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KARACHI: If there were problems in the government systems, the relief systems of the international NGOs were also not up to the mark, said Sindh chief ministers relief adviser Haleem Adil Shaikh.
He was speaking at a workshop, titled Issues during Flood Emergency, organised by the Participatory Development Initiatives (PDI) and the Oxfam Novib. Commenting on the participants view of the governments relief and rehabilitation systems, Shaikh said that, if things are 90 percent wrong in the government, then 10 percent wrong things also happen in the NGOs.
The participants were discussing the relief work carried out by the Sindh and Balochistan governments after the rains in 2012, when Jacobabad district in Sindh, and Naseerabad and Jafarabad districts in Balochistan were flooded.
Shaikh said that the relief distribution system by the government was inefficient and corrupt, adding that it must be changed by involving local community-based organisations, notables and social welfare department in the relief distribution. A majority of international NGOs are only interested in collecting data instead of supporting the affected communities, he said.
Pakistan Muslim League-Functional MPA Nusrat Sehar Abbasi said that the government had completely failed to provide timely relief to the flood affected communities during the 2012 floods. Not only were the funds released late but there was rampant corruption in the relief funds, she claimed. Relief was only provided to potential voters, she added.
There may even be duplicity in the government as the relief department and the Provincial Disaster Management Authority are working as parallel departments, without any coordination with each other, she said
He was speaking at a workshop, titled Issues during Flood Emergency, organised by the Participatory Development Initiatives (PDI) and the Oxfam Novib. Commenting on the participants view of the governments relief and rehabilitation systems, Shaikh said that, if things are 90 percent wrong in the government, then 10 percent wrong things also happen in the NGOs.
The participants were discussing the relief work carried out by the Sindh and Balochistan governments after the rains in 2012, when Jacobabad district in Sindh, and Naseerabad and Jafarabad districts in Balochistan were flooded.
Shaikh said that the relief distribution system by the government was inefficient and corrupt, adding that it must be changed by involving local community-based organisations, notables and social welfare department in the relief distribution. A majority of international NGOs are only interested in collecting data instead of supporting the affected communities, he said.
Pakistan Muslim League-Functional MPA Nusrat Sehar Abbasi said that the government had completely failed to provide timely relief to the flood affected communities during the 2012 floods. Not only were the funds released late but there was rampant corruption in the relief funds, she claimed. Relief was only provided to potential voters, she added.
There may even be duplicity in the government as the relief department and the Provincial Disaster Management Authority are working as parallel departments, without any coordination with each other, she said
