Local Action for Democratic & Inclusive Response (LADIR)

WAJ Implemented Local Action for Democratic & Inclusive Response (LADIR) with TDEA Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) in District Abbottabad. The project interventions were designed to augment the collective efforts of citizens and the government of Pakistan to address the effects of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) through a series of mutually complementing activities including oversight, research, public information and communication, and advocacy.

The project also undertaken activities to improve the capacity of journalists for responsible and accurate reporting of health and disaster related issues, and optimal use of available digital tools and social media platforms. The project also aims to identify and facilitate women belonging to socially and economically marginalized segment of the population in registration for their National Identity Cards (NICs) to enable them to access the governmental support to COVID-19 affectees, and other available social safety nets.

The project also contributed to Department for International Development’s (DFID) COVID19 Integrated Delivery Plan (IDP), particularly.

Objective of mitigating the impacts, and enabling recovery and building resilience through the following three project outcomes:

Citizens’ scrutiny and public reporting of government’s response to COVID-19;
Citizens including women and those belonging to socially-excluded groups exercise their rights and entitlements;
Expanded public information and civic space to enable improved quality of policy dialogue and public discourse

Local Action for Democratic & Inclusive Response (LADIR)