STARCH – Agricultural Entrepreneurship Centre
Agriculture, skills development and entrepreneurship
Partners
Collaboration underpins every project.
Local expertise, institutional experience, reliable funding and long-term exchange are the foundations of our project work.
Shaping projects together
Developed locally. Delivered together.
Our partners understand the education landscape, learners’ needs and local conditions. Their experience informs every project, from the first idea through to implementation.
GIBBZ connects institutions across education, research and practice so that knowledge can be shared and solutions embedded for the long term.
As of the 2025 Annual Report
Cooperation and project partners
This overview follows the institutional partners named in the 2025 Annual Report. The links lead to the respective organisations’ websites.
Punjab, PakistanOpen website ↗
Department of Education, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University
Higher-education and education partnership
Women Development Studies Center, PMAS-AAUR
Career guidance, job coaching and academic exchange
Aridian Model and Literacy Center, PMAS-AAUR
Basic education and literacy
Punjab Association for Subject Specialists (PASS-Punjab)
Professional exchange and school-based project work
Action Against Poverty (AAP)
Local project delivery and poverty reduction
Institute of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, University of Agriculture Faisalabad
Agricultural career guidance and higher-education cooperation
Department of Agricultural Extension & Rural Studies, University of Sargodha
Agricultural education, guidance and research
School Education Department, South Punjab
Government partner and collaboration with 37 public secondary schools
Funding
Funding institutions in 2025
These institutions are named as funders of GIBBZ’s work in the 2025 Annual Report.
Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ)
Public development cooperation
Stiftung Nord-Süd-Brücken
Funding for development-policy project work
Marianne und Emil Lux-Stiftung
Funding for education, inclusion and social participation
Stiftung Kinder in Not
Funding for children’s education and future opportunities
ALTERNAID Stiftung für Menschen in Not
Funding for sustainable education and health projects
New partnerships
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