About PPAF
The Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) is the lead apex institution for community-driven development in the country. Set up as a fully autonomous private sector institution, PPAF enjoys facilitation and support from the Government of Pakistan, the World Bank, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and other statutory and corporate donors. The PPAF aims to be the leading catalyst for improving the quality of life, broadening the range of opportunities and socio-economic mainstreaming of the poor and disadvantaged, especially women. The core operating units of the PPAF deliver a range of development interventions such as support to social mobilization, microcredit, community physical infrastructure, water, energy and disaster management, livelihoods, capacity building, health & education and environment and social safeguards at the grass roots/ community level through a network of more than 100 Partner Organizations across the country.
Background and rationale
PPAF works with a large and expanding group of partners in the public, private and community sectors. It has an expanding and diversifying portfolio of relevant and innovative programs. PPAF is growing, learning and adapting at a rapid pace. LACIP unit is one of the major program of PPAF which implementing infrastructure projects in KP through KfW funding. Phase one of the LACIP program is near to completion but lot of infrastructure projects are still need to be implemented to cope up the slow progress PPAF is, therefore, seeking the services of a dedicated and knowledgeable consultant to provide technical and professional services on demand and at short notice.
Consultancy Objective and scope
Duties to Perform
Deliverables
Qualification
Selection Method
The consultant shall be hired as per World Bank’s Guidelines 2011 regarding “Hiring of Individual Consultants”
Source of Fund
Duration
Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) is the lead apex institution for community-driven development in the country. Set up by the Government of Pakistan, as an autonomous not-for-profit organization, PPAF enjoys facilitation and support from the Government of Pakistan, The World Bank, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), KfWEntwicklungsbank (Development Bank of Germany) and other statutory and corporate donors. PPAF aims to be the catalyst for improving the quality of life, broadening the range of opportunities and socio-economic mainstreaming of the poor and disadvantaged, especially women. The core operating units of the PPAF deliver a range of development interventions at the grassroots/community level through a network of more than 100 Partner Organizations across the country. These include social mobilization, livelihood support, access to credit, infrastructure and energy, health, education and disaster management. Externally commissioned independent studies have demonstrated positive outcomes and impact of PPAF interventions on the lives of benefiting communities related to their economic output, household incomes, assets, agricultural productivity skills and other quality of life indices.