Yesterday the Middle East Institute hosted an event with Dr. Shamsh Kassim-Lakha, a veteran government and education policymaker and former President of the Aga Khan University, to discuss the growing participation of philanthropy, government and civil society in Pakistani development initiatives.
Click here to read POMED’s notes on the event.
As the development challenge has grown in Pakistan, Dr. Lakha said civil society groups have taken on the tasks of implementing development programs in a variety of areas, including women’s empowerment, economic growth, judicial reform and environmental protection. Civil society groups have prospered from a healthy partnership with the state, which has in recent years opened itself to counsel and cooperation with citizen bodies and non-state partners. Grassroots development projects are effective in addressing basic community needs. Supported by philanthropy, such initiatives can become credible conduits of change, he said.
http://pomed.org/blog/2009/08/pomed-notes-development-in-pakistan.html/
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Good article.The original article has a typo error:
The name should be:Dr. Shamsh Kassim-Lakha.
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Thanks for the correction. We have updated the post here.
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Except for the small part of northern pakistan where aga khan foundation has worked extensively at grass roots level, we do not have much evidence of mobilization at grass root level. Think NWFP, Balochistan, Punjab and Sind. Philonthropy or charity is the only way people are directed to. The state askes for grants and funds for reasons unknown to the common man. And isnt the govt partnership a little too rosy a picture. Govt partnerships are never without corruption
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