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| Dear viewer, |
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I welcome you to SABAWON website. SABAWON works on social development issues, and is a growing civil society organization of Pakistan. SABAWON stands for Social Action Bureau for Assistance in Welfare and Organizational Networking, and it is a registered organisation under the Societies Act of Pakistan (1860).
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SABAWON was created way back in
September 1994 by a group of development activists to create awareness
on the issue of child labour in Peshawar city (provincial capital of
the North-west Frontier Province of Pakistan). Since then SABAWON has
diversified its programmatic work and has grown into a key civil society
organisation of Pakistan working on the development issues such as social
empowerment, gender equality, decentralized governance and policy and
institutional support. Staff strength of SABAWON is 182, of which 50%
are women. Its Programme Coordination Office is based in Peshawar, beneath
which there is an organizational network of 9 Regional Offices spread
over NWFP and Punjab (two provinces of Pakistan) working with over 500
village organizations. Institutional donors of SABAWON include Government
of Pakistan, Unicef, Save the Children (UK), National Commission for
Human Development (NCHD) and Aga Khan University (Karachi). |
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Currently SABAWON is implementing projects in the NWFP and Punjab provinces with UNICEF, Plan Pakistan, PPAF, EC, IWP, AKU/MoWD, Abt.Inc/USAID, Ministry of Industries Govt: of Pakistan and NEF. The Partnerships are in the field of Education, Health, Water & Environmental Sanitation, Community Physical Infrastructures, Rights, Good Governance and Institutional Development Sectors. Couple of projects has been initiated in the current month with the financial assistance coming from CARE International and PPAF. Those projects include Provision of HHE and WES facilities in government Primary schools , Drought Mitigation through Integrated Agriculture, Development of Small Dams for Irrigation Purposes and Social and Technical Assessment of over 400 Water Filtration Plants installed under Presidential Scheme of Clean Drinking Water for All (CDWA) through out Pakistan . SABAWON considers intervention in these sectors essential to reduce poverty and ensure gender balanced sustainable development. It has all the plans to scale up its operation throughout Pakistan and enter AJK as well in the mentioned sectors. We are also working for strengthening the devolved structure at district level and are providing support on regular basis for capacity building of TMAs. |
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All the projects are based on the principles of community participation and activities largely revolve around community awareness on several issues, ensuring participation through involving the devolved structure, school teachers' training in child-to-child approach for promotion of awareness in social sector, PTAs formation, linkages development, hand-pumps installation, latrine construction etc. |
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SABAWON believes that development needs integrated approach. If we talk about poverty reduction, or gender and development or sustainable livelihood whatever we say we cannot achieve our goal of having happy and healthy life unless and until we promote integrated approach. In order to have sustainable development we cannot segregate the sectors and their link to support each other. Working in a single sector we may achieve some growth in one of the sector but we can not claim overall sustainable development unless and until we work both at micro and macro levels. This requires restless efforts. |
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Performance of public, social sector services generally within Pakistan and specifically in NWFP has been extremely poor. Basic services are poorly designed in terms of their outreach to the rural poor and the overall lack of accountability of the system to the poor has left large pockets of population with no drinking water facilities, poor sanitation, low literacy rates and high birth rates adversely affecting community, specially women and children. The recent Pakistan Participatory Poverty Assessment report (DfID, 2001) mentions that the education and health care needs of women appear to be of secondary priority at the household level, the poor access of women to basic services is clear evidence that the government shares responsibility for the perpetuation of discriminatory practices. Within provincial planning cycle, social sector programmes are not awarded on a need basis and rural-urban disparities have left rural populations unserved by basic services. These stark realizations and continuous feedback from the deprived and marginalised communities pushed SABAWON to plan and design a developmental programme for the social empowerment and uplift of the people of Pakistan .
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SABAWON works following a process-oriented,
organic approach in line with the core values of the organization which
include building long-term partnerships with the community, finding
solutions collectively, bringing real change at the grassroots and making
sustained impacts in the field. SABAWON believes that mainstreaming
the vulnerable and socially secluded sections of the society is an essential
imperative for mobilising participation of the people in the decision-making
processes and their own governance. Through fostering alternative approaches
to the development, SABAWON has been continuously questioning the existing
socio-economic and political structures that perpetuate injustice, deprivation
and environmental degradation in Pakistan. |
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| I hope you will like the website and will
inform us about your feedback in the meanwhile. |
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| Muhammad Tariq |
| Chief Executive, SABAWON |
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