Reach-out & Training for NGOs & Volunteers in Flood Relief held today

[yasir ~يا سر‎]

Hello 

We had a good session today with participation from various NGO and volunteer groups. Much good energy and mutually beneficial interaction for groups working in camps.

Please note that todays session is available online for viewing and sharing with those who missed it !
http://streaming.hec.gov.pk/tcs/#page:conferenceList&status:recorded&pageNumber:1

We look forward to your cooperation in getting more groups and NGOs working in flood relief, rehab and reconstruction, to come on board. Please spread the word, and provide us with lists and contacts across Pakistan, if possible. Even better would be if you can organize groups so that further sessions can be held. Space will be provided, and introductory and training sessions will continue. Sessions will be held on request, and will be arranged by us at designated university campuses and other locations in major cities throughout in Pakistan. 

If you have not received the email below, you may find useful information there. 
You may also find the FB page of Sahana Pakistan Flood Response 2010 useful:
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/pages/Sahana-Pakistan-Flood-Response-2010/145586795481844?ref=ts

You may direct further inquiries to us. If you do not want to receive these updates, please let us know also.

With best wishes,

Yasir Husain
Azhar Rizvi

 

Sahana Pakistan Flood Response 2010

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Reach-out & Training for 

NGOs & Volunteers in Flood Relief 

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Tomorrow        07 September 2010, Tuesday

Time               12:00pm - 2:00pm

Location          HEC (Higher Education Commission), Next 

to TV Station, Stadium Road

** We would appreciate a note of confirmation if you are attending. Thanks. Yasir

More Info  

Participants will be made familiar with the use of features, while we ask for suggestions (for development priorities) based on flood relief activities being undertaken by participants organizations/groups.

You send 2-3 people to our training session. Ideally this would be 1-2 persons of staff and 1 technical person (who can troubleshoot later as needed). These people can then brief other people.

For details on what this is about see email below or :
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sahana-Pakistan-Flood-Response-2010/145586795481844?v=info

Streaming: Yes (please confirm tomorrow)
https://streaming.hec.gov.pk/

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From: yasir ~يا سر <yasir...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 8:30 PM

** To Everyone involved in Flood Relief

** Organizations and Individuals

** Please attend & fwd to friends and colleagues

Dear friends

I am involved with this great team of volunteers who are all professionals and entrepreneurs in the IT area. Many of these are involved in social and relief work under normal circumstances. They have come together to provide a software solution to the chaos and mismanagement that occurs when trying to provide and plan for flood relief on large scale. The team has already customized the Sahana Eden software (being offered for free) for flood relief work in Pakistan, and is continuing software development to how NGOs, volunteers & volunteer organizations and district committees might better utilize what it offers - a way to quickly manage, match and coordinate disaster relief with many others in an ongoing way through cooperation.

We are holding a briefing & training session on Monday or Tuesday. Please state when you can attend, and help spread the word. If you would like to help in development or other area, let us know. A team is about to visit Thatta and Sukkur - get in touch to schedule a meeting. More will follow. 

Best wishes,

yasir ~يا سر

A number of organizations are already on board: 

+  The Citizen Foundation, 

+  Air Force Southern Command, 

+  PILER, 

+  PFF Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum [northern Sindh, coastal areas, makli, dadu]
+  Sindh labour Relief Committee [Hub, Moro, Thatta, Makli]
+  Sindh Social Forum

+  Digital Activists Group DAG 

+ IDSP

+ others

we are also talking to:

+  TRDP Thardeep Rural Support programme 

    [Dadu, Jamshoro, Khairpur and Thar Districts]    

+  SRSO [9 districts in sindh]

+  Edhi Foundation

+  Other citizen, activist, environmental, academic, culture, volunteer groups 

SAHANA in Pakistan August 2010

http://pakistan.sahanafoundation.org/eden/default/about
http://pakistan.sahanafoundation.org/eden/default/contact

The SAHANA project for flood relief invites NGOs and individuals

The Sahana project is a web-based disaster relief management tool for large-scale humanitarian disasters. The Software tool has been customized for flood relief management in Pakistan, in which organizations' and individuals' expertise, particular needs and pledges, and incidents and relief services are matched, coordinated and tracked. Many organizations are already on board. As more come on board, effectiveness of aid where it is needed, will increase. 

