RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION CELL FOR SELF-EMPLOYED WOMEN OF KARACHI 12 FEB, 2010
This matter is not hidden from anyone regarding Pakistan's bad economic condition and poverty that women and even their daughters are fighting and straying all the time against them fearlessly.
Though it is a common observation that at present lives of millions of families living on the streets of Karachi are depending on the earning of women's hard work. However this cell is taking few important steps to authenticate this matter and improve the procedure. Out of these few important and vital steps are as follows.
1. Recognizing and identifying home based working women.
2. Research about these women in order to get actual facts and figures.
3. Establishing a separate cell to continue research process on permanent bases, where all researches in this regard can be collected.
4. To promote information and material obtained from research on research and common level to prepare and publish books and articles.
5. Establishing relations with these women on permanent bases to encourage and strengthen economically home based working women.
6. Every year on women's day inviting these women as chief guest in university and displaying their work.
Karachi university among all universities in the country has privilege that HEC has started a program under the supervision of women's studies director Prof. Dr. Nasreen Aslam Shah in eighteen towns of Karachi to observe the progress of self employed women on higher level research material. This research is in its final stage. The most important aspect of this research is that two students are doing Ph.D on this topic, and it is noticeable that these research articles in Pakistan will be the first Ph.D of their kind. Dr.Shah has already published a book and important articles on this topic. Other than that directory is published about these women. Which contains personal professional details about these women, all these efforts of cell are not just restricted to educational and research. Most important and basic aim of the cell is to bring practical change. For this purpose our targets to make our efforts effective as follows.
1. To give important information to self employed women in the cell and starting training courses in their areas.
2. To give important information regarding health and provoke them towards education.
3. Policy making for the protection of self employed women on governmental level and try to implement existing laws.
4. Basic goal of research activities is the improvement of self employed women, increase in their income, and to improve them and of their family's health and standard of living.
1. Recognizing and identifying home based working women.
2. Research about these women in order to get actual facts and figures.
3. Establishing a separate cell to continue research process on permanent bases, where all researches in this regard can be collected.
4. To promote information and material obtained from research on research and common level to prepare and publish books and articles.
5. Establishing relations with these women on permanent bases to encourage and strengthen economically home based working women.
6. Every year on women's day inviting these women as chief guest in university and displaying their work.
Karachi university among all universities in the country has privilege that HEC has started a program under the supervision of women's studies director Prof. Dr. Nasreen Aslam Shah in eighteen towns of Karachi to observe the progress of self employed women on higher level research material. This research is in its final stage. The most important aspect of this research is that two students are doing Ph.D on this topic, and it is noticeable that these research articles in Pakistan will be the first Ph.D of their kind. Dr.Shah has already published a book and important articles on this topic. Other than that directory is published about these women. Which contains personal professional details about these women, all these efforts of cell are not just restricted to educational and research. Most important and basic aim of the cell is to bring practical change. For this purpose our targets to make our efforts effective as follows.
1. To give important information to self employed women in the cell and starting training courses in their areas.
2. To give important information regarding health and provoke them towards education.
3. Policy making for the protection of self employed women on governmental level and try to implement existing laws.
4. Basic goal of research activities is the improvement of self employed women, increase in their income, and to improve them and of their family's health and standard of living.
