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| Thematic Area | Education and Literacy | |
| 01 | Project Title | Improving Adolescents Lives in Pakistan- IKEA-II |
| Status | Completed | |
| Duration | 32 Month (Nov 2018 to June 2021) | |
| Donor | UNICEF | |
| Location | District Ghotki and Khairpur | |
| Major Objectives | To establish and manage 100 Non formal Education centers for out of school adolescents in program districts.
Output 1: Approximately 100 teachers trained in interactive methods of teaching and non-violent disciplinary solutions Output 2: Approximately 3,000 Out Of School (OOS) children have access to non-formal education Output 3: Approximately 3000 children Girls/Boys adolescents & elderly community members participate/ engaged in community mobilization process |
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| 02 | Project Title | Accelerated Learning for Girls |
| Status | Completed | |
| Duration | Feb 2019 to December 2021 (Completed in Feb 2020) | |
| Donor | Save the children | |
| Location | District Shikarpur | |
| Major Objectives | The project aims to improve wellbeing of girls through safe alternative learning and development opportunities. Under this project 70 Non Formal Education centers (50 for primary education and 20 for post primary) have been established for rural girls of Distirct Shikarpur.
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| 03 | Project Title | Sindh Community Mobilization Program |
| Status | Completed | |
| Duration | August 2013 – March 2019 | |
| Donor | USAID through Blumont | |
| Location | District Karachi, Dadu, Qamber Shahdadkot and Khairpur | |
| Major Objectives | CMP has four key objectives: 1) Increase communities’ involvement in the GOS reform of merging, consolidating, and upgrading schools; 2) Improve community and district administrations coordination for increased girls’ enrolment; 3) Improve child nutrition in selected communities and government schools through research that informs innovation and good practice; and, 4) Pilot component: Launch of the Education Management Organization (EMO) system.
In addition, CMP has three cross cutting themes: Gender: mainstreaming; Water and sanitation (WATSAN); and 3) Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) |
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| 04 | Project Title | Sindh Reading Program |
| Status | Completed | |
| Duration | Feb 2014 to January 2016 | |
| Donor | USAID – Chemonics | |
| Location | Karachi, Dadu, Khairpur and Qambar-Shahdadkot | |
| Major Objectives | Reading skills of the students in targeted districts’ public schools are improved through multiple interventions. | |
| 05 | Project Title | Management of 3 Government Schools |
| Status | Completed | |
| Duration | 2011 – 2014 | |
| Donor | Government of Sindh | |
| Location | Khairpur | |
| Major Objectives | Improve quality, increase enrolment and control drop-out in three high and higher secondary schools
*major repair and renovation to improve physical environment for teaching/learning *teachers’ professional development *provision of missing facilities and equipment *provision of transport facilities wherever needed to facilitate access |
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| 06 | Project Title | Bringing Girls Back to School in Shahdadkot |
| Status | Completed | |
| Started from | 2010 | |
| Completed in | 2012 | |
| Donor | Oxfam-GB | |
| Location | Kambar-Shahdadkot District | |
| Major Objectives | Improve the quality of government schools and conduct advocacy for girls’ education
*Construction of five totally flood devastated schools *improvement of 60 schools through teachers’ training and School Management Committees *building advocacy on the lessons learnt and missing gaps |
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| 07 | Project Title | Revitalization of High Schools of Lyari |
| Status | Completed | |
| Duration | June 2014 – June 2015 | |
| Donor | Karachi Youth Initiative (US-AID) | |
| Location | Lyari Town, Karachi | |
| Major Objectives and Achievements | The objectives are: to rehabilitate 10 government schools to enhance enrolment and serve as focal schools for neighboring 2 to 5 schools for trainings, leadership, education, youth and community centered activities; to promote education, youth leadership and community participation through training teachers, extracurricular activities, youth capacity building for leadership, formation of School Management Committees; and to increase opportunities for the beneficiaries to learn / develop values and beliefs that undermine the attraction of VE groups and behaviors
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| 08 | Project Title | Enhancing Mathematical Skills of Primary Students |
| Status | Completed | |
| Duration | July 2014 – March 2016 | |
| Donor | British Asian Trust | |
