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Seer's Experience in Social Management Click on project title
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- ADB Pakistan Primary
School Quality Improvement Project, 2000-2001
- Facilitating Women's
Mobility Project, 2000-2001
- Lahore Urban
Transportation Project, 1999
- Master Craftsman
Training Program at the Staff Training Institute - An Assessment of its
Relevance for Industry and Services and the Craftsmen Trained, 1999
- Operating Principles
of Recruitment Agencies in Pakistan and Employment Prospects for Women,
1999
- Rural Social
Development Program, 1998-2003
- Urban and Industrial
Environment Project, NWFP, 1998
- Sindh Urban
Environment & Sanitation Project, 1996
- Punjab Middle
Schooling Project, 1994-2000
- Task Force on
Education Reform, 1998-1999
- School Construction
Management Support, 1996-2000
- ADB Second Primary
Education for Girls Project, 1995
- Network Development
and Monitoring and Evaluation in the New Trades, 1994-1998
- Internship
Structuring and Monitoring & Evaluation in Technical Training for
Women, 1995-1997
- Apprenticeship
Training Advisory Services, 1996
- Non-traditional Trade
Training for Women -- Labor Demand Study, 1993
- Non-governmental
Employment Exchanges and Career Counseling for Women
- Pakistan Primary
Education: State Delivery Structure and Foreign Assistance, 1994
- In-depth Study on
Evaluation & Monitoring Practices of Dutch-aided Projects in
Pakistan, 1992
- Pakistan Primary
Health Care: State Delivery Structure and Foreign Assistance , 1991
- Sector Review --
Pakistan Population Welfare Program, 1991
- Toward a National
Environment Training, Research and Information System, 1992
- Girl Child Project
-- Final Evaluation and Impact Assessment, 1993-1994
- NWFP Primary Health
Care , 1992
- Paramedics within
the Health Care System of Pakistan, 1993-1994
- Social Action
Program -- Staff Appraisal Support, 1993
Seer consultants work as part of a committed Academy for
Education Development Washington team to design school quality
improvements commissioned by Asian Development Bank for a nation wide
project focused around a recognized advantage in the close involvement of
community for equitable access to schools and meaningful primary
education.
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Seer team
assesses rural women's mobility needs and limitations in Lahore District.
The stake of women in public transport is higher than that of men, since
the latter have other options that are socially and culturally denied to
women such as a bicycle or a motorcycle. Women's traveling patterns are
different than those of men. Evidence also suggests that just the
existence of public transport does not necessarily correlate with high
women's mobility. However, the availability of reliable and disciplined
transportation improves the mobility of those women who are constrained by
social and cultural factors. Seer proposes to use rural transport
operations established on branch roads and the vehicular resource at their
disposal by granting them long term concessions of operations in the area
in return for services that are more responsive to the need of the
commuters, particularly women, than they currently are. The assumption is
that with substantive participation in a regulatory body, local social
control or inclusion of the users will realize the first step towards a
potentially disciplined, coordinated and flexible transportation system
responding to need at the level of the villages, primarily benefiting
women and girls. Benefits at an advanced stage would include better route
planning, provision of special buses for educational travel, increased
off-peak hour services and catering for less traveled routes.
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Seer provides
social assessment advisory services to the World Bank task manager and the
engineering consultants hired by the Lahore Development Authority for the
design and feasibility of urban traffic improvement infrastructure
sub-projects. The focus of the services is on public consultation, social
impact assessment and mitigation measures necessary while designing and
constructing fly-over structures underpasses and widening of congested bus
lanes. The major issue revolves around criteria for an entitlement
framework to adequately compensate people negatively impacted by the
project in conformity with Bank guidelines. The challenge is to find
consensus and agreement within the municipal and provincial governments
for an entitlement framework that meets the bank's operational criteria.
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Seer is asked to assess and evaluate the
Master Craftsmen Training Program (MCTP) that was developed under Pak
German Technical Cooperation and integrated into the technical training
system in Punjab in the 1980s. The objective of the study is to determine
the adequacy of the MCTP for employment at shop floor supervisory level.
Seer conducts a rapid assessment of 20 former participants of the MCTP,
and of 9 industries in which in-depth interviews are carried out with
supervisors and HR/management personnel responsible for recruiting and
promoting workers on shop floor level. Recommendations are made to adjust
the curriculum of the Master Craftsman Training Program to industry's as
well as Master Craftsmen's needs.
