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PHF BULLETIN
10 May – 16 May 2021
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PHF WEEKLY BULLETIN
I N T H E L O O P
IN THIS ISSUE
COVID-19 Updates
PHF Technical Working Groups & Provincial Coordination Update
Growing Mushrooms in Tobacco Farms- a Story by HELVETAS
Buzz of the Week
Community for Learners-Course in Humanitarian Communication :
Addressing Key Challenges
Publications and Resources
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COVID-19 UPDATES
UNICEF said countries belonging to the G7 and Dr Sana Zubairi, a holistic health practitioner,
the European Union can afford to donate more MD at the Baqai Medical University, Karachi,
than 150 million vaccines - closing the world's said survivors of the Coronavirus experience
© ACTED
vaccine gap by sharing just 20% of their June, many different kinds of effects even after
July and August stocks - without compromising recovering. These include both psychological
their own goals. and physical effects. Support for mental and
The head of Germany’s independent vaccine emotional health is key to deal with the
advisory panel has said it’s likely that everyone psychological impact of the COVID-19 disease.
will have to get vaccinated again next year Pakistan has received another shipment of
against COVID-19. Coronavirus vaccine from China, containing
An experimental COVID-19 vaccine developed 1.2 million doses. Of the total, 1,000,000
by Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline showed a doses are of SinoVac vaccines and 200,000
robust immune response in early-stage clinical doses of CanSino vaccines.
trial results, enabling them to move to a late- Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) on
stage study. Sanofi and Britain's GSK said a Health Dr Faisal Sultan said that there is no
global Phase III trial would start in the coming evidence to suggest that the triple mutant
weeks and involve more than 35,000 adults. Coronavirus variant from India or the
The National Command and Operation Center B.1.617.2 variant has managed to reach
(NCOC) announced that a ban on tourism in Pakistan.
Pakistan will continue indefinitely as part of
measures to curb the spread of Coronavirus
despite easing restrictions on businesses and
Find more information for
transport services. The NCOC will review the
COVID-19 here
impact of the ongoing restrictions on May 19.
The registration for Coronavirus vaccines for
people who are 30 years and above for the
Coronavirus vaccination has started across the
country. Registration can be done either by
sending message with 13 digit Computerised
National Identity Card (CNIC) without spaces
to 1166 or by visiting the NIMS website.
National Command and Operation Center
(NCOC) said the national rate of positivity of
COVID-19 infections has reached 8.8% in
Pakistan with a total of 68,223 active cases, of
which there are 4,443 patients in critical
© International Rescue
condition. Punjab reported the highest number ©Committee
International Rescue
(IRC)
of deaths with 67, followed by Khyber © HELVETAS Pakistan Committee@CESVI
(IRC)
Pakhtunkhwa with 29.
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PHF TECHNICAL WORKING
GROUPS UPDATES
PHF and NHN set up their first ever joint
Working Groups during the COVID-19
pandemic to serve as the basic coordination
tool among the PHF and NHN members.
HEALTH WORKING GROUP
UPDATES
The current caseload of the COVID-19 across
the country was discussed in the meeting
held on May 4th, 2021. It was also agreed to
share the draft research paper with the group
for feedback.
The next meeting of health working group is
scheduled on May 18th, 2021.
FOOD, SECURITY & LIVELIHOOD
WORKING GROUP
UPDATES
The group lead provided an update on the PHF PROVINCIAL COORDINATION
paper the group is developing. The first draft
of the paper was earlier shared with the The Punjab coordination meeting was held on
group for review and feedback. 4th May 2021. It was agreed in the meeting
that three thematic working groups
(DRR/Resilience Working Group, FS&L
Working Group and Health working Group) for
Punjab chapter will be devised.
The Balochistan and KP Coordination
Meetings are scheduled on May 24th and May
25th, 2021 respectively. Thematic working
groups for the respective provinces will be
devised in these meetings.
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TRANSFORMING LIVES
MEMBERS IN ACTION
GROWING MUSHROOMS IN The timing for the use of tobacco barns is ideal for two
TOBACCO BARNS- Insights reasons: first, they are vacant and can be used without
from Women- Haider Kaley any damage to the next crop. Second, the crop requires
temperature between 22-27 degrees Celsius and
by HELVETAS PAKISTAN humidity of around 80 per cent, which prevail during
that period. While growing mushrooms, sufficient
Mandani Charsadda is tobacco growing amount of water, oxygen and darkness is needed.
area. After tobacco is harvested, it is Sterilization of the compost before spawning is another
further cured in the tobacco barn. These prerequisite which prevents it from poisoning.
barns are only occupied in the months of
July to August. The rest of the year these
are used for animal housing, storage or any
other households needs. Looking to the
potential and increasing market demand
for mushrooms, Market and Employment
Project by HELVETAS planned to build
capacity of local women (tobacco growing
families) in mushroom cultivation and
provide them an opportunity to earn
additional income from the available
resources.
MEP organized a four-day training (2-5
November 2020) on mushroom growing in
Haider Kaley, Charsadda for 20 women.
The training is part of the agreement
signed with Khyber Mushroom Farm, who
is responsible for training, coaching,
continuous monitoring and marketing of The ingredients needed for the crop are easier to get.
the product in the market. Farmers’ For 150 bags, quality substrate (wheat straw), lime
selection was done by Agriculture Extension (chuna), mushroom spawn, plastic bags and clean water
Department Charsadda. Khyber Mushroom are all that is needed for growing mushroom. It requires
Farm has provided technical support, small investment i.e. its seed and other costs per bag
guidance and spawn initially for growing costs around Rs. 87. An ordinary barn can
mushroom to tap the potential and enable accommodate around 150-300 bags and each bag can
tobacco growers to increase their income. grow minimum 1kg and maximum 3kg of mushrooms in
Mostly all the training participants (Women a period of 6 months,. A farmer can earn on average Rs.
