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On-Going Projects

On-Going Projects

Project Title: Women’s Participation in Elections, Politics, Literature, Democracy in Pakistan

Supported By: United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF) New York

Project Location: Quetta

Project Objectives: To enhance women’s voices in politics in Quetta, Baluchistan through data-driven analysis, capacity building, and artistic means. 

Project Summary: This project aims to enhance women’s rights, participation, and gender equality in decision-making processes in Quetta district, Baluchistan province. This will be achieved through producing a guiding document, establishing democracy action groups, identifying and implementing necessary actions for gender equality at the district level. The democracy action groups will raise women’s voices through consultations with duty bearers, and through artistic expressions, such as films, theatre performances, and art exhibitions to achieve key women’s participation, increase computerized voter ID registration, as well as the number of women voters, candidates, and elected in the 2023 general elections.

Project Title: Elimination of hepatitis through partnership, engagement, digital and artificial intelligence-based systems in Quetta

Supported By: Gilead Sciences Inc. USA, All4 Liver Asia Grant 2021

Project Location: Quetta

Objective: 1: To establish a diverse and inclusive partnership with plans of action and engagement patients and communities that lead to increasing hepatitis awareness in communities and collaboratively eliminating viral hepatitis in district Quetta  

Objecative:2: To produce the strategic digital and artificial intelligence-based systems that improve the access between hepatitis services seekers and hepatitis services providers that lead to eliminating hepatitis in district Quetta 

Project Summary: Elimination of viral hepatitis through initiating an integrated diverse & inclusive partnership with the plan of communities & patients’ engagement. Driving information about self-care, increasing hepatitis awareness & education, improving systems of access between hepatitis services seekers & hepatitis services providers through digital platforms.  Elimination of hepatitis through diverse and inclusive partnerships with the engagement of patients & communities, establishing community-based resource centres, hepatitis self-help, and self-care support groups. Digital and artificial intelligence-based systems producing hepatitis connect app, establishing a hepatitis lifeline helpline centres, and digital campaign. Driving hepatitis awareness and self-care and increasing access between hepatitis services seekers and hepatitis services providers

Completed Projects

Completed Projects

Project Title: Collective learning & action to understand & reduce barriers to maternal health services and mainstreaming these at policy and community level” in District Quetta.

Supported By: Amplify Change) UK

Objective: 1. To comprehensive develop YAD’s strategic, management & programming plans with the ability for curbing abortion barriers & stigma through developing an informed & skilled cohort of mothers, girls, women, youth, caretakers, caregivers & gatekeepers’ champions enabled them to claim end abortion barriers, stigma & support safe abortion in a more favourable policy environment in Baluchistan.

Objective: 2. To foster an enabling environment for an effective law, policy, legislation & result oriented communities’ action to make government accountable on responsive governance where mothers, women & girls can exercise their safe abortion rights & choices without any prejudices, biases, barriers, stigma, discrimination, and decriminalization of abortion in Baluchistan.

Geographical Focus: Quetta

Results and Achievements: Comprehensive developed YAD’s strategic, management & programming plans with the ability for curbing abortion barriers & stigma.  Developed an informed & skilled cohort of mothers, girls, women, youth, caretakers, caregivers & gatekeeper champions enabled them to claim end abortion barriers, stigma & supported safe abortion in a more favourable policy environment in Baluchistan. Promoted an enabling environment for an effective law, policy, legislation & result-oriented communities’ action that made government accountable on responsive governance where mothers, women & girls are exercising their safe abortion rights & choices without any prejudices, biases, barriers, stigma, and discrimination. Produced detailed research on abortion based on the findings, gaps, need, and demands of the research drafted Baluchistan Safe Abortion and Post Abortion Care Bill (BSAPCB) and tabled it in provincial assembly Baluchistan for review, further discussions, and approval. Developed and implemented a capacity-building-based action plan for effective advocacy work, awareness, networking, coalition building, coordination, lobbying tactics, and follow-up for approving drafted Baluchistan Safe Abortion and Post-Abortion Care Bill from the Baluchistan assembly. Facilitated & supported the development and strengthening of capacities of stakeholders that improved, skills, knowledge, tools & resources for the effective implementation of the advocacy, awareness, networking, coalition building, coordination, lobbying & follow-up for legislation & ending barriers, stigma & discrimination in front of safe abortion & post-abortion care. Communicated publically both offline and online, mobilized and engaged 150000 users, and viewers, directly and indirectly through FM radio, print media, online media, live stream, and social media 

Project Title: Access to quality health and life program for people living with HIV/AIDS, youth, vulnerable population, transgender, and high risky behaviors in district Quetta.