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Seer carries out a study on the
modes of operation of recruitment and employment agencies in major cities
in Pakistan; female employment patterns in Lahore; the willingness of
enterprises in the Lahore area to employ women; the types of occupation
women are mostly sought for and the prerequisites for employment in these
occupations; recruitment practices in the different economic sectors; and
job search strategies of women. The objective of the study is to determine
the sustainability and possible operating principles of an anticipated GTZ
job placement and counseling project for women. Employers' interest in and
willingness to pay for placement services provided by the job placement
center for women (JPC), and women's perceptions regarding the usefulness
of the JPC were also assessed. During the survey 16 employment agencies
operating in Lahore, Islamabad and Karachi, and 100 establishments across
10 economic sectors in Lahore are visited.
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In this European
Social Management
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Seer's Experience in Social Management Click on project title
for description
- ADB Pakistan Primary
School Quality Improvement Project, 2000-2001
- Facilitating Women's
Mobility Project, 2000-2001
- Lahore Urban
Transportation Project, 1999
- Master Craftsman
Training Program at the Staff Training Institute - An Assessment of its
Relevance for Industry and Services and the Craftsmen Trained, 1999
- Operating Principles
of Recruitment Agencies in Pakistan and Employment Prospects for Women,
1999
- Rural Social
Development Program, 1998-2003
- Urban and Industrial
Environment Project, NWFP, 1998
- Sindh Urban
Environment & Sanitation Project, 1996
- Punjab Middle
Schooling Project, 1994-2000
- Task Force on
Education Reform, 1998-1999
- School Construction
Management Support, 1996-2000
- ADB Second Primary
Education for Girls Project, 1995
- Network Development
and Monitoring and Evaluation in the New Trades, 1994-1998
- Internship
Structuring and Monitoring & Evaluation in Technical Training for
Women, 1995-1997
- Apprenticeship
Training Advisory Services, 1996
- Non-traditional Trade
Training for Women -- Labor Demand Study, 1993
- Non-governmental
Employment Exchanges and Career Counseling for Women
- Pakistan Primary
Education: State Delivery Structure and Foreign Assistance, 1994
- In-depth Study on
Evaluation & Monitoring Practices of Dutch-aided Projects in
Pakistan, 1992
- Pakistan Primary
Health Care: State Delivery Structure and Foreign Assistance , 1991
- Sector Review --
Pakistan Population Welfare Program, 1991
- Toward a National
Environment Training, Research and Information System, 1992
- Girl Child Project
-- Final Evaluation and Impact Assessment, 1993-1994
- NWFP Primary Health
Care , 1992
- Paramedics within
the Health Care System of Pakistan, 1993-1994
- Social Action
Program -- Staff Appraisal Support, 1993
Seer consultants work as part of a committed Academy for
Education Development Washington team to design school quality
improvements commissioned by Asian Development Bank for a nation wide
project focused around a recognized advantage in the close involvement of
community for equitable access to schools and meaningful primary
education.
Return to Top of Page
Seer team
assesses rural women's mobility needs and limitations in Lahore District.
The stake of women in public transport is higher than that of men, since
the latter have other options that are socially and culturally denied to
women such as a bicycle or a motorcycle. Women's traveling patterns are
different than those of men. Evidence also suggests that just the
existence of public transport does not necessarily correlate with high
women's mobility. However, the availability of reliable and disciplined
transportation improves the mobility of those women who are constrained by
social and cultural factors. Seer proposes to use rural transport
operations established on branch roads and the vehicular resource at their
disposal by granting them long term concessions of operations in the area
in return for services that are more responsive to the need of the
commuters, particularly women, than they currently are. The assumption is
that with substantive participation in a regulatory body, local social
control or inclusion of the users will realize the first step towards a
potentially disciplined, coordinated and flexible transportation system
responding to need at the level of the villages, primarily benefiting
women and girls. Benefits at an advanced stage would include better route
planning, provision of special buses for educational travel, increased
off-peak hour services and catering for less traveled routes.
Return to Top of Page
Seer provides
social assessment advisory services to the World Bank task manager and the
engineering consultants hired by the Lahore Development Authority for the
design and feasibility of urban traffic improvement infrastructure
sub-projects. The focus of the services is on public consultation, social
impact assessment and mitigation measures necessary while designing and
constructing fly-over structures underpasses and widening of congested bus
lanes. The major issue revolves around criteria for an entitlement
framework to adequately compensate people negatively impacted by the
project in conformity with Bank guidelines. The challenge is to find
consensus and agreement within the municipal and provincial governments
for an entitlement framework that meets the bank's operational criteria.
Return to Top of Page
Seer is asked to assess and evaluate the
Master Craftsmen Training Program (MCTP) that was developed under Pak
German Technical Cooperation and integrated into the technical training
system in Punjab in the 1980s. The objective of the study is to determine
the adequacy of the MCTP for employment at shop floor supervisory level.
