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SWWS –Support With Working Solutions (SWWS) is a functional, multi-dimensional, leading, non- governmental and not-for-profit organization, which was founded in the year 1992 and was later incorporated as a not-for-profit company set up under section 42 of Companies Act, 1984. SWWS strives for welfare and developmental activities in the larger interest of marginalized and poor community, especially socially and economically excluded and down trodden populace of Pakistan and has very strong presence in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, AJK, FATA and PATA and all major parts of Pakistan including Lahore, Karachi, Quetta.

SWWS believes in team work and participatory approaches for mobilizing and organizing poorest of the poor. It works with diverse social and political groups including women, children, labor and peasant and networks of marginalized sections of society. SWWS undertakes mobilization, capacity building, networking and research initiatives in order to encourage collective action for development and social change. Our efforts are destined for improving life standard, upgrade socio-economic conditions, enhance income generation skills of our target population by changing their pattern of thinking for utilizing their local resources on sustainable grounds leading to their self-esteem, own decision, self-reliance and self-sufficiency.

SWWS enjoys facilitation and support from the Government of Pakistan, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan poverty Alleviation Fund, DFID, SDS, Aus-AID, OXFAM-GB, UNDP, UNFPA, UNCHR, NATPOW and USAID. Outreach now extends throughout KPK and FATA and its micro credit, water & Infrastructure, health & Education, emergency response interventions including disability have been widely recognized. SWWS has demonstrated sustainability of its Programme during 26 years of its existence. It has never happened that an activity stopped after termination of project, probably due to the reason that we have very motivated target group- the poor women/ men of the area.

Focused development efforts of SWWS have sufficiently been recognized at regional, provincial and national level. SWWS received best performance award from the President of Pakistan on Health Services in the year 2002 and in 2006 form the President of AJ&K. The organization also received best performance award from the Government of NWFP on human rights in 2002. National awards on best practitioner from city group during 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2013 were conferred on SWWS and certain regional awards were achieved in the area of entrepreneurship. In the year 2008 Ms. Sadia Iqbal from SWWS received performance award from the Prime Minister of Pakistan in the field on population welfare program.

SWWS also the done tremendous work related to research including, base line surveys Contraceptive prevalence rate study conducted 24 times with follow-up surveys. Similarly SWWS conducted nutrition survey with data line pvt limited, conducted Poverty assessment survey, Health and education survey, beneficiaries’ survey. Most recently conducted Community Based Distribution Survey in KP, Punjab and Sindh for Mari Stop Society (MSS). SWWS also develop Afghan refugees profile across the country and also done Repatriation survey for UNCHR. Completed different research studies related to GBV and Honor killing.

The year 2011-12 was a watershed for SWWS. It marked the competition of almost two decades of operations. In the least twenty years, SWWS has successfully laid the foundations of a vibrant and responsive development sector by expanding its presence in many districts of KPK. At the same time SWWS worked on developing human and institutional capacities of its core team as well as beneficiary population. This, therefore, is a fortunate time to reflect on what has been achieved and what remains to be done.

As a learning institution, SWWS is uniquely positioned to build on its core strengths and simultaneously reorient itself to address the challenges that lie ahead. The imperative now is to make a seamless transition from a focus on scale to a focus on depth and intensity of presence. The driver of this approach is the optimization of allocation of resources and maximization of outcomes and impact at the grassroots level.

The defining role of SWWS is to realign the sector on an inclusive and sustainable footing, which is crucial for long term success and continually of services to the marginalized and disadvantages people. The stress is on constant product development and innovation enabling excluded communities to avail of a winder menu of opportunities and choices.

Through a series of external and internal consultations, SWWS is leveraging its unique experience by gearing up to play a proactive role as a responsive and versatile national institution; an institution that is creating synergies, forming partnerships and forging alliances with diverse stakeholders- government, public-sector agencies, corporate and private entities and academia. This program shift has required a fundamental recalibration of operations to explicitly address the special dimensions of poverty.

The new strategy calls for a deliberate shift of priorities towards those regions of Pakistan that have historically lagged behind tin the development and are particularly underserved. This reorientation now ensures that all SWWS initiatives are rolled out under an overarching strategy, which is community- led and demand driven. Institutional strengthening and development is therefore the central pillar of all our inventions. This is manifestation of moving away from project-based criteria to an integrated appropriately sequenced, multi-sectored approach.

To date, SWWS has cumulatively provided over rupees 300 million microcredit loans, Total 33162 women and men were given vocational skills training, SWWS has provided reproductive health services to 155000 women in five districts covering / adopting 15 Health Facilities including Rural Health centers, Basic Health Units and Districts and Tehsil Headquarter Hospitals beside establishing 6 Community Basic Health Unit in District Swabi, Dir Lower, Tank and DI Khan, Kurram and Peshawar with the Objectives to increase the availability of Reproductive Health with focus an 24/7 Basic Emergency Obstetric & Neonatal care (BEmONC services for flood/conflict affected people of KP and FATA. SWWS has established 4 women-friendly centres to cater to the need of IDPs Women facing Gender Based Violence (GBV) in terms of health, Protection and psychosocial services being rendered to the identified cases. They were also linked for food and shelter in four locations of IDPS population in Kurram agency.

SWWS is now working in the 17 Districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and almost completed about 175 different projects in diverse sectors. In 3 union council in Swabi and 2 union council in Nowshera surveys have been completed and medical camps for persons with disabilities were conducted and assistive services have been provided to more then 6344 persons. Similarly, business incubations were started after completion of EDT for selected PWDs. For job placement 16 exposure visits were conducted to different production entities including big industrial units.

SWWS was also at the forefront in responding to the devastating floods ravaged the country in July 2010 and has undertaken comprehensive recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts in the affected locales. The journey that began in1992 is far from being over. In order to keep serving communities, SWWS is yet to achieve many more milestones through a constant process of innovation of poor. Our institution, I am happy to report, is on track towards achieving of its strategic objectives. In a sense, our journey has just begun.

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