ECI - 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.

Research Study on the State of Cooperation between TVETs and Potential Employers in KPK and FATA

In collaboration with GIZ and CSRED, ECI conducted a research study regarding the state of cooperation between public and private Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions and potential employers/private enterprises in Khyber Pakthunkhwa and FATA region.The aim of the project was to provide a general evidence-based overview of the number, and forms of cooperation, between TVET institutions and potential employers, especially enterprises active in production and service sectors.

8-day Capacity Building Workshop for Taraqee Foundation Staff, Quetta

7th-14th January, 2012: On behalf of Taraqee Foundation, ECI designed and implemented an 8-day capacity building workshop for Taraqee Foundation Staff in Quetta. The primary objective of the training was to orientate staff members to the ?Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation Project?- a combined initiative of Taraqee foundation and PPAF, which was implemented in District Ziarat, Baluchistan.

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.