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SEDC has formed five thematic groups; Gender, Microfonance, Education, Health and Devoultion.
| Gender |
| Gender strategy of McGill and LUMS follows CIDA guidelines for gender equality and takes into account social, cultural, economic and political factors. The project ensures that equal opportunities are given to both men and women and of making an impact on women's status. Gender issues are addressed throughout the project design. |
| To implement gender strategy, the project tries to ensure the participation of a minimal number of women both among the professors trained and among the NGO and DSSO participants. The project works with NGOs whose clients are in large part women, to address problems and issues identified by these NGOs and its members. |
| The two key gender equity issues are: |
| - Participation of women (as decision makers, direct participants and beneficiaries) |
- The incorporation of gender issues and concerns into the content of plans, program and projects. |
| The objective of the project's gender equality strategy is to help Pakistan's NGO and district managers to further develop their skills at various levels, including the individual, the organizational and the sector level, in order to create an enabling environment for gender equality, as well as, at the same time, to assist them in improving their knowledge of social service management practices. |
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Devolution |
| The Devolution Research Project monitors the performance of local governments and identifies constraints that hinder output delivery of these bodies. A related objective is to formulate interventions in the form of designing systems and institutions which can strengthen the functioning of local bodies as ordained by LGO 2001. This task is working to draw a baseline and to document changes in local government fiscal performance. Moreover, it is engaged in analyzing the extent and nature of the reciprocal relationship established by LGO 2001 between citizens and the state, characterized by the participation of the former in decision making and the responsiveness of the latter to citizens’ demands. |
| Some of the publications under this task include: |
- Decentralisation in Pakistan: Context, Content and Causes
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- Local Government Reforms in Pakistan: Strengthening Social Capital or Rolling Back the State?
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- Representative Decentralisation vs. Participatory Decentralisation: Critical Analysis of the Local Government Plan 2000
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- Accountability Failures and the Decentralisation of Service Delivery in Pakistan
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- The Development Rankings of Districts in Punjab
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- Impact of Devolution in Pakistan Case Study 2: Tehsil Dunyapur, District Lodhran
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- Bringing Electoral Politics to the Doorstep: Who Gains Who Loses? The paper was invited for presentation by the Nobel Laureate Joseph Stigilitz at the Initiative for Policy Dialogues (IPD) International Decentralization Task Force Meeting at Columbia University in February 2006
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| Health |
The Health Management Programme (HMP) is a customized training programme, which constitutes on a curriculum that is unique as it combines all areas of learning and will also cater to all major aspects of the hospital management such as human recourse management, operations management, leadership, marketing, budgeting, financial management and accounting for non-accountants and other related areas. The learning methods include case studies from for-profit as well as non-profit healthcare organizations/ hospitals in Pakistan.
The core objective of the Health Management Programme HMP is to educate the decision makers, hospital/ healthcare organizations’ managers and administrators who can influence and direct the delivery of healthcare through their leadership and management of organizations, committed to enhance the quality, accessibility, and cost-effectiveness of healthcare services in Pakistan.
The HMP will facilitate healthcare professionals, managers and administrators to develop the necessary knowledge, expertise and skills which can be applied to various settings within healthcare systems. This initiative will ensure the delivery and configuration of good quality healthcare services, lead and manage change and development within their organisations.
The course is anticipated to develop effective managers, people who are able to engage them with policy, clarify strategic goals, implement, manage and monitor good practices, and manage themselves and others in the pursuit of excellence in a multidisciplinary context. It focuses to enabling them to be analytical of own and others' behavior in relation to management processes, focusing on the capacity to manage their own time, priorities and development, as well as the performance of others. |
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| Microfinance |
The SEDC-Microfinance Institutions Management Programme intends to highlight the major issues of financial sustainability and outreach faced by the microfinance sector. It will further attempt to find out the means to overcome these challenges by way of merging with the formal financial sector.
There is a need for mainstreaming microfinance, particularly in the area of governance of MFIs. This calls for a facilitative and supportive environment by the national and local government agencies and financial institutions - essentially as a complement to the growing trend of self governance by MFIs. Keeping in consideration the same fact, the MIMP at SEDC is going to educate the decision makers, policy makers, managers and administrators who can influence and direct the delivery of microfinance services. The programme is designed in accordance with the current management and sustainability issues in the microfinance sector of Pakistan. There is no in-depth analysis of NGOs at the sectoral level and neither is a way of tracking the performance and carrying out evaluations at the macro level, so the MIMP intends to fill this gap through trainings. |
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