Punjab Skills Development Fund

Punjab Skills Development Fund (PSDF) aims to provide quality skills and vocational training opportunities to the poor and vulnerable populations of the fourteen target districts of Punjab in order to improve livelihood prospects for them. PSDF initiated its operations for the residents of four districts of southern Punjab i.e Bahawalpur, Bahawalnagar, Muzaffargarh and Lodhran. In 2013, PSDF’s geographical coverage expanded to ten new districts: Chiniot, Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Khanewal, Lahore, Narowal, Rahim Yar Khan, Sargodha, Shiekhupura and Vehari. In these 14 districts, PSDF is pursuing its skills promotion efforts to achieve inclusive growth by focusing on employment intensive productive sectors. The Fund is providing resources to help private sector enterprises and partnerships develop and offer high quality vocational training courses. Through its multiple interventions, PSDF is also focusing on establishing a training market which responds to the training needs of individuals and various industrial sectors.