Livelihoods
Our Livelihoods programme supports vulnerable groups, particularly women and young people, to access jobs and create businesses. We want people to have incomes they can rely on.
With a population of almost 250 million, women’s labour force participation is an abysmal 24% and Pakistan ranks near bottom in the gender gap report of 2024 - 142 out of 145 countries (WEF). Ensuring the active involvement of women in the workforce and bolstering the livelihoods ecosystem are essential for fostering economic growth.
Our aim:
Through our Livelihoods programme, we aim to equip people, especially women and young adults, with the skills to secure jobs. Our focus is on sustainable livelihoods, life skills and access to finance. We promote both employment and enterprise.
Through our work:
- 16,000+ women and youth trained in vocational skills and micro-enterprise growth
- 75% reported an increase in their earnings
- 350 new jobs created by participants through their enterprises
- PKR 12,000 average increase in income for 3 months
“There is no happiness like the happiness of knowing that you can earn your own money and use it to build your future.”
Women’s Economic Empowerment
There is a vast gender inequality experienced by women in finding and securing a job and a dearth of impactful work for women in five districts of Punjab and Sindh.
Catalysing women-led enterprise growth in Pakistan
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic devastated lives and livelihoods, women’s labour force participation rate in Pakistan was just 22%, as compared to 82% for men and the global average of 47%.
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British Asian Trust celebrates empowering 1,500 young people through the Citi Foundation’s Pathways to Progress initiative
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Celebrating a successful partnership creating sustainable livelihoods for Agripreneurs
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$200,000 Citi Foundation grant to help the British Asian Trust accelerate growth of youth-led microenterprises and boost women employment in Pakistan
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