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BACIP

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:

  • An increase of income of newly trained artisans and sale persons. This increase ranges from 20% to more than 100%.

  • 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.

  • 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%.

  • 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.

  • Decrease in construction and transport costs, through availability of locally trained masons, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, craftsmen and handymen trained in earthquake resistant construction techniques.

  • Improvement in social status of women through

    • Making use of women only resource persons for the project for product marketing

    • Reducing the work load of women and ensuring better living conditions within the household.

    • 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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