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WASEP receives Dubai International Award for Best Practices
Chitraltimes.com Report
KARACHI: The Water and Sanitation Extension Programme (WASEP),
an initiative of Aga Khan Planning and Building Service, Pakistan (AKPBS,P),
was declared as one of the twelve winners of the Dubai
International Award for Best Practices (DIABP). This is the first
ever social project from Pakistan to receive this prestigious award
in the fourteen year history of DIABP. The Award is sponsored by
the Dubai Municipality, under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Mohammad
Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the current ruler of Dubai, in partnership
with UN-Habitat.
Announcing the results, Eng. Hussain Nasser Lootah, Director
General of Dubai Municipality, said that the submissions were
judged on the criteria of projects tangible impact, partnership,
and sustainability and also took into account the considerations of
leadership and community empowerment, gender equality and social
inclusion, and innovations which can be replicated in other
societies and communities.
The Aga Khan Planning and Building Services is an affiliate of Aga
Khan Development Network (AKDN), initiated WASEP in 1997 with an
aim to provide integrated clean drinking water supply
infrastructure services to rural communities and to help prevent
water related diseases though improved hygiene and sanitation
practices. With the support of international and national donors
like PPAF, UNDP, KfW, Aga Khan Foundation, EC, etc., more than
200,000 individuals living in 250 villages across Pakistan have
benefited from this project with the disease rate decreasing to
more than 60%.
The other winners of the 7th cycle of awards, from amongst the 500
submissions received, included projects from USA, China, Spain,
South Africa, Indonesia, Palestine, Mexico, Colombia, Senegal, DR
Congo and Burundi. . In its 14 years of existence, DIAB has
received 3100 submission from 140 countries, out of which 70 have
been chosen as winners, including 12 of this year.
The award distribution ceremony of DIABP will take place in Dubai
at a grand event in the first quarter of 2008.
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