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Case

Dastkaari at Kashf Foundation (A)

Naila Hussain, Syed Aqeel Tirmizi

INDUSTRY : Environment

AREA : HRM/OB

ORGANIZATION : Kashf Foundation

LENGTH : 17

LUMS No : 05-722-2005-1

PUBLICATION YEAR : 2005

KEYWORDS:

Dastkaari,Kashf Foundation,Environment,Human Resources,Microfinance,Women employment,Enterprise Development Department

DESCRIPTION:

Kashf was set up in 1996 as Pakistan¿s first microfinance organization, providing microfinance services solely to women. While working with women in villages, Kashf¿s staff felt the need to provide employment opportunities for women other than those already available to them. Thus, Kashf¿s Enterprise Development Department, Dastkaari came into being. Dastkaari¿s work methodology was based on the Workstation-Centre Model of Arong Bangladesh. It operated through a network of six workstations situated in different villages and one production centre located along the Lahore-Kasur Road. This case focuses on challenges that Kashf was facing in effectively managing the Dastkaari program. To make the program effective and sustainable Kashf¿s management was considering options of expansion versus consolidation in its enterprise development activities.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

1) To develop an understanding of Enterprise Development/ Entrepreneurship in NGO's. 2) To highlight the role of Enterprise Development programs in socio-economic development. 3) To discuss issues and challenges experienced by NGO's implementing enterprise development programs. 4) To discuss how knowledge based research and practice related to effective enterprise development from NGO and Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) sectors may be used to improve the Dastkaari program. 5) To highlight the path of an evolving organization and the issues associated with it.

SUBJECTS COVERED:

Human Resource Management, Organizational Behaviour