Supported By: Gilead Sciences Inc. the USA (Asia Pacific Rainbow Grant 2019

Objective: 1. To improve access to quality health care with increased demand and supply through integrated mix approach real-time reach, respond links, guidance, treatment, counseling, and referral.

Objective: 2. To strengthen and improve the access and quality health of people living with HIV/AIDS, youth, vulnerable population, transgender and high risky behaviors access to public and private qualified quality health care services providers with real-time reach, the first point of contact, respond, link, guidance, treatment, testing, counseling and referral services in order to increase care, treatments, preventions and follow up in district Quetta

Objective: 3.  To increase the access, demand, and supply of quality health care through the engagement of public and private health care providers, communities, stakeholders, and youth of district Quetta that increased the quality health, care, treatment, testing & prevention of the people living with HIV/AIDS, youth, vulnerable population, transgender and high risky behaviors

Geographical Focus:  Quetta

Results and Achievements:  According to google map email, the places we have added in DGAIMS have reached a new record on google maps that CTP centres you have been added to google map 10000 views, approximately 40000 viewers and users approached the CTP centres which we added in missing places in Google map in DGAIMS, according to our data in database 7500 people contacted us for the facilitation support, responses, linking, referral, guidance, counseling and asking about the CTP centres and DGAIMS. Mobilized and engaged 250000 viewers, and users in social media channels. Improved access to quality health care with increased demand and supply through advocacy and integrated mix approach, responded, linked, guided, treatment, counseling, and referral, increased 30% treatments and post-treatment care, 35% increased the access, demand, and supply of quality health care, treatment, testing & prevention, developed Digital Geographical Access and information Management Services (DGAIMS) an android based app, established helpline, trained and networked public, and private health care providers.

Project Title: End Early, Child, and Forced Marriages in District Quetta

Supported By: ViiV Health Care (Positive Actions for Women and Girls) the UK

Objectives: To foster an enabling environment for an effective law, policy, legislation, and result-oriented communities’ action to make government accountable on responsive governance where youth can exercise their timely marriages rights and choices in Pakistan by the end of the project

Geographical Focus: Quetta

Results and Achievements: Developed an informed a skilled cohort of youth, caretakers, and gatekeepers, enabled them for claiming, ending early, child and forced marriages to practice and support ending early/child and forced marriages in a more favourable policy environment in Baluchistan. Changed the perceptions and attitudes of overall society towards this issue, amended and tabled Child Marriages Restraint Act 1929 and tabled in the provincial assembly for approval

Project Title: Mainstreaming Ending Early, Child and Forced Marriages through the law, policy, reforms, actions, and community level in Quetta Baluchistan Pakistan

Supported By: Canadian Fund for Local Initiative (CFLI)  

Objectives: To foster an enabling environment for an effective law, policy, legislation, reforms, result-oriented and integrated communities action to end early/child and forced marriages with responsive governance where people especially youth, girls and non-Muslims can exercise their timely marriages rights/choices without any forced, early and child ages in Baluchistan, Pakistan.

Geographical Focus: Quetta

Results and Achievements:  Formulated Baluchistan province Analysis of Early/Forced Marriages in Baluchistan, formulated advocacy and programmatic level documents as a systematic road map for the future level intervention, formulated Baluchistan provincial strategy and Baluchistan provincial plan of action to end early, child, and forced marriages, formed religious clerics, religious leader & faith-based leaders council, institutionalized early/child and forced marriages with reporting and referral mechanisms, established preventing early/child and forced marriages task forces and cells at public and government level with allocated of human resources and financial resources

Project Title: Mainstreaming Ending Early, Child and Forced Marriages through the law, policy, reforms, actions, and community level in Quetta Baluchistan Pakistan

Supported By: Canadian Fund for Local Initiative (CFLI)  

Objectives: To foster an enabling environment for an effective law, policy, legislation, reforms, result-oriented and integrated communities action to end early/child and forced marriages with responsive governance where people especially youth, girls and non-Muslims can exercise their timely marriages rights/choices without any forced, early and child ages in Baluchistan, Pakistan.

