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Brief History of Azad Foundation
Azad Foundation is a registered non-profit organization working with children on the streets since 2001. It was the time when the issue of street children was not believed to exist in Pakistan. Initiated as a social discussion forum in 1998 as Azad Group, we soon came to realize that this marginalized group is absent in development sector interventions and public policy. We established the Azad Foundation as a research-based organization but considering the gap in service provision and advocacy, developed interventions to address the immediate needs of this group. While providing health and medical care, non-formal education, psychosocial counseling, and transit shelter we kept on building the capacity of relevant government departments and played a part in policy development for sustainable government interventions that can support and protect these children. Azad Foundation envisions a world where the rights of all children are realized, where every child is protected from violence, exploitation, and abuse through State mechanisms, and where children no longer have to live or work on the streets.
Vision

Azad Foundation envisions a world where the rights of all children are realized, where every child is protected from violence, exploitation, and abuse through State mechanisms, and where children no longer have to live or work on the streets.

Mission Statement

Azad Foundation is committed to improving the well-being and self-esteem of alienated and excluded street children, through unconditional positive support, whenever and wherever necessary; with the view to reintegrating them with their families and society. It shall ensure and establish that every child on the streets is enabled to contribute to the structure of society in the sense of harmony, peace, and socially integrated living.

Executive Function

The Chief Executive Officer of Azad Foundation is responsible for all the activities of the organization in front of the Board of Directors, including its administration. The Chief Executive Officer provides policy and strategic leadership within the organization. The Chief Executive Officer provides management oversight and leadership to the organization and directs the implementation of the Azad Foundation programme of work, which is decided by the Azad Foundation Board of Directors. As well as overseeing the organization’s work, the Chief Executive Officer promotes close links with Azad Foundation partners, including government, UN bodies and international organizations, non-governmental organizations, and private sector entities.
The Chief Executive Officer is assisted in the performance of his or her functions by a team of professionals leading program, finance & accounts, operations, and admin & HR divisions, who advise the Chief Executive Officer on substantive matters and assist in strategic planning and the development of management tools and instruments to enhance organizational performance in its overall mission. The Programme Manager manages the Programmes, supervises all projects and country offices, and is responsible for coordinating and monitoring the implementation of Azad Foundation’s programs and the various activities earmarked for support by donors/partners. S/he directly reports to the CEO of the organization.

Strategic Objectives
  • 1- To promote a culture of research in the development sector, government, and academia in the context of child protection, child rights, causes, and underlying factors behind the prevalence of Children Living and/or Working on Streets to inform policy development and programming.
  • 2- To advocate and lobby for policy development and legislative change for budgetary allocation and government-run service provision for Children Living and/or Working on Streets.
  • 3- To address lacunas in public and private services by building the capacity of government and civil society institutions and developing and introducing standard operating procedures and minimum standards for a package of services to strengthen an integrated child protection system in Pakistan.
  • 4- To develop partnerships and linkages with all local, national, regional and international bodies, networks and platforms of advocacy to i) present the situation of Children Living and/or Working on Streets in Pakistan and ii) represent Pakistan in global advocacy campaigns for Children Living and/or Working on Streets.
  • 5- To nurture relationships with national and international corporates to extend support to Children Living and/or Working on Streets especially in terms of information and communication to meet the Millennium Development Goals.
  • 6- To develop an institution to fulfill research, knowledge-base, capacity building, and resource library needs of the public and private sectors.
  • 7- To design, implement, promote, and support grass-root interventions ranging from outreach protection and reintegration centers to vocational centers including sports for development for protection and social reintegration of Children Living and/or Working on Streets in Pakistan.
  • 8- To establish facilities for education and healthcare for Children Living and/or Working on Streets.
  • 9- To develop and utilize strategy and tools of communication for development to promote the rights of children in vulnerable communities through grassroots advocacy campaigns.

 

Structure and Governance

 

Registration

Azad Foundation is a non-profit organization registered under the Societies Act XXI 1860.

Registration Number KAR. No – 0032. Azad Foundation is also tax-exempted by FBR.

Tax Exemption No. 2940/2011-12.

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