July 21, 2008

New Project Won–Pakistan: Livelihood Development Program for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas

ACDI/VOCA has won a $10.5 million subrecipient award as part of the $150 million USAID-funded Livelihood Development Program (LDP) for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) awarded to the Academy for Educational Development. The program covers the northern portion of Pakistan’s FATA region and has three components: employment generation, infrastructure improvement, and micro and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) development. ACDI/VOCA will lead the micro and SME development component of the program to develop rural enterprises and microfinance.

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