| Location | Karachi, Dadu, Khairpur and Jamshoro. | |
| Major Objectives and Achievements | The overarching purpose was capacity building of selected teachers in Mathematics (technology –based) at targeted districts. | |
| 09 | Project Title | Promoting Child Rights in Cotton Farming Areas of Sindh (CRCF) – IKEA I |
| Status | Completed | |
| From | May 2017- December 2017 | |
| Duration | 8 Months | |
| Donor | UNICEF | |
| Location | Four UCs of Tehsil Khairpur (Babrloi, Khanpur, Shadi Shaheed and Tando Masti) | |
| Major Objectives and Achievements | To provide education opportunities to children in the project areas using CFS strategies
To improve the quality of learning environment, building capacities of teachers and on bringing children from out of school in system of education in targeted locations of District Khairpur Sindh Education is the thematic area of project 140 primary schools, and 20 NFE center will be the target along with 280 teachers and 600 students |
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| Target/ Outputs | 140 existing educational facilities in the target districts are child friendly and inclusive and provide 2nd chance education Approximately 280 primary schools teachers and 20 NFE teachers trained in interactive methods of teaching and non-violent disciplinary solutions Approximately 2500 out of school children have access to formal/ informal education
Approximately 2500 children Girls/ Boys, adolescents and elderly community members engaged in community mobilisation process
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| 10 | Project Title | Reading, speech, Maths, spelling and story telling competitions at school, taluka and tehsil levels |
| Status | Ended | |
| Duration | December 2014 – 15 June 2015 | |
| Donor | Alif Ailan | |
| Location | 120 schools of Districts Jamshoro, Mirpurkhas and Thatta | |
| Major Objectives and Achievements | Reading competitions in 120 schools at school, taluka and district levels
Spelling Bee competition in 120 schools at school, taluka and district levels Maths Quiz Competition in 120 schools at school, taluka and district levels Altogether 114 schools from three districts such as Jamshoro, Mirpurkhas and Thatta participated |
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| 11 | Project Title | Professional Development Project (PDP) Education Sector Reforms Assistance Programme (ESRA) |
| Status | Completed | |
| Duration | July 2004 – July 2007 | |
| Donor | USAID through American Research Institute | |
| Location | Sindh | |
| Major Objectives and Achievements | The ESRA program supported the Government of Pakistan’s Education Sector Reform efforts by operating across five technical areas: (1) policy and planning; (2) professional development for educators and administrators; (3) literacy; (4) public-private-community partnerships; and (5) Information and Communication Technologies.
Out of the five components mentioned above, IRC was engaged in two: professional development of educators and administrators, and literacy. The training was in-class, follow-up and then in-class. Therefore, two phases of two-week in-class training workshops were conducted for teachers and in between they were given an assignment to be carried out in their own schools for four weeks. Support was provided for that assignment too. Finally after the second phase training, two weeks field support was made available. For administrators or Head Teachers, the training was conducted in two phases of four weeks each.
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| 12 | Project Title | ED-Links: Link to Learning: Education Support to Pakistan |
| Status | Completed | |
| Duration | October 2007 – September 2012 | |
| Donor | USAID through American Research Institute | |
| Location | Khairpur, Jamshoro, Dadu, Sukkur, Shikarpur, Jacobabad, Kashmore, Nawabshah, Sanghar, Tharparkar and Mirpurpur Khas Sindh | |
| Major Objectives and Achievements | The objective of ED-Links activity was to improve the quality and sustainability of teacher education and student performance in the targeted geographical areas of Sindh, Baluchistan, Islamabad Capital Territory, and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). The project had three main areas of support: i. Improved student learning and learning environment, ii. Improved teachers’ education and professional development, and iii. Improved governance and strengthening public sector capacity to sustain quality education. The project was implemented in above-mentioned 11 districts of Sindh.
IRC implemented this project in Sindh only. During the project period IRC provided the following services: professional development of government Middle and Secondary school teachers and Head teachers. The project targeted to train teachers of 330- schools in 11 districts of Sindh keeping gender parity in consideration.
