ISLAMABAD: The United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Conflict Victims Support Program, CVSP, in collaboration with the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA), extended a unique income generation opportunity to the first five conflict victims in KP and FATA by providing them training, equipment and franchise license to become e-Sahulat agents in their respective villages.
NADRA’s e-Sahulat is a service that enables the Government of Pakistan to collect utility payments online across the country. In addition to being trained and being licensed by NADRA to operate as an agent, e-Sahulat agents must have access to a computer, a printer and an internet connection to qualify.
e-Sahulat agents are able to work from home and earn an income by receiving a percentage of each processed transaction.
Under this partnership, CVSP provided the equipment needed to become an agent while NADRA provided the training and licensing. The first group to receive the equipment and training is a test group that will help refine the plan. The results will then be used to expand the program to include 50 more beneficiaries.
This collaboration comes as part of USAID’s initiative to foster sustainable models of the Public-Private Partnership. NADRA is promoting the expansion of e-Sahulat as a way to improve the collection of utility bills in remote areas or those suffering from security risks. Under its mandate to restore the lives and livelihoods of the most vulnerable conflict-affected families in KP and FATA, CVSP has a wide network of partners and beneficiaries in some of the most remote and volatile areas.
“We are very pleased with this model because it provides an opportunity to assist conflict-affected communities’ sustainably through a win-win scenario for all; NADRA, the beneficiaries, and the community”, said Mr. Adnan Sher, the Conflict Victims Support Program’s Chief of the Party.
The USAID funded Conflict Victims Support Program is a three-year initiative that provides social and medical services as well as economic recovery assistance packages to victims of conflict in KP and FATA. To date, the program has restored the lives and livelihoods of more than 12,000 families who have lost their main source of income because of the death or injury of the main breadwinners.
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