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The experts have proven track record of hands on expertise in their respective field. PROGEN provides state of the art and appropriate solutions using best of the breed methodologies to social and Participatory community development projects.<\/p><p>PROGEN has been uniquely placed for participating and involving communities in identifying and formulating studies for demand driven projects. PROGEN has been providing consulting services, support to the clients in the following areas.<\/p><h1><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Institutional Strengthening Capacity Building<\/span><\/h1><p>The professional and well experienced staff have conducted numerous studies from design and development of comprehensive policy programs to strengthening and capacity building of institutions as per the needs of the institutions. Some of the services offered by PROGEN conducted include:<\/p><ul><li>Designing and conducting workshops and seminars,<\/li><li>Training need assessment of institutions,<\/li><li>Preparing training plans and modules,<\/li><li>Arranging training programs and identifying training institutions for Institutional strengthening and capacity<\/li><\/ul><h3><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Community Development<\/span><\/h3><p>The specialized social sector division of PROGEN is capable of carrying out all community development related activities as well as providing consultancy services like:<\/p><ul><li>Awareness campaigns,<\/li><li>Motivating community people,<\/li><li>Formulating &amp; organizing community institutions\/members,<\/li><li>Training,<\/li><li>Capacity building for planning, monitoring, implementing, operating and maintaining community based infrastructure in a sustainable way using participation<\/li><\/ul><h3><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Gender Development<\/span><\/h3><p>The specialized social sector division of PROGEN is capable of carrying out all gender development related activities with special emphasis on women development activities as well as providing consultant services in the areas of gender development like empowerment of women through following:<\/p><ul><li>Awareness programs,<\/li><li>Training programs,<\/li><li>Micro credit linkage development,<\/li><li>Skill development center,<\/li><li>Informal schools,<\/li><li>Appropriate house hold technology programs,<\/li><li>Health hygiene and medical<\/li><\/ul><h3><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Socio-Economic Survey<\/span><\/h3><p>Our well experienced staff has experience of carrying out studies, surveys and assessment using proven &amp; tested methodologies through participatory approaches, these comprise:<\/p><ul><li>Household surveys,<\/li><li>Community socioeconomic surveys,<\/li><li>Social assessment,<\/li><li>Community needs<\/li><\/ul><h3><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Studies, Assessment and Evaluation<\/span><\/h3><p>PROGEN\u2019s well experienced team carries out studies, surveys and assessments with appropriate and proven research based methodologies and approaches, these include:<\/p><ul><li>Environmental assessments &amp; Environmental impact assessments,<\/li><li>Natural &amp; man-made disaster assessment studies,<\/li><li>Case studies,<\/li><li>Benefit monitoring and evaluation (BME),<\/li><li>Evaluations i.e. End of project evaluation, Mid-term evaluation &amp;Third party validation.<\/li><\/ul><h3><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Participatory Planning<\/span><\/h3><p>The PROGEN experts have long track record of participatory planning by involving community people at grassroots level all the way to the top level. The team in the process then identifies their demand and prioritizes to develop a detailed participatory plan for development. The participatory plan includes a needs identification and prioritization matrix, a simple logical framework analysis that consists of both tangible &amp; non tangible indicator to monitor and evaluate project as well as consisting of feedback mechanism for improved planning.<\/p><p>The participatory planning includes;<\/p><ul><li>Community participatory plan,<\/li><li>Community action plan,<\/li><li>Development of indicators for M &amp; E,<\/li><li>Project planning,<\/li><li>Financial management and planning,<\/li><li>Land use planning,<\/li><\/ul><p>\u00a0<\/p><h2><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Rural Development<\/span><\/h2><p>In many parts of the world efforts to promote rural development have undergone substantial changes in recent years. 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