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| Thematic Area | Disaster Risk Management & Response | |
| 31. | Project Name | Building resilience through Community based disaster risk management |
| Start Date | Oct 2014 | |
| End Date | Dec 2015 | |
| Donor | USAID/OFDA through Concern worldwide | |
| Location | 192 villages of 24 union councils of District Jacobabad | |
| Key Objectives/ Achievements | – To increase resilience if vulnerable communities (men, women & children) to potential natural disasters (natural +technological risks) and promote culture of risk reduction among communities and institutions
– To increase the resilience to disasters of vulnerable communities through capacity building, planning, mobilizing, awareness raising and improving early warning system to holistically reduce the loss of lives, livelihoods and safeguard land & infrastructure. |
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| 32. | Project Name | Community based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) |
| Start Date | Feb 2014 | |
| End Date | Dec 2016 | |
| Donor | Trocaire | |
| Location | 02 union councils of district Dadu | |
| Key Objectives/ Achievements | –The loss of lives and household assets are reduced during disasters through communities preparedness and effective emergency response;
–The risk of destruction/damage of critical community infrastructure and land is reduced through construction of disaster resilient infrastructure –The risk of loss of livestock livelihoods after disasters is reduced through appropriate actions |
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| 33. | Project Title | Provision of Multi-sector Humanitarian Assistance to the Flood and Conflict Affected Population in Pakistan (ECHO-III) |
| Start Date | Sep 2011 | |
| Completion | Jun 2012 | |
| Donor | ECHO through Concern worldwide | |
| Location | District Dadu | |
| Project Objectives/ Achievements | –1200 Targeted beneficiary families have access to appropriate, safe and secure one room shelter
–1200 Targeted beneficiaries have access to short term livelihood support through: *CFW by rehabilitation community infrastructure schemes *provision of agriculture packages |
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| 34. | Project Name | Livelihood Support for Flood-Affected |
| Donor | DEC-II through Concern worldwide | |
| Location | District Jamshoro | |
| Start Date | March 2011 | |
| Completion | August 2012 | |
| Objectives /Achievements | –Construction and rehabilitation of 52 community schemes by involving community through CFW
–Provision of livelihood support (Agriculture package, kitchen gardens) to 7682 families –Livestock (Goats) support to 850 women-headed families –Short-term training course for 120 young men &women |
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| 35. | Project Title | Education and Child Protection in Emergency |
| Donor | UNICEF | |
| Location | District Mirpurkhas, Tando Mohammed Khan & Tando Allahyar | |
| Start Date | October 2011 | |
| Completion | March 2012 | |
| Major Objectives /Achievements | The project overall benefited to 7844 children (3352 Girls +4492 Boys) Major interventions were:
–Establishment of 150 Temporary learning centers (TLCs) for children –Teachers training programme for government teachers –Provision of stationary supplies to 3800 students |
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| 36. | Project Name | Food Assistance to flood-affected households |
| Start Date | August 2010 | |
| Completion | December 2010 | |
| Location | District Dadu, Jamshoro and Khairpur | |
| Donor | PPAF, WFP & Trocaire | |
| Major Objectives / Achievement | –Provision of emergency food assistance to 20,500 flood-affected families living in affected villages, camps/ temporary shelters | |
| 37. | Project Name | Emergency Support to Flood Affected population of Sindh |
| Start Date | September 2010 | |
| Completion | Feb 2011 | |
| Donor | UK-Aid through Concern worldwide | |
| Location | 02 Talukas of District Dadu and Jamshoro | |
| –To address the emergency shelter, household and WASH needs of 10,000 flood affected households in Taluka K.N.Shah District Dadu and Taluka Sehwan of Jamshoro. It Included:
–Provision of transitional emergency shelters –Construction of permanentlatrines –Installation of hand-pumps –Construction of small level community schemes through CFW –Hygiene Promotion in flood-affected villages |
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| 38. | Project Title | Emergency Support to flood affected population of District Mirpurkhas |
| Donor | ARC Pakistan | |
| Location | District Mirpurkhas | |
| Start Date | Oct 2011 | |
| Completion | Mar 2012 | |
| Major Objectives / Achievement | Shelter, NFIs support for 500 flood-affected families | |
| 39. | Project Title | Child Protection in Emergency |
| Donor | UNICEF | |
| Location | District Mirpurkhas, Tando Allahyar & Tando Mohammed Khan | |
| Start Date | October 2011 | |
| Completion | January 2012 | |
