Work of the Aga Khan Foundation in northern Pakistan offers a successful model of sustainable projects in livelihood creation, archaeological conservation and environment management.
The third sector
Faiza Shah for Dawn Herald.
A state that withdraws itself from providing essential social services such as education, health and sanitation and a private sector that is selfishly focused on profit maximisation leave a lot of room for a third sector. Call it civil society, the development sector or the non-profit sector, the rise of this third sector has happened alongside the rise of market-based economic fundamentalism and the reduction of the state’s role in the social development sphere throughout the third world, starting in the late 1980s and reaching its climax in the middle of the 1990s.
Way back in 2001, a Civil Society Index put together by the Aga Khan Foundation in Pakistan, in coordination with Civicus, an international alliance of civil society groups, put the number of “active and registered NGOs in Pakistan” at “around 10,000 to 12,000”.
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