Location: Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, India

Date of start and completion: 2015 – 2017

Building Types: +6800 buildings including Health Centers, Education facilities, Offices, Religious Centers, Warehouses, Residential units, etc.

Clients: Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN)

Project Description:

AKDN agencies have more than 6000 facilities and infrastructures in Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, and Tajikistan. The facilities include schools, hospitals, health centers, Jamatkhanas, offices, warehouses, residential units, etc. These infrastructures were located in high seismic-prone areas, thus there was an urgent need to assess the structural and non-structural safety of these facilities. The study was conducted based on a request to prioritize the most critical facilities that required additional structural and non-structural audits. The project was implemented in three partially overlapping phases.

Deliverables for the project were as follows:

• Planning & Analysis
  
  • Reviewing existing literature on the multi-hazard vulnerability of selected countries
  • Strategy planning and budgeting
  • Facilitating peer reviews of course design and material

• Research
  
  • Information collection, document review, and customized course design and education/learning kits

• Development
  
  • Process and methodology development

• Documentation
  
  • Inception Report
  • Methodology Proposing
  • Finalizing the methodology post-peer review
  • Guidelines and manuals
  • Awareness kits for decision-makers
  • Training material

• Document review & revision
  
  • Formal reviews and revisions of produced documents

• Administration and project management
  • Managing and administering project performance, logistics, accountabilities, and reporting