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Society for Sustainable Development is a non-profit organization based in Pakistan and working as implementation partner with UNICEF in October 8th, 2005 earthquake affected areas.
In addition to all other ventures with UNICEF, SSD started its Primary Education Project in December 2006 in five UCs of District Muzaffarabad. The first phase of the project completed in the last week of April 2007 and new phase will start in last week of June 2007.

Our Development Vision
SSD has been founded to address issues of sustainable development through innovation, appropriate technology promotion and capacity building. SSD’s philosophy is not to duplicate the mandate of existing NGOs, rather carve a niche of its own to distinctly contribute to the sustainable development in general and NRM and water and environment sector in particular. Thus SSD calls itself a knowledge based NGO, predominantly interested in promotion of Best Management Practices and appropriate technology in the sector.

SSD seeks to achieve its development vision through promoting and practicing an integrated approach to sustainable development encompassing principles of:

•Participatory and human rights based approach to development,
•Strengthening grass roots level organization to ensure local level services delivery following principles of subsidiarty
•Behavioral change Communication to identify and target vulnerable practices for a sustained development
•Introduction and promotion of appropriate technologies to crystallize change in largely dormant societies
•Productively engage children as change agents through active learning methods/life skills based education/child to child communication for realization of behavioral changes for sustained development
•Develop models of participatory civil and environmental planning, design, management and implementation;
•Capacity-building of municipalities, local government institutions and NGOs in specialized areas relating to environmental planning and design;
•Design and implementation of environmental impact assessments and participatory benefit monitoring systems.

Primary Education Project funded by UNICEF-Phase 1
To deal with the challenges faced by the children of District Muzaffarabad, Azad Jammu & Kashmir in getting quality education after the earthquake Society for Sustainable Development in cooperation with United Nations Children Emergency Fund launched a project entitling “Major interventions for improved access and quality of primary education in District Muzaffarabad”. The main aim of the project was to put every child everywhere in the five targeted Union Councils of the District into school and to create awareness among the teachers and community about the modern educational system.

Different capacity building activities were included in the project to promote the quality of primary education in District Muzaffarabad. The project documented activities included SMC trainings; Subject based teacher trainings, improvement of school enrollments, distribution of school supplies and reactivation of non-functional SMCs.

Objectives and Goals
Department of Education in District Muzaffarabad is well aware of the constraints faced in Education sector after the earthquake. SSD in close coordination with Department of Education mapped its activities and by mutual agreement with Education Department designed implementation schedule. The major objective of the project was improvement of elementary /primary education in the district. The specific objectives included:

1.To bring back the 13552 children (6983 Boys & 6569 Girls) and 310 teachers in 155 schools of five Union Councils of District Muzaffarabad AJK who had left school due to earthquake.
2.To bring back 30 % children (especially girls) out of schools before earthquake.
3.Improve the teaching standards and environment.
4.Enhance capacity of the Education department to do better planning, management and effective monitoring.

Phase 1 of Primary Education Project has beeen completed. Phase 2 of the project is expected to start soon.

Office Address(s):
Head Office:
House # 223, K1, Phase III, Hayatabad, Peshawar
Tel: 091-5816876

Regional Office Mansehra
Dab #2, Pakhwal Road, KKH, Mansehra
Tel: 0997-302753, 236013, 249031

Regional Office Battagram
Adjacent District Hospital Battagram, KKH, Battagram
Tel: 0997-234645

Regional Office Alai
Off Bateela Road, Banna

Regional Office Muzaffarabad
D-139, Upper Chattar, Muzaffarabad
Tel: 058810-51070

Regional Office Bagh
New Squadron Leaders Girls College,
Qandeel Colony, Bagh
Tel: 058720-43325

Regional Office Quetta
H # 228/40, Patel Bagh, Quetta
PO Box #: 139
Tel: 081-4002130