Website Sahana Eden in Pakistan 2010: 

http://pakistan.sahanafoundation.org/eden/default/index

Organizations, NGOs, volunteers, journalists and activists working in Flood Relief efforts are invited to use the system for relief & rehab, to their advantage. Organizations are individually registered and may track their own work and supplies. Training is being provided to organizations and volunteers to use the software, which also uses reporting through mobile phones. Sahana Eden is integrated with the Pakreport site http://pakreport.org/ushahidi/ to which anyone can send an SMS report. One can send the SMS to 3441 and start the message with FL followed by text - a flood related report, need, or update. 

Training Sessions

Organizations may request briefing and training sessions. Please contact:

     Azhar Rizvi      azharrizvi [at] gmail [dot] com

     Yasir Husain    yasir [dot] media [at] gmai [dot] com

Sahana's Pakistan Team

Sahana's Flood Relief Management effort is led by Azhar Rizvi (TAN America Fund I, LP, MIT Enterprise Forum of Pakistan <http://www.mitef-pakistan.org> and Rotary International). Sahana Foundation's international team works with a Pakistani team customizing and continuously developing the software in Pakistan. In addition the team includes several IT departments in Pakistan, the Higher Education Commission (HEC), and an initial group of volunteers: Imran Haider (saphirecs.net) , Adnan Masood, Adnan Lawai (folio3.com), Ayal Abbas (Sofcom),  Sarfaraz Malik, Asif Hussain, Dr. Shoaib, Dr. Najmi, Hasnain Akhtar, Adnan Masood, Yasir Husain (Media Theory), and Zuhair Siddiqui. 

Sahana Pakistan users' group: http://groups.google.com/group/sahana-pakistan-2010

SAHANA Overview 

The software itself is expensive running into six figures, and is being offered by Sahana Foundation for use in Pakistan for free. 
The Sahana Agasti project has seven [7] modules that address common disaster coordination and collaboration problems. Sahana Eden is being customized and localized at the moment and may have some of the same features:

Request/Pledge  Management System: An online repository where all relief organizations, relief workers, government agents and camps can effectively match requests of aid and supplies to pledges of support. It tracks aid provision from request to fulfillment.

Organization  Registry: A collaborative “Who is doing what, where” tool which enables tracking of the relief organizations and other stakeholders working in the disaster region. It captures information about the places where each organization is active and the range of services being provided.

Shelter  Registry: Keeps track of the location and basic data of shelters in the region. It also provides a geospatial view to plot the location of the camps in the affected area.

Inventory  Management: Tracking the location, quantities, expiry of supplies stored for utilization in a disaster

Situation  Awareness: Gives an overview of the event and allows people to add information on what is happening on the ground. It features the ability to plot a note and a photo with additional information on a Map, so that people can collaboratively capture the current disaster situation.

Volunteer  coordination: Helps NGOs keep track of all their volunteers, their contact information, project allocation, availability and skills to help them distribute staff resources.

Missing  Person Registry: An online bulletin board of missing and found people. It captures information about the people missing and found, and also the information of the person seeking them.

Sahana also includes  tools for synchronization between multiple  instances, allowing for responders or district offices to capture data on instances in the field and exchange the data with other field offices, headquarters or responders

Past Deployment by Sahana

** Sahana Agasti**

Tsunami  - Sri Lanka 2005 - Officially deployed in the CNO for the Government of Sri Lanka
AsianQuake - Pakistan 2005 - Officially deployed with NADRA for the Government of Pakistan
Southern Leyte Mudslide Disaster - Philippines 2006 - Officially deployed with the NDCC and ODC for the Government of Philippines
Sarvodaya - Sri Lanka 2006 - Deployed for Sri Lanka's largest NGO
Terre des Hommes - Sri Lanka 2006 - Deployed with new Child Protection Module
Yogjakarta Earthquake - Indonesia 2006 - Deployed by ACS, urRemote and Indonesian whitewater association and Indonesian Rescue Source
Peru Earthquake - Peru 2007 - Deployed and localized into Spanish.
Myanmar Cyclone - Myanmar 2008- Currently working in progress to deploy and localize into Burmese.

** Sahana Eden **  (for rapid deployment & customization)

Haiti Earthquake - Haiti 2010- Currently working in progress to deploy and localize into Port-au-Prince and Haiti.

