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Project Summary / Description:

The Sustainable Methods and Resilient Technologies (SMaRT) project was initiated in 2017 as an action research strategy to address the water-energy-food nexus issues with a focus on rural and remote areas of Pakistan. It was carefully designed by applying its own learning and global best practices in sustainable development to create a replicable model that also promotes the concept of ‚ frugal innovation‚ . HF looked for a project area where attribution to its project design would not be in doubt.

Village Gurunjur was selected after establishing its environmental degradation, subsistence agriculture, little access to water, poor health services, poor nutrition (especially for girls/women), WASH issues, no access to quality education/training for youth, no skills or strategies for protection against natural disasters increasingly caused by Climate Change and GLOF. 

HF engaged with the local communities, with local government and the Mountain Agriculture Research Council (MARC) introducing the project and inviting their inputs.

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Replaces/avoids GHGs (e.g., projects that replace sources of GHGs, such as the burning of fossil fuels for electricity, heat, transport, or other energy uses), Removes/stores GHGs (e.g., projects that capture, sequester, or otherwise enhance the "sinks" that accumulate and store GHGs)

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Women, children and the differently-abled are the most underprivileged groups in the climate movement. HF empowers the underprivileged through various capacity building approaches of culturally sensitive awareness raising and training activities that builds both social and economic capital of the identified beneficiaries. Once the community is sensitized to new ideas and owns them, then HF provides customized trainings that place these groups, especially women at the forefront of decision-making. In this project women were trained as leaders on account of their custodial services for protecting nature with Nature Based Solution (NBS) among other things. 

To further empower the underrepresented HF focuses on training these underrepresented groups in resilience and ensures their access to basic services such as health/nutrition, WASH, education, sustainable livelihood opportunities. HF strengthens local institutions through inclusive systems development and improves livelihood approaches through introduction of climate-smart agriculture and other lifestyle practices. 

Empowerment is about changing mindsets and attitudes; this is only possible if there is full leadership and ownership their own development. HF uses a multi-faceted and multi-tiered strategy of soft skills and technical skills trainings to inculcate the desired capacities and competencies among the disenfranchised for their self-reliance and empowerment. Thus, the focus of HF training in the SMaRT approach was twofold: 1) how to look for opportunities in each challenge and become resilient; 2) how to optimally utilize their natural resources, their skills and intellect for their overall wellbeing.

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Mission Statement:

Hashoo Foundation (hereinafter referred to as HF) is a national, nonprofit, NGO, and a knowledge-based, and impact-oriented organization established in 1988 by Mr. Sadr Uddin Hashwani, Chairman Hashoo Group and Patron-in-Chief of the Foundation. In 2016, Mr. Murtaza Hashwani, Chairman of HF, built on his father‚ legacy with a commitment to more inclusive development, greater outreach, and meaningful impact to further the HF‚ vision of creating an ethical, equitable, inclusive society.

All our programs are aligned with SDGs with a special focus on SDGs 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, and 13, HF maintains a thematic focus to facilitate national priorities and greater social impact. Currently HF is operating in more than 100 districts of Pakistan. Our main office is in Islamabad with regional offices in Quetta, Lahore, Peshawar, Karachi, Muzaffarabad and Gilgit. HF liaison offices are in Chitral, Rawalpindi, Gwadar, Swat, and Multan.

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