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CONTENTS
01 - Name of Organization
02 - The People
03 - Type & Nature
04 - Year of Establishment
05 - Vision
06 - Mission
07 - Broad Objectives
08 - Core Programs / Thematic Focus
i. Disaster Risk Reduction & Sustainable Livelihoods
ii. Education
iii. Gender Equality & Violence Against Women
iv. Water, Sanitation and Physical Infrastructure
v. Children & Youth
vi. Environment Protection & Climate Change
vii. Health and HIV & AIDS
viii. Civil Society & Institutional Development
09 - Focus Groups
10 - Geographical Focus
11 - Legal Status
12 - Governance
13 - Management
14 - Partners & Partnerships
16 - Experience Portfolio
I. Experience in Education Sector
II. Experience in Gender & VAW Issues
III. Experience in Responding Natural Disasters
IV. Experience in Capacity Building
V. Experience in Physical Infrastructure Development
17 - Departments
18- Financial Portfolio
19 - Approach & Strategies
20 - Values & Guiding Principles
21- Policies & Systems
22 - Human Resources
23 - Review & Monitoring
24 - Accounts & Audits
25 - The Website
01 - Name of Organization
The full name / registered name of organization is “SAVE THE CHILD - SAVE THE NATION” The abbreviation is “SCSN”.
02 - The People
Save The Child - Save The Nation was established by a group of young and energetic people who were highly motivated and committed for contributing their time, skills and energies for the development and empowerment of socially disadvantaged and vulnerable communities in Pakistan and addressing poverty issues and gender based discrimination.
03 - Type & Nature of Organization
SCSN is a development organization. It’s a non-government, not-for-profit and non-sectarian, non-partisan organization working for social development of vulnerable and less developed people. It’s a human-centered NGO. SCSN could also be labeled as an implementing organization which designs and implements various developmental projects with the financial and technical support of international donor agencies and the government.
04 - Year of Establishment
Save The Child – Save The Nation was established in year 2005.
05 visions
A world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and Participation.
06 Our mission
To inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting
change in their lives.
O7 our values
Accountability
We take personal responsibility for using our resources efficiently, achieving measurable results,
and being accountable to supporters, partners and, most of all, children.
Ambition
We are demanding of ourselves and our colleagues, set high goals and are committed to Improving
the quality of everything we do for children.
Collaboration
We respect and value each other, thrive on our diversity, and work with partners to leverage our global
Strength in making a difference for children.
Creativity
We are open to new ideas, embrace change, and take disciplined risks to develop Sustainable solutions
for and with children.
Integrity
We aspire to live to the highest standards of personal honesty and behavior; we never Compromise
our reputation and always act in the best interests of children.
08 - Broad Objectives
Following are board objectives of SCSN:
1. Education.
2. Children and youth.
3. Health and HIV Aids.
4. Street children /child labor.
5. Child abuse /drug addiction.
6. Disaster Risk Reduction, Provide Timely Relief Assistance to Disaster Affected Communities and Assist them for their Timely Rehabilitation and Early Recovery.
7. Promotion of Livelihoods and Explore Sustainable & Disaster Resilient Livelihood Options.
8. Promotion of Education with Special Focus on Girls’ Education Promotion of Gender
9. Provision of Accessible and clean drinking water & quality Sanitation Facilities and
Improvement of Community Physical Infrastructure.
10. Promotion of Child Protection, Rights of Children & Youth Development and Address the
Issues related to Abuse and marginalization of Children, Adolescents and Youth.
11. Promote Environment Protection and Address Climate Change Issues.
12. Promote Basic Health Facilities and Address HIV & AIDS.
13. Support Development of Civil Society and Institutional Development.
09 - Core Programs / Thematic Focus
Save The Child - Save The Nation has following seven core programs or thematic focus which helps Organization in strategically achieving its mission.
i) Disaster Risk Reduction & Climate Change.
ii) Livelihoods & Food Security.
iii) Education.
iv) Gender Equality.
v) Water, Sanitation and Physical Infrastructure.
vi) Children & Youth.
vii) Health and HIV & AIDS.
10 - Focus Groups
Save The Child - Save The Nation focus is on the socio-economically disadvantaged groups of women, youth and children. Keeping in view the overall socio-cultural fabric of the society and the overall power imbalances and discriminations that exist at all levels; the focus, amongst these groups, is again on most vulnerable and the marginalized ones. SCSN also focuses on the inclusion of minorities and special groups such as widows and physically impaired persons and elderly people.
