To Study the Impact of NGOs Activities on Womens Development in Faisalabad City General Objective:

To Study the Impact of NGOs Activities on Womens Development

Specific Objectives are to;

development.
Access the activities regarding womens development made by the

NGO. Access the satisfaction level of respondent about womens development by the NGOs Make some suggestions for the effective role of NGO in womens development.

Aurat Foundation (AF) is a civil society organization committed to work for womens empowerment and citizens participation in governance for creating a socially just, democratic and humane society in Pakistan. Over the last 24 years, Aurat Foundation has come to be recognized nationally and internationally as one of the leading institutions for enhancing womens economic and political status in the country. The Foundation has also emerged as a major support organisation for civil society organizations working for social change at the community level. The Foundation is working primarily with the collaboration of civil society organizations, networks and

groups and has an outreach extending to all of Pakistans districts. It has a network of information focal points for community level women in rural and urban communities across Pakistan; it has created and is strengthening its network of civil society organizations in all the districts of Pakistan for citizens participation in addressing issues of concern for women at the district level and below; and it is catalyzing critical groups in society to influence policy, legislation and programs for womens greater economic and political power in society. AF is a civil society organisation working for womens empowerment and citizens rights with the collaboration of citizens groups and organizations to provide information build capacity and undertake advocacy for womens issues and for good governance in Pakistan. AF is working to assist women in acquiring greater control over knowledge, resources and institutions; it influences social attitudes and behavior for a sensitive and responsive social environment to address womens concerns and development Aurat Foundation is now a national organisation with one of the largest district level networks of voluntary citizens groups and organizations based in the 110 districts of Pakistan. This network enables AF to move with speed throughout the country for advocacy for its causes and to assist women to solve their immediate problems at the district level (Aurat Foundation, 2010). Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has developed to become a broad-spectrum, countrywide human rights body. It has a great mission to work for the ratification and implementation by Pakistan of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and of other related Charters, Covenants, Protocols, Resolutions, Recommendations and internationally adopted norms. It is playing a key role in promoting studies in the field of human rights and mobilizes public opinion in favour of accepted norms through all available media and forums, and to carry out every category of activity to further the cause. its focus is to take appropriate action to prevent violations of human rights and to provide legal aid and other assistance to victims of those violations and to individuals and groups striving to protect human rights (Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, 1987).

Kashf Foundation has a mission to alleviate poverty by providing quality and cost effective microfinance services to low income households, especially women, in order to enhance their economic role and decisionmaking capacity. It empowers poor women and their families to become economically self reliant by providing financial services in a sustainable manner and it promotes economic self-actualization by providing the poor with continuous economic opportunities so they can realize their potential and overcome barriers of poverty. It believes to access to financial services is the basic right of each and every individual. The Foundation focuses on poor and destitute women who cannot survive in their social, political and economical life. It provides women with a lot of services and benefits like as General Loan, Emergency Loan, Home improvement Loan, Business Surmaya Loan and some insurance facilities (Kashf Foundation, 1999). National Rural Support Programme (NRSP) is working to release the potential abilities, skills and knowledge of rural men and women, to enable them to articulate their aspirations and to effectively marshal the resources they need to meet their identified needs. The main purpose is to poverty alleviation - enabling people to break the cycle of poverty, which begins with lack of opportunity, extends to the well-known miseries of economic and nutritional poverty and leads new generations to endure the same conditions. Its goal is to advocate for the poor is to bring the concerns of economicallymarginal men and women to public consciousness and to affect policy so that the poor are brought into the mainstream of the economy. The organization is manifesting in expanded opportunities for income-generation; community schools which provide quality primary education, community owned and managed infrastructure schemes, improved agricultural productivity, and higher returns for labour and so on. From the widest perspective the vision is manifested as the first stages of a transformation of civil society. As of December 2009 a total of 1,458,411 rural men and women decided it would be to their advantage to take part in NRSPs social mobilization process, believing it to be the best way to address the problems of poverty and underdevelopment in their villages. NRSP throws light on gender integration into policy planning,

programming, implementation and evaluation. It believes that some efforts to reduce poverty cannot achieve their full potential unless it addresses the

constraints that limit the capabilities of men and women to improve their standard of living and quality of life. The key aspects of this are Recognizing and harnessing the full potential of rural men and women, Increasing men's and women's productive capacities and Reducing the barriers which limit men's and women's participation in the economy and in society (NRSP, 1991).

