[Okfn-pk] Suggestions by Mr. Mohsin

Tue Mar 10 14:24:40 UTC 2015

Hello Mohsin, Yes I have worked as NGOs Monitoring Officer in Pakistan
under Ministry of Interior but before coming to the point I would like to
clear 2-3 things which will help you in achieving the planned tasks. There
is no single body of law that governs NGOs in Pakistan. There are between
10 to 18 different laws in Pakistan that may govern an NGO. First of all
SECP register nationwide Non-Profit Companies under Section 42 of the
Companies Ordinance, 1984. There are three other major laws dealing with
registration of NGOs / Non-profit organizations in Pakistan which are as
under:-

i) Voluntary Social Welfare Agencies, 1961
ii) Societies Registration Act, 1860
iii) Trust Act, 1882

Registration cases falling under the laws mentioned at serial no. (i) and
(ii) are undertaken by the Registrar of NGOs appointed in each District of
Pakistan. Whereas, registration cases under Trust Act (sr. no. iii) are
managed by Tehsildar Office located in all the Districts of Pakistan.

As regard International NGOs interested in working under Pakistan, they are
required to obtain approval from the Establishment Division as well as
thorough clearance from National Security Agencies.

Keeping in view the fact that there are multiple authorities dealing with
registration of NGOs / Non-Profit Organizations in Pakistan at National as
well as District level, there is no single database containing record /
registration details of all those NGOs. Many private organizations tried to
collect the record about NGOs registered / working in different cities /
villages of Pakistan which can be found online at following links:-

http://www.ngos.org.pk/
http://www.unesco.org.pk/documents/Directory%20of%20NGOs.pdf
http://www.ngoworldpk.com/ngo-introduction/download-full-ngo-directory-(pakistan)/
https://sites.google.com/site/thecivilsocietyforumofpakistan/Pakistan-nonprofits-directory

Above mentioned links does not provide the complete list of all the NGOs
registered / working in Pakistan. Total number of NGOs registered in
Islamabad only are more than 3000 (list can be produced). An estimated
number of NGOs registered / working in whole Pakistan is 30,000+ and at
present there is no single database available with any Government Agency
which contains all those NGOs.

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On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 5:00 PM, mohsin khawaja <email at mohsinkhawaja.me>
wrote:

> AoA,
>
> I noticed that you worked as "NGOs Monitoring Officer" - a while back i
> was looking for a complete list of NGOs in Pakistan - but couldn't find it.
> Can you help me get this dataset ? i will try to share and promote it.
>
> regards
>
> ===
> Mohsin Khawaja
> +92-3223225433
> http://linkedin.com/in/khmohsin
>
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 1:24 PM, Nouman Nazim <nouman.nazim at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Mohsin,
>>
>> First of all welcome to this discussion list. I am reproducing your
>> suggestions, from my personal email, here:-
>>
>> i) Ask corporations, specially dealing with food and health care
>> products, to open their manufacturing & raw material policies [data] so
>> that consumers can make rational choices rather than emotional following of
>> brands under the influence of advertisement.
>>
>> ii) An online platform / forum / wiki to raise public awareness about how
>> Government works in Pakistan and provide answers to frequently asked
>> questions about Government functions / services.
>>
>> All the current members of Open Knowledge Pakistan (OKP) discussion list
>> are requested to provide their views / opinions on the suggestions of Mr.
>> Mohsin and how Open Knowledge Pakistan can undertake such initiatives.
>>
>> My opinions in this regard are as under:-
>>
>> i) We can establish Open Product Data Working Group under the umbrella of
>> OKP to campaign for Open Product Data in Pakistan by contacting and writing
>> to leading local products manufacturers and request them to Open their
>> products data. There is the working group titled: "Open Product Data"
>> working under Open Knowledge (Intl.) to build a public database of product
>> data. Here are the links of their websites:- http://product.okfn.org and
>> http://product-open-data.com. After obtaining data from local products
>> manufactures we can add that to Global Open Product Data database besides
>> establishing our own local portal which will allow users to easily
>> access data.
>>
>> ii) As regard public awareness on how Government Work, we can launch an
>> online portal like following:- http://answers.oaklandnet.com/ to answer
>> questions about different functions / services provided by the Government
>> of Pakistan. The aforementioned website is using open source platform
>> titled Honolulu Answers
>> <http://www.codeforamerica.org/apps/honolulu-answers/> and Ms. Sheba
>> Najmi, Founder, Code for Pakistan <http://codeforpakistan.org> played a
>> vital role in developing this platform. We can deploy Honolulu Answers
>> <http://www.codeforamerica.org/apps/honolulu-answers/> in Pakistan and
>> request Ms. Sheba Najmi for her suggestions / guidance.
>>
>>
>> With regards,
>>
>> *Nouman Nazim*
>> Ambassador / Group Lead
>> Open Knowledge Pakistan <http://pk.okfn.org/>
>>
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