Monthly Archives: February 2023

Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) Punjab Budgets FY2022-23 & FY2023-24 Consultative Session with Key Officials, Government of Punjab 28 February 2023, WDD Office, Lahore Omar Asghar Khan Foundation, Shirkat Gah and the Women Development Department (WDD), Government of Punjab collaboratively convened a meeting bringing together representatives of Social Welfare, Home, TVETA, Agriculture, Education, Special Education, Population Welfare and other key departments. Shirkat Gah presented its analysis of priorities for improved compliance with CEDAW & SDG5. The…

Gender Responsive Budgets (GRB) Balochistan Budgets FY2022-23 & FY2023-24 24-25 February 2023, Islamabad The Balochistan Assembly, especially its Women Parliamentary Caucus, in collaboration with Omar Asghar Khan Foundation (the Foundation) and Shirkat Gah (SG), convened a two-day meeting of MPs and the Chair of BCSW to discuss gender-responsive budgeting that also contributes to improving compliance with CEDAW & SDG5. SG assisted the MPs to review compliance priorities of CEDAW & SDG5, emphasising some of the…

Gender Responsive Budgeting Planning a Meeting with the National Assembly & Senate of Pakistan 14 February 2023, WPC Office, Islamabad Omar Asghar Khan Foundation met with the Secretary-Women Parliamentary Caucus-NA, Dr. Shahida Rehmani, to follow up on discussions held in August 2022 on GRB, CEDAW and SDG5. It was agreed that collaboration between the Foundation, Shirkat Gah & the WPC members/Senators will help promote GRB in ways that contributes to implementing the GRB Strategy developed…

"No nation can ever be worthy of its existence that cannot take with them their #women. No struggle can ever succeed without women ever participating side by side with men.” Quaid Azam Jinnah Islamia College for Women, Lahore, 25 March 1940 #AawazII vمیں نے ہمیشہ کہا ہے کہ کوئی قوم اپنی خواتین کو ساتھ لیے بغیراپنے وجود کے لائق نہیں ہو سکتی۔ خواتین کو مردوں کے شانہ بشانہ شریک کیے بغیر کوئی بھی جدوجہد کامیاب…

On 12 February 1983 women protested against the discriminatory laws in Pakistan. Each year this day is commemorated as National Women's Day to honor their struggle.

Gender Responsive Budgeting Punjab Budgets FY2021-22 & 2022-23 Meeting with Secretary-WDD, Government of Punjab 10 February 2023, WDD Office, Lahore Key government departments like WDD, Social Welfare, Police, Home, Agriculture, Industries, TVETA, Education, Health and Population Welfare will meet to review the Foundation’s gendered analysis of Punjab’s Budget FY2022-23 and develop proposals for the province’s budget for FY2023-24. Key compliance needs of SDG5 and CEDAW will also be discussed. This was agreed at a meeting…

Formed in 2000 Omar Asghar Khan Foundation is an NGO registered under the Societies Act 1860. Its average annual budget over the past three years is Rs.55 million. It has a staff of about 25 and offices in Islamabad and Abbottabad. It is Aawaz II’s lead partner in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa since 2000. We are looking to hire a qualified person to lead on financial management & planning and support administration. The selected individual will be…