Introduction:

 Heatlth & Gender Development Project (HGDP) Shangla after the successful completion of Mitigation Operations for Health Issues among Migrants (MOHIM) project and Household Level Interventions for Women Awareness in Decision Making (HIWAD) Project in district Shangla. EPS in collaboration with CARE International in Pakistan started Heatlth & Gender Development Project (HGDP)
in the six highly affected union councils of district Shangla initially for one year(approx.).  

Aims of the Project:
 
The project aims at providing primary health cover to the sixty thousand displaced people especially women and children in six union councils (in settled and tent villages) worst hit by the earthquake in Shangla.  Developing a workable model of health cover provision to disaster displaced communities anywhere in the future is also aimed at.
The project also aims at sensitizing the stakeholders and communities’ activists and gender issues, organizing women in small group to sensitize them on gender and to improve their livelihood.
 
Activities:
 
Formation of village committees.
Establishing and promotion of community health volunteers
Training of community health volunteers
Establishing tent clinics
Mobile medical camps
Training of TBAs
Establishing and maintaining referral linkages
Coordination and networking
Gender awareness sessions for staff, community activists and government officials
Mobilizing and organizing community’s women in small groups
Vocational training for women
Educating women on different issues
Linking women with micro finance services
Building capacity of women in basic emergency response