Bawaqar Aurat Khushal Muaashra Campaign

The South Asia Partnership Pakistan (SAP-PK) is implementing a Social and Behavior Change Communication campaign aimed at reducing social and structural barriers facing women particularly in textile and fashion industries. The goal is to improve income and employment opportunities for women and people with disabilities (PWDs) in Pakistan’s textile and fashion industries. Through targeted behavior change efforts, the campaign is challenging limiting factors, fostering economic empowerment for women especially in poor and working-class families. The campaign started in April 2024 and its current phase will be of two-years with the financial support of GIZ and German Cooperation.

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Empowering Women Through Social Justice

Empowering Women Through Social Justice (EWSJ) is a 6-month (May-October2024) project supported by UN-Women Pakistan. The project is being implemented in 10 union councils of Peshawar and Khyber district in KP province. The project intends to improve the understanding of rights, laws, mechanisms, and access of women to social justice with their active participation in all planned project interventions. It is also helping women’s understanding of their rights, laws, and mechanisms to access social justice. By encouraging active participation, the project is enabling women assume leadership roles in identifying and addressing gender-based violence (GBV) and strengthening redressal mechanisms to reduce the incidence of violence against women (VAW).

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Peoples’ Actions for Climate Resilience

Peoples Action for Climate Resilience (PACR) Program (2024-2026) is a three-year program and is the continuity of PLRP and its core objectives and is being implemented in the same geographical areas. The purposes of selecting the same districts and union councils are to keep a consistent, focused and intensive approach to development and addressing the climate issues. The focus will support to deepen the effects of social change that PLRP triggered over the past 12 years. PACR-I will further capitalize on the change factors including better connectivity of socially excluded families, economic resilience through assets and livelihood support, village organizations as viable platform for planning, implementation and voicing for change, and most importantly vocal and strong women leadership that is ready to address challenges of climate change. The following is the project focused area.

The program is reaching out to a total 13,540 families with a population coverage of approximately 72,000 (with 36,000 men and 36,000 women).

With the devastating impact of climate change, particularly after the 2010 flash floods, SAP-PK shifted its focus to community resilience, adaptation and climate governance. As an active member of the National Humanitarian Network (NHN), SAP-PK has contributed significantly to national climate resilience efforts.

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