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Enterprise & markets
Helping women-led enterprises build skills, improve products and reach stronger markets.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT · PAKISTAN
Women and communities building stronger economic futures.
ECDI Pakistan is a not-for-profit organisation working since 1990 to empower women and underserved communities through entrepreneurship, skills development, sustainable livelihoods and improved access to markets.
KARACHI, PAKISTAN
WORKING NATIONALLY SINCE 1990
ESTABLISHED PUBLIC-INTEREST PRACTICE
Since 1990
Long-term development experience
Karachi, Pakistan
Locally rooted, nationally connected
Women at the centre
Enterprise, voice and market access
START WITH WHAT YOU NEED
A clearer route
into ECDI.
Whether you are a participant, partner, researcher, job seeker or customer, begin with the path that best matches your purpose.
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Understand ECDI
Purpose, history and leadership
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Explore the work
Programmes, projects and impact
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Find practical support
Training, research and resources
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Build something together
Partnership and collaboration routes
HOW WE CREATE CHANGE
From access to agency.
Our work moves beyond short-term support. We strengthen skills, relationships and market systems that help people shape their own economic futures.
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Women, girls & voice
Creating platforms for leadership, rights awareness and creative exchange.
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Refugee livelihoods
Growing dignified, market-connected opportunities with Afghan refugee communities.
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Learning & capacity
Sharing practical knowledge through training, research and tailored advisory support.
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CURRENT INITIATIVE
Refugee livelihoods
Enterprise-led pathways that bring Afghan refugee women together to make, learn and build a future.
SELECTED PROGRAMME
WOW Pakistan
Creating platforms where women and girls can share ideas, build confidence and strengthen their voice.
SELECTED PROGRAMME
Capacity for the future
Strengthening organisations and communities through practical learning, skills and long-term capacity development.
WHAT EXPERIENCE HAS BUILT
Evidence with a
human centre.
These figures reflect selected areas of ECDI’s documented experience. Version 2 will connect every verified figure to its project, location and reporting context.
30
+
years working across Pakistan
1000
+
women reached through one enterprise network
250
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women entrepreneurs trained
50
+
enterprise trainers developed
DOCUMENTED PROGRAMME FOOTPRINT
Experience
connected
across Pakistan.
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Karachi & lower Sindh
Hyderabad & Thatta
Sukkur & northern Sindh
Multan & Punjab
Quetta & Balochistan
Peshawar & Haripur
35+
years of enterprise and community development
WHO WE ARE
Development
grounded in context.
ECDI works with women, young people, communities and institutions to create practical routes from exclusion into enterprise, voice and opportunity.
Our practice connects economic development with community knowledge. That means listening first, building around lived realities and creating systems people can continue using after a programme ends.
45+
years of enterprise and community development
A platform for voice
Women of the World, Pakistan
A global movement rooted in the realities and creative energy of women and girls in Pakistan.
Co-curated by ECDI with the British Council, WOW Pakistan creates space for celebration and frank conversation through talks, workshops, performance, mentorship and a vibrant marketplace.
Knowledge in practice
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START WITH WHAT YOU NEED
A clearer route
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Whether you are a participant, partner, researcher, job seeker or customer, begin with the path that best matches your purpose.
We collaborate with communities, funders, public institutions, businesses and cultural organisations to turn shared goals into practical, lasting programmes.