Wazirabad Greenways Network : http://www.un.org.pk/unido/Cutlery Cluster.pdf

Wazirabad Greenways Network ( WGN ) is a consortia of 5 leading knives & daggers manufacturers from Wazirabad region.Wazirabad is the capital of knives & daggers manufacturing in ASIA.

• They all share in common a strong market orientation, a commitment to their customers, and a careful eye for quality. Theystandardize their raw material quality as well as purchasing and production processes, and follow a joint marketing model.
• The consortia has a professional manager who runs its operations and liaises with its members & customers.
• By forming export consortia, WGN offers international buyers a wide selection of product varieties, and are able to effectively meet large quantity orders.
• They also pool their individual years of experience, to guarantee buyers a reliable supply of top quality products.

UNIDO
The aim of the UNIDO Cluster Development Programme (CDP) in Pakistan is to contribute to the overall performance and collective efficiency of the small and medium enterprise clusters for sustainable development by assisting selected local communities of firms and associated institutions in the clusters. This entails the implementation of cluster support initiative in selected pilot clusters as well as assistance to central and local institutions in their programmes of cluster modernisation and restructuring. In the pilot clusters, like Wazirabad cutlery cluster , UNIDO strives to act as a catalyst bringing about the necessary qualitative changes at the cluster level. At the policy level, the primary purpose of UNIDO’s intervention is to customise its methodology to the Pakistan settings so that it can be shared with the partner institutions for replication.