PKR 400,000 Grants for Pakistani Youth & Students to Address COVID 19 Challenges

CALL FOR PROPOSALS South Asia Regional Project to Strengthen Community Resilience to COVID-19  As part of an EU-funded initiative, The Asia Foundation is implementing a project to address the immediate threat and longer-term implications of Covid-19 for the most vulnerable populations of Pakistan. The goal is to provide greater awareness of health risks and preventive […]

Applications open today for a Global Youth Citizenship Program by World Literacy Foundation

Registrations for the Global Youth Citizenship Program by World Literacy Foundation open today for the three-month community service opportunity, which provides training in leadership skills, community advocacy, and charitable fundraising. This year, young people from 52 countries will strive to rescue 200,000 children who are facing lifelong illiteracy. They will provide children’s books, tutoring, and […]

Communication for School Safety Training

At schools, children are always at risk of receiving more harm than others during disasters.  During 2005 earthquake in Pakistan, 18000 children died and thousands more are injured while attending their schools. Thousands more have suffered because of torrential rains and floods in the past four years. Research suggests that most risks faced by children […]

Communication Workshop for PCE

PCDC facilitated a full-day training workshop for general body members of the ‘Pakistan Coalition for Education’ (PCE) in Islamabad. ‘The 3C (Coalition – Communication – Change) Workshop’ was facilitated by Aftab Iqbal (Director PCDC). Discussion during the workshop helped participants to understand that effective communication within coalitions doesn’t just happen by itself. Before a coalition can […]

Leadership and Communication Skills Workshop

We had a wonderful two-hours workshop on ‘ Leadership and Communication Skills’, at the ‘International Young Alumni Conference’ in Islamabad. More than 500 youth leaders participated in the conference that was organized by the ‘Pakistan-U.S. Alumni Network’ (PUAN). It was the largest gathering in the world of young people who had participated in various programmes […]

Knowledge Management & Communication Workshop

PCDC facilitated a two-day workshop on ‘Knowledge Management and Communication’ for the Environment and Climate Change Unit (ECCU) of the United Nations Development Program – Pakistan. Senior representatives from environment-related projects and Unit offices of the UNDP-ECCU participated in the workshop. Its purpose was to analyze and explore opportunities for improvements in knowledge management and communication […]