Background 

• PAC with assistance from Asian Development Bank (ADB) is now into Phase II of the Web based Self-Learning Course (previous point).
• The activities involved mainly comprise of training of stakeholders (mainly Public Administration Training Institutes) in CRC through the e-learning tool kit, monitoring the implementation of CRCs in different settings (two sites in the Philippines and two in Pakistan) and finally revising the course on the basis of these field experiences and learnings.
• Another activity is to incorporate the CRC in the curriculums of the Training Institutes by helping them to develop short-term and long-term courses. 
• The agreement for carrying out Phase II was signed between PAC and ADB in June 2006 and will conclude in November 2007 on completion of the above tasks.

Outcome & Current Status 

• One CRC has been carried out in Nawaan, a municipality in the Mindanao Province of the Philippines; visits were made by the PAC Research Team to carry out initiation workshops, initiate and monitor fieldwork and carry out advocacy-related activities subsequently.
• Preparatory activities (draft questionnaires for the CRC survey and sampling design) are now on for the second CRC to take place in Quezon City in Manila, the Philippines. The Research Team would be visiting Manila in the first week of April to provide support during the training programme and initiation of fieldwork. 
• With regard to carrying out CRCs in Pakistan, orientation workshops were conducted in the cities of Karachi and Lahore in February 2007. Duniyapur in the Punjab province and Hala in Sindh province were identified for conducting CRCs on drinking water and sanitation as well as education (only for Hala).