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Pakistan Youth Directory, 2011: Volume 1




FIRST EVER PAKISTANI DIRECTORY OF YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS AND INFORMAL YOUTH GROUPS BY BARGAD-ORGANIZATION FOR YOUTH DEVELOPMENT

What are youth issues? What is a youth organization? What are the relevant issues for organizations working on youth? How many organizations are operating in Pakistan focus on youth and plan for their social and economic integration? How can we reach these organizations? Do they work on an individual basis or seek collaboration and partnership with others? What kind of informal youth groups are functional in Pakistan? Are current youth organizations sufficient for youth in Pakistan? All these are questions that may be asked by many practitioners or policy makers concerned with youth issues. Unfortunately, they usually get incomplete answers because there is no clear and comprehensive published resource that gives full answers to these questions. A documented source that identifies, defines, describes and gives guidance to the current status and trends of youth organizations and informal youth groups in Pakistan is need of the hour, a partnership between the Bargad and Heinrich Boll Stiftung came to fulfill this national need.

Youth directory 2011 is an authentic tool of networking and alliance building, which offers reference to policy and public practitioners to work with organized youth. It is a vital source on how many, where, which and what kind of youth bodies are working in Pakistan for the betterment of youth

The success of the study is that it is conducted ‘by youth’ and it is ‘for youth’ and is foreseen to be the premier document to vanguard integrated youth development reforms in Pakistan.


Lead Researcher and Author: Dr Shahbaz Israr Khan

Shahbaz is a Program officer of Bargad. He is a State Alumnus USA, University of Vermont, Study of United States Institutes for Global Student Leaders, 2008. He also holds a certificate in Youth & MDGs and a course on conflict analysis is in process. He believes in peace development through multi-track diplomacy and inclusion of youth as active players in peace processes. He has represented Pakistani youth on international forums as international speaker and mentor.
In past, he was elected as coordinator PEAKS and founder President of Gomalian Students Council, Gomal University D.I Khan where he led more than 500 students. He also headed two peace committees at university, where he successfully mediated the violent conflicts.
He can be reached at shahbazisrar.bargad@gmail.com   

Assistant Researcher: Rana Mujahid Raza
Mujahid works as an assistant programme officer at Bargad. He has been involved in arranging several youth related activities across the country including National Youth Conference 2010; seminars; dialogues and discussions.
He has represented Bargad in more than 10 public universities of Pakistan. He takes keen interest in youth issues. In current research study, he has interacted with 1000 organizations to discuss the youth issues.
He can be reached at mujahid.bargad@gmail.com

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