Implementing Agency:
Department For International Development (WASD)

Managing Institute:
United Nations Drug Control Programme (UNDCP)

Contractor:
Government of North West Frontier Province

Project Code: 171-016-001 171-508-005 171-020-001	Start Date: 01/04/1984	End Date: 31/10/1998
Commitment: £7,000,000	Status: Current	Type of Funding: Bilateral - TC Bilateral - Financial Aid

Project Background:
The Government of Pakistan (GOP) has committed itself to eliminate poppy growing throughout the country by 1998. The Dir District is a major source of poppy production. The project seeks to provide alternative livlihoods and improve other measures of welfare for Dir District inhabitants to compensate. it will be complemented by extending the enforcement of the ban on opium poppy cultivation throughout the district by the end of the project. Dir District, with a population of 1.4 million, lies in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan. The project will focus on the primary target areas of the five valleys where poppy growing is concentrated and neighbouring valleys (each with 0.2m people). The first phase (1985-94) was generally successful in achieving its development targets, but not in bringing about a sustained reduction in poppy growing. The second phase (1994-98) will cost £10.5m. Japan, Germany and USA are expected to contribute about two-thirds of the donor funding, with the Government of Pakistan and Government of NWFP the balance. DFID will provide £3.4m as a grant contribution through six-monthly tranches to the United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP), and an additional œ0.2m for bilateral monitoring and consultancies.

Project Objectives:
The project will seek to encourage elimination of poppy growing by raising incomes from non-poppy agriculture, livestock and forestry and develop off-farm employment skills. It will improve road access and extend electrifications. It will seek to improve protection from communicable diseases through immunisation and potable water supply expansion.

Intended Outputs:
Phase I:

Develop and conserve land and water resources so that resources can be utilised by farmers to increase productivity and farm income.

Increase production levels of various crops and livestock within farming systems compatible with the resource base and which provide farmers with a reasonable standard of living without having recourse to poppy cultivation.

Strengthen and expand the capabilities of responsible Government agencies to enable them to increase production and farm incomes.

To assist Line departments, the district council and union councils, to implement variuos infrastructureal schemed which support agricultural production or meet basic needs and which will generate short-term employment opportunities to enable people to augment cash income.

Phase II:

The adoption of improved agricultural technology, better livestock husbandry and agro-forestry practices, through adaptive research, strengthened and refocussed extension, the supply of essential imputs at cost and expanded and rehabilitated irrigation systems. Improved off-farm skills through training in vocational skills of potential migrants and women. Improved protection from communicable diseases through expanded immunisation and potable water schemes. Better market access through upgraded roads, and improved electricity access. Project management, including social orgenisers to encourage community participation. Drug awareness training. A Small Development Schemes Fund (SDSF) to address both development needs and the political dimensions of eradicating poppy production.