PAIMAN is dedicated to promoting women’s leadership and economic empowerment as a means to foster gender equality and enhance community resilience in Pakistan. Recognizing that empowering women is crucial for sustainable development, PAIMAN implements comprehensive programs that provide women with the skills, resources, and opportunities needed to become effective leaders in their communities. Through targeted training workshops, mentorship programs, and capacity-building initiatives, PAIMAN equips women with essential skills in entrepreneurship, financial literacy, and advocacy. The organization also facilitates networking opportunities, connecting women with successful role models and potential collaborators to strengthen their professional and social networks. Additionally, PAIMAN works to raise awareness about the importance of women’s participation in decision-making processes at all levels, advocating for policies that support gender equality and challenge societal norms that hinder women’s progress. By addressing both economic barriers and social constraints, PAIMAN empowers women to take charge of their livelihoods and participate actively in their communities, thereby contributing to more inclusive and equitable societal development. Ultimately, PAIMAN’s focus on women’s leadership and economic empowerment not only transforms individual lives but also fosters healthier, more resilient communities capable of addressing their challenges collectively.

JWANDOON is a successful initiative of PAIMAN in which initially around 436 women have been trained in various livelihood skills along with business development plans, self-help group development, and knowledge of micro-credit, etc. These underprivileged women were given access to the market through PAIMAN`s Jwandoon.

Socio-economic empowerment of women is PAIMAN’s flagship program in which women are given livelihood skills along with life skills and skills in community-level peacebuilding to become not only the earning members of their families but also play a significant role in social cohesion and building peace within their household and community. As contributors to family income, we learned that women gain confidence and strength to combat any type of violent extremism amidst them. PAIMAN has established institutes for skill building and livelihood (income generation) opportunities for marginalized communities especially women by the name of JWANDOON at Islamabad, Charsadda and Swat. Women are being trained in-home bakery, stitching, embroidery, gift box making, tote bags with embroidery, kitchen gardening, poultry, carpentry, etc. 

PAIMAN builds capacity of women affected by conflict and disaster or violent extremism in marketable skills to earn decent living for themselves and their families. Since 2006 PAIMAN has built the capacity of more than 5700 women in KP and 1300 women in Sindh. Majority of these women after receiving training in e-commerce, digital marketing, business plan development etc. have started earning money from the sale of their products.
PAIMAN organizes intervention training of these women and have so far trained more than 360 women in micro entrepreneurship, Self Help Group development and have held exhibitions in New Delhi, New York and London. Currently 15 Self Help Groups of Jwandoon/PAIMAN are effectively working.
PAIMAN/Jwandoon aims at not only capacitating women economically but socially as well by building their leadership abilities to raise voice on issues of concern and lead their communities in addressing social, security and other problems.