Lahore, March 20, 2023 (PPI-OT):Federal Republic Germany has proposed to start two new projects in Pakistan for promoting Textile Industry and enhancing employment through women empowerment. It was disclosed by a 3-Member delegation of the German Development Organization “GIZ (Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit) today at a meeting with Mr. Farhan Aziz Khawaja, Chief Executive Officer of the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (SMEDA). The delegation was comprised of GIZ Advisors Ms. Nana Sikaba, Ms. Anke Green and Mr. Muhammad Ubaid, Component Manager of GIZ Projects. From SMEDA Ms. Nadia Jehangir Seth, General Manager Policy Panning and Mr. Ashfaq Ahmad, General Manager Central Support Division also attended the meeting.
Mr. Ubaid told that a 3-year project started in the year 2021 to develop labour and environmental Standards in Pakistan’s Textile Industry would be completed by end of the current year. The project successfully aims at improving the competitiveness of the Pakistani textile and fashion industry of Pakistan in the world market by improving and enhancing labour and environmental standards, he said informed that on successful completion of the aforementioned project government of Germany had decided to initiate two new projects; the one again for raising international standards of labour environment in textile industry and the other for promoting employment through women empowerment. These proposed projects may start in January next year and will be completed by the year2026, he added.
Earlier CEO SMEDA welcomed the GIZ delegation and apprised them about government of Pakistan’s initiatives for women empowerment. He informed that key area of the recent SME policy had taken concrete measures to ensure key role of women entrepreneurship in the economy. Further, SMEDA is actively busy in formulating an exclusive strategy for development of women entrepreneurship both at provincial and federal level, he added. He said that SMED will focus to promote rural businesses in the coming years so as to utilize the business potential of the Agricultural sector. The marginalized businesses run by rural women artisans would be formulized by SMEDA through handholding and facilitation, he said.
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