Introduction CDCP

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Over the course of monsoon season in July and August 2010, Pakistan experienced the worst floods in its history. These floods affected 78 districts and nearly 10% of Pakistan's population over a vast geographical area. Floods that originated from the upper northern areas of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province completely or partially destroyed Houses, Streets, Villages and crop fields of Gilgit Baltistan (GB), Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Balochistan and Sindh. This wide scale disaster not only caused destruction on land but over 1,980 reported human lives were lost, 2,946 people injured. Approximately 1.6 Million homes have been destroyed, and 2.4 million hectares of crops damaged. An estimated 14 million families are affected by the floods.

These floods greatly affected the lives and livelihood of families bringing their businesses and lives to a complete hault. In response to the flood crisis, the Government of Pakistan in collaboration with the provincial Governments set up the Citizens Damage Compensation Program to support affected households with cash in an effort to recover and restore lives in provinces of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa, Sindh, Punjab, Balochistan, Gilgit- Baltistan and Azad Kashmir (AJK). Initially the council of Common Interest made an immediate one-off payment of Pak Rs 20,000 to the affected families in order to ease the misery of families who lost most of their possessions in floods. After its inception, to date the program has provided cash to 1.62 million families across Pakistan. This programme was financed jointly by the federal and provincial governments and is termed as CDCP Phase 1.

Keeping in view the massive damage caused by the floods in affectees life , Government of Pakistan alongside international donor's are implementing the second phase as Citizen Damage Compensation Program (CDCP). This program would complement the first phase beneficiaries and also new beneficiaries in an attempt to bring their lost livelihood back on track. This program aims to deliver PKR Rs 40,000 in two tranches of Rs 20,000 each. This would easily allow the beneficiaries to spend the required cash on basic necessities of life such as clothes, food, shelter. Likewise, spending some amount of cash to revive their businesses by buying livestock, or harvest their fields. Thus, In totality the aim of the project is to deliver the cash to beneficiaries effectively and efficiently. Thereby addressing and resolving any issue/problem that pertains to this program and its operational activity.