Geographical Focus: Quetta

Results and Achievements:  Formulated Baluchistan province Analysis of Early/Forced Marriages in Baluchistan, formulated advocacy and programmatic level documents as a systematic road map for the future level intervention, formulated Baluchistan provincial strategy and Baluchistan provincial plan of action to end early, child, and forced marriages, formed religious clerics, religious leader & faith-based leaders council, institutionalized early/child and forced marriages with reporting and referral mechanisms, established preventing early/child and forced marriages task forces and cells at public and government level with allocated of human resources and financial resources

Project Title: Youth-led initiatives on women’s peace and security through 4Ps (Peace+ Promotion+ Prevention+ Protection)

Supported By: N-Peace Network UNDP Regional Hub Thailand

Objectives: Pathway towards, women, peace, and security through YAD’s 4Ps philosophy that can work (Peace+ Promotion+ Prevention+ Protection) to promote and strengthen women, peace, security, and leadership, and end all forms of violence against women with ensuring women’s equal participation in the decision-making process through a framework of “4Ps”

Geographical Focus: Quetta

Results and Achievements: Used five key elements, analysed the WPS IN Quetta through research. Mobilized young girls, women, communities, families, and citizens on WPs in Quetta. Raised awareness among youth, girls, women, families, communities, and citizens on WPS & 4Ps philosophy. Advocacy based on comprehensive field research a systematic advocacy campaign launched and delivered with young girls and women, communities, families, citizens, state institutions, political figures, line departments on WPS & 4Ps philosophy and Activism of youth, girls, women, families, citizens, stakeholders, and communities on WPS, effective peacebuilding, lasting peace and sustainable development

Project Title: Understanding Analysis and identification hate and dangerous speeches online and offline in Baluchistan

Supported By: The Nexus Fund USA under Dangerous speech project

Objectives: To understand, identify, measure, analysed, document, report, and mitigate hate, and dangerous speeches online and offline in Baluchistan

Geographical Focus: Quetta

Results and Achievements: Understand, identified, and analyzed hate and dangerous speeches online, developed detailed research report of hate and dangerous speeches, developed a detailed booklet of identified hate and dangerous speeches, chalk out a plan of monitoring and valuation of hate and dangerous speeches, engaged and involved the key stakeholders, rights holders, duty barriers, victims and survivals of hate and dangerous speeches

Project Title: Action 2015, mobilization campaign on converting MDGs into SDGs

Supported By: CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation.

Objectives: Engage youth for a delegation visit to local and national authorities, organize community events to raise awareness about the importance of 2015 and the action/2015 movement,

Geographical Focus: 13 Districts of Baluchistan Province   

Results and Achievements: Launched a huge mobilization, awareness, and coalition building campaign in Baluchistan reached to 13 districts of Baluchistan, engaged youth and diverse communities on the importance of 2015, finance for development, youth inclusions, save our planet, resources mobilizations, learning from MDGs and planning for SDGs, ending extreme poverty, reducing inequality and stop climate change as well budgetary allocation for the SDGs achievements, localization, and monitoring

Project Title: Citizens Awareness for Higher Female Turnout in District Quetta in General Election 2013

Supported By: Citizen Voice Project (CVP-USAID-TAF)

Objectives:1: To inform, sensitize and mobilize female voters about the importance of the vote, and encourage their active participation in the election

Objectives:2: To facilitate formation and capacity building of local civil society platform, which could oversee the situation, discuss and debate the challenges and come up with appropriate suggestions for corrective measures

Objectives:3: To engage community elders, political leaders, and relevant authorities for conducting a conducive environment for increased female voter turnout, to hold the authorities accountable for any weaknesses, flaws, and lapses, which could undermine the prospects of female voter’s turnout.