11 - Geographical Focus
The Organization's overall geographic focus is the province of KPK.
12 - Legal Status
Save The Child - Save The Nation is a registered body. The organization is registered under the social welfare agencies registration and control ordinance 1961and bearing number 2480...
13 - Governance
Save The Child - Save The Nation is governed by its Board of Directors (BOD). The Board is the key policy making and governance body of the organization and works independently. It formulates and approves policies and organizational systems and evaluates the overall performance of Save The Child - Save The Nation on period basis. The BOD consists of eight members (both male and female) and is headed by its Chairperson / coordinator. The Organization’s board of directors comprises of development professionals, intellectuals, academicians, activists and media persons. The Executive Director of Save The Child - Save The Nation serves the board as the secretary and ex-officio member. The Board works in the guidelines of the Board Policies Manual.
14 - Management
Save The Child - Save The Nation is lead by its Executive Director who is the formal head of the organization. The Executive Director reports to the Chairperson / coordinator of the Board of Directors (BOD) and is responsible for the overall management of the organization.
The Executive Director is supported by the manager programs and team of coordinators / managers of different sections / programs of the Organization and they jointly form a management structure for the Organization.
15 - Partners & Partnerships
Partnerships are the heart-line of Save The Child - Save The Nation. The Organization refers as “PARTNERS” to all those individuals, communities, and organizations and departments which join
hands for extending program interventions. Beneficiary community, the line departments, national
and international donors, the provincial governments, and other key stake holders from civil
Society is the best examples of -Save the Child-Save the Nation’s Partners. These partnerships help organization (financially and technically) to achieve its mission.
Since its establishment in year 2005; Save the Child Save- the Nation has remained privileged in getting the opportunity to work with a number of diverse partners who not only extended financial support for various projects; but also adequately build the capacity of organization from different perspectives.
Save The Child Save -The Nation greatly values and acknowledges the support of its partners who provided their great support to SCSN for its previous current projects.
16 - Memberships & Affiliations
Save The Child - Save The Nation believes that networking, collective efforts, sharing of knowledge, resources and information is a key to the success as for addressing the global Developmental issues and challenges are concerned. Keeping this critical fact in mind; the organization always tries to join all such forums and networks which directly link to its mission and objectives. In this regard; the Organization has joined the following important networks operating at local and international levels.
17 - EXPERIENCE PORTFOLIO…
i - Experience in Education Sector...
Save The Child - Save The Nation has remained engaged in education sector since year 2006. The Organization has established a number of primary schools in different project areas and has also formed a number of parents’ education committees (PECs) and school management committees (SMCs).
For the sustainability of the schools and its effective operations; Save The Child - Save The Nation always uses the strategies such as the true community participation, public private partnerships and the formation and strengthening/capacity building of PECs & SMCs.
Save The Child - Save The Nation has established a total of about 80 primary schools in different districts. These schools have catered the primary education needs of 3000 children in about 73 villages. About 80 teachers are engaged in these schools to fulfill the educational needs of the primary students.
ii - Child abuse.
iii - Drug addiction.
The organization has excellent performance in creating awareness against drugs .young people were educated by promoting drug free home, schools. Colleges and work places.
These campaigns were pursued through mass education program.
Involving parents, teacher students, leaders, health professional’s .community leaders and social workers.
iv - Experience in Gender & Women Empowerment Issues..
Save The Child - Save The Nation is engaged in promoting gender equality and addressing women empowerment issues since its inception in year 2005. The Organization’s first ever project (year 2006)
Focused the issues of violence against women (VAW) particularly the issues of honor killing.
Over the period of many years of rich experience of working on women issues; the Organization has
well increased its conceptual understanding and knowledge of the issues of marginalized women and the women vulnerable to domestic violence.
During its work on gender issues; the Organization explored and worked with a number of critical stakeholders who could be of great support as for as addressing the issues of gender and women empowerment – particularly VAW is concerned. For example, the Organization closely worked with School Teachers and Media Representatives to increase awareness and sensitize the local communities and administration for addressing gender issues. Working with police officers was another successful approach the Organization successfully tested.
v - Experience in Responding Natural Disasters...
Save The Child - Save The Nation actively responds natural disasters and emergencies such as flood and earthquake etc? The Organization has been responding emergencies since year 2005. During its engagement in various disaster response interventions; Save The Child – Save The Nation has well skilled itself in designing and implementing the relief and early recovery interventions.
SCSN has provided its various relief and early recovery services to about (130,000) families i.e. about (9.6) million individuals in (05) districts.
iv - Experience in Capacity Building..
