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SSD provides engineering and technical support across diverse project types. The organization’s technical team plans, designs, and implements infrastructure solutions tailored to humanitarian and development contexts.

Key areas of expertise include:

• Designing and constructing resilient, cost-effective buildings for earthquake-affected areas, including private housing, schools, basic health units, and small hydropower stations.
• Developing underground water storage systems such as ferrocement tanks.
• Designing rainwater harvesting units.
• Constructing hand pumps, wells, infiltration galleries, and spring capping structures.
• Designing gravity-fed and pressurized water supply pipelines.
• Designing and building water treatment facilities.

SSD’s human and institutional development (HID) portfolio delivers specialized trainings to staff from TMAs, development projects, and NGOs. Completed trainings include:

• Planning and design of low-cost water supply schemes.
• Planning and design of rural sanitation projects.
• Design of suspension bridges and micro hydel stations.

SSD also offers tailor-made capacity-building in areas such as:

• Organizational reviews, institutional analysis, institutional development/organizational strengthening, rolling out AccPac, and establishing accounting systems for NGOs.
• Developing organizational policies and providing technical backstopping for Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy certification.
• Participatory planning and monitoring and evaluation.
• Participatory planning and design of infrastructure projects, including water supply, sewerage, drainage, solid waste management, and sanitation.
• Office automation and computer-aided design for water supply and sewerage systems.

SSD and its associates conduct a wide range of studies to inform programming and policy. Assignments include:

• Management reviews and institutional analyses of NGOs and community-based organizations.
• KAP and willingness-to-pay surveys.
• Baseline socio-economic and poverty surveys.
• PRA needs identification and prioritization exercises.
• Participatory benefit monitoring and evaluation surveys.
• Citizen report cards and community scorecards.
• DRR risk, hazard, and vulnerability assessments.
• Case studies, success stories, and documentation assignments.

Qualified associates specializing in statistics, sociology, economics, engineering, and local governance support SSD in delivering rigorous, professionally managed research.