The low social and economic status of rural women and their significant contribution to the household and village economies in most areas of Pakistan are well known facts though not as well documented. It is generally agreed that their concerns and problems should be integrated into all rural development plans and programmes since their equal partnership with men alone can ensure a balanced development of society. Field visits have shown that the oft-cited constraints on women's involvement in the development process can be overcome. There has been significant progress in terms of changes in the attitudes of men to gender segregation, as is evident from the growing demand for education for girls. Education can and will make a big difference in the lives of women as well as in their relationships with men as equal partners. Similarly, with the rapid expansion of male education in the villages, there are clear signs of change in attitudes to the protection of female health and family size. It is fair to say that in many rural communities the constraints on female education and health care are on the supply and not demand side (Khan, 2003).

Self-Employed Womens Association (SEWA) is a trade union registered in 1972. It is an organisation of poor, self-employed women workers. These are women who earn a living through their own labour or small businesses. They do not obtain regular salaried employment with welfare benefits like workers in the organized sector. They are the unprotected labour force of our country. Constituting 93% of the labour force, these are workers of the unorganized sector. Of the female labour force in India, more than 94% are in the unorganized sector. However their work is not counted and hence remains

invisible.

In

fact,

women

workers

themselves

remain

uncounted,

undercounted and invisible. SEWAs main goals are to organize women workers for full employment. Full employment means employment whereby workers obtain work security, income security, food security and social security (at least health care, child care and shelter). It organizes women to ensure that every family obtains full employment. By self-reliance it means that women should be autonomous and self-reliant, individually and collectively, both economically and in terms of their decision-making ability SEWA focuses on those women who are workers who have no fixed employee-employer relationship and depend on their own labour for survival. They are poor, illiterate and vulnerable. They barely have any assets or working capital. But they are extremely economically active, contributing very significantly to the economy and society with their labour (SEWA, 1972).

According to SEWA, types of self-employed women workers:

Hawkers, vendors and small business women like vegetable, fruit, fish, egg and other vendors of food items, household goods and clothes vendors :

Home-based workers like weavers, potters, bidi and agarbatti workers, papad rollers, ready-made garment workers, women who process agricultural products and artisans, and

Manual labourers & service providers like agricultural labourers, construction workers, contract labourers, handcart pullers, head loaders, domestic workers workers. and laundry workers. In addition to these three categories there is emergence of another category of women

Producers & Services who invest their labour and capital to carry out their businesses. This category includes Agriculture, cattle rearers , salt workers, gum collectors, cooking & vending etc (SEWA, 1972).

Women Empowerment and Social Justice Programme (WESJP) is working on Women have limited access and knowledge of the importance of obtaining identity and marriage documents, social, health, education and financial services in most geographical areas of Pakistan. Shirkat Gah works towards identifying and collaborating with outreach partners in each province of the country to address key legal, economic, livelihood, cultural taboos and attitudes and health-related issues affecting women in the rural and under developed parts of the country. WESJP conducts and supports various activities for creating awareness on issues and empowering individuals and organizations through advocacy, research, publications and interventions to work towards sustainable development. It advocates for the issues of women and their empowerment by lobbying with their local communities and duty bearers, policy makers, media, national and international civil society and development organizations. It initiates, respond to, and circulate campaigns around human rights, good governance, legal reforms, livelihood and environmental issues. It is working in four provinces of Pakistan. WESJP organized a roundtable on Negotiating alliances, overcoming oppositions: womens movements and other social movements with a sister Research Programme Consortium (RPC), the Pathways of womens empowerment to share work around womens empowerment and build alliances (Cape Town, 13 November 2008).