This report is the outcome of External Evaluation of Integrated Community Development and Empowerment Programme (ICDEP) implemented by AWAZ CDS in four districts of southern Punjab. The document gives background, provides an overview of evaluation process, details evaluation findings, lists lessons learnt and finally puts forward a few recommendations aimed at enhancing the effectiveness and relevance of the programme […]
Awaz is a Multan based organization, working in Multan, Vehari, Alipur, Taunsa, Kot Addu, and Janpur. It has organizational chart and job descriptions are available in written form. Awaz was originally and continues to be a rights based organization advocating for rights. However, following the floods of 2010, they are and now providing high level services in the flood […]
According to the ministry of Law, Justice and Human Rights, 120 laws currently prevailed in the country are discriminatory on the basis of religion and customs. These require revisions and amendments in the current discriminatory laws and new legislation against inhuman customary practices to make responses of state just and pluralistic. Present military regime had […]
Hudood Qawaneen, Naqais-o-Tabsira: (Hudood laws, flaws and discussion) is an Urdu publication. The topic focused in this 12 page booklet is very sensitive to be discussed, especially where people have no information about human rights, and very limited knowledge of religion, that comes out from a Mullah who is usually an illiterate or semi literate […]
Over the period of last four years it was observed that the system itself provides the space to the common people but the implementers lack the political will as will as capacity. For example Citizen Community Boards were introduced to ensure the community participation but the process and procedures for the registration of CCBs was […]
While the world is moving towards a global economy in which the local economic and industrial Infrastructure is under threat on the one hand for its integration with the global set up while on the other hand the consumption of local human and material resources has been affected and has caused unemployment and poverty conditions […]
This study was conducted by AWAZCDS-Pakistan to understand the socio-economic and political situation of PATA areas in southern districts of D G Khan and Rajan Pur in the Punjab Province of Pakistan. The study was initially conducted in 2005 and it was published in English. I hope your organization has received the copy of that […]
Research Study on Extent and Dynamic of Punchayat System and its Impact on Marginalized Communities in Southern Punjab People in rural communities of Pakistan experience a locally available, non-formal way of justice system, which is called Punchayat / Jirga. It is considered as economical source of acquiring justice. There is no membership criterion for joining […]
A study was conducted by AWAZCDS in March 2008 to assess the quality of water provided by the Water And Sanitation Authority (WASA) through water purification plants. WASA Multan has installed 15 water purification plants in Multan and study carried out by AWAZCDS with the technical support of Pakistan Council for Research on Water Resources […]
A Research Study on State of Water Purification & Filtration Plants & Supply of Clean & Safe Drinking Water to Urban and Semi-Urban Communities of South Punjab. Pakistan is now being considered among Water Stress Countries as the situation is becoming precarious because water availability in Pakistan has decreased from 5000 cubic meters per capita […]