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Who should apply Home based women workers associations, trade associations, CBOs and NGOs based in the selected districts are encouraged to apply for this grant. 2. Product development, refinement and facilitation of market integration (one sub-grant up to $100,000) Sub-grant 180: National Pakistan’s home based workers and women artisans have a diverse skill base and produce a variety of handicrafts. Their skills, often passed down generations, form the basis of their livelihoods and are the resource they rely upon for earning an income. While their existing skill base provides a unique opportunity to enhance their incomes further and boost empowerment levels, the demand for their craft and the monetary returns it offers is fast diminishing. There is little professional guidance available to these women to bring innovation into their design, develop market-relevant products, improve the overall quality of their work, or successfully integrate their wares into a high-return market. Through this sub-grant effort to work with these women to bring innovation into their traditional crafts/products, facilitate development of value chains and optimize marketing opportunities, is being envisioned. The aims of this sub-grant are to: Identify potential market opportunities for products based on traditional skills; Design and develop a range of innovative products appealing to the identified markets; Test, modify and refine the products until they are ready for production; Work with women artisans to build their capacities on the new products, while enhancing their understanding of contemporary designs, color palettes and marketability; Create linkages between the women artisans/ home based workers and the identified markets, and successfully integrate the new products into the identified market niches This sub-grant will work in close coordination with the district-level sub-grants outlined above (under 168-177). The existing skill base and range of products being developed in these districts will be identified under 168-177. The successful applicant for this sub-grant will coordinate with the district partners and pursue refinement and further development of the existing products. Suggested time period: 12 months Minimum suggested outputs: Mapping exercise conducted to spot existing and upcoming market opportunities for the identified traditional arts and craft products Sets of innovative products developed for each of the ten districts Facilitate skill development and product enhancement workshops organized under subgrants 168-177 for the village-level home based workers groups/committees Promote and leverage the new products in the identified markets Integrate the products into the identified market opportunities and establish linkages of 8
women artisans to these facilities Coordination meetings organized at the regional level, at grant opening and closing Please note preference will be given to applicants with strong previous experience in product design and development, while demonstrating understanding of market trends and previous success in market integration of products. Who should apply Design schools/ institutions, art schools, training academies, business enterprise firms are encouraged to apply for this grant 3. Enhancing women workers awareness on their rights and labor laws (seventeen subgrants up to $35,000 each) Sub-grant 181: Lahore Sub-grant 182: Multan Sub-grant 183: Faisalabad Sub-grant 184: Sahiwal Sub-grant 185: Rahim Yar Khan Sub-grant 186: Sialkot Sub-grant 187: Karachi (Site area) Sub-grant 188: Karachi (Korangi Industrial Area) Sub-grant 189: Hyderabad Sub-grant 190: Sukkur Sub-grant 191: Lasbela Sub-grant 192: Peshawar Sub-grant 193: Haripur Sub-grant 194: Skardu Sub-grant 195: Gilgit Sub-grant 196: Islamabad Capital Territory (including Rawalpindi) Sub-grant 197: Mirpur Twelve sub-grants will be awarded in the select districts across Pakistan to enhance awareness amongst women workers around their rights and increase knowledge related to labor laws. The sub-grants would focus on the districts which are existing industrial and/or other economic activity hubs (formal and informal) in the five provinces and aim to strengthen their ability as an informed agency of change. These sub-grants seek to empower women workers by enhancing knowledge of their labor rights, and organize them into groups. This would include women workers from both formal as well as informal sectors. As part of the sub-grant women workers will also be enabled to engage with employers where applicable/possible. Through this initiative women factory/industrial workers, home based workers and daily wage women workers will be brought together on one platform – an innovative mechanism for their engagement. These grants will ensure that the district level context is kept in consideration while 9
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