Project Details.

The Doaba Foundation, with support from CBM International, successfully implemented a three-year project titled “Community Based Inclusive Development (CBID)” across eight Union Councils in District Muzaffargarh, including Qasba Gujrat, Budh, Alurid, Thatha Gurmani, Ghazi Ghat, Sharif Chajra, Karam Dad Qureshi & Mehmood Kot. This comprehensive multi-sectoral initiative focused on empowering communities to foster inclusion and resilience. By prioritizing persons with disabilities, the project facilitated their active engagement in various spheres of society – social, economic, political, and cultural. Key interventions encompassed inclusive disaster risk reduction, strengthening community structures, promoting inclusive livelihoods, enhancing primary health services’ accessibility, and improving public and communal spaces to ensure the holistic well-being and participation of persons with disabilities in local development endeavors. The end line survey aimed to assess the effects of five types of interventions provided by the project. 

The first was the disability inclusive disaster risk reduction, second was strengthening of community structures, third was inclusive livelihoods including vocational training and developed informal enterprise, fourth was quality and accessible primary health services to community particularly persons with disabilities and the fifth was the improvement of accessibility of public and communal spaces for persons with disabilities. In this project, HCPL team employed a comprehensive approach for their end line survey, combining both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. 

The quantitative component was built upon a stratified sample of beneficiaries from the Community Based Inclusive Development (CBID) program. To capture nuanced insights, the qualitative facet integrated the Most Significant Change (MSC) technique as its primary tool, supported by Key Informant Interviews (KII) and Focus Group Discussions (FGD). The survey methodology encompassed correlational analysis to identify relationships, effectiveness and impact assessment, as well as review-based reporting. In selecting areas for in-depth study, both project and control Union Councils were chosen using random sampling for household interviews. This methodological approach ensured a holistic evaluation of the project’s outcomes and impacts, encompassing a wide spectrum of data to draw comprehensive conclusions.