Building capacity of partners and different stake holders is the cross cutting theme for all SCSN core programs. Save The Child - Save The Nation has been involved in capacity building activities since year 2006.
Save The Child Save - The Nation has conducted a large number of training workshops for
Police officers, media representatives, school teachers local NGOs and CBOs, school management committees, community groups, government officers, and project teams of various projects. Over the period of 8 years; the Organization has greatly developed its capacity in designing and conducting different nature training and capacity building events for different groups / stakeholders.
The Organization now itself designs and conducts training which caters the capacity building needs of its different partners and clients. Following is the details of some of the projects / assignments related to capacity building and institutional development which Organization conducted during different periods for different groups.
v - Experience in Physical Infrastructure Development...
The Organization has been intervening for the development of community physical infrastructure since year 2007. Save The Child - Save The Nation always tries to develop and improve the local physical infrastructure which can help improve the living conditions of the rural communities.
18 - Departments
Save The Child - Save The Nation has established its various departments which help in smooth and systematic implementation of Organization interventions: These include:
i: HR Department
ii: Monitoring Evaluation, Research & Documentation Department
iii: Admin & Logistics Department
iv: Finance Department
v: Complaint Response Unit
19 - Financial Portfolio
Save The Child - Save The Nation implements its projects with the grants / funding from various national and international donors and government of the province where it works. These grants are usually time-bound and for specific project interventions. Save The Child - Save The Nation has learnt a lot while managing grants of diverse donors and has well developed its financial management capability. Since its establishment in year 2005 till the mid of year 2014; the organization has implemented about 29 projects in different geographic areas and in different sectors amounting to over 400 million rupees.
20 - Approach & Strategies
The Organization strongly believes in the true and active participation of all key stakeholders – particularly the local communities or program beneficiaries. Fair efforts are taken to ensure that stakeholders participate and contribute at all the stages of the interventions.
As its strategy, Save The Child - Save The Nation particularly focuses to ensure the maximum participation of women, children and youth wherever required and relevant – and particularly if the program has any direct or indirect impacts on their lives.
The overall approach of work also identifies the gender sensitivities if any related to the program and strategically addresses the same.
Save The Child - Save The Nation as its overall implementation approach, takes carefully into account the local culture and traditions and fully respects the same.
Following are the key elements of SCSN Program Strategies & Work Approach
o Thematic Partnerships
o Social Mobilization /Community Participation
o Awareness Raising & Sensitization
o Capacity Building
o Dialogues & Engagements
o Research & Publications
o Networking & Coalition Building
o Advocacy & Lobbying
o Review & Reflection
21 - Values & Guiding Principles
In order to achieve its mission and to make its programs even more human-centered; Save The Child - Save The Nation follows certain values and guiding principles in all its interventions and dealings.
These include the following:
Peace & Tolerance
Participation & Inclusion
Transparency & Accountability Non-Discrimination
Non-Violence
22 - Policies & Systems
Save The Child - Save The Nation follows its specific set of policies and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) which has been revised and updated a number of times up till now in order to make them more staff friendly and organization-centered.
Save The Child - Save The Nation uses its following manuals of policies:
- Manual of Human Resources and Administrative Policies
- Manual of Financial Policies
These manuals contain a number of basic organizational policies and procedures which help in the creation and maintenance of a transparent, accountable and fair working environment in Save The Child - Save The Nation and ensure the effective achievement of overall objectives of the Organization.
23 - Human Resources
Save The Child - Save The Nation has a core team with various professional backgrounds such as management, finances and HR etc. In addition the SCSN hires the project staff as and when required. The Organization also engages volunteers and interns on need basis.
24 - Review & Monitoring
Monitoring of projects in Save The Child - Save The Nation is always the important and priority matter. There is always a built in mechanism of review and monitoring for all the projects SCSN implements. The processes of review and monitoring help Organization in achieving the project objectives in smooth and timely manner.
As the key mechanism of monitoring; the projects are monitored by the implementation teams; the coordinators / managers of the program and the management of SCSN.
25 - Accounts & Audits
Save The Child - Save The Nation maintains its all accounts on double entry system. Organization has developed various financial policies, systems and formats etc. which help it in effective management of all its funds and maintaining a complete transparency in receipts and payments at all levels. Save The Child - Save The Nation gets its accounts (receipts and payments) audited by the recognized chartered accountants’ firms on the completion of projects or by the end of each financial year.
26 - The Website