| Major Objectives /Achievements | –Establishment of 50 PLACEs for children for recreation of children and Psychosocial support
–100 Outreach locations covered through mobile teams –Arranging six mega events –Birth registration campaign, CNIC, GBV, Early Marriages through C4D messages, |
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| 40. | Project Title | Protective Learning and Community Emergency Services (PLaCES) to flood affected children and women in flood affected areas
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| Donor | UNICEF | |
| Location | District Mirpurkhas & Tando Allahyar | |
| Start Date | April 2012 | |
| Completion | October 2012 | |
| Major Objectives /Achievements | Provisions of community emergency services thorugh establishment of PLaCES in flood affected areas | |
| 41. | Project Title | Pakistan Emergency Food Security Assistance (PEFSA III)
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| Donor | OXFAM –GB | |
| Location | District Tando Allahyar | |
| Start Date | May 2012 | |
| Completion | Nov 2012 | |
| Major Objectives /Achievements | To address the nutrition and food security related issues of community through short-term support | |
| 42. | Project Title | Emergency Food Security and Nutrition Support to Disaster Affected Population in Pakistan (PEFSA-IV) |
| Donor | Oxfam GB | |
| Location | District Badin | |
| Start Date | June 2014 | |
| Completion | Jan 2015 | |
| Major Objectives /Achievements | A total of 22391 individuals will directly benefit from the action through FSL support. Beneficiaries of District Badin will be receiving the following package:
– Conditional cash grants: 13800individuals from 2000 households – Cash for work: 8591 individuals from 1245 households
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| 43. | Project Title | Rehabilitation of Government schools in Shahdadkot |
| Donor | Dubai Cares through OXFAM –GB | |
| Location | District Qamber-Shahdadkot | |
| Start Date | Dec 2012 | |
| Completion | Mar 2014 | |
| Major Objectives /Achievements | Rehabilitation of 05 government primary schools affected by flood.
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| 44. | Project Title | Protection & Psychosocial support to Flood Affected children and women through mobile child friendly spaced |
| Donor | UNICEF | |
| Location | District Khairpur, Dadu & Shahdadkot | |
| Start Date | September 2010 | |
| Completion | June 2011 | |
| Major Objectives /Achievements | –Establishment of 20 static child-friendly spaces in camps
–recreational activities for children through 30 mobile teams –02 Mobile Child friendly spaces –Identification, documentation, family reunification, referral & follow-up on vulnerable child protection cases. |
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| 45. | Project Title | Emergency food security and nutrition support to disaster affected populations in Pakistan PEFSA IV |
| Started from | May 2013 | |
| Completed in | October 2013 | |
| Duration | Nine months | |
| Donor | Oxfam-GB | |
| Location | District Kashmore | |
| Major achievements |
3500 beneficiaries were targeted through three modalities, 1. Food vouchers 1225 beneficiaries; 2. Conditional Cash grants 700 beneficiaries; 3. Cash for work 1575 Beneficiaries;
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| 46. | Project Title | Emergency Response to 2012 Rain affected UCs of District Shikarpur ECHO VI |
| Started from | January 2013 | |
| Completed in | January 2014 | |
| Donor | Irish Aid and Concern | |
| Location | District Shikarpur | |
| Major Activities | Distribution of NFIs, 200 Shelters, 60 latrines, 800 hygiene kits, 800 livestock and agriculture distribution | |
| 47. | Project Title | Emergency Response to Malnourished Children and Pregnant and lactating Mothers |
| Started from | January 2013 | |
| Completed in | September 2013 | |
| Donor | WFP and UNICEF | |
| Duration | 18 months | |
| Location | District Shikarpur | |
| Major Activities | Screening of beneficiaries, establishment of OTP and SFP sites, awareness sessions, and referrals to appropriate stabilization centres | |
| 48 | Project Title | Restoring Livelihoods and Community Based Infrastructure and Governance |
| Duration | Oct 2010 – March 2011 | |
| Donor | UNDP | |
| Location | Qamber-Shahdadkot District | |
| Major Activities | The objectives of the contract are as follows:
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| Thematic Area | Governance, Women and Children | |||
| 19 | Project Title | SIDA CSO Framework 2017-2021
Component: Child Protection |
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| Started from | March 2017 | |||
| Completed in | December 2021 | |||
| Donor | Save the children | |||
| Location | Dadu, Larkana, Shikarpur and Karachi | |||
| Major Objectives/ Activities | General Objective:
Protection mechanisms (institutional and community based) are in place to prevent and respond to the violence against children in all settings in urban centre and 3 rural districts/ locations of Pakistan by 2021.
