Monthly Archives: September 2023

Planning meeting: telefilm on WPP Lahore, 28 September 2023 Omar Asghar Khan Foundation is super excited to work with the very talented Sarmad Khoosat and his team at Khoosat Films on a telefilm featuring women’s leadership and political participation. The telefilm is part of a media campaign that is being designed and executed by Omar Asghar Khan Foundation with the renowned Syed Talat Hussain and Saqib Tanveer under the Foundation’s Fempower Pakistan project. Creative ideas…

Social accountability for better public services leaders & allies meet government officials & elected public reps 20-21 September 2023, Abbottabad Omar Asghar Khan Foundation assisted 17 women leaders and 12 male allies from 13 CSOs of District Abbottabad to present about 100 public petitions demanding improvements in schools, roads and other public services in a series of six meetings with senior district government officials of the education, health and social welfare departments as well as…

14th Aawaz II Provincial Forum Meeting 22 September 2023, Peshawar The 14th meeting of Aawaz II's Provincial Forum (PF) in KP was held in Peshawar on 22 September 2023. The PF members reviewed progress made on key policy and governance issues pursued by its six sub-committees. Dr. Yasmin Zaidi shared key recommendations emerging from the district and provincial dialogues to promote interfaith harmony. "Effective measures are needed to ensure religious minority communities do not face…

A GBT methodology designed by Omar Asghar Khan Foundation for the Sub-National Governance Project was reviewed and given a thumbs-up by a Working Group attended by senior government officials of the Government of Punjab. Omar Asghar Khan Foundation will now apply the GBT methodology to Punjab's budgets of the last three fiscal years and present findings of trends in public finance investments to promote women's empowerment. The methodology has already been approved by the Government…