Project Title

Leadership for Reproductive Health (LRH) - II 

Official Abbreviation

LRH - II

Project Goal

Empower stakeholders to proactively engage and influence health sector service delivery and related policy making. 

Project Objectives

§  Community sensitization and mobilization – while reaching out to all community members, especially the disadvantaged, the project will identify and work closely with the most vulnerable sections. For RH, this is primarily teenage girls who are not enrolled in schools;

§  Local and community leadership development;

§  Policy engagement, focusing on strategic direction, district health budgeting, and synergies between population and health departments;

§  Development of partnerships and networks of multi-sectoral stakeholders nation-wide, for the improvement of RH in Khairpur;

§  Documenting and disseminating a local model for RH.

Project Targets

§  One cohort of 34 members from Khairpur district comprising of mid-senior level professionals from government, private civil society.

§  One group of 30 members as associates from Khairpur district comprising of community members.

§  One civil society watch-group of 20 members from Lodhran District comprising of LRH I cohort and new members.

§  Two Regional Training sessions (RTS), One International Training session (ITS) and Six Dossier Trainings for Khairpur Cohort.

§  Four Dossier trainings for Lodhran Civic watch group. 

Collaborations

§  MoUs with respective District Governments of Khairpur and Lodhran.

§  Partnership agreement with Lodhran Pilot Project (LPP)

Project Duration

1 Oct, 2009 - 30 Nov, 2011 

Client

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation

Implementing Agency

LEAD Pakistan

Project Location

District Khairpur, Sindh and Distrcit Lodhran, Punjab