& men) were ignorant of growing 500 per bag in one season.
mushroom inside tobacco barn.
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TRANSFORMING LIVES
MEMBERS IN ACTION
Challenges
“We start training our young ones from the Currently, when the mushrooms are ready they will be
age of eight or nine. Then when they turn bought by Khyber Mushroom Farms or if they get good
twelve they do the work of an adult” price from somewhere else, they are free to sell their
-Tajreeya produce.
In future, marketing of the commodity may become a
problem. The farmers have no access to and
Mushroom growing requires little space, information about other buyers. There are many buyers
consumes little time, does not need hard in the market but the farmers are ignorant about them.
work and can be grown even by women and
MEP may help them in good market linkages.
children. 90% of the women in the training
said that growing and processing tobacco Another aspect is that farmers are ignorant about
is a challenge. Many health issues are mushroom seeds and know-how to grow oyster or any
related with it, such as they and their other variety. Guidance on the crop and provision of its
children get sick with nausea, headaches, spawns (seeds) to farmers could attract multitude of
respiratory illnesses, and skin conditions,
farmers to the sector.
and in some cases acute nicotine
poisoning. Families that farm tobacco often
have to make the difficult decision between
having their children work or go to school.
Unfortunately, working often beats
education because tobacco farmers cannot “If we get good return from mushrooms, we
make enough money from their crop to will adapt to this farming practice in the
survive without the cheap labour that future. We want to stop growing tobacco
children provide. but cannot as it is a cash crop. It is tedious
Scope of mushroom growing work and very challenging as many of us
are suffering from different health
This is a pilot testing of mushroom growing conditions caused by tobacco growing.”
with families of tobacco growers (30 -rehmat Bibi
women and 30 men). They are trained with
the technical support of MEP Project and
Khyber Mushroom Farm. The families will
adopt mushroom growing if they receive
good return from this pilot phase.
Currently learning from the on-job
mushroom training, 45 morewomen are
interested in growing mushrooms.
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Tobacco farming is a labour-intensive job. Farmers use their
families to help them cultivate and perform otherphysically
demanding tasks related to tobacco growing. Few of them hire
labour charges to external labour. Tobacco farmers have little
to no time and land to grow food or non-tobacco cash crops.
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Pakistan Humanitarian Response Plan 2021 has
BUZZ OF THE WEEK been published on Relief Web. Read more
The report, An Eco-wakening: Measuring global
awareness, engagement and action for nature,
The Special Assistant to Prime Minister on from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and
Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam explained commissioned by the Worldwide Fund for Nature
the measures being taken under the prime (WWF), has attempted to gauge how much
minister’s vision for Clean Green Pakistan in people care about what’s happening to the
a press release issued on Sunday. Read more natural world. Read more
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has hailed The World Bank has ranked Pakistan’s Ehsaas
Pakistan’s three-pronged strategy to cope Emergency Cash Programme among the top four
with adverse impacts of climate change and global social protection initiatives based on the
build a greener sustainable future for not only number of people covered. Read more
the country rather the entire region. Read
Although malnutrition particularly stunting is
more
recognized as multi-causal, there has been
The way we grow our food can either put limited integrated nutrition interventions to
carbon up in the atmosphere or down below reduce its burden in children under-fives and
into the earth. More carbon in the those existing are not well evaluated. This study
atmosphere leads to global warming, but tested the effectiveness of provision of health
the same when put into the soil can be good and nutrition education and promotion of home
gardening in child stunting. Read more
for us. The problem and solution is simply a
matter of attaining the right balance, say
experts. Read more
Although the world’s attention is currently
OPPORTUNITIES
focused on the Covid-19 pandemic, climate
crisis remains the planet’s greatest challenge. MEAL Manager – Save the Children
For Pakistan “the time to resist international
efforts to decarbonise” is up, said Dawar Closing Date: May 24th, 2021
Butt, lead analyst at Equilibrium, an
organisation that helps companies become Click here to Apply Now!
climate-positive quickly. Read more
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Challenges
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Framework: Development of Mechanism for
PUBLICATION AND Accountability to the Affected Population in
RESOURCES Rapid Response
This Mechanism for Accountability to Affected
Population (MAAP) is an accountability framework
developed by Start Fund Bangladesh in
Development Aid News Digest partnership with NIRAPAD (Network for
Information, Response and Preparedness
To read the latest edition of the
Activities on Disaster). It outlines a set of 16
Development Aid Digest, please click here.
accountability tools under four broad themes:
information provision; participation; complaint,
response and feedback mechanism; and learning
and adaptation. Click here to access.
Research: : Halting Lives part 2’ In their own
Voice: Girls and Young Women on the Impact of
COVID-19
Humanitarian Policy & Practice
This research report from Plan International
Digest, May 13th, 2021
tracks their experiences of COVID-19 and
InterAction has published “Humanitarian supplements the statistical analysis with a more
Policy & Practice Digest” as of May 13th, granular understanding of the particular impact of
2021. To access the digest, please click here. the pandemic on girls and young women. Click
here to read the report.
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