USAID

The National Education Development Partners Group (NEDPG) consists of around 20 active, both, bilateral and multilateral donors who are funding multiple projects worth billions of dollars in Pakistan’s education sector. Given the complex and varied portfolios of the various members of the NEDPG, the lack of consistent meeting space and a central coordinating body to house and maintain information for the long term, there was a need for an outside contractor to take on the role of a secretariat and staff it with required team. In addition, a need was identified by the NEDPG members to track information in a consistent and easy to maintain manner. NEDPG Secretariat & Mapping Activity (the project) has two main objectives:
Objective 1: Establishing and administering the NEDPG secretariat
Objective 2: Development of management information system

USAID Pakistan Investment Promotion Activity (IPA) is a five-year project that aims to strengthen Pakistan’s business enabling environment to build greater credibility of Pakistani institutions and improve the ecosystem of FDI and increase US-Pakistan bilateral trade and investment. It has the following main objectives:
Objective 1: Address the business enabling regulatory environment for investment promotion.
Objective 2: Address institutional reforms, ease of compliance and doing business, and transparency
Objective 3: Address U.S.-Pakistan bilateral trade and investment.
Objective 4: Address the mobilization of FDI and U.S.-Pakistan bilateral trade.
For each objective, the project aims to include a strategy based on best practices and lessons learned, activity resources and coordination, a menu of potential interventions and indicators, and quality standards to measure performance.
Semiotics Consultants have been entrusted to support the project for the first two objectives, by providing suitable professional long- and short-term technical assistance, during course of the project.