Dear all,
To mark the one year anniversary of devastating flood of 2010, ActionAid Pakistan and Potohar Organization for Development Advocacy (PODA) are organizing a unique women's caravan in Islamabad in which rural women from flood affected areas will participate and demand budgetary allocations for post flood rehabilitation. Women will use interactive theatres and folk music to raise their issues.
When: 24-25 May (Tuesday, Wednesday)
Where: on 24th May (today) the first presentation will be held at Fatima Jinnah Park ( F-9, Islamabad) at 6:00 pm .
Tomorrow (25th May), the women will present theatrical performances at Quaid-i-Azam University (11:00 am) with culmination of omen's caravan in front of National Press Club at 4:00 pm where women will present a "charter of rights".
For queries, please contact:
Javeria Malik (0300-8325911) javeria.malik@actionaid.org
Zakaria Nutkani (0300 5193304) Zakaria.nutkani@actionaid.org
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Commemorating one-year anniversary of devastating flood of 2010
Women's Caravan to demand allocation of budget for rehabilitation of flood affected rural women.
Islamabad; Saturday (May 21, 2011): Hundreds of rural women from flood affected areas in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab and Sindh will gather in Islamabad to demand budgetary allocation for a comprehensive flood rehabilitation package for women on priority.
Flood affected women will have an interface with media, students, civil society, general public, parliamentarians and policy makers using interactive theatre and their folk music tradition to highlight their issues in the aftermath of floods, such as issuance of Watan Cards to flood affected women, women's land ownership and control over productive resources; and prioritization of women and girls in flood rehabilitation process.
Supported by ActionAid Pakistan (AAPk) and Potohar Organization for Development advocacy (PODA), the women's caravan will start from Tuesday (May 24, 2011), and will travel within the capital city for two days presenting folk performances around their rights issues at COMSATS institute of Information Technology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Fatima Jinnah Park, with culmination at the National Press club in a women's assembly. Policy makers and media will be invited to have an interface with the flood affected women who will present 'A Charter of Rights' to demand women specific provisions in the upcoming budget.
To mark the one year anniversary of devastating floods of 2010, ActionAid Pakistan has planned a series of events to highlight issues facing the women and poor flood affected people one year after the flood disaster. The objective of this commemoration is to highlight an urgent need for improved Disaster Risk Reduction mechanism, institutional capacity building, and government's focus on women's rights, governance and food security issues; to bring the focus of authorities, donors and civil society to post flood recovery and rehabilitation, as the attention is shifting away towards other socio-political and security related issues; and to strengthen civil society to engage with and lobby for key policy agenda pertaining to women's rights, food and livelihood, and governance.
The planned activities spanning three months, May to July, include a unique Women's Caravan in Islamabad, a policy dialogue on Disaster Risk Reduction in Post 18th amendment scenario; a special publication on flood emergency and response, with testimonies from flood affected women and children; and a grand multi- stakeholders' consultation in which poor communities from flood affected areas and representatives of responsible authorities and policy makers will participate.
ENDS
Javeria Ayaz Malik
Communications Coordinator
ActionAid Pakistan
Tel: +92 51 2611617 to 20
Fax: +92 51 2611622
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Skype: javeria.m
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