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And the Make-A-Wish Foundation Pakistan’s ‘International Impact Award-2010’ for helping to grant wishes of 50 Pakistani children goes to US Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron...

The Higher Education Commission (HEC) National Scholarship Management Committee has approved the award of 155 scholarships under the USAID Funded Merit and Needs Based...

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) is providing financial and technical assistance to various sectors in Pakistan with special focus on agriculture, energy...

US Consul General in Karachi visited the flood-affected areas of Tando Allahyar on Wednesday and distributed shelter kits and non-food items for the...

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through the Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA) and its local implementing partner Engro Foundation will be...

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Monday started a training session for twenty female employees working in the engineering, customer service,...

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Power Distribution Improvement Program (PDIP) today kicked off a series of training workshops aimed at improving...

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) under its ENTREPRENEURS project with Hashoo Foundation to roll...

United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched Tube-well Efficiency Improvement Programme (TWEIP) that can save about 1000 MW electricity in Pakistan. USAID...

The government has given go ahead to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to conduct feasibility study for the import of 4500...

In a major development, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has proposed to Pakistan to import up to 4,500 megawatts of power...

A meeting of the Scholarship Management Committee, which is the steering committee under HEC-USAID Merit and Needs based Program, has approved cases of 99...

In partnership with Kashf Foundation, a leading microfinance institution in Pakistan, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through its Entrepreneurs Project has...

ISLAMABAD - Pre-Service Teacher Education Programme (Pre-STEP) funded by the USAID awarded 410 scholarships to talented Pakistani students training as elementary school teachers (EST) while completing the two-year Associate Degree in Education (ADE) and four-year BEd (Hons) Elementary programmes, at ceremonies organised in all the four provinces.
Scholarships were awarded to the students of 12 universities and colleges including Karakoram International University, Government

ISLAMABAD - Head of USAID surprised Pakistan by diverting his scheduled visit to India, well-placed sources told Online on Sunday. According to the sources, chief of parties or commonly known as head of the projects being funded or initiated by the USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah was scheduled to visit Pakistan. But he diverted his visit to India, the sources added.
Last time he visited Pakistan in August 2010 for a review of projects due by then, however, unprecedented floods

LAHORE - The USAID funded Pre-STEP program sponsored a Strategic Planning workshop, which concluded at Pearl Continental Hotel on Wednesday. The workshop was the first in a series of other related activities planned for the year. It intends to introduce Strategic Planning as a tool to improve quality of teacher education in 15 Pre-STEP partner public universities under its Pre-Service Teacher Education Program.
A group of 50 professionals comprising Deans of Faculty of

LAHORE - The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has released the first tranche of $20 million to the Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) for the Gomal Zam Dam Project. The USAID had signed an agreement with WAPDA last month for providing $40 million to help complete the Gomal Zam Dam Project.
Had this financial assistance not been provided, construction work on the project would have virtually ground to a halt due to lack of funding