Shirkat Gah Overview
Shirkat Gah – Women’s Resource Centre is a leading women’s rights organisation in Pakistan since 1975.
Background
Meaning a place of participation, Shirkat Gah (SG) was formed as a collective to integrate consciousness-raising with a development perspective.
For more than 30 years SG has facilitated women’s empowerment by increasing their access to information, resources, skills and decision making, and helped to bring about positive change to policies, laws and practices.
Viewing rights and development as inherently linked, SG has a multi-dimensional approach, aiming to translate advocacy into actions, engaging with local issues, aligning with international themes and linking the grassroots to the global.
Vision
SG is committed to a progressive and democratic society, where gender equality prevails, human security and opportunities are ensured for all and resources are shared on sustainable basis in a just world order.
Main programme:
Women’s Empowerment and Social Justice Programme (WESJP) is Shirkat Gah’s integrated programme since January 2008. It focuses on good governance, livelihoods, and rights, gender imbalances and adopts an integrated approach to address the complex dimensions of women’s empowerment.
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