End Honour Crimes in Pakistan

Donor: National Commission on the Status of Women Islamabad Pakistan
Partners: National Commission on the Status of Women and Rozan
Project Duration: April 2009 to June 2010
Location: Two Districts one Punjab Province- Rajanpur and second Sindh Province-
Mir Pur Khas, Sindh
Total Cost: Three Millions and twenty six thousands only (Rs: 3,026,000)
Total Beneficiaries:214 community members and stakeholders

The National Commission on the Status of Women with the financial support of the United Nations Fund for Women Development (UNIFEM) designed a project “End Honor Crimes” for the district Rajanpur, Punjab and Mir Pur Khas, Sindh province. NRSP is an implementation partner of the NCSW. Under this project NRSP conducted a detailed baseline survey of the project districts, focusing on state and non-state participants through dialogues, interviews, and discussion with community contributions. On the basis of situation analysis and finding of the study, NRSP with technical support of Rozan, developed a comprehensive training module for the stakeholders including community, police department, judiciary, Civil Society organizations, religious leaders and doctors to build their capacity in ending honor crimes in these districts.

Project Objectives

• To Assess the perception of local community, lawyers, judges, Police and other
  stakeholders about Honor Crimes and also appraise the prevalence rate of honor crime in
  project districts

• To create awareness among the stakeholders about End Honor Crime through training and promotional material
• To aware the stakeholders about criminal law amendment act 2004
• To get aware the stakeholder to play their role to End Honor Crimes

Key project deliverables

• Benchmark assessment on honor crimes at district Rajanpur (Punjab) & Mirpur Khas (Sindh) completed
• Training Need Assessment performed for the stakeholders
• Designing of training programme
• Development of Training Modules for the community and law enforcement agencies’ representatives
• Implementation of Training Programme at both selected districts
• A total number of 94 women (Community 27, Stakeholders 67) have been sensitized on the issue in five training events.
• A total number of 120 men (Community 55, Stakeholders 65) have been trained in five training events.
• Two Provincial Interfaces has been carried out one in Islamabad and second in Karachi
• Preparation on the National Interface is under progress
• Working on document of policy recommendation

End Honour Crimes Project Status as of June, 2010

Sr#	Activities	Targets	Achievements	Districts	Province
1	Benchmark assessment on honor crimes at district Rajanpur (Punjab) & Mirpur Khas (Sindh) & Submitted to NCSW	1	1	Rajanpur & Mirpur Khas	Punjab & Sindh
2	Training Need Assessment & submitted to NCSW	1	1	Rajanpur & Mirpur Khas	Punjab & Sindh
3	Design of Training Programme	1	1	Rajanpur & Mirpur Khas	Punjab & Sindh
4	Development of Training Module on End Honor Crimes for Community Members. Printed and disseminated	1	1	Rajanpur & Mirpur Khas	Punjab & Sindh
5	Development of Training Module on End Honor Crimes for officials. Printed and disseminated	1	1	Rajanpur & Mirpur Khas	Punjab & Sindh
2	Development of IEC material	1	1	Rajanpur & Mirpur Khas	Punjab & Sindh
7	Training for community on End Honor crimes	80	104	Rajanpur & Mirpur Khas	Punjab & Sindh
7.1	Training for Official (Stakeholders) on End Honor Crimes	80	110	Rajanpur & Mirpur Khas	Punjab & Sindh
8	Interface on end Honor Crimes at Provincial Level (Punjab)	1	1	Rajanpur (conducted at Islamabad)	Punjab
8.1	Interface on end Honor Crimes at Provincial Level (Sindh)	1	1	Mirpur Khas (Conducted at Karachi)	Sindh
8.2	Interface on End Honor Crimes at National Level	1	1	Islamabad	Islamabad
9	Preparation of Policy Recommendation to NCSW	1	1	Islamabad	Islamabad