Identified critical gaps and investment opportunities in Pakistan’s trade and transit infrastructure to improve competitiveness, connectivity, and regional integration. Its scope encompassed reviewing global and local investment landscapes, assessing existing infrastructure, analyzing trade flows, evaluating corridors, ranking critical projects, and recommending financially viable, sustainable interventions.

The BRACE Programme CPI Outcome Assessment (2022) evaluated community physical infrastructure schemes in Balochistan—drinking water, drainage/sanitation, flood protection, and rehabilitation of government services. Using household surveys, FGDs, KIIs, and field visits across Kech, Khuzdar, and Pishin, it assessed relevance, social/economic/environmental outcomes, gender inclusion, and community participation. The project was a third-party evaluation and impact assessment exercise supporting community-driven rural development.

The strategy primarily focused on key issues including, but not limited to, the following aspects: 1) Assessing the current state of cooperatives, which involves understanding their institutions, procedures, human resources, and finances . 2) Evaluating the availability of an enabling environment required for the cooperatives, particularly about their business enabling environment. This includes government policies and regulations, infrastructure, and trade enabling services (both physical and virtual, for goods, people, and data). Additionally, the assessment examines the environmental and social governance aspects. 3) Analyzing the demand for new financial instruments from the community, as well as their capacity and willingness to adopt these instruments

The ETI–GBRSP CISE Design Project (2023) developed a framework to sustain community-based enterprises (CBEs) in Gilgit-Baltistan through an Impact Investment Facility and Social Impact Exchange. Addressing governance, finance, technology, and market access constraints, it proposed bundling CBEs for investment. The project was a research, design, and policy innovation exercise to link rural enterprises with sustainable impact capital. 

The GB Invest Initiative was a private sector–led impact investment platform aligned with the 2021 Gilgit-Baltistan Development Package, aimed at mobilizing diaspora and private capital for sustainable growth. Led by Reenergia (REE), the project mapped investment potential, developed sectoral investment profiles, pitch decks, and infographics, and supported investor outreach and roadshows. Through research, pipeline development, and stakeholder engagement, it facilitated investment in tourism, agribusiness, renewable energy, mining, technology, and trade while safeguarding Gilgit Baltistan’s fragile ecosystem. 

The Pakistan Village Growth Accelerator Program, designed by Reenergia with partners, aimed to catalyze off-grid rural markets by expanding renewable energy mini-grids, livelihoods, WASH, ICT, and agri-enterprise services. Using pilot projects, energy audits, and community business models, it positioned PPAF as an aggregator of finance and services. The project was a research, pilot, and policy design exercise for rural transformation and sustainable energy access