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BUILDING AND
CONSTRUCTION IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMME (BACIP)
Entrepreneur Training & Employment Generation
The Building and Construction Improvement Programme
(BACIP) – Entrepreneur Training and Employment
Generation, is being implemented by HOPE’87 – Hundreds of Original
Projects for Employment, an Austrian NGO, in partnership with Aga
Khan Foundation – Pakistan. The total project budget is €
423,055.21 and is funded by the European Commission (50%),
Austrian Development Agency (35%) and HOPE’87 (15%).
The project duration was 24 months, starting from
September 2004 up till August 2006. With the approval of request for
six months’ No Cost Extension, and necessary amendment to the
contract agreement, the project duration of 30 months now expires on
28th of February 2007.
The objective
of the project is to alleviate poverty and to improve the quality of
life of people (specially unemployed youth and young adults) through
housing sector related enterprise development & promotion, skills
enhancement and training of youth in the Ishkoman and
the Chupersan valleys of Northern Areas and the
Garam Chashma valley of
Chitral.
The project activities detailed further below have
helped achieve, among others the following results:
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An increase of income of newly trained artisans and
sale persons. This increase ranges from 20% to more than 100%.
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The replication of 5814 BACIP products by the
communities at their own expenses, such as roof hatch windows,
wall insulations, fuel efficient stoves, water warming facilities
and earthquake resistant construction technology.
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The replication of these BACIP products has helped
the beneficiary families to reduce their recurrent costs on health
bills as well as reduced the amount of fuel wood consumed every
season by up to 60%.
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The savings in fuel wood has a multi dimensional
environmental impact, by reducing the carbon emissions as well
reducing the number of trees felled for burning.
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Decrease in construction and transport costs,
through availability of locally trained masons, carpenters,
plumbers, electricians, craftsmen and handymen trained in
earthquake resistant construction techniques.
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Improvement in social status of women through
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Making use of women only resource persons for the
project for product marketing
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Reducing the work load of women and ensuring
better living conditions within the household.
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Less fuel wood consumption has had a marked
effect on the amount of work required to be done by every woman
as women spend up to 60% less time collecting firewood, often in
precarious conditions.
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