I. Disbursement:
In Karak Rs. 370,000/- were disbursed to 33 women of 8 groups. The credit was given for livestock, poultry farm and grocery shops businesses.

In Peshawar Rs. 1, 50, 000/- was disbursed to 11 women of 3 groups for the businesses of livestock and tailoring. Details are given as below:

• Aims:
  To enhance the economic status of women within the family.
  
  

• Objectives:
  · To organize women in KK partner communities
  · To introduce / encourage saving among WMEDs
  · To facilitate women to undertake Micro Enterprise development
  · To establish linkages with other relevant organization/institutions for assisting in Micro Enterprise activities

Table 1: Disburesment Detail:

II. Capacity Building:

One of the major objectives of Women Enterprise Development Programme is to build the capacity of the communities. In this regard different skill trainings were arranged for the communities both women and men in Live Stock Management and Enterprize Development.

In Karak EDP training was arranged at Tarkha Koi, Litamber and Bogara in which 38 women have been capacitated.

At Bogara and Tarkha Koi skill and live stock managemnt training were conducted in which 31 participants were capacitated. Tie & Dye training was arranged which benefited 7 women and 7 men of the partner communities.

In Tarkha Koi skill training on block printing was conducted 4 women and 3 men were trained in Block printing from 5 villages. 8 women and 6 men from 5 villages trained in Food Processing.

One-day local level exposure visit for female entrepreneurs of WOs members arranged in which total 8 women availed this opportunity. Purpose of the visit was to share and learn from each other’s experiences.

In Peshawar block-printing training was organized for members of credit groups in Kochian Kaley. 11 women participated in this training. A trainer from Women Technical Training Center (WTTC), Peshawar, conducted this training.

• An entrepreneur Ms. Gulnar Begum capacity was built through different skill and EDP trainings. Now she is supporting her family of 15 members by doing weaving of (Razai, blanket) managing of poultry and selling in the village. She also extends her support to other female of the village in their capacity building.

III. Marketing and Linkages Study

While analyzing the WMED Programme it was felt that community faces problems in the diversification of product, new product development, market demand and linkages with market. To address this issue and to reduce the gap between communities and market KK conducted marketing and linkages Study and Product Profile in District Peshawar to analyze the market situation and demand for women made products. In this regard different organizations, institutions and individuals working on Micro enterprises were contacted to assess their marketing approach. As a result six business/product profiles have been developed consisting of poultry products, porcelain work, and beauty parlor, beads work and home made snacks.

IV. Nursery Raising

One of the activities of the WMED is the establishment of home-based nurseries. Total 46 nurseries were established in which 26 were functional and remaining were dropped by the entrepreneurs due to water scarcity and marketing problem.

Twenty-three nurseries have been established during July 2003 –June 2004. KK is also working on afforestation and plantation of 4400 plants took place in 2 villages of District Karak.

Fifteen field/plantation days and awareness sessions were arranged with the objectives of mobilizing the communities and marketing of plants in KK supported Nurseries and to identify new entrepreneurs for nursery establishment. In these Field days and awareness sessions 729 village women, students, teachers, and other people participated. In response, 11897 were sold. Budding and grafting was also done and 887 plants of barriers were grafted and budded in 8 villages of Karak.