National Trust for Population Welfare (NATPOW) Islamabad

Dr. Nasser MohiuddinChief Executive

The National Trust for Population Welfare-NATPOW, is an autonomous organization established by the Government of Pakistan since 1994 under Charitable Endowment Act, 1890 and it is mandated to create an effective partnership between Government & Donors and Civil Society & Private Sector. NATPOW has Head Office at Islamabad and Six Regional Offices at Lahore, Multan, Karachi, Peshawar, Quetta and Gilgit.

NATPOW provides Financial & Technical Support to its affiliated Civil Society Organizations-CSOs (379) for reaching the rural, marginalized & poor communities, rendering Safe Motherhood Services including RH&FP/ HTSP, Neonatal & Child Healthcare and improving Reproductive Health/ Social status of Women, Children, Adolescents & Men, with special emphasis on Community Mobilization & Participation, Advocacy & Awareness Raising, HRD/ Capacity Building and Service Delivery, so as to meaningfully contribute towards implementation of the Population Policy and Development process in the Country

The NATPOW envisions an enabled Civil Society efficiently active and involved in the population & development agenda and meaningfully contributing to policy formulation & legislative process and provision of social services, with special focus on RH&FP, so as to have socially empowered communities for an educated, healthy and prosperous Pakistan

To Act as a Grants Management Body for the Civil Society Organizations-CSOs enabling them to reach-out the rural, poor, marginalized and under-served communities to address their immediate needs through Service Delivery and seek longer term solutions by means of Advocacy, Policy Formulation, Awareness Raising, Strategic Communication and HRD/ Capacity Building, for advancing Population & Development agenda in Pakistan

The Trust is administered by a Board of Directors comprising of

16 members as follows:

NGO SECTOR 07*

PRIVATE SECTOR 05**

SECRETARIES EX-OFFICIO 03

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER 01

* Representing the four Provinces, AJK, FATA and Gilgit-Baltistan** Civil Society and Technocrats representing the four Provinces and ICT

• Safe Motherhood & Child Healthcare Service Delivery through CSOs Network

• Advocacy and Community Mobilization for RH&FP: Services & Rights

• Trainings/ HRD/ Capacity Building for Public and Private Sector Personnel

• Humanitarian Work (Crisis Response & Relief Services)• Research• Policy Formulation and Legislation on Population &

Development

Professionals’ Pool of experienced Public Health ExpertsCluster of Master Trainers on RH&FP, Gender and RightsManagerial Staff at NATPOW Head Office and the 06-Regional OfficesUnique positioning and close access to the Public and Private SectorsCountry-wide Network of Partner Civil Society Organizations-CSOs (380)HRD/ Training Wing works in collaboration with diversified Institutes/ Organizations such as Regional Training Institutes, RHS A-Centres, Tertiary Care Hospitals

Safe Motherhood & Child Health Care:Services and Community Mobilization •Grants for establishment of 58 Family Health Centres through CSOs in Rural/Remote Areas (GoP-NATPOW-CSOs)

•“Literacy for Family Health Initiative-LFHI” to promote Safe Motherhood & Child Healthcare, Personal Hygiene Practices through dissemination of relevant information and knowledge to the young girls and mothers of Reproductive age, through Adult Literacy Program of National Commission for Human Development (UNFPA- NATPOW- NCHD)

•Collaboration with UNESCO for promotion of Safe Motherhood & Child Healthcare, Personal Hygiene Practices through dissemination of relevant information and knowledge to the young girls and mothers of Reproductive age, through Adult Literacy Program of UNESCO (UNFPA- NATPOW- UNESCO- IPs of UNESCO).

Humanitarian Work2010 Post Flood Relief Activities in Punjab, Sindh, KP and Baluchistan (UNFPA, Kimse Yok Mu, Inspired Sisters, United Sikhs, CSOs)

2010 Mobile Service Units (MSUs) Project : Safe Motherhood & Child Healthcare Services in 20 Districts/ 50 Tehsils through 50 MSUs, reaching Village-to Village & Door-to-Door in Flood Affected Areas of Punjab, Sindh, KP, Balochistan & GB 2011 Post Rains Relief Activities in Sindh (Kimse Yok Mu, CSOs)

2011 Mobile Service Units (MSUs) Project : Safe Motherhood & Child Healthcare Services 15 Tehsils through 15 MSUs, reaching Village-to Village & Door-to-Door in Flood Affected Areas of Sindh (Districts Sanghar (05), Benazirabad (04), Khairpur (03) and Mirpur Khas (03) (UNFPA-NATPOW-PWDs-CSOs)

Training & ResearchScaling-up Best Practices in Pakistan to Integrate FP into MNCH - HTSP Project in Layyah-Punjab and Nawabshah -Sindh (Pathfinder International- NATPOW-CSOs)

WASH KAP Baseline Survey in 31 Flood Affected Districts of Punjab, Sindh, KPK, Balochistan, AJK and GB (Plan International-NATPOW-NIPS-CSOs)

Human Rights & GenderReligious Leader's Mobilization to promote Responsible Parenthood, Gender equality & equity and eradicate Extreme Behaviours at grassroots level community-Punjab(CIDA-NATPOW-CSOs)

Collaborating Partner with Ministry of Human Rights for Universal Periodic Review (UPR)-2012 (MoHR- NATPOW)

• GoP, Federal Ministries and Provincial Departments of Population and Health, Ministry of Human Rights, NIPS-Pakistan, NCHD

• UNFPA, UNESCO, WHO, CIDA, RutgersWPF, Pathfinder International, Plan International, Inspired Sisters-UK, United Sikhs-USA, Kimse Yok Mu-Turkey, DAMP

• Country-wide Network of Affiliated Community-based Civil Society Organizations-CSOs (CSOs): Currently 380 Registered with NATPOW

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Responsibility Activity Reference/Documentation

Project Proposal Invitation

Project Proposal submission by Due Date

Initial Desk Security

Project Implementation

Project Award

Field Verification

Technical & Financial Assessment

Project Appraisal

Decision Inform NGONo

Not Recommended

Query

Not Recommended

Incomplete

Recommended

Yes

Recommended

Admin. & Personnel Officer

NATPOW affiliated NGOs/CBOs

Program Officer (Social) & Program Officer (Technical)

Field Officers/Assistant Field Officers

Review Committee

Project Appraisal Committee

Board of Directors

Chief Executive/NGOs

NATPOW/NGOs

Memorandum of understanding

Minutes of BODs Meeting

Logical Framework Analysis

Feasibility Form

Check List

NATPOW Project Development Form

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Activity & Financial Reports

Feasible

Complete

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