Project Details.

BEST4WEER is a five-year CAD $20.16 million (GAC: $17.41 million; Aga Khan Foundation Canada: $2.75 million) project designed to improve women’s social and economic empowerment during the process of COVID-19 recovery and rebuilding in Gilgit-Baltistan province and Chitral district (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province), Pakistan. The project was executed by AKFC and implemented by the Aga Khan Foundation Pakistan (AKF-P) in partnership with the Aga Khan Rural Support Program Pakistan (AKRSP) and Accelerate Prosperity (AP). The report presented the summary findings of the baseline study for the project Broadening Economic and Social Transformation for Women’s Economic Empowerment and Recovery in Pakistan (BEST4WEER) against key indicators in the Performance Measurement Framework (PMF). 

HIMAT Consulting held a meeting with AKF and extracted key findings from the review. HIMAT Consulting drafted the inception report and finalized it as per the feedback of the AKF team. HIMAT Consulting developed data collection tools (questionnaires, FGD, and KII guides). HIMAT Consulting recruited and trained the data collection team. HIMAT Consulting held FGDs and KIIs with doctors and partner team members. HIMAT Consulting conducted data quality assurance through field monitoring visits while collecting primary data. HIMAT Consulting validated data quality while receiving data daily through Kobo online data collection tools Analyzed of the data and present the findings to AKF. HIMAT Consulting drafted the baseline report and finalized it based on the feedback from AKF.