The history of Non-government organizations can be traced back to 1947 when India was divided into sovereign states of Pakistan and India. Though at beginning not stated as Non-government organizations, several volunteer organizations provided support and humanitarian aid to migrants and aided sufferers of communal disturbances. Bulky percentage of such organizations was handled and run by women, who also took significant part in Pakistan Movement. During first few years of independence of Pakistan these non-government organizations worked for assistance in rehabilitation and fundamental services as the like of education and health services. The next expansion in this sector took place in the late 1970’s when the Martial Law government explicated its viewpoint of communal effort and well being. In 1980’s several non-government organizations arose to benefit from the funding reserved for development via local groups. In the party free elections of 1985 several politicians exhilarated the growth of Non-government organizations to captivate the special reserves available to them for development and growth of their electorates. And a bulky percentage of such Non-government organizations was registered under Social Welfare Ordinance. A rapid increase in growth of Non-government organizations was observed in early 1990’s when new reserves were released under Peoples Work Program, new organizations i.e. non-profit were formed for the purpose of availing those funds especially in rural Sindh and Punjab. It is not easy to estimate the number of Non-government organizations, as non-profit organizations can be registered under five different laws. United Nations Development Program in a publication specified that the number of Non-government organizations may be between 8000 and 16000, several of them simply may be social welfare organizations. If the number of unregistered non-government organizations and CBO’s is added to the number of organizations that are registered, the number of non-profit organizations can be anywhere in the range of 25000 to 35000. Several broad categories can be made of the non-government organizations operating in Pakistan which are as under:
Short History of Non-government Organizations of Pakistan
Mujtaba Ahmad
The history of Non-government organizations can be traced back to 1947 when India was divided into sovereign states of Pakistan and India. Though at beginning not stated as Non-government organizations, several volunteer organizations provided support and humanitarian aid to migrants and aided sufferers of communal disturbances. Bulky percentage of such organizations was handled and run by women, who also took significant part in Pakistan Movement. During first few years of independence of Pakistan these non-government organizations worked for assistance in rehabilitation and fundamental services as the like of education and health services.
The next expansion in this sector took place in the late 1970’s when the Martial Law government explicated its viewpoint of communal effort and wellbeing. In 1980’s several non-government organizations arose to benefit from the funding reserved for development via local groups. In the party free elections of 1985 several politicians exhilarated the growth of Non-government organizations to captivate the special reserves available to them for development and growth of their electorates. And a bulky percentage of such Non-government organizations was registered under Social Welfare Ordinance.
A rapid increase in growth of Non-government organizations was observed in early 1990’s when new reserves were released under Peoples Work Program, new organizations i.e. non-profit were formed for the purpose of availing those funds especially in rural Sindh and Punjab. It is not easy to estimate the number of Non-government organizations, as non-profit organizations can be registered under five different laws. United Nations Development Program in a publication specified that the number of Non-government organizations may be between 8000 and 16000, several of them simply may be social welfare organizations. If the number of unregistered non-government organizations and CBO’s is added to the number of organizations that are registered, the number of non-profit organizations can be anywhere in the range of 25000 to 35000. Several broad categories can be made of the non-government organizations operating in Pakistan which are as under:
- Operating for Politicization and Advocacy.
- Operating for Policy Concerns and Consideration. Emergency, Rehabilitation and Relief Organizations.
- Operating for execution of developmental programs comprising of service delivery organizations and CBO’s.
Operating for Politicization and Advocacy.
Operating for Policy Concerns and Consideration. Emergency, Rehabilitation and Relief Organizations.
Operating for execution of developmental programs comprising of service delivery organizations and CBO’s.
However only limited number of Non-government organizations are involved in developmental expansion in Pakistan. Largely they are service delivery organizations, however, many of them are trying their hard out to get themselves converted either in to CBO’s or into community support organizations. Only a handful have been successful however others are still trying and making their efforts to get there.
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