Youth Empowerment

TCF management observed that majority of the students at these community schools left their studies after high school to support their family livelihood activities but were still unable to support their families due to mismanagement and misuse of money. A six-day money management workshop was designed for the 9th and 10th grade students to provide effective earning, spending and saving tips.

Conducted a 2-day orientation and 5-day follow-up and mentoring support to regional counselors for Plan community schools. It was a joint venture of Plan and MoWD to provide career counseling at school, college and university level student. The purpose of the orientation and mentoring was to equip the counselor with career counseling skills, managing a career-counseling center and develop linkages with communities (for demand and supply) and develop their action plans and strategy.

Designed and conduct two capacity Building workshop in Karachi and Lahore for professional career counsellors from various institutions incl. colleges, universities, technical institutions, development and corporate sector organizations.

Designed and conduct an orientation workshop for career development professionals of GRAP from 35 districts.

Designed and implemented a pilot project with a focus to explore the role of effective career counseling in enhancing women’s employment including: identify gaps in the current practices of counseling with particular focus on women’s issues and recommend measures to overcome them through effective career counseling; to sensitize the relevant institutions about the standard practices of career guidance and about incorporating gender aspects in their work; to develop a model of gender-responsive career counseling program and to compare implementation and effectiveness of gender-responsive career counseling program in urban (modern – Karachi) and rural (conservative – Peshawar) areas. The project is piloted with University of Karachi, University of Peshawar and Institute of Management Science in Peshawar.

Design and conduct a pilot research study on “Female Focused Career Centers” The purpose of the study is to explore the role of effective career counseling in enhancing women’s employment; to identify gaps in the current practices of counseling with particular focus on women’s issues and recommend measures to overcome them through effective career counseling; to sensitize the relevant institutions about the standard practices of career guidance and about incorporating gender aspects in their work; to develop a model of gender-responsive career counseling program and to compare implementation and effectiveness of gender-responsive career counseling program in urban and rural set-up.