New Opportunities for Women - Pakistan

More than 5000 women in Pakistan learn new skills in raising livestock. The programme includes water management elements. In September 2006, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) together with Nestlé Pakistan and Engro Foods signed a joint programme to empower 6,000 local women through information on livestock development, training and credit in Pakistan’s rural provinces. This complements on-going programmes initiated by Nestlé in rural communities in its milk districts to help establish tube wells and hand pumps to provide access to water. The new programme includes a training curriculum for women that emphasises improved water management practices on milk farms as well as issues related to water, health, and hygiene.