Geographical Focus: Quetta

Results and Achievements: Engaged, partnered, mobilized & networking district administrations, line departments, ECP, NADRA, political institutions, rights holders, and duty barriers on facilitation of women in decisions making democratic, political & electoral process. Informed, sensitized, and mobilized general public and stakeholders on female voters, the importance of female voter participation in the elections, the voters turn out increased from below 30% to 60% in targeted districts. 40% people particularly women, mobilized, educated, motivated on the importance of democracy, civic education, political education, democratic educations, governance, electoral process, casting vote & strengthening the democratic process in Quetta. before the 2013 general election of Pakistan: involve and coordinate among different stakeholders to create a conducive environment for increased female voter turnout, raise awareness and build the capacity of women, a sense of self-reliance and ownership as well as of other stakeholders regarding roles, responsibilities, and rights of communities in the overall electoral process to strengthen democracy & good governance.

Project Title: Supporting Women in CNIC registration in district Sherrani

Supported By: Gender Equity Program, GEP-USAID-TAF

Objectives:1: To generate widespread social demand for the empowerment of women socially, economically, politically, legally through making women CNIC & supporting, advocating programs to make the women CNICs in district Sherrani.

Objectives:2: Registration of 9368 CNICs of women in district Sherrani through promoting enabling environment & pro gender environment for women

Objectives:3: Increasing women’s access to CNICs registration, human rights, legal rights through advocacy, mobilization, awareness, motivation, linkage development & involvement of stakeholders, NADRA & District administration

Objectives:4: Decreasing gender-based violence through legal empowerment of women with involvement of stakeholders from village to district level through knowledge, legal identity, mobilization, awareness & opportunities utilization to combat gender-based violence in district Sherrani.

Geographical Focus: District Sherrani  

Results and Achievements: Generated widespread social demand for the empowerment of women socially, economically, politically, legally in district Sherani. Engaged, mobilized & networking stakeholders, district administrations, line department, women, NADRA, and ECP, registered 2150 women in the electoral list in ECP. Increased women access to CNICs registration, electoral list registration, voter education, civic education, human rights, legal rights, legal identity & legal documents. Decreased gender-based violence, women socially, economically, and legally empowered and increased the women higher voters’ turnout. before the 2013 general election of Pakistan: have multiple layers of interventions to promote and enable a pro gender environment for women for CNIC registration: the project mapped the target area, mobilized sessions for CNIC registration, conducted cultural means awareness-raising events, formed women village mobilization committees and sensitizations committees, built district level network, and organized CNIC registration camps. Mobile Van Registration (MRV) visited communities and voters and conducted education sessions to generate widespread social demand for the empowerment of women socially, economically, politically, and legally. This was done by making CNIC for women & supporting advocacy programs for making women CNICs in district Sherani. Eventually, 9,368 women made their CNIC registrations.

Project Title: Baluchistan Peace Exchange Journey (BPEJ)

Supported By: Peace Direct the UK

Objectives:1: Active citizen for peace, peace activists enlisting campaign Through peace change-maker’s forms and conflict resolution & peacebuilding among different ethnic groups

Geographical Focus: District Loralai, Quetta, and Ziarat

Results and Achievements: 36 youth representatives participated in the Baluchistan peace exchange journey, the visited peacebuilding organization in Loralai, Quetta, and Ziarat. Received sessions on active citizens for peace, enlisted other youth through youth peace change-maker forums, received conflicts resolution and peacebuilding sessions, received capacity building training on youth activism, youth development, youth empowerment, and peacebuilding training, replicate Islamabad peace exchange of Peace Direct UK

Project Title: To promote & protect the rights of minorities through forming action-based networks and community groups

Supported By: Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)

Objectives: To promote & protect the rights of minorities through forming action based networks and community groups