Seer conducts a rapid assessment of 20 former participants of the MCTP,
and of 9 industries in which in-depth interviews are carried out with
supervisors and HR/management personnel responsible for recruiting and
promoting workers on shop floor level. Recommendations are made to adjust
the curriculum of the Master Craftsman Training Program to industry's as
well as Master Craftsmen's needs.
Return to Top of Page
Seer carries out a study on the
modes of operation of recruitment and employment agencies in major cities
in Pakistan; female employment patterns in Lahore; the willingness of
enterprises in the Lahore area to employ women; the types of occupation
women are mostly sought for and the prerequisites for employment in these
occupations; recruitment practices in the different economic sectors; and
job search strategies of women. The objective of the study is to determine
the sustainability and possible operating principles of an anticipated GTZ
job placement and counseling project for women. Employers' interest in and
willingness to pay for placement services provided by the job placement
center for women (JPC), and women's perceptions regarding the usefulness
of the JPC were also assessed. During the survey 16 employment agencies
operating in Lahore, Islamabad and Karachi, and 100 establishments across
10 economic sectors in Lahore are visited.
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In this European
Community project Seer along with their European partners are commissioned
to strengthen and enlarge the capacity of seven nationally operative NGO
Support Organizations to work with grass root Community Based
Organizations to improve the access of most deprived rural and peri-urban
populations to basic social services. These NGOs include Aurat Foundation,
Trust for Voluntary Organizations, Strengthening Participatory
Organizations, South Asia Partnership, Shirkatgah, Association for the
Development of Human Resources, and the National Trust for Population
Welfare. Arcadis and Seer personnel have responsibility for program
coordination, monitoring & evaluation, provision of short-term
technical expertise in basic education, primary health and population
welfare and management of in-country and foreign training during this
five-year project.
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Seer sociologist participates in the Loan Fact Finding
Mission and socio-economic impact study of the Project and conducts a
rapid assessment of urban communities, industrial establishments of
Korangi Town who generate the sewage and the farm villages on the urban
fringe along the river Malir that use it. A detailed over view of the
dynamics of the project area and strategies to involve the residents and
the industry in the proposed project activities as well as mitigation
measures for the farming communities that are to be negatively impacted is
provided.
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Seer
is contracted by GTZ to provide the head of mission and institution
specialist for the Project Progress Review. Seer staff assesses the
individual project components, in motor vehicle emission control,
pollution abatement measures in specific industrial processes, solid and
toxic waste management for their structure forming effects. Institutional
measures are recommended for strengthening project driven environmental
gains within the NWFP Environment Protection Agency, motor vehicle control
and traffic authorities, Peshawar Metropolitan Corporation, neighborhood
communities, and brick kilns in the environs of Peshawar city.
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Seer and the
Academy for Educational Development, Washington, are the local partners
for implementing the Elementary Education Management Program of the World
Bank -funded Punjab Middle Schooling project at the Department of
Education. The program includes components in urban school management,
private school promotion, monitoring and evaluation, school mapping,
organizational and management restructuring, strengthening the policy
making process, and in fellowship and training. In addition to
coordination, logistics, fellowship and training support, Seer is
providing 84 man months of TA in management and supervision, budgets and
accounts, private school program development, monitoring and evaluation,
NGO involvement, and policy making.
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Under the Punjab
Middle Schooling Project, Seer is providing staffing, facilities, and
program support to the Government of Punjab Task Force on Education
Reform. This effort is unique in that the department itself has
constituted the Task Force with both departmental officials and outside
consultants as members. Nine component tasks are underway which include
decentralization, community participation, and career structure.
Stakeholders are being involved in the process of developing action plans
for the reform and restructuring of elementary education service delivery
in Punjab.
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Under the
Punjab Middle Schooling Project, over three thousand schools are to be
constructed over a period of five years. Seer provides program management
support to the Project Director for this civil works component . Efforts
are made to institutionalize the involvement of the private sector through
construction management firms.
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Seer
and the Academy for Educational Development, Washington, were recruited as
local partners by the Asian Development Bank to design the Second Primary
Education for Girls project. The project preparation team worked closely
with the federal and provincial education planners and implementers. The
team evaluated the First Primary Education for Girls project and
highlighted lessons learned, through rapid appraisals of girls primary
schools and communities in all the provinces. The team designed a project
to increase the access and participation of rural girls by involving local
communities in decisions about siting, construction, staffing, and
monitoring of community model schools. Other components designed to
improve the quality of primary education for girls include measures to
support quality improvement capability for each province establishing
clusters of model schools to act as experimental sites for testing of
quality innovations, and equipping Teacher Resource Rooms in strategically
placed model school to serve as outreach in-service training centers for
rural female teachers.
