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Karakoram Area Development Organization KADO

Ali Abad, , • 6 Employees
Nonprofit Organization Management

KADO is a non-for-profit civil society organization working for the sustainable development of the marginalized and underprivileged communities in Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral since 1998. KADO is registered with the Securities and Exchanges Commission of Pakistan under Section 42 of the Companies act 2017, as a company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital and certified with Pakistan center for philanthropy.KADO has remarkable history for more than 20 years. The first project started with the support of Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC) with the aim to revive the handcraft and create income and employment opportunities to women and disadvantaged people of this area. It has received awards from President of Pakistan and UNESCO's seal of excellence as recognition of its outstanding performance for empowering rural women and promoting traditional handicrafts of Gilgit-Baltistan. In this 20 years journey KADO has achieved unbelievable results by executing a number of projects such as Enterprise development, Environment, human and institutional development, rehabilitation, information and communication technology, vocational skills, and human rights. It has strengthened the role of civil society participation, enhanced human and institutional capacities and potential, launched E-Commerce initiative for the first time in Gilgit-Baltistan, carried out the action research on ICT in rural development and intervened with full fledge in introducing Internet services in Hunza and Nagar and developed comprehensive research books, reports on E-village, E-Schools and business incubation. It pioneered the first public private partnership with Government of Pakistan by successfully implementing Women Vocational (IT skill) training project in all 10- Districts of Gilgit-Baltistan. It is also engaged in public private partnership for construction of a Rehabilitation Center/Building in Hunza with Government of Pakistan to rehabilitate 1200 PWDs.