MONTHLY PROGRESS

INSTITUTE OF RURAL MANAGEMENT

Volume: 35 Issue: 04/15 April:

REPORT2015

Highlights of the Month

Pictorial Review

Graphical Analysis

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Statistical Overview

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Pakistan Reading Project

Institute of Rural Management (IRM), in

partnership with the International Rescue

Committee (IRC), Creative Associates

International and World Learning, is

implementing a five year long USAID project

titled “Pakistan Reading Project (PRP)”. IRM

is the Lead Technical Partner (Materials

Development) at National level and Lead

Implementation Partner in Balochistan.

Progress for the month of April 2015

includes three days orientation of 38 academic

supervisors (26 Male, 12 Female) at districts:

Quetta, Killa Saifullah and Loralai, and one day

orientation of TIG Facilitators in Quetta distcit.

Similarly, three days face to face “Head

Teachers” training and five days face to face

Teacher Training were also conducted in

Quetta, Pishin, Loralai, Killa Saifullah and

Ziarat respectively.

Khushhali Bank

Khushhali Bank contacted IRM to develop a

sustainable recruitment strategy and to execute

it on an ongoing basis. In 2015, Khushhali Bank

planned to hire and train 474 employees. These

employees are divided in six categories which

are BDO - Liability Sales, LO (IL), LO (GL),

Customer Services Officer, Cash Officer

(Cash). As of April IRM successfully trained

326 participants.

Guddi Baji Project

The duration of GudiBaji Project is from May

2014 to December 2017. In this project 5,700

women of Attock, Bhakkar, Bhalwal, Jand,

Jhelum, Khushab, MandiBahauddin, Sohawa,

Mianwali, Talagang and Sargodha will be

trained in Beautician training.

As of April 2015, a total of 1,217 women have

successfully been trained.

Livelihood Employment and Enterprise

Development – LEED

Institute of Rural Management (IRM) has

signed a project with PPAF, namely Livelihood

Employment and Enterprise Development –

LEED. The project aims to provide training to

2,605 target beneficiaries of D.G Khan and

Rajanpur, of them 2,127 are successfully

trained as of April 2015.

Punjab Skills Development Fund– Skills for

Job

Punjab Skills Development Fund funded

“Skills for Job” project to IRM. Duration of the

project is from December 2014 to November

2015. A total of 180 beneficiaries of Sargodha,

Gujranwala, Lahore, Chiniot and Faisalabad

will be provided different vocational training.

Progress for the month of April includes training

of 11 participants in Building Painter.

Southern Punjab Poverty Alleviation Project

IRM signed Southern Punjab Poverty

Alleviation Project with Government of

Pakistan. Activities for the month of April

include the training of 205 participants;

rounding to a total of 1,719.

Other activities include the screening of 3,699

and submission of work plan to PMU, meeting

with PMU regarding project targets and strategy

for Stipend distribution, and submission of

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monthly progress report, training completion

report, certificates distribution report, success

stories report and VTO trade report.

Training on Life Skills and Financial

Literacy (PPAF-SAP PK)

IRM signed one month project with PPAF. The

project aims to provide one day Financial

Literacy and two days Life Skills training to

1,615 target beneficiaries of districts Turbat and

Gawadar.

IRM successfully trained 100% target

beneficiaries during the month of April 2015.

Credit Appraisal & Recovery Technique –

PPAF

Community Training section successfully

provided Credit Appraisal & Recovery

Technique to 69 participants during the month

of April 2015. Duration of each training event

was four days.

FATA-DA Entrepreneurship Training

The project's achievements for the month of

April 2015 include training of 147

participants rounding to the total achievement

of 1,137. This project aims to provide an

opportunity to the trained FATA youth, who

have gained experience through Field

Internship Programme, in setting up their own

business or getting employment.

Integrated Community Development

Initiative (ICDI)

IRM singed another two months “Integrated

Community Development Initiative” project

with Islamic Relief Pakistan. Duration of this

project is from March 2015 to April 2015. The

project aims to provide vocational skills

training to the youth of flood affected areas of

District Charsadda and Nowshera.

Activities for the month of April 2015 includes

the training of 142 beneficiaries in different

vocational trades.

Livelihood and Small Scale Community

Infrastructure Project (LACIP)

IRM signed two months “Livelihood and Small

Scale Community Infrastructure” Project with

NRSP. The project aims to provide different

vocational training to the youth of flood affected

areas of district Nowshehra. Activities for the

month of April include the training of 52 women

in Hand Embroidery trade.

IRM Sindh

IRM Sindh, in collaboration with Rural

Development Foundation, provided 60 and 45

days different vocational training to 170 and 34

participants respectively. Similarly IRM Sindh

in collaboration with NRSP, SAFWCO, SCOP,

SRSP and IET provided 7 days Training of

Trainers on Adult Literacy and Training of

Trainers on Alternate Energy to 30 and 19

participants respectively.

VTEC Rawalpindi

During the month of April 2015, IRM VTEC

Rawalpindi enrolled overall 246 participants in

different vocational trades under SPPAP

Vocational Training Organization Programme

and Save the Children, of them 114 are

graduated in April, while the rest will graduate in

May 2015.