Geographical Focus: Quetta and Loralai districts

Results and Achievements: A significant number of community members, political party representatives, lawyers, youth, teachers, local administration officials, and media persons are sensitized to the rights of minorities and their protection. An action plan with roles and responsibilities for stakeholders at the district level (both target districts) is available for action. Champions will emerge in communities as protectors and promoters of minority rights. the minority communities are solitary in their lives they are living with a separate atmosphere and no social linkages with majority Muslim communities due to that there are made walls between non-Muslims and Muslims. Through this project we conducted joint activities between non-Muslim minority and Muslim majority communities thus the walls brake up and the bridges made between both communities now they are celebrating their lives with equality, openness, and togetherness 

Project Title: Promotion Freedom of Religious and Belief Rights of Minorities in Pakistan
Supported By: Minority Rights Group International –MRGI (UK)
Objectives: To promote & protect the freedom of religious and belief rights of minorities in district Quetta
Geographical Focus: Quetta
Results and Achievements: Identified & presented notes about hate materials compiled, recommendations to remove hate materials and replace interfaith, inter-religious, civic, human rights, and tolerance material in syllabus finalized in the shape of the draft through four consultative & follow up meetings, the mechanism made to remove hate materials from curriculum there will also chalk out a plan to promote/protect, created atmosphere of respect freedom of religion and belief of minorities within schools/colleges by teachers and students, increased encouragement of minority students within schools and colleges premises, reduced stigma and discrimination against minority students, decreased extremism within educational institutes. promoted & protected religious freedom and belief of religious minorities according to national and international instruments through awareness-raising, advocacy forming action-based networks and community groups, the government chalks out the action to protect and safeguard the religious sites of the religious minorities.

Project Title: Community Access to Justice Program Project in Baluchistan

Supported By: Law & Justice Commission of Pakistan Under Honourable Supreme Court of Pakistan

Objectives: Supporting, facilitating the general public to access easily, quick, unconditional justices & providing legal aid at tehsil level of district Killa Saifullah

Geographical Focus: Killa Saifullah

Results and Achievements: Provided access to justice, and legal empowerment to communities, provided free legal aid to women, minorities, people living with disabilities, child abuse, child labour, poor, justice seekers, neglected and disadvantaged segments of the society. We mobilized, aware, educated, motivated, and sensitized general and disadvantaged segments about their rights and the way to seek and access justice through formal justice systems. We realized our self-assessment, and appreciative inquiry, our act certainly helped the disadvantaged, excluded groups, violent victims, and marginalized communities legally empowered grow up, prospered with legal empowerment and access to justice

Project Title: Pakistan Country CPDE 3rd Monitoring Round.

Supported By: CSOs Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE)

Objectives: Monitoring and Review of the four Development Effectiveness Principles at the Pakistan Level to Measure the Progress Nationally

Geographical Focus: Baluchistan Province

Results and Achievements: Monitored and reviewed the four Development Effectiveness Principles at the Pakistan Level & Measured the Progress Nationally.  Engaged, involved, participated, contributed, consulted, suggested, reflected, feedback & opinion incorporated of the highest number of diverse CSOs, CBOs, COs, and NGOs in the entire project structure, portfolio & framework. Scoped, analyzed, monitored, traced, countered, and reviewed the four Development Effectiveness principles at the Pakistan level, measured the progress, its achievements, successes, and implementation process at the country level and achievements of its targets in Pakistan. Sensitized wakeup and accountable legislatures, government institutions, line departments, and elected representatives on achievement, targets in addition flourished and accelerate the process of achievements, successes & implementations of the four Development Effectiveness Principles at the Pakistan level. Understand, analyze, trace, monitor, and identified the gaps, flaws, remedies, walls in front of achievement & implementations of the four Development Effectiveness Principles at the Pakistan level, through the collection of evidence-based citizens generated data, consolations, dialogues, advocacy, mobilizations and literature review and market it as yellow traffic lights. Formulated/drafted the detailed monitoring report of the four Development Effectiveness Principles at the Pakistan level achievements its process, successes, and implementations. Made systematic participatory evidence-based advocacy, lobbying, coalition building, and mobilization plan/campaign on analysis, monitoring, review, follow up, reforms and to make government accountable for the achievements of the four Development Effectiveness Principles at the Pakistan level. Strengthened & mobilized CSOs & partners CSOs professionally and technically.