Women Empowerment

Women Empowerment

CODE PAKISTAN was established with peacebuilding as one of the main aims of the organization

Women empowerment is very high on the priority list of CODE PAKISTAN. We are endeavoring to explore innovative strategies for empowering women and girls. Our aim is to design programs for women that are culturally rooted and strong enough to provide long-term sustainability to the empowerment of women. CODE PAKISTAN is particularly keen on countering the structural discrimination women face in accessing education and development opportunities. CODE PAKISTAN is working toward highlighting the causes of gender disparity that include lack of awareness, resource constraints, social barriers, and limited access to facilities. We intend to break down barriers to women’s economic growth, including supporting policies that create an enabling environment for women to gain access to finance.

CODE PAKISTAN has conceived a project for assisting skilled women from remote towns and villages of KP to find a place in the national and international markets, called Stitching Hopes. The idea is to fuse their skills with contemporary market requirements both in terms of trends and techniques. The monetary profits from the project will be utilized to educate the girls (age 4-18). The idea is to instill a feeling of lifelong empowerment in the minds of the beneficiary girls. On the other hand, it would also empower the women sponsoring the girls’ education by making them the decision makers.
We are proud to announce that in February 2018 CODE PAKISTAN assisted the Government of Pakistan in organizing a landmark conference of a diverse group of female leaders to discuss the role of women in national peacebuilding efforts to counter violence and extremism. The attending participants ranged from religious scholars, social workers, women’s rights activists to political leaders, and businesswomen, who unanimously denounced violence and agreed on the need for women to be more actively engaged in peacebuilding strategies. The conference titled “The role of Dukhtaran-e-Pakistan in Reconciliation, Reconstruction and Peacebuilding” was jointly organized by CODE PAKISTAN, the International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI), the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII), the National Commission on Status of Women, and Bedari. We have also recently come up with an idea of discouraging what we have termed passive harassment of women by engaging the male, as well as female, youth studying at various universities across the country in a dialogue on sensitizing them toward the subtle or passive actions that could be making women uncomfortable in a workplace or public environment. Such passive harassment might not even be perceived by the inadvertent harassers because they are unaware that it might constitute a subtle variety of harassment. We have planned to counter such passive harassment through interactive learning and sensitization sessions with the students of various universities across the country, which we believe could greatly alleviate the situation of women venturing out of the relative safety of their homes for study or work.