Sustainable Development requires strong local organizations and networks. Clear visions and missions are needed for identifying critical environmental issues in each landscape. Well thought out strategies are required for establishing consensus on effective approaches. Systems and procedures are necessary to address priorities efficiently. Good governance is essential for sustaining and replicating the interventions.

So PIEDAR gave importance to the requirements of intermediate organizations and their operational context, and established strong linkage with local NGOs, CBOs and water user associations. PIEDAR provided training in Community Mobilization Skills (CMST) and related topics.

Over time, our focus shifted from building the capacities of individual organizations to the relations between organizations, and to embedding specific environmental activities within these networks, namely HID.
The specific components of HID are:
• Human Resource Development (HRD), which entails enhancing individual skills for environmental management;
• Organizational Strengthening (OS) consisting of environmental, cultural, structural and systems analysis, strategic planning and change management within organizations;
• Institutional Development (ID) comprising the creation of networks of co-operation among different organizations and enhancing co-ordination between their activities in order to scale up environmental programs and to sustain their impacts.

Our HID program focused on key intermediate organizations, such as local governments, co-operatives, industry and professional associations, training institutes, network-supporting NGOs, community organizations and environmental interest groups in Khanewal district, Punjab province.

PIEDAR translated an internationally recognized HID training package into Urdu. We trained 11 partner organizations (POs) of Khanewal district to deliver the HID training and to monitor the agreed follow up actions. Some three dozen training courses were in fact delivered by the POs and each one was followed up by them multiple times for compliance with the self-set objectives of the target group.

At the close of 2005, we held a deeply self-reflective workshop on the values and means underlying HID with our partners. Then we handed over the baton to them for a hopefully self-reliant HID process in Khanewal district.