Specific Outcomes of the Project:
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| 20 | Project Title | Promotion of Gender Equality in Education | ||
| Status | Completed | |||
| Project Duration | 2015 to March 2018 | |||
| Donor | Oxfam | |||
| Location | Sindh province | |||
| Major Objectives/ Activities | *Conduct research on how to make schools girl friendly – prepare case studies of success stories
*Demonstrate in the field by making 20 schools in rural setting girl friendly. *In collaboration with the government, form a Gender Working Group to advise on policy issues *To facilitate the government to establish a Gender Unit within the Education and Literacy Department of the Government to ensure that the recommendation for Gender Equality in Education given in the Education Sector Plan are implemented. |
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| 21 | Project Title | Setting up District Coordination Committees | ||
| Status | Completed | |||
| Project Duration | April 2016 – April 2017 | |||
| Donor | DAI Global LLC | |||
| Location | Karachi | |||
| Major Objectives | Formation of 6 District Coordination Committees in 6 Districts of Karachi | |||
| 22. | Project Title | Reproductive Health through Girls’ Education | ||
| Status | Completed | |||
| Project Duration | 2010 t0 2015 | |||
| Donor | The David and Lucile Packard Foundation | |||
| Location | Khairpur and Jamshoro | |||
| Major Objectives | Awareness raising on Reproductive Health and building Life Skills of adolescent boys and girls school students through secondary education.
The project is being implemented in 25 IRC and Government schools of Khairpur and an equal number in Jamshoro. |
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| 23. | Project Title | Pathways to Success | ||
| Status | Completed | |||
| Project Duration | Jan 2017 to March 2018 | |||
| Donor | USAID through World Learning and Engro Foundation | |||
| Location | District Ghotki | |||
| Major Objectives/ Activities | To train 210 adolescent rural girls in livelihood skills such as Early Childhood Education (ECE) Training, Web Designing, Fashion designing, Beautician and Office Management. Courses varied between 3 to 4 months.
*To give awareness to these girls on Reproductive Health and Rights. *To groom them to be able to take up professional jobs
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| 24. | Project Title | Promoting Child Rights in Cotton Producing Areas of Sindh | ||
| Started from | April 2012 | |||
| Completed in | Dec 2016 | |||
| Donor | IKEA Foundation through UNICEF | |||
| Location | District Ghotki & Khairpur | |||
| Major Objectives/ Activities | It is multisector project which involves:
-Non-formal education to out of school children -Employment through vocational skills, -Ensuring availability of PHC to all vulnerable —Improved water and sanitation services -Raised awareness on child labour and its implications on Agriculture labourers -Ensuring retention of school going children, and continuation of their education -Strengthening services at the community level –CCCD
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| 25. | Project Title | Institutional Development | ||
| Status | completed | |||
| Started from | April 2013 | |||
| Completion | March 2014 | |||
| Donor | PPAF | |||
| Location | Two UCs of Ghotki | |||
| Major Objectives | To mobilize and organize communities of 95 villages for preparation and implementation of village Development Plans through self-efforts and networking with other stake holders. One function of the committees was ensure women and child protection of the villages. | |||
| 26 | Project Title | Human Rights Defenders Programme | ||
| Status | Completed | |||
| Donor | German Consulate Karachi | |||
| Duration | One year (2011- 2012) | |||
| Location | District Khairpur, Sindh | |||
| Major Outcome | Capacity building of selected members of 10 local CBOs through series of training workshops. The focus was on women and child rights. | |||
| 27. | Project Title | Strengthening State-run Shelters and Citizens’ Engagement for responding more effectively to Gender- Based Violence | ||
| Status | Completed | |||
| Donor | EDACE-DAI | |||
| Started from | March 2014 | |||
| Completion | March 2015 | |||
| Location | 3 Dar-ul-Amans of Hyderabad, Sukkur & Larkana | |||
| Major Objectives | 1. Women survivors of violence in 3 districts of Sindh benefit from a more conducive environment, referral pathways, activated citizens and community accountability for services.
2. Selected state institutions at sub-provincial level better respond to citizens’ demand for more effective gender-sensitive state measures supporting women survivors of VAW including those from minorities and marginalized groups, with robust data/analysis systems, appropriate SOPs and enhanced knowledge base in place and operational protection of civil rights. 3. Collaborative initiatives to address and overcome VAW initiated in 3 districts reduce the state-citizen gap.
