Annual Report-2016

1 Annual Report 2016 i Report: Annual Report 2016 Edited and reviewed by: Benazir Jatoi Layout and design: Shahzad Ashraf Reporting period: July 2015 to June 2016 Published by: Aurat Publication and Information Service Foundation ii Table of Contents List of Acronyms and Abbreviations................................................................................ vii Introduction ....................................................................................................................... XI Board of Governors.......................................................................................................... xiii Executive Council............................................................................................................. xiv Institutional Structure ...................................................................................................... xv Audit Report.................................................................................................................... xvii List of Operational Projects (July 2013–June 2014)....................................................... xxi 1. Law and Policy Reform............................................................................................... 2 1.1 Unanimous passage of ‘Protectionof Women against Violence Act 2016’.................... 2 1.2 AF and CSO delegation met Minister for Women Development Department ............... 5 1.3 Study circles with parliamentarians organized.............................................................. 6 1.4 Pending pro-women legislation discussed with members of Standing Committee Balochistan .................................................................................................................. 7 1.5 Meeting with Speaker Balochistan Assembly held ....................................................... 8 1.6 Advocacy meeting with Sindh Women Parliamentary Caucus (SWPC) held ................ 8 1.7 AF team met Deputy Speaker and MPAs to discuss draft of Acid and Crime Bill .…....9 1.8 Policy advocacy and lobbying meeting held with Ch. Pervaiz Elahi........................... 10 1.9 MoU signed between Aurat Foundation and Pakistan Institute of ICTs for Development ............................................................................................................. 11 1.10 Civil Judges trained to expedite conviction rate under Pro-women laws ……………12 1.11 AAWAZ Provincial Forum met with Provincial Election Commission, Punjab.……13 1.12 Conference on the constitutional protection to local government…….……………...14 1.13 Round table meeting on 'Child Marriage Prohibition Bill 2015'..…….……………...16 2. Capacity Building and Consultative Processes......................................................... 18 2.1 LISTEN’s progress reviewed at its Annual Planning Meeting………………………..18 2.2 ICSWDD project reviewed during Annual Learning meeting..................................... 19 2.3 National Training of Trainers for CSOs organised...................................................... 19 2.4 Show & Tell Convention………………………………………………….………….20 2.5 In-house session on 'NGO-State relations: Women NGOs in Focus' organized.….…22 iii 2.6 Capacity Building and Gender Sensitization Training on Pro-Women Laws………..23 2.7 Meeting with Ombudsperson for Punjab protection against sexual harassment arranged…………………..…………………………………………...…23 2.8 Chief Justice Balochistan promised Women Friendly Spaces (WFSs ) in all district courts…………………………………………………………...…………………….24 2.9 Preliminary findings of GBV interventions in complex emergency launched………25 2.10 AF team monitor Local Government elections in Karachi……..……………………26 2.11 Refresher training with police moharrars and investigation officers held….………..26 2.12 Training workshop for community leaders…………………………………………...27 2.13 Visually impaired students sensitized on sexual violence….………………………...28 2.14 National Training of Trainers (ToT held with Police College instructors.…………..28 2.15 Pakistan Religious Freedom initiatives organized training of police on minority rights…………………………………………………….………..…………………..29 2.16 Pakistan Religious Freedom Initiatives organized a meeting with Religious Freedom Caucus………………………………………………….………..…………………..30 2.17 Enhanced role of MPs in implementation Sustainable Development Goals stressed..31 2.18 Training sessions with Karachi plice on 'right of minorities'……..…………………..32 2.19 Meeting held with Social Welfare Department…………………..…………………..32 2.20 Meeting held with Labour, Minorities Affairs, Women Development, Planning and Development Department and Provincial Ombudsman…………..…………...……..33 2.21 Advocacy meeting with Secretary Minorities held…..…………..…………………..24 3. Social Mobilisation and Citizens Engagement ......................................................... 36 3.1 Social Mobilization Waseela-e-Taleem Project (SM-WeT), National Cash Transfers Program (NCTP)........................................................................................................ 36 3.2 Prime Minsiter’s Waseela-e-Taleem Programme launched in 27 Districts.................. 37 3.3 One million BISP children enrolled in schools under Waseela-e-Taleem.................... 39 3.4 LISTEN..................................................................................................................... 40 3.5 Gender Based Violence Free District launched in district Kasur................................. 42 3.6 AAWAZ Voice and Accountability Programme......................................................... 44 4. Advocacy, Awareness-Raising and Lobbying .......................................................... 48 4.1 Civil society condemned the murder of renowned singer Amja Sabri......................... 48 iv 4.2 First ‘Habib Jalid Courage Award’............................................................................. 48 4.3 Launching Ceremony of ‘ZEWER’ as an achievement of women leaders’ struggle under LISTEN project................................................................................................ 49 4.4 National Women’s Day celebrated............................................................................. 51 4.5 Dinner in honour of Ms. Kamla Bhasin and Ms. Chandni Joshi.................................. 54 4.6 “We must differentiate between same and equal” – Kamla Bhasin ............................. 54 4.7 National Working Women Day Celebrated ................................................................ 55 4.8 ‘16 Days of Activism’................................................................................................ 57 4.9 GBV discussed in Balochistan ................................................................................... 57 4.10 IEC material on pro-women laws distributed amongst police stations for dissemination of knowledge and information ................................................................................... 59 4.11 Dialogue on laws on eradicating child marriages & violence against women in Sindh 60 4.12 Plight of women & girls with disabilities highlighted on international Day of PWDs . 61 4.14 International day for person with disabilities celebrated ............................................. 63 4.15 Parliamentarians’ role in eliminating violence against woemen stressed..................... 64 4.16 HUM AAWAZ Campaign Launched ......................................................................... 66 4.17 Dialogue on rediscover the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)............ 67 4.18 Aurat Foundation demanded support for acid attack victims ...................................... 68 4.19 Ms Mahnaz Rehman Receives ‘Women Excellence Award’ ...................................... 68 4.20 Dr Abdul Hayee Baloch visits Aurat Foundation........................................................ 68 4.21 Acid attack condemned.............................................................................................. 69 5. Support for Civil Society Organizations................................................................... 72 5.1 AF and FWBL signed MoU to provide financial services to unbanked women .......... 72 5.2 Supporting female gradutes’ access in IT launched ................................................... 74 5.3 ‘Enhancing Women’s Economic Empowerment’ launched ........................................ 75 5.4 Post Master General Balochistan visits AF Quetta office ........................................... 75 5.5 AF delegation met Honourable Chief Justice of Balochistan High Court.................... 75 6. Research and Publications ........................................................................................ 78 6.1 Legislative Watch Newsletter .................................................................................... 79 6.2 AF & Civil Sociey in Media....................................................................................... 80 v vi List of Acronyms and Abbreviations AAC AAWAZ Agahi (awareness) Centre AAF Aurat Action Forum ADF AWAZ District Forum AF Aurat Foundation AGHS Asma, Gulrukh, Hina and Shahla (law firm) AJK Azad Jammu and Kashmir ANF AAWAZ National Forum ANP Awami National Party AOM Area Opening Meeting AOR Agreement Officer Representative ASF Acid Survivors’ Foundation ATF AAWAZ Tehsil Forum AUF AAWAZ Union council Forum AVF AAWAZ Village Forum BBC BISP Beneficiary Committee BISP Benazir Income Support Programme BTCC BISP Tehsil Coordination Committee BUCC Beneficiary Union Council Committee CAC Citizen Action Committee CAO

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