Humanitarian Response
Pakistan being a disaster-prone country is vulnerable to both natural and human induced disasters. The most frequent hazards include floods and droughts throughout the country, earthquakes and, global food and farm input prices. The most affected sector by these hazards is agriculture, in particular the smallholders farming communities, as was demonstrated by the most recent disasters to affect Pakistan including 2010, 2011 and 2012 floods.
Since its registration in March 2009, the organization has been key partner for rural development and humanitarian response initiatives on many major initiatives. HDO supported about 20000 households in 2 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces on self help and as part of key implementing partner of emergency and early recovery response of 2014 Pak-Army led Zarb e Azab. HDO successfully completed two projects in Bannu and North Waziristan.
HDO has been initiating various emergency rehabilitation projects in different rural and backward areas of Pakistan inclusive of newly merged areas of erstwhile FATA
