Grants :: Small Grant Facilities :: Building resilience through skill development and provision of alternative livelihoods to women of Keti Bandar
Candle making © MFF Pakistan
Increased sustainable livelihood opportunities for 30 households in Keti Bandar town District Thatta
Building resilience through skill development & provision of alternative livelihoods to women of Keti Bandar town, District Thatta, is a twelve month project initiated to develop women skills to address the socio-economic issues facing poor coastal households. Due to technological advancement the traditional jobs like preparing fishnets, drying and salting of fish are getting redundant and hence, decreasing the livelihood opportunities for women. The women lack alternative income generation opportunities which have made them economically and socially weak and vulnerable.
The project aims to enhance sustainable livelihood opportunities for women of Keti Bandar town, through strengthening their livelihood skills to support their income earnings. For this purpose a total of 30 women within age group of 16-30 year from 30 needy households will be selected for three priority skill enhancement training programs (sewing, candle making and product development and market linkages). Five selected women among thirty will get training in entrepreneurship. For sustainability of the project trained women will be provided an opportunity of exposure visits for better understanding of market demand. More than 150 women will benefit from the project under various activities.
The overall objective of the project is to build livelihood resilience of local communities, especially the women in Keti Bandar town.
In addition, the project will support capacity building of stakeholders in Eco-DRR and community research. The project will engage university students to conduct research on impacts of environment on women and their livelihoods. Success stories and a short documentary will also be developed and lessons learned from project will be documented. Stakeholders visit to project area will provide an opportunity to highlight issues of community of Keti Bandar.
As the project has been designed to cater the needs of women, therefore the prime beneficiaries of the project would be 30 women selected from 30 poor households of the Keti Bandar town. The project will target poor households, widows, women headed households and those potential women who are interested to start their own small home based business/small enterprise and believe to set the trend that women could be good entrepreneurs and can earn a decent living, if provided appropriate opportunities.
The project will enhance skills of the women (semi-skilled and unskilled) in various trades to enable them earn better livelihoods. The trained women would be supported through tools, machines and materials so that they can start their work and be able to utilise their learnt skills for income generation. Proposed project would further support them in establishing linkages with potential markets and build their business and negotiating skills. Women groups will be mobilized to continue support to their fellow women for desired results.
Achievements
The project focused mainly on building climate resilience of coastal communities particularly women folk through provision of alternative livelihood opportunities and enterprise development. The project aims to empower women and enhance their self-confidence and productive role at household level.
Keti Bandar town, District Thatta
15th Apr 2016 to 14th Apr 2017
PKR 1,957,500
Center for Environment and Development (CEAD)
Center for Environment and Development (CEAD)
Mr.Nasir Panhwar
Executive Director, CEAD
Center for Environment and Development (CEAD)
A-, 335/1, Phase-1, Sindh University Housing Society, Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan
Tel: 0300-3079491
E-mail: napanhwar@gmail.com