mr. Abdul Khurshid Bhatti working as president / CEO for Association for Humanitarian Development, having 28 years of humanitarian work experiences & working on sustainable solution to end CRISIS (Cholera Outbreak, Gastro, Diarrhea, Plastic in drinking water, Chlorine and other chemicals in drinking water) AHD introduced rough model Nadi filter in 2005 and during 2006 installed 10 Nadi filter unit in Jati coastal area and find useful, during 2007 AHD implemented 100 Nadi filter with help of ADP USA and then in 2008 won first ever APFED-UNEP award and now in 2024 AHD won 08 international awards including Energy globe Austria, GSK UK, HIEX UN and World Health Assembly – UN has bring Nadi filter to upward and many countries adopted Nadi filter. Vision of Mr. Khurshid to help 1 million families in Pakistan and now join hands with Blue Community Switzerland, Nature Based Solution Netherlands, Thrive Project Australia and IUNC to help Nadi filters to end crisis of rural poor communities of Pakistan and international. AHD Nadi Filter successfully reached 365,000 families during 2024.
 
AHD Nadi filter:
AHD Nadi Filters is local & Nature Based Solution, A mud pot technology an adaptation of the centuries old slow sand filtration process. Simple solution with local material, 1. Nadi, 2. Mattaka, 3. Pipe, 4. Sand and other local material, within 5 to 6 hours Nadi filter ready and material available from local areas of Pakistan and African and Asian countries, local mud pot makers or artisans prepare this Nadi and Mattaka and then material purchased from local market, no import and export, Nadi filter is self-explanatory with vision we trained local communities and we do not fix this Nadi filter through our own hands. The average cost of a Nadi filter, which normally serves a household of 8-20 people is only Rs 8,500-10,000/=. That includes the cost of material, installation, transportation, the cost of training on the filter operation/maintenance and important health and hygiene education. Nadi Filters remove 95.0 to 99.0% of organic contaminants, including bacteria, viruses, protozoa, worms, and particles. Safe water produced by the filters is free of discoloration, odor, and unpleasant taste. Nadi filters can produce 50 to 60 liters of water per hour.
 
AHD Nadi filter Video process to prepare at local level 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBvclfeW_NA
 Climate smart cooking stove video AHD : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_UZ7mLOqM8