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Project / Training

Project

Client

Section

Project Duration

In April 2015

As of April 2015

From

To

Target

Ongoing

Passed

Out

%Age

Ongoing/

Passed out

Achieved

%Age

1

SPPAP VTO

SPPAP

CTP

Sep 2014

Jun 2015

5,250

520

280

205

93%

1,797

34%

2

SPPAP ETO

SPPAP

CTP

Sep 2014 Jun 2015

1,425

142

0

320

85%

653

46%

3

Credit Appraisal & Recovery Technique

PPAF

CTP

Apr 2015 Apr 2015

69

69

0

69

100%

69

100%

4

Life Skills and Financial Literacy

PPAF- SAP PK

CTP

Apr 2015 Apr 2015

1,615

1,615

0

1,615

100%

1,615

100%

5

PSDF –

SFJ

PSDF

CTP

Dec 2014 Jun 2015

105

15

0

11

73%

45

43%

Sub Total 8,464

2,361

280

2,220

106%

4,179

49%

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Vocational Skills Training

RDF

IRM Sindh

Feb

2015

Jun

2015

204

121

83

121

168%

204

100%

7 VTP Trainings AKPBSP IRM Sindh Apr 2015 May 2015 20 20 20 0 100% 20 100%

8 CRP Trainings NRSP & Other*

IRM Sindh Dec 2014 May 2015 200 100 50 49 99% 202 101%

Sub Total 424 241 153 170 134% 426 100%

9 Entrepreneurship FATA -DA VTEC

Azakhel July 2014 Jun 2015 1,400 117 0 147 126% 1,137 81%

10 Vocational Skills Training

LACIP VTEC

Azakhel Feb 2015 Apr 2015 52 52 0 52 100% 52 100%

11 Vocational Skills Training ICDI-IR VTEC

Azakhel Mar 2015 Apr 2015 150 150 60 82 95% 142 95%

Sub Total 1,602 319 60 281 107% 1,331 83%

12 Vocational Training Save the Children

VTEC Rawalpindi Apr 2015 May 2015 125 125 119 0 95% 119 95%

13 Vocational Skills Training

SPPAP-

VTO

VTEC Rawalpindi

Apr 2015 May 2015 130 130 13 114 98% 127 98%

Sub Total

255

255

132

114

96%

246

96%

14 Recruitment of

Khushhali Bank Ltd Khushali

Bank STP

Feb 2015

Jun 2015

650

326

0

326

100%

326

50%

Sub Total

650

326

0

326

100%

326

50%

Grand Total

11,395

3,502

625

3,111

107%

6,508

57%

Training

Target

Total

Community vs Staff

CTP STP

CTP 3,035

STP

Total 3,460

425

88%

12%

Major Clients of the MonthProject - wise Trained Pax in April

0.0% 20.0% 40.0% 60.0% 80.0% 100.0%

PSDF -SFJ

LACIP

PPAF

NRSP

Save the Children

ICDI - IR

FATA -DA

RDF

SPPAP -ETO

Khushhali Bank

SPPAP -VTO

PPAF SAP

0.3%

1.5%

2.0%

3.4%

3.5%

4.1%

4.2%

5.9%

9.2%

9.4%

9.6%

46.7%

Client PaxPPAF SAP

SPPAP-VTO 332

1617

Khushhali Bank 326SPPAP-ETO 320RDF 204FATA-DA 147ICDI-IR 142Save the Children 121NRSP 119PPAF 69LACIP 52PSDF-SFJ 11Total 3460

Major Clients of the MonthProject - wise Budget Utilization in April

0.0% 20.0% 40.0% 60.0% 80.0% 100.0%

PSDF - SFJ

PPAF

LACIP

PPAF SAP

ICDI - IR

FATA - DA

CRP Training

RDF

SPPAP -ETO

Khushhali Bank

Save the Children

SPPAP -VTO

0.7%

0.9%

2.4%

3.8%

4.0%

4.1%

9.9%

10.1%

14.2%

14.4%

15.0%

20.6%

Favorite Trades of the Month

0.0% 20.0% 40.0% 60.0% 80.0% 100.0%

Motorcycle Repairing

Building Painter

General Electrician

Home Appliance Repairing

Bag Making

Applic Work

Motor Winding

Generator Repairing

Tailoring

RAC

Hand Embroidery

Building Electrician

Mobile Repairing

Entrepreneurship

Dress Designing

1.2%

1.3%

1.5%

1.8%

2.4%

2.8%

2.8%

4.4%

5.9%

6.1%

7.4%

12.0%

15.7%

16.9%

18.0%

Trade PaxDress Designing 156

Entrepreneurship 147

Mobile Repairing 136

Building Electrician 104

Hand Embroidery 64

Refrigeration & AC Repairing 53

Tailoring 51Generator Repairing 38

Applic Work 24Motor Winding 24

Bag Making 21Home Appliance Repairing 16General Electrician 13

Building Painter 11

Motorcycle Repairing 10

Section-wiseOn- going and Passed Out Status

0.0%

20.0%

40.0%

60.0%

80.0%

100.0%

On- going Passed out

On - going and Passed Out Status

0.0%

71.3%

38.4%

3.7%0.0%

10.5%

44.2%

5.5%

17.4%

9.0%

CTP

VTEC RWP

STP

IRM Sindh

VTEC Azakhel

Section-wise

CTP Section VTEC Rawalpindi VTEC Azakhel IRM Sindh

Section Pax

CTP 2,222

VTEC RWP 248

IRM Sindh 323

VTEC Azakhel 341Total 3,460

64%

7%10%

9%

10%

STP

STP 326

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