Project Description: Technical Support to ERRA-INFOCH (Pakistan)

Training, Capacity Building, Technical Support after hand-over of ERRA-INFOCH to ERRA M&E Wing (Pakistan)

Country:          Pakistan (NWFP and AJ&K)

Time frame:      22 August 07 – 21 October 07

Partners:       Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Agency (ERRA), Canadian High Commission, Development Assistance

The Inter-Agency Information Clearinghouse and Verification Resource (ERRA-INFOCH) was established by the Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA) of the Pakistan Government with the International Agency for Source Country Information (IASCI) as Implementing Partner. In its initial stages it was funded by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).

ERRA-INFOCH’s operations were initiated by ERRA and IASCI in December 2006, and represented an integrated, field-tested, highly effective data management mechanism that was specifically designed to support information coherence and efficiency within the earthquake-affected areas of Pakistan.

ERRA-INFOCH is an integral part of the Monitoring and Evaluation Cell of ERRA, and is composed of a Central Unit located within the ERRA Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Wing Islamabad as well as a field network of local offices and volunteers-interns operating in nine districts within AJ&K and NWFP impacted by the 08 October 2005 earthquake.

Within the context of completing the hand-over of the ERRA-INFOCH from the operational responsibility of IASCI to the M&E Wing of the Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (initiated on 31 July 2007), this project (see Annex 1) was designed to deliver targeted technical assistance, training, monitoring and oversight as well as a technical assessment in order to ensure a seamless and uninterrupted operation of ERRA-INFOCH.

The project aimed at directly supporting ERRA-INFOCH to continue contributing to the transparency, coordination and efficiency required of the reconstruction and rehabilitation The common service benefits, leading directly to more informed decision making processes on the part of local and international agencies, as well as national, provincial and local government structures, will in turn result in real benefits to the people of the earthquake affected areas.

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