It works for the socio-economic empowerment of marginalized, vulnerable and excluded segments of society especially women, children, persons with physical limitations and religious minorities. Baidarie works for the Capacity-building of the right holders and concerned stakeholders and establishment of enabling channels for empowerment of the socially and economically excluded / vulnerable group
s to take sustained collective and organized actions to address poverty, ignorance, disease, violence, coercion, injustice and discrimination.
2. Promotion and protection of human rights, especially rights of women and children other vulnerable ones. Provision of enabling environment for access to quality services for Education, Adult Literacy, Health & Hygiene and reproductive health care services to the people, especially women and children. Socio-Economic Empowerment of socially and economically excluded classes especially Women through provision of quality services for Micro Financing, Entrepreneurship enhancement, access to employability and CPI Improvement. Research & analysis on the issues confronting overall development of the people. f. Strengthening efficient, transparent and accountable governance structures & practices to ensure participation of all the stakeholders in local policy and decision making formations and functions. g. Development of Baidarie as a sustainable institution making right-based, holistic interventions to raise the standards of living of the people of Sialkot District, especially women and children
4. Organizational Strategies
a. Issue sensitization, knowledge building, Awareness raising & Social Mobilization. Group Formation & capacity building. Public dialogues, debates and consultations on issues relating human and socio-economic development. Information generation, collection, compilation & dissemination. Policy Analysis and Advocacy. Information on Prior Work: The organization has been providing input in the following areas to pace up the process of economic and social inclusions of the poor and ultra poor communities. a. Poverty alleviation through social mobilization, skill diversifcation and ehancement, micro-financing, development of entrepreneurship and increase in access for the deprived ones to the linkages for maximizing productiivity, employablity and income generation. Awareness raising, knowledge building and sensitization in the state and society related policy/opinion /decision makers for proactively addressing the issues thwarting gender mainstreaming, equality and justice. Increasing Responsiveness in state & societal legal and social support mechanisms for protection and promotion of the fundamental rights of vulnerable groups and facilitating easy and expedited access to justice for the victims. Capacity building of the grass-root CSOs and other relevant stakeholders to provide legal and social protection to women/girls, children and other survivors of gender based discriminations violence and torture. Increased demands for pro-poor and gender-sensitive legislation and across the board enforcement of legal instruments protecting the rights of vulnerable ones. Research on social and economic issues and analysis to find out the root causes and impacts etc. The organization has also been working to increase women adult literacy, protection of the rights of women workers, primary health care, formal and non-formal education, universal primary education, child rights protection, youth development, protection of human rights, capacity development of local bodies enabling them to function effectively, provision of releif to the affectees of natural calamities and the rights based advocacy and etc. During the struggle spanning from 1993 to 2014, Baidarie Sialkot has been honoured to work in collaboration with UN WOMEN, Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund, ILO, The Asia Foundation, UNICEF, NCHD, EC-EIDHR, DFID, British High Commission, CIDA-PSU, CIDA-PAGE, SCF (UK), SAP-Pk, Social Welfare Department, DTCE, TVO, GFW, Corporate Sector, vocational training institutes, Aurat Foundation (AF), Muslim Charity Fund, Awaiting Eyes Foundation, District Government Sialkot and Local support structures etc.
