Forging Partnerships for Sustainable Development: Road from Johannesburg, 2002

The Johannesburg Summit in 2002 called for “strengthening institutional framework of sustainable development” at all levels to promote further the implementation of Agenda 21. It was a departure from the earlier international events in that it focused not only on negotiations and recommendations but also resulted in the formation of more than 300 voluntary partnerships to mobilize additional resources for sustainable development solutions.

LEAD Pakistan implemented this strategy in Pakistan by organizing a stakeholder dialogue on “Forging Partnerships for Sustainable Development: The Road from Johannesburg” to help the country move forward on targets, timetables and commitments reached in Johannesburg.

The dialogue brought together over 400 experts and stakeholders on water, energy, health, agriculture, and biodiversity (WEHAB)—the five sectors that had been proposed by the United Nations Secretary General for concrete and core actions for sustainable development. The event was a rare cross-sectional representation of stakeholders in the country, including 80 participants from various tiers of government, among them district and tehsil nazims; 69 participants from small, medium, and large national business and multinational companies; 135 from civil society organizations, including CBOs, and NGOs; 58 from academia, research institutions and media; and 14 from various UN agencies. There was also a strong representation by bilateral and multilateral agencies throughout the session.

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Pakistan Center for Philanthropy

Workshop on Regulatory Framework of NGOs

At the request of the Pakistan Center for Philanthropy (PCP), LEAD Pakistan conducted a day-long consultative workshop on the regulatory framework for NGOs in Pakistan with a specific focus on the PCP set-up. The workshop was facilitated by trainers from LEAD and Venture for Fundraising, Manila.

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Partnership with Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)

Established in 1998, the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) is an independent, not-for-profit think tank based in Japan that goes beyond research to identify practical ways to protect the earth’s environment and to realize greater sustainability and equity in the global community.

LEAD Pakistan and IGES share common principles and objectives, including the development of human resources for the promotion of sustainable development. As LEAD extends its services to areas beyond capacity development, and IGES moves towards its third phase of research, the organizations have decided to collaborate and are in the process of signing a Memorandum of Understanding concerning mutual interests, such as training and education, research, and internship.

Under the partnership, the following broad areas and activities are envisaged:

Joint training for LEAD Associates and Fellows and Decision-Makers, with face-to-face and on-line distance learning sessions;

IGES e-courses to be integrated into LEAD Pakistan’s LEAD and/or Management Development programmes;

Joint research activities related to sustainable development, especially in the area of water and environmental education;

Regular updates and new contents for IGES e-courses; and Research internship for LEAD Pakistan up to six months duration.

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Partnership with Integrated Rural Support Program

Solutions to urgent environmental and natural resource management problems cannot be found without working with the grassroots communities most directly involved with these issues. Appreciating this, LEAD Pakistan has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Integrated Rural Support Program (IRSP), which is based in Mardan, NWFP, and works with communities in areas such as education, water and sanitation, women empowerment and natural resource management. 

Under the MoU, various activities will be conducted in response to needs identified by the communities in Babozai and Seeswa villages, particularly trainings and capacity building workshops on water and sanitation and biodiversity conservation issues, introduction of new domestic technologies, and planning for rural development

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United Nations Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF)

Participatory Reflection and Action Training

UNICEF engaged LEAD Pakistan to assist it in the capacity building of its education program partner organizations in Balochistan. The program focuses on 730 schools in districts Kalat, Khuzdar, Pishin and Sibi where it seeks to improve the quality of education and make it more accessible to girls.

The target schools have Parent Teacher School Management Committees and Women Village Education Committees. In order to enhance the role and functioning of these committees, their capacity needed to be built in planning and monitoring and management of schools. For this purpose, LEAD Pakistan was engaged to conduct training in participatory rural appraisal (PRA) for the district as resource materials in LEAD’s training programs.

Field staff of the project working with EDO and the NGOs who would be responsible for training the committees.

LEAD’s training enabled the community groups to understand their role and the manner in which they could develop ownership of the schools by providing it with necessary inputs from the community as well as the government.

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The Asia Foundation

Workshop of Pakistan NGO Initiative (PNI) Partners

Based on LEAD’s research in indigenous philanthropy and partnership with Venture for Fundraising, Manila, a customized training module was developed for a five-day training workshop on the mechanics of fund raising for NGOs in Pakistan. Organized in Islamabad in March 2002, the workshop was conducted by trainers from LEAD Pakistan and Venture for Fund Raising, and attended by over 52 participants from 30 NGO partners of The Asia Foundation. The workshop was sponsored by The Asia Foundation with funds made available by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The primary objective of the workshop was to help participants recognize the potential of indigenous philanthropy and to introduce them to a number of fundraising techniques and vehicles. Participants were also given an opportunity to adapt a Fundraising Plan Template according to their organization’s needs, resources and targets to help them guide their organization’s fundraising efforts. The event also built the capacity of participating organizations to develop proposals and seeking grants from donor organizations.

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The Asia Foundation

Investing in Ourselves: Giving and Fund Raising in Pakistan

The Asia Foundation engaged LEAD Pakistan to explore financially sustainable sources of funds for NGOs in Pakistan. This project was part of a multi-country research project entitled “Investing in Ourselves: Giving and Fund Raising in Asia”. 

The project was initiated by the Asia Pacific Philanthropy Consortium in partnership with The Venture for Fund Raising and The Asia Foundation. Funded by USAID, The Asia Foundation, the Nippon Foundation and The Asian Development Bank, it was conducted in seven countries across Asia, including Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines and Thailand. The primary purpose of the project was to identify and document innovative fundraising techniques employed by Asian NGOs and to increase the capacity of NGOs in the region to mobilize resources for development purposes.

Responsible for the Pakistan chapter of the multi-country project, the LEAD Pakistan research team developed 16 teaching case studies on the fundraising experiences of NGOs that have demonstrated an independence from grants. The NGOs profiled represented all four provinces and a number of sectors. On the basis of the case studies and related research, LEAD Pakistan also developed a country report as the final project deliverable.

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