Tag: Usaid

Trainees from 8 DISCOs complete USAID training course

Fifteen trainers and four master trainers from eight DISCOs on Thursday successfully completed the Adult Learning Training course under USAID’s Power Distribution Program. U.S....

USAID, IoBM sign NPO training agreement

The USAID-Citizen’s Voice Project signed a contract with the Institute of Business Management (IoBM), Karachi for training of not for profit organizations (NPOs) on...

US helps strengthen farming business in Pakistan

64 specialists from the Ministries of Agriculture from Khyber Pukhtunkhwa (KPK), Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), Sindh and Balochistan have completed a...

Russia denies ‘any surprise’ in USAID expulsion

Russia insisted Thursday that the expulsion of US development agency USAID should not have come as any surprise to the United States and said...

Khar, Rajiv discuss cooperation

Administrator USAID Dr Rajiv Shah called on the Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar on Wednesday and the two sides reviewed the state of economic...

Russia expels USAID for ‘political meddling’

Russia on Wednesday said it had given USAID until October 1 to halt its work as the US aid agency was meddling in domestic...

USAID urges students to adopt energy-saving habits

Students and faculty members of a leading school of the federal capital on Saturday have been urged to develop energy saving habits with an...

Sindh govt, USAID sign $155m MoU

With an aim to rehabilitate around 1,500 schools badly damaged by the monsoon rains in 2011, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)...

USAID finalizes strategy for training on commercial procedures

The USAID Power Distribution Program has devised a strategy for further trainings on commercial procedures optimization for meter readers and meter superintendents of power...

USAID to continue supporting PESCO

A team of the USAID Power Distribution Program visited Peshawar Electric Supply Company (PESCO) to discuss with PESCO’s CEO Brig. (Rtd) Tariq Saddozai and...

USAID begins installing capacitors at IESCO

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) power distribution programme, in cooperation with the Islamabad Electric Supply Company (IESCO), has started installing low-tension...

USIAD promoting energy-saving

A USAID’s painting competition, launched to creatively promote energy conservation among school students, has received more than 5,000 entries from all over Pakistan. More...

USAID funds rebuilding of schools in KP

An agreement for a new USAID assistance worth $25 million has been signed between the USAID and the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for reconstruction...

Fraud inquiry against RPTW continuing: USAID

As part ongoing efforts, in 2010, USAID awarded a cooperative agreement to Rafi Peer Theater Workshop (RPTW) to provide support for the program, Pakistan...

US awards 147 scholarships to students from Punjab

US Agency for International Development (USAID) Provincial Mission Director Ted Gehr distributed 147 US-funded scholarships to exceptional students enrolled in a recently established two-year...

USAID, Engro to support local dairy farmers

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Engro Foods will enhance the milk storage network in the country by installing 60 milk...

USAID reaffirms commitment to development cooperation

Acting Punjab US Consul General and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Provincial Mission Director Theodore Gehr inaugurated a photo exhibition on...