Location:

District Peshawar.

Objectives:

•  Educate and sensitize Ulama on a variety of new concepts and approaches to environmental rehabilitation.
•  Identify supportive Ulama and establish and strengthen their linkages with other development projects and programmes.
•  Get feedback on the project for its replication in other areas
•  Elicit their support for ensuring a better environment while utilizing their strengths as effective local communicators for environmental messages to the common people.

Activities:

•  2 roundtable meetings.
•  2 seminars/workshops
•  Surveys of Madaris in District Peshawar.
•  Articles in Magazines
•  Compilation of an Evaluation Report on the Project.

Outputs:

•  Two roundtable meetings conducted and 35 Ulama participated in these meetings.
•  Three workshops conducted and 98 Ulama participated in the workshops.
•  Two interactive meetings held and 51 participants attend the meetings.
•  Conduct a survey of Madaris in District Peshawar.
•  Prepare and published a book titled “Ulama and Environment”.

Project Period:

6 Months start from February 15, 1998

Collaboration:

International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), Pakistan

Location:

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Districts (Peshawar, Mardan, Malakand, Abbotabad, Mansehra and Bannu)

Objectives:

•  Expose Ulama to a variety of new concepts and approaches to community development work.
•  Enhance and improve their knowledge and understanding of various aspects of the development process in NWFP.
•  Provide them with a forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences in relation to their role and responsibilities in the development process.
•  Identify supportive Ulama and establish and strengthen their links with other development projects and programmes.
•  To determine a set of recommendations to reorient religious leaders/Maulvies and elicit their support for addressing the issues related to rural development, population menace, environmental degradation, and Women in Development with a particular focus on their human, legal, civic, economic, and social rights.

Activities:

•  Conducted workshops/Seminars for Ulama of the Project Area

Outputs:

•  Six workshops conducted for the Ulama and more than 200 Ulama participated in these workshops
•  Comprehensive recommendation for the involvement of Ulama developed and published in the form of a booklet titled “Ulama and Development”

Project Period:

1, 1997 to December, 1997

Collaboration:

Heinrich-Boll-Foundation