Major Facets of NGOs’ Impact on Culture and Society in Pakistan

Authors

  • Anwar Shaheen

Abstract

As the civil society, which is largely represented by the NGOs in Pakistan,1 has remained a weak sector, there is need to investigate into its nature, dynamics, and significance for the society at large. Though voluntary non-governmental organizations, were identified as ‘NGOs’ in the 1980s, yet the institutions which provided a legacy to the emerging NGO sector in the 1980s, have been working long before the new title was given to them. A study2 was conducted to quantify and qualify the impact of non-governmental organizations on the society and culture of Pakistan. This paper is based on the findings of the same study. At the outset, the paper provides methodology and theoretical underpinning of the study. This is followed by a section on major features of the change brought about by NGOs in the past four decades. In the end a model is proposed to understand the role of the NGO sector in Pakistan and countries having similar socio-economic and political conditions. This model explains the NGOs’ impact in terms of mobility and elaborates various facets of this mobility.

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Published

2020-02-18