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GTZ has a contract with Seer that aims to establish lasting
linkages with industry, the end-users of industrial electronic training
being imparted at the Punjab Government Technical Training Center in
Lahore. The execution of this contract is based on a strategy of
developing a network among ex-trainees working in diverse establishments
and between these trainees and the instructors of industrial electronics
at the Training Center and supervisory and floor level professionals in
the industry. Seer staff monitors ex-trainees through tracer studies with
the aim of enhancing the knowledge base of the interactional,
organizational and institutional structures and processes in the
electronics industry and vocation for use as an action-oriented management
tool.
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Seer is assisting the Technical
Training Center for Women of the Punjab Government to develop a structured
internship program for its trainees in the secretarial, architectural
drafting, commercial art, and computer electronics trades. The internship
program development efforts are focused on establishing mutually
beneficial partnerships with industrial and service organizations,
architectural firms, advertising agencies, and computer dealers.
Procedures and guidelines for internship placements and monitoring the on
the job training with feedback from the supervisory and managerial
personnel on performance of the trainee and skill requirements of their
organizations are being developed in close collaboration with the
instructors of the various trades of the training center. Seer is
developing a monitoring and evaluation system for the center which keeps
in consideration the special circumstances of women in Pakistani society
and culture. Seer staff are also carrying out in-depth case studies of a
sample of girls that traces them after qualifying from the center to the
job environment and their familial lives and concerns.
Seer has also appraised the relevance of the bookkeeping specialization
at the center. After consulting employers, accountants, the trainees and
instructors, and after assessing the market demands and other mechanisms
for training in accounts, the appraisal recommended a discontinuation of
the bookkeeping specialization.
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Seer was
contracted by the Pak-German Apprenticeship Training Project at the Punjab
Labor Department, Directorate of Manpower and Training, to participate in
an external evaluation of the activities of the project. Among other
aspects, the evaluation -- a requirement of the German international
technical assistance program -- was to assess the performance and concept
of the project, characterize current apprenticeship training management,
and help determine the changes necessary to move in the direction of a
self-driven market-oriented program. Seer proposed steps to actively
involve the industrial sector in a vibrant apprenticeship training program
and highlighted the potential role of the National and Provincial Training
Boards to nurture such a program in the wake of the anticipated changes in
the 1962 Apprenticeship Ordinance.
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Seer, as local experts, supported INBAS of Germany in
conducting a labor demand study for non-traditional trade training being
imparted to women under a Pak-German project implemented by the Government
of the Punjab, Directorate of Manpower and GTZ. During the field study,
statistical data regarding the labor market were collected and analyzed,
and a sample of 54 companies and a number of relevant organizations were
contacted. A set of recommendations were made regarding transition from
training to employment for implementation by the Technical Training Center
for Women.
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Women, particularly from the lower middle class, who
want to acquire a technical education and earn a livelihood, have greatly
felt the need for guidance in the choice of trade and help in seeking an
appropriate job for which agencies in the public sector barely exist. Seer
was contracted to participate in the feasibility study and the design of a
proposed GTZ project to initiate and promote employment exchange and
career counseling services in the private sector. While designing the
project, participation was sought from a large number of women pursuing
technical training, technical education managers, public agencies, and a
host of NGOs and private sector organizations including the Chamber of
Commerce and Industry.
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Seer was commissioned by the Japan
International Cooperation Agency to provide an overview of Pakistan's
state service delivery structure in primary education, which could provide
a background for programming Japanese assistance to the sector. A two
member Seer team prepared a descriptive and analytical overview of the
organizational structure at the federal and provincial levels, and of the
special focus programs in operation country wide. A review of stated
government policy in primary education and the operational process was
also conducted. The report included a summary assessment and analysis of
the input, as well as the experience and policy in primary education of
the major donors in Pakistan.
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To assess project evaluation and
project monitoring as practiced in Netherlands Bilateral Development
Cooperation, the Directorate General for International Cooperation,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, conducted a study of the projects in three
countries: Egypt, Burkina Faso and Pakistan. Seer was contracted to
participate in the Pakistan field study, which reviewed the Animal
Husbandry Training Project, the Human Resource Development Project, the
Pak-Holland Metal Project, the Quetta Sewerage and Sanitation Project, the
Matric Education Project and the PATA Integrated Agriculture and
Groundwater Development Project. The study provided a detailed assessment
of the preparation and implementation of evaluations and the use of
evaluation results. The extent of monitoring in the various projects and
its role in project management, as well as the perceptions and views of
those involved in evaluation and monitoring -- the project officers,
counterparts, and the project staff -- was highlighted. Recommendations
included guidelines for organizational aspects of M&E, appropriate
indicator development, and role delineation and responsibility.
