Client
Islamic Relief

Location

Region: South Asia



Country: Pakistan



Value: USD 16K



Start Date: 2011-07-23



End Date: 2011-10-15

 

Team Members

ssa
(Assignment Manager)

(Assignment Coordinator)
Naseem Shareen
(Qualitative Researcher)
Riasat Zaman
(Master Trainer)
Dr. Irfan Khan
(Team Leader)
Salma Khursheed
(Master Trainer)

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Project Description

Islamic Relief Pakistan (IRP) in line with its global efforts alleviate absolute poverty launched it's Microfinance Program in 2011. The program was aimed at supporting widows and guardians of orphan and poor people by providing small financing through Islamic modes. IRP is currently implementing a project name Small Scale Business which is jointly funded by the Scottish Government and Islamic Relied UK. Under this project, IRP will deliver campaigns, workshops, and sessions on climate and environmental change to the poor living in the slums of Rawalpindi. At least 28,000 individuals have an understanding of issues related to climate change and its effects on their livelihood activities. Positive impacts will be achieved through awareness sessions on 'Climate Changes' for the trainees.

Services provided by APEX

The services provided by the firm included the conduct of the KAP survey on environmental issues and organized awareness-building workshops. About 360 households beneficiary questionnaires were completed, 06 FGD's were conducted during the KAP survey and 21 awareness-building workshops were organized to train 575 beneficiaries in three urban slum areas of Rawalpindi. The firm reviewed project documents, designed research instruments, mobilized and trained enumerators, and supervisors with experience in the qualitative sector. Results were compiled using CSPro and cleaned data set were presented to the client. A final evaluation report, with findings of qualitative and quantitative research, was compiled as the final deliverable to the clients.