Ishfaq Khalil

The Hands That Feed Us : Struggles of Women Agricultural Workers Rights in Pakistan

Agriculture sector is the backbone of Pakistan’s economy as it contributes around 22 percent in the GDP of the country per annum. The whole sector remained under federal control for policy and structural reforms until 2010,whereas provinces were responsible for implementation and delivery. After the 18th constitutional amendment in 2010, the sector devolved to the […]

Civil Society Perspective July, 2022 on Official VNR 2022 vis-a-vis SDGs 4 & 5

Background of Pakistan on SDGs: Pakistan is the first country that adopted SDGs as national development agenda in February 2016. Pakistan has formed specialized SDGs units at the Federal, provincial, and special areas to accelerate the progress on SDGs. The government of Pakistan have presented the first VNR in July 2019. The VNR was prepared […]

Details of AwazCDS-Pakistan Response to COVID-19

=>  Pakistan CSOs Statement on COVID-19 Lockdown =>  Ujala Partners Virtual Planning Meeting Minutes. amid COVID-19 situation =>  Pakistan CSOs Communique on Government Response on COVID-19 =>  Observational Survey on Ehsaas Cash Grant Distribution

UNDERSTANDING THE INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE (IPV) IN PAKISTAN

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a global human rights issue and central to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 31 & 52. It is mostly considered as a peripheral issue of the broader gender based violence (GBV) discourse and hence not comprehensively examined. Women are no-doubt the primary victims of the IPV, however no […]

Evaluation Report-Ujala

Awaz Foundation Pakistan: Centre for Development Services-National Secretariat of Ujala Network initiated a process of doing an evaluation of Ujala Network through an online monkey survey to understand the strengths and weaknesses of Network. Ujala Network was established in late 2016 and it is serving communities and vulnerable segments of society through different awareness raising, […]