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Seer was contracted to prepare a detailed
overview of the components of the primary health care system in Pakistan
to support and enhance the relevance and effectiveness of the assistance
of the Japanese government in the sector. A two member Seer team provided
an analytical description of the organizational structure and process
within the state delivery system and of the various special focus programs
run by the federal government. Their report included the type of input
provided by the donors to the sector, and a useful summary of some clear
lessons, findings and recommendations from past experience.
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Seer was commissioned by the Japan International
Cooperation Agency to carry out a sector review of Pakistan's Population
Welfare Program, implemented by the four provincial governments of Punjab,
Balochistan, NWFP and Sindh. A Seer team met with officials of the federal
population ministry and provincial departments, visited service delivery
outlets, rural family welfare centers and reproductive health service
centers in hospitals, and reviewed the training programs of the population
training institutes and the research programs of the national institutes
of fertility control, population studies and reproductive physiology. Seer
assessed the capacity and needs of the central contraceptive supply
system, including the social marketing mechanism, and discussed the
operations and problems of NGOs providing service in the sector. The
review identified issues that concern religious-cultural, policy, and
administrative organizational aspects that will need to be addressed with
long-term and gradual measures. It also identified issues that relate to
recommended changes in the management and organization for immediate
improvement of the existing family planning services and information
program.
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On the basis of a situational analysis of the
institutional arrangements for research, training and information
dissemination in the environment sector, a review of related elements of
the National Conservation Strategy and its action agenda, and an
assessment of the capacity of government institutions involved in
environmental protection, Seer was asked by the Japan International
Cooperation Agency to develop a concept for moving towards a National
Environment Training, Research and Information System for Pakistan. Seer
staff carried out the above analysis and, keeping in view the modalities
of JICA's grant aid system and the strategies and policies of other
relevant donors for funding in the environment sector, Seer proposed a
program to leverage existing research and training institutes into a
network instead of investing in the establishment and development of a
single center.
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The objective of this UNICEF project, implemented by
the Family Planning Association of Pakistan, was to create awareness about
the situation of girl children, to promote their well-being and the
provision of equal opportunities in the fields of health and education as
a basic human right, and to develop guidelines for the government to plan
action for girls. Seer's evaluation and impact survey team met program
officials at the headquarters and in the regions. They visited five urban
communities and five remote rural communities in each of the four
provinces -- a total of ten sites -- where they conducted impact
assessment surveys on a sample of 360 participating girls and 180 families
through a structured interview schedule and rapid appraisals for impact
assessment on the community level.
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As part of its
programming support to Japan International Cooperation Agency, Pakistan
Office, Seer developed a background paper to enable a review of NWFP's
request for assistance in the health sector. This study provided an
overview of the provincial service delivery structure, and an
understanding of the province's development plans for improvement and
expansion of primary health. The main Seer recommendation was that, for
assistance to be meaningful, it must provide a basis for integrated policy
formulation in health, identify the scope for and assist with the
rationalization and reorganization of existing facilities, and facilitate
the planning and implementation of the social action program.
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The Japanese government has supported training of medical technicians
and nurses by building and equipping two national level colleges. Japan
International Cooperation Agency, which has a continuing interest in
paramedical training in Pakistan, commissioned Seer to analyze the pre-
and in-service training set up for the paramedical staff, the testing and
equivalence with general education, the career structure of paramedics
within the state health service system, and opportunities in the private
sector. Seer highlighted the issues and provided recommendations for
improvements in the service structure and training.
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In
preparation for the staff mission to appraise bank and multi-donor
assistance to the Government of Pakistan's Social Action Program, the
World Bank contracted Seer to prepare a comprehensive inventory of all
ongoing and future foreign assisted projects in primary education, primary
health, population welfare, and rural water supply and sanitation. Seer
visited officials of all relevant ministries, bilateral and multi-lateral
agencies, and reviewed the entire range of project documentation on
proposed and ongoing projects for a range of factors. Information
collected on each project included: financing plan by source of funding,
project goal, purpose, input components, specific outputs at project
closure, and intended beneficiaries. Seer staff reviewed project and loan
agreements for conditions which were then specified for each project
summary to be included in the inventory. Project officers of multi-lateral
and bilateral agencies were interviewed for current status, implementation
bottlenecks and special problems.
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