News & Updates
September 2011
EBDM establishes its second office in the capital city, Islamabad. This brings us closer to our key partners and clients and will further enable us to manage our on-going and future projects effectively.
May 2011
EBDM enters a strategic partnership with Comcept (Pvt) Ltd., its subsidiary TeleTaleem (T2) and partner organisation TeleSehat. Incorporated in 1992, and ISO 9001-2000 certified, Comcept (www.com-cept.com) consists of a team of 300+ multi-disciplinary professionals sharing diverse engineering exposure. Comcept has been a major contributor in some key telecom service launches in recent times. They develop and manufacture standard products as well as customized solutions in telecommunications, alternative energy, Special Purpose Electronic Modules, and management systems. Comcept has developed T2 (www.teletaleem.com) to build a highly efficient and scalable educational network, leveraging ICT drivers and knowhow for innovative learning technologies. T2's design has been optimized through collective inputs and efforts of leading Academicians, Technology & Industry Experts.
TeleSehat (www.telesehat.com) aims to bridge the urban-rural divide in healthcare services. At the same time it enables healthcare practitioners in expanding their practice base without making large investments that partly result in higher costs of healthcare services for patients.
EBDM will work with these companies in the areas of strategy, project management, research, monitoring and evaluation, contributing towards their efforts to grow and deliver services across the Country.
April 2011
EBDM is the technical partner of the Government of Pakistan's Ministry of States and Frontier Regions (SAFRON), the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and Basic Education for Awareness, Reforms and Empowerment (BEFARe) in the implementation of the Afghan Population, Profiling, Verification & Response (PPVR) project and the Study on Afghan Citizens' Contribution to the Economy of Pakistan (ACCE).
PPVR is primarily a census covering a comprehensive list of socio-economic indicators, which is one of the steps underway to identify and address the needs of the Afghan refugee population in Pakistan. The project is aimed at enabling the Government and UNHCR in taking informed and evidence-based policy and programming decisions. The PPVR pilot survey (September 2010 to April 2011) covering 15,000 households across nine districts was completed successfully and the project has now been scaled up to cover over 120,000 Afghan households in 25 districts of the Country by December 2011.
EBDM's role in implementation includes development of the project methodology and instruments, development and integration of various software applications for data collection, storage and reporting, training of field teams, internal monitoring, quality assurance, technical backstopping & oversight, data management, analysis and report writing.
For more details on the PPVR project, please visit the project website.
September 2010
ActionAid's proposal to the European Commission prepared by EBDM entitled "Support social protection and decent work of brick kiln workers and bonded labourers in Pakistan" worth € 1.7 million was successful. A great success given the tough competition in this global call for proposals. ActionAid's proposal was one of only 18 that were selected out of 381 concept notes submitted for this call.
July 2010
Cleaner Production Institute (CPI) - our M&E service client - succeeds in launching Phase II of the Programme for Industrial Sustainable Development (PISD), financed by the Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands.
April 2009
The € 1.35 million proposal that EBDM prepared for ActionAid for "Enhancing productive capacities and promoting sustainable agricultural practices amongst small scale farmers in eight food deficient districts of Pakistan" has been approved by the European Commission.