The government of Pakistan’s National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to address service gaps in hardest-to-reach areas and reaching the most vulnerable populations. By providing community education and vocational training programs to children, youth, and adults in rural communities, NCHD supports the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals’ (SDG) targets in education, training and employment, and gender equality in Pakistan (Targets 4.2, 4.3, 5.5, & 16.2). Recent examples include: (1) Feeder Primary Schools programme, working with the Ministry of Education, NCHD has established functioning primary schools and trained and supported teachers in villages where there was no provision of basic education; (2) Women’s Literacy programme, NCHD has rolled out community based literacy programmes for women in rural communities supporting functional literacy. You can learn more about NCHD on their website.
The LEAPS Transition to Scale trial was implemented through NCHD’s existing education platforms leveraging the NCHD’s strengths in community mobilization and engagement, in districts Naushahro Feroze, Khairpur, Sukkur, and Dadu in rural Sindh, Pakistan. Learn more about NCHD implementation of LEAPS here. Also, see LEAPS featured in the NCHD’s Annual Report 2020.
