The NGO Resource Centre operates within the
framework of the Civil Society Programme of the Aga Khan Foundation
(Pakistan). Based in Karachi, in the province of Sindh, Pakistan,
the Centre has been in existence since 1990.
Its current mission is to enhance organizational effectiveness and
improve systems that promote gender sensitive participatory
approaches to sustainable social and economic development. It has a
four-pronged strategic thrust to fulfill this mission:
a) training to enhance the skills of managers and leaders’
forums to promote awareness on development issues;
b) management consulting services for individual civil
society organizations to facilitate their development interventions;
c) information and research to create greater understanding
of the role of civil society organizations, promote quality
standards and an enabling policy environment for the civil society
sector; and
d) communication by disseminating information through
target-oriented products to a wide-range of development stakeholders
and civil society including community-based organizations, the
corporate world, media, academics, public sector officials and
concerned citizens.
NGORC has been supported by the following organizations and
agencies; the European Commission, through the Rural Social
Development Programme; the Canadian International Development Agency
and the Aga Khan Foundation, Canada through the Pakistan-Canada
Social Institutions Development Programme; and the Aga Khan
Foundation (USA) and USAID, through the Institutional Management and
Certification Programme.. |