SEDP focuses on a number of key areas such as gender, environment, capacity building etc in all its training programmes.

SEDP & Gender

Due to various factors women's representation in the economic and civic arena of Pakistan has been minimal. Hence from the onset of the SEDP project efforts have been made to mainstream a gender perspective into all of its significant work. It recognises the importance of women's empowerment in the evolution of a stable administration and in good governance practices as an essential component of sustainable development efforts.

Each of the SEDP's seven key components has developed or adapted its projects and other activities with this priority in mind. The programmatic focus has evolved to match the comprehensive fact that women's equality and empowerment and a strengthened civil society are inextricably linked.

SEDP now follows a long-term strategic approach aimed at increasing gender training and advocacy, empowerment of women, boosting the number of women at decision-making levels, and developing improved organizational mechanisms and frameworks in the workplace for women through gender training programs, seminars, and workshops for non-governmental organizations and community-based organizations and communities.

SEDP & ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

The project will have minimal impact on the environment. However, educational management material will address such issues as the incorporation of environmental analysis in operational decision-making and such topics of human resource management as safety, working conditions and workforce performance and satisfaction. Workshops and development programs will provide opportunities to integrate environmental issues as they affect and are affected by social sector development.

Below is a list of cases that have been developed in this tenure and deal with organizations that work closely with issues affecting the environment.

1. IUCN  BY Zafar Iqbal Qureshi
2. WWF: Strategic Review by Zafar Iqbal Qureshi, Sarah Ahmad
3. WWF: Financial Management by Bashir Ahmad Khan
4. WWF-P's Flagship Magazine by Iram Nawaz Awan
5. Women Artisan's of Northern Areas by Zabreen Hassan