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| 28. | Project Title | Marriage: No Child’s Play | ||
| Started From | August 2016 | |||
| Location | Larkana and Shikarpur Districts | |||
| To be completed | 2021 | |||
| Donor | Oxfam | |||
| Location | 04 union councils of District Larkana & Shikarpur. The objective is to prevent Child marriages and support the enforcement of Child Marriage Law that has been passed by the Parliament. | |||
| 29. | Project title | Supporting Transparency, Accountability and Electoral Process (STAEP) | ||
| Status | Completed | |||
| From | 2009 | |||
| Ended in | 2014 | |||
| Duration | Almost five years | |||
| Donor | The Asia Foundation | |||
| Location | Shahdadkot, Khairpur, Sukkur, Dadu and Jamshoro | |||
| Major Objectives | Overall goal is to build trust and credibility between citizens and the state. The project works through Constituency Relations Groups (CRGs) to improve performance of elected representatives and public institutions through robust monitoring, ensure elections are inclusive and peaceful.
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| 30. | Project title | Long Term Election Observation and Oversight Project (LTEOP) | ||
| Status | Just ended | |||
| From | 2013 | |||
| Ended in | 2014 | |||
| Duration | Almost one year | |||
| Donor | The Asia Foundation | |||
| Location | Shahdadkot, Khairpur, Sukkur, Dadu and Jamshoro | |||
| Major Objectives | Training of Long term observors
Focusing not on election day but before and after. Develop recommendations for electoral reforms |
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| Thematic Area | Sustainable Livelihoods
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| 13 | Project Title | Promoting smallholder agriculture in Dadu by developing farming families’ livelihood assets and building local leadership. |
| Status | Ongoing | |
| Started from | Sep 2013 | |
| Completion | Feb 2017 | |
| Donor | Trocaire | |
| Location | 02 union councils of District Dadu | |
| Major Objectives | – To protect natural resources (water, land) through promotion of sustainable agricultural practices
– To increase income generation and nutrition for peasant communities through diversified livelihoods options
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| 14 | Project Title | Community Physical Infrastructure |
| Status | Completed –closed out | |
| Started from | January 2010 to December 2012 | |
| Completion | N.A | |
| Donor | Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund | |
| Location | District Jamshoro | |
| Major Objectives and achievements | Formation of Community Organisations in Tehsil Manjhand
Identification and construction of 41 physical infrastructure schemes through a participatory process |
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| 15 | Project Title | Enhancement of Employability of Women and Youth in Deprived Coastal Areas of Karachi |
| Status | Completed | |
| Started from | April 2012 | |
| Completed in | July 15, 2013 | |
| Donor | GIZ (German) | |
| Location | Ibrahim Hyderi, Rehri and Korangi of Bin Qasim Town of Karachi | |
| Major Objectives and achievements | —Technical training for youth
—Vocational training for women —Networking for employment/ self-employment
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| 16 | Project Title | Short-term Skills Training Project (STST) |
| Status | Completed | |
| Started from | April 2013 | |
| End Date | Apr 2016 | |
| Donor | PPAF & Engro Foundation | |
| Location | District Ghotki, | |
| Major Objectives and achievements | —Poverty Ranking through poverty score cards for identification & selection of youth for vocational courses
—It is a program consisting of 4 sequential batches of vocational courses lasting 6 months each in technical vocational skills like welding, fitting, fabrication, carpentry etc. |
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| 17 | Project Title | EQUATE-Enhancing Quality and Access to TVET for Employability |
| Status | Completed | |
| Started from | October 1, 2012 | |
| Completion | December 31, 2015 | |
| Donor | Oxfam-Novib | |
| Location | Khairpur District | |
| Major Objectives | —Improving income of 1300 youth through Vocational and Technical skills
—Enhancing handicrafts and entrepreneurial skills of 800 poor women —Setting up of 2 career counseling centre |
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| 18 | Project Name | Changing Lives through technical and vocational training |
| Status | Ongoing | |
| Donor | Community Development Programme, Govt. of Sindh | |
| Started From | Apr 2015 | |
| Completion | Mar 2016 | |
| Location | Two UCs of District Khairpur | |
| Major Objectives | The overarching goal was to increase income levels of marginalized communities through enhancement of vocational and technical skills, and networking with employers and market. It has three specific objectives:
1. Vocational and Technical skills of 630 marginalised women, unemployed youth (both girls and boys) enhanced through training, practicing, designing, products development, marketing and entrepreneurial skills 2. 225 illiterate women become economically and socially empowered, functionally literate and aware of their rights and responsibilities 3. Income of 70 % of 630 beneficiaries increased by 25 % through employment or self-employment.
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