COMMUNITIES

CIVIC ACTION TEAMS

Our Civic Action Teams continued to close the feedback loop between powerholders and communities through programs like GovHERnance, an initiative to build gender-friendly and inclusive local government responses.

In collaboration with the Dhangadhi Sub-Metropolitan City, we created a vision of establishing the city as a socially inclusive local unit. ALN worked with Inclusion Fellows from LGBTQI+ and other marginalized communities on strengthening community feedback platforms. Consultations and visual story-telling training helped the community feed their ideas into Dhangadhi’s new vision. We also worked closely with the deputy mayor, along with 39 elected leaders of the Sub-Metropolitan City, on consultations and workshops that strengthened capacity and understanding of gender and inclusion.

Listen to some of our CivActs radio programs here.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

IMPACT TO DATE

We trained 339 community volunteers, 30 in each of the project districts, on rumour tracking, identifying fake news, and countering misinformation.

We provided 1500 pamphlets, 600 brochures and posters, as well as ten standees designed and distributed by the thousands within the targeted communities.

We invited ten content creators to participate in the Virtual Media Caravan activity, where they shared inspirational stories of unsung champions of COVID-19 (in the form of blogs, columns and video) of marginalized communities. These stories have been shared on more than 35 local websites, newspapers, Facebook pages and YouTube channels.

56 Coronavirus CivActs Campaign (CCC) weekly bulletins were developed and published in four languages including, English, Urdu, Sindhi and Pashto, reaching 5.2 million people on social media in 15 months.

Radio spots were aired in various languages on regional and local radio channels focusing on Covid-19 SOPs, countering misinformation and vaccine promotion, with a total reach of 6.35 million. The project created 12 radio programs organized in Urdu, Pashto and Sindhi.

We produced 27 100 copies of IEC materials (brochures, pamphlets, posters and standees) which were disseminated in 10 project districts for offline advocacy.

33 videos from public health experts, government officials, DCs, DHO, political and religious figures as well as influencers were developed in collaboration with the Department of Health (DoH) – KP to increase the vaccination rate and focus on the strata of the population eligible for vaccination.