📋 Tender Overview
PROJECT DETAILS
Project number:
2019.4050.1
Status:
running project
Responsible organizational unit:
2B00 Asia II
Contact person:
Heidi Herrmann heidi.herrmann@giz.de
Partner countries:
Pakistan
SUMMARY
Goals:
Context- and gender-sensitive offers for psychosocial support for vulnerable Afghan refugees and members of the host community have been created.
Client:
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Project partners:
SAFRON Ministry of States and Frontier Regions
Financier: not available
ORDER VOLUME
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if applicable)
12 300 000 euros
Current project:
12 300 000 euros
COMBINED FINANCING not available
PREVIOUS PROJECT not available
SUCCESSOR PROJECT not available
DURATION
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if applicable)
09.10.2019 - 30.09.2025
Current project:
01.10.2019 - 30.09.2025
OTHER PARTIES INVOLVED not available
FURTHER INFORMATION
Project website not available
DEVELOPMENT POLICY IDENTIFIERS
Gender equality
Significant secondary objective
CRS KEY
12340 Promoting mental health and well-being
EVALUATION not available
PROJECT DESCRIPTION (DE)
Initial situation:
Pakistan is home to around 2.4 million Afghan refugees. Over half of them live in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The economic and social structures of the host communities are overwhelmed by the large number of people. This leads to tensions between the refugees and the population of the host communities.
Violent experiences, trauma, and existential and economic worries create a situation that can lead to fear and stress, even depression, among refugees. Children, young people, women, and other disadvantaged groups are particularly affected.
Objective:
The Government of Pakistan is creating gender-sensitive and easily accessible psychosocial services for Afghan refugees and the population of the host communities, thereby promoting peaceful coexistence.
Approach:
The project is creating low-threshold psychosocial services for individuals, families, and communities. In doing so, it promotes social cohesion between community groups. Particular attention is paid to services for women and young people.
The approach comprises three stages:
1. In order to be able to respond to the psychosocial needs of the population in a needs-oriented manner, the project trains specialists and laypeople. These include government employees, health workers, employees of non-governmental organizations and influential personalities.
2. The project creates "safe spaces" and other safe places where those affected can meet, exchange ideas and participate in leisure activities. It sensitizes girls and women in particular to certain psychosocial issues, such as domestic and gender-based violence, depression or stress management. In order to increase the resilience of young people, the proj
