For the first time since 1947, members of Hindu community celebrated Holi in District Buner under the AAWAZ program. AAWAZ District Forum and AAWAZ UC forum Noorizai arranged the program at a short notice of 2 hours. It was a small scale program but Hindu, Sikh and Muslims celebrated the event together. A leader of
Citizens demand for government officials to know about ‘Sindh freedom of Information Act 2006’ to access information. The Strengthening Participatory Organization (SPO) Karachi organized “Project Closing Convention” in local hotel at Karachi with community based organizations, NGOs, government officials, media.and political party members of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan
Strengthening Participatory Organization (SPO) under the Citizens’ Voice Project of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) organized provincial roundtable at a local hotel in Karachi. The event aimed at discussing the charter of demands reflecting the issues identified through community based interventions and suggestions on need of having laws and institutional mechanisms for
The two-day event has been jointly organised by National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage and Indus Cultural Forum in collaboration with Strengthening Participatory Organisation (SPO) and USAID-Funded Pakistan Reading Project. More than 150 writers from over 15 mother languages are participating in the event as speakers and moderators. The objectives of the festival are
Strengthening Participatory Organization (SPO) is implementing a one-yearproject titled “Enhancing Capacities for Transparent and Accountable Local Governance” from 31st March 2015 under Citizen’s Voice Project (CVP) grant 07, funded by USAID in District Malir, Thatta and Badin. The project envisioned to build the capacity of the Politicians and Community Based Organizations (CBOs) in the field
Pakistan needs to incorporate the right to health in its constitution and province of Sindh require to draft a policy on right to health to every citizen like right to education guaranteed in the constitution of Pakistan. Policy of right to health for every citizen needs a lot to do to let the people know
Third session of women assembly was conducted at District Assembly Hall of district Lakki Marwat. The agenda of the meeting was the discussions on charter of demands which was not discussed in previous session and present it to DC Lakki Marwat.
The consultation meeting on the issue of “International commitments and state obligations for citizens’ rights” was organized by Strengthening Participatory Organization (SPO) at Regent Plaza Hotel on Tuesday, 24th November 2015.Fourteen government departments representing the government of Sindh in social sector services met in a consultative meeting to provide their respective inputs, recommendations in context of
A five days training titled “Strengthening the Rights, Justice Framework and Agenda in Pakistan” was designed and organized by Strengthening Participatory Organisation from 14th – 18th Dec 2015. The training was designed and delivered under a project signed with USAID Training for Pakistan Project in October 2015 to design, implement and deliver a technical training
BHC and AAWAZ Programmes supported the formation of ‘Dispute Resolution Council (DRC)’ in D I Khan in July 2013. Here is the picture of recent meeting convened by DRC members in Dera Ismail Khan. Initially Jury was established and SPO Dera Ismail Khan was hosting its office. Later, Provincial Government changed its name to Dispute