Pakistan Floods - 2010 - under deployment

Tech Details  

Developers: Sahana Software Foundation
Sahana Agasti 

    release 0.6.3 / 2010-0407   

    written in PHP, Javascript, Perl, HTML 

    Operating system Cross-platform 

    Platform Apache, MySQL

    License: LGPL

Sahana Eden 

    r1156 (2010-09-01 07:49:23) (on 03Sep2010 pakistan.sahanafoundation.org)

    written in Python, & based on the web2py framework

    License: MIT

Sahana Agasti is available in English - Language packs available for v.0.6.2.2 for Arabic, Bahasa Indonesian, Bengali, Burmese, Simplified Chinese, English/UK, English/US, German, Hindi, Portuguese & Portuguese/Brazil, Russian, Sinhala, Spanish, Spanish/Latin America, and Tamil.

Sahana Eden information is being updated as the software is being customized.

for more information:
Website:  http://www.sahanafoundation.org ,  

Sahana Eden in Pakistan: http://pakistan.sahanafoundation.org/eden/default/index 

Azhar Rizvi      azharrizvi [at] gmail [dot] com

Yasir Husain    yasir [dot] media [at] gmai [dot] com

[Erum Khan Ghazi]

aoa,
thank you for sending this information, some members of my organization (Health education and literacy program), i myself have gone to the camps and one thing that i saw was that the IDP's are depending on the NGO's for doing everything someone needs to go on there and galvanie them to at least keep the camps clean, throw garbage in its proper place and keep the kids out of dirty water that has collected in their surroundings. this is also a hub of people who make lovely handicrafts so if someone can get in there and provide them with cloth that the women can say embroider on or make rillis etc it would keep them busy and provide a source of income.
regards
erum
 

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From: yasir...@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 20:59:19 +0300
Subject: [netmauj] Reach-out & Training for NGOs & Volunteers in Flood Relief held today

From: yasir ~ï؟½ï؟½ ï؟½ï؟½ <yasir...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 8:30 PM

** To Everyone involved in Flood Relief

** Organizations and Individuals

** Please attend & fwd to friends and colleagues

Dear friends

I am involved with this great team of volunteers who are all professionals and entrepreneurs in the IT area. Many of these are involved in social and relief work under normal circumstances. They have come together to provide a software solution to the chaos and mismanagement that occurs when trying to provide and plan for flood relief on large scale. The team has already customized the Sahana Eden software (being offered for free) for flood relief work in Pakistan, and is continuing software development to how NGOs, volunteers & volunteer organizations and district committees might better utilize what it offers - a way to quickly manage, match and coordinate disaster relief with many others in an ongoing way through cooperation.

We are holding a briefing & training session on Monday or Tuesday. Please state when you can attend, and help spread the word. If you would like to help in development or other area, let us know. A team is about to visit Thatta and Sukkur - get in touch to schedule a meeting. More will follow. 

Best wishes,

yasir ~ï؟½ï؟½ ï؟½ï؟½

SAHANA Overview 

Organization  Registry: A collaborative ï؟½Who is doing what, whereï؟½ tool which enables tracking of the relief organizations and other stakeholders working in the disaster region. It captures information about the places where each organization is active and the range of services being provided.

[yasir ~يا سر‎]

Dear Erum

A few people are thinking along the same lines.
I suggest you join one of these groups, notably people on the PR list and from Aurat Foundation. I am sure there are others.Let me know if you'd like me to put you in touch.

Eid Mubarak,
Yasir

2010/9/12 Erum Khan Ghazi <erum_...@hotmail.com>

yasir ~يا سر

SAHANA Overview 

Organization  Registry: A collaborative “Who is doing what, where” tool which enables tracking of the relief organizations and other stakeholders working in the disaster region. It captures information about the places where each organization is active and the range of services being provided.

[Erum Khan Ghazi]

Dear Yasir,
am glad that people are thinking along these lines. would love to participate in whatever relief efforts you guys are carrying out but am a student adn am also working with HELP and interning at Jinnah as a counselor. so will have to see my schedule and work out the timings/days.

regards
erum
 

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From: yasir...@gmail.com

Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 22:23:50 -0700
Subject: Re: [netmauj] Reach-out & Training for NGOs & Volunteers in Flood Relief held today
To: erum_...@hotmail.com; net...@googlegroups.com

yasir ~ï؟½ï؟½ ï؟½ï؟½

SAHANA Overview 

Organization  Registry: A collaborative ï؟½Who is doing what, whereï؟½ tool which enables tracking of the relief organizations and other stakeholders working in the disaster region. It captures information about the places where each organization is active and the range of services being provided.