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In the past 20 years, Raasta has carried out 275 assignments and projects of short and medium term (ranging from 2 months - 2 years). The top sectors are health, women's development and gender, reproductive health, community development, poverty, children's issues, education, water and environment. It has also carried out 9 multi-output pilot projects and institutional development programmes of long term (from 2 - 4 years). Of these 3 were in the water and sanitation sector, 1 in the environment sector and the rest in poverty, capacity development, training and public-private partnerships. The individual outputs (e.g. research studies, training modules, strategy papers etc) from these assignments number 132, of which 65 are in water and sanitation, followed by capacity development, women's development and health. For the short and medium term assignments, Raasta's top client over the last 20 years has been UNICEF (54 assignments and projects), followed by the Government of Sindh (27 assignments). Others among the top ten include Asian Development Bank (ADB), World Bank (WB), Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC), Department for International Development (DFID), UNDP, ICCO and NOVIB. The long term work includes direct consultancies as well as subcontracts or consortium arrangements on projects funded by WB, UNICEF, DFID, ADB and SDC. Senior staff members of Raasta have also worked as individual consultans on 75 studies, assignments, policy papers and missions. |
