Skills training, enterprise support, and market linkage achievements for youth and women.
10K+
Families supported through livelihood and economic empowerment — incl. 50 youth trained at the DASP-IFAD handloom station
Through its "Empowering Success in the Digital Marketplace" initiative, WADDAN delivered e-commerce training covering online store setup, digital marketing, inventory, payment gateways, and order fulfilment, with freelancing orientation and job-placement support.
Business networking forums, market linkages, entrepreneurship promotion, and product exhibitions for small furniture businesses in Dir Upper and Chitral.
Under the Dir Area Support Project (DASP — IFAD-funded government project), WADDAN established a handloom station in Dir and trained 50 unskilled and unemployed youth. A further station in Jabber Usharai (WADP/DDDP) provided shawl-weaving training, and WADDAN provided technical oversight for an MDP women-focused handloom station in Dir Upper.
