Regional Solidarity
Network & Linkages
ASR Resource Centre · Networks & Linkages
Connected across Pakistan and the world
ASR is extremely well connected with a range of national and regional organisations and initiatives — from grassroots groups to universities, from local media to international forums.
National reach
3,000+
NGOs, CBOs, institutions, universities, cultural groups, media groups, press associations, political parties and professional bodies in regular contact at the national level
- Women's NGOs
- Universities
- Labour Groups
- Media Groups
- Research Institutes
- Political Parties
National reach
254
Pakistani developmental & action NGOs
100
Women's NGOs & groups in Pakistan
95
International women's research institutes & courses
785+
Total organisations across all 9 categories
National Networks
Over 3,000 organisations across Pakistan.
At the national level ASR is in regular contact with over 3,000 NGOs, CBOs, institutions and universities, cultural and media groups, press associations, political parties, town planners and architectural groups. A selection of key national partners and networks includes:
- Women's Action Forum
- Punjab NGO Coordination Council (1,200 member NGOs)
- Pakistan Institute for Labour Education and Research
- Working Women's Organisation
- Justice and Peace Commission
- Society for the Advancement of Education
- Human Rights Commission of Pakistan
- Human Development Centre
- Human Development Centre
- Anjuman-e-Mazareen
- Shirkat Gah
- Simorgh
- Aurat Foundation
- Sindhiani Tehreek
- Ajoka Theatre
- IRC
- Lok Rehas
- War Against Rape
- IUCN
International University Links
Academic partnerships spanning five continents.
ASR has links and has worked with a number of university programmes globally. Nighat Said Khan has lectured extensively at these and other universities.
- Institute of Social Studies, The Hague
- York University, England
- University of Toronto, Canada
- IDS Sussex University — Women's Studies Programme
- Rutgers University — Women's Programme
- Hunter College
- Wellesley College
- The Feminist Press, City University of New York
- University of London
- Asian Institute of Technology, Gender & Development Studies Unit, Bangkok
- Deakin University, Melbourne
- Yale University
- Harvard University
World Conferences
Present at every major global forum.
ASR has been informed and kept in touch with, or participated in, major world conferences — ensuring that Pakistan’s civil society and women’s voices were represented at the highest international levels.
1992
World Conference on Environment
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — the landmark Earth Summit that shaped global environmental governance
1993
World Conference on Human Rights
Vienna, Austria — produced the Vienna Declaration affirming women’s rights as human rights
1995
World Summit for Social Development
Copenhagen, Denmark — addressing poverty, unemployment, and social exclusion globally
1996
Habitat II Conference
Istanbul, Turkey — the City Summit on sustainable human settlements and urbanisation
"Those most excluded should be encouraged to participate so that they themselves could go and speak on their own behalf."
3,000+
National organisations in regular contact
785+
Organisations across all 9 network categories
4
Major world conferences attended
25+
Cities mobilised for WSF 2004
Network Directory
National & international organisations, networks and research institutes.
A breakdown of ASR’s documented network by category — spanning Pakistani developmental NGOs, women’s groups, international research institutes, intermediary networks, and more.
| # | Category | No. of Organisations / Networks |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Specific Pakistani NGOs — Developmental & Action General | 254 |
| 2 | International Women's Groups / NGOs (specific) | 66 |
| 3 | International Women's Networks / Research Institutes & Courses | 95 |
| 4 | Women's NGOs / Women's Groups in Pakistan | 100 |
| 5 | Research Institutes — General and University / Training / Consultancies / Academic Education & Development / Individuals, Pakistan | 74 |
| 6 | Intermediaries — Networks, General & Individuals, Pakistan | 61 |
| 7 | NGOs Abroad including Peasant and Labour Groups — General | 54 |
| 8 | International Networks — General | 46 |
| 9 | International Intermediaries / Research Institutions / Universities / Publications | 35 |
Asian & World Social Forums
Taking Pakistan's most marginalised voices to the global stage.
ASR’s participation in the Asian and World Social Forums was guided by a clear principle — those most excluded should be the ones speaking for themselves, not having others speak on their behalf.
Asian Social Forum — January 2003, India
Seven of ASR’s team members visited India to attend the Asian Social Forum in January 2003. By interacting with people from all over Asia, they established new contacts and networks across the region. They attended various seminars, conferences, meetings and dialogues. The nature of this activity included building public opinion and sensitising people on issues related to class, identity, women and people-based development.
World Social Forum — 2004, India
ASR held seminars at the World Social Forum on the peace process, seeing it as the best platform from which to raise a unified voice against globalisation and the rising threat of imperialism. ASR registered itself as coordinating the “Process to the WSF and Beyond, Pakistan and Beyond” — encouraging those who could best represent Pakistan to attend and speak for themselves.
This was important not only to enhance the self-confidence of activists but also to broaden the base of social activism — going outside the norm of having others speak on behalf of those who actually should be speaking.
Activists mobilised from across Pakistan for WSF 2004