Empowerment thru Creative Integration

Empowering Girls- Transforming Communities

To inculcate and foster a culture of equal opportunity for girls, the project was implemented in collaboration with WPF in the districts of Gujranwala in Punjab and Sanghar in Sindh. Through this initiative leadership skills, of adolescent girls, were developed by involving female teachers of high schools to impart Life Skills Education comprising of Life Skills, Social Empowerment, and Economic Empowerment in addition to regular curriculum.

Enterprise Development Trainings for beneficiaries of the Benazir Income Support Program Waseela-e-Haq scheme

December 2011: ECI designed and delivered twenty-eight (10-day) EDTs for 851 recipients (both men and women) of the BISP Waseela-e-Haq scheme during Phase V of the project. The ten-day enterprise development and skill training program culminated in an assessment of participants’ entrepreneurial abilities as well as development of business plans, based upon which loan-funding was released.

Design & Development of a two-day Financial Literacy Course for non-literate audiences across Pakistan, for Bearing Point and State Bank of Pakistan

Oct-Dec, 2011: Responding to a Training Needs Assessment and Gap Analysis conducted by Bearing Point, ECI has designed a specialized Financial Literacy Program to improve the financial capabilities of vulnerable and non-literate men and women across pakistan.

Training of Trainers and Conduct of Value Chain Research & Analysis, for AfghanAid

Nov-Dec, 2011: As a next step to the Institutional Capacity Building of AfghanAid in enterprise development, the ECI team implemented a ToT and an action learning process, spread over 32 days, to train AAD staff and communities in value chain research and analysis of key agro and non agro sub-sectors.

"Creating Winning Teams" -UNWomen Islamabad Retreat

21 December, 2011: A one-day retreat was designed, organized and implemented by ECI, to bring together 40 UNWomen Islamabad staff members to engage in a spirit of fun and positivity. In order to promote the idea of ‘winning teams’, participants were taken through a series of experiential activities that facilitated maximum interaction between staff members and provided opportunities for effective teambuilding and action-planning in a relaxed and informal setting.

Enterprise Development Trainings for 1040 flood affectees across Sindh and Punjab

Nov-Dec, 2011: On behalf of IFRC, ECI designed and implemented thirty-five Enterprise Development Trainings for 1040 flood affectees (both men and women) in Districts Shikarpur,Qambar Shahdadkot (Sindh), Layyah and Muzaffargarh (Punjab). The two-day capacity building program featured basic business concepts (opportunity identification, resource mobilisation, business implementation, and monitoring and evaluation), and development of business plans.