[Okfn-pk] Suggestions by Mr. Mohsin

Wed Mar 11 05:21:24 UTC 2015

Well, it is indeed a good project to start but as per my personal opinion
we first need to gather and list all the Public Bodies in Pakistan —that is
government-run or -controlled organizations. Examples include federal as
well as provincial ministries or departments, and state-run organizations.
At present there is no such database containing Name, Address, and Contact
No. of Public Bodies in Pakistan. One such project of Open Knowledge
(Intl.) is running at the following link:-

http://publicbodies.org/

Your suggestions in this regard will be highly appreciated.

*Nouman Nazim*

Ambassador / Group Lead
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On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 8:51 PM, mohsin khawaja <email at mohsinkhawaja.me>
wrote:

> then do you think it is a good project to start with for OKFN-PK or not ?
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 7:24 PM, Nouman Nazim <nouman.nazim at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> *Nouman Nazim*
>>
>> Ambassador / Group Lead
>> Open Knowledge Pakistan <http://pk.okfn.org>
>> M: +92 336 5101166
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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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