Fundamental law Awareness at Grassroots Levels (FLAG) project

 Background:

Access to justice of a lay man is very difficult in Pakistan due to many reasons specially illiteracy and lack of awareness. Keeping in view the situation DevCon – An Association for Rural Development had submitted a project titled “Fundamental Law Awareness at Grassroots Level (FLAG)” to Law & Justice Commission of Pakistan. The sponsor LJCP agreed and provide financial assistant for the project.

 Project objectives:

To train local Government representatives and provide awareness to people at mass level regarding family law, human rights criminal law, Sindh tenancy act, registration act and succession of property.      

 Project Duration:                              

Four month (July 2006 to October 2006

Target Area:                                                   

Taluka Shahdadpur district Sanghar, Sindh

 Achievements: 

• A training module for the union council representatives has been developed
• Two book lets in local language i.e. Sindh & Urdu have been developed
• 2800 book lets have been printed for public awareness
• 169 representatives of 13 UCs of talukas Shahdadpur have been aware and informed about more than 75 sections/articles of the six selected laws/acts through 13 training workshops of two day each.
• Approximately 2600 peoples of the talukas Shahdadpur have been informed about the six laws/acts through 13 seminars.

Advocacy Campaigns for education:

 DevCon since two years has been organizing Global Action Weeks (GAW) in district Sanghar with Indus Resource Center, under Global Campaign for Education by Pakistan Education coalition (PEC). This activity gives DevCon a credit to work for education development in district Sanghar.