Socio-economic Development of Destitute and Neglected Children’s Project

Project Period: November 01, 2008 to November 31, 2011
Project Area: Punjab, Pakistan
Project Budget: 360.44 Million
Funding Source: Government of Punjab (Home Department & Child Protection Welfare Bureau)
Project Districts: Lahore, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Multan and Faisalabad
Total Beneficiaries10,250 Households

It is a Public Private Partnership which aims at to reduce poverty and improve social economic conditions in the project area by creating productive employment especially for the destitute and neglected children’s families, disadvantaged and vulnerable segments of society. The main objective of the project is to facilitate 10,250 families in rehabilitation and empowering them economically. This broad objective can be summarized into immediate objectives i.e. to build the capacities of the most vulnerable families which include parents, brother, sister, guardians and persons with disabilities for economic and social empowerment through skills training, IGA and improved access to services including microfinance services.

Government of Punjab has taken an initiative in Feb 2005 towards rescue, protection and welfare of these destitute and neglected children through establishing Child Protection and Welfare Bureau under the Punjab Destitute and Neglected Children Act 2004. CPWB in collaboration with the NRSP has devised a comprehensive intervention plan for this neglected part of the society to assist them in getting out of this cycle.
Project Beneficiaries Project beneficiaries are the families of the children who are rescued by the CPWB and or those families identified through cluster based approach with score less than 30 on the Poverty Score
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Project Objectives

The main objective of this pilot project is to facilitate 10,250 families in rehabilitation and to empower them economically. The overall objectives of the proposed project in quantitative terms are;

• Socio economic development of 10,250 (2050 per district) Destitute and Neglected Children’s Families
• Assessment of 2,750 (550 per district) vulnerable persons/families and provision of Income Generation Grants.v
• Assessment of 3,750 (750 per district) destitute, neglected children’s family members for vocational and technical skills.
• Assessment and provision of credit for 3,750 (750 per district) clients for enterprise development and other related activities.

Project Components

• Grant for Income Generation Activities
• Vocational and Technical Skills Training
• Provision of Micro-credit