National Commission for Human Development is a not for profit organization with the mission to transform lives by improving access to basic education and healthcare in the country’s poorest communities. NCHD is the leading agency fighting illiteracy in 134 districts of Pakistan and helping people to find routes out of ignorance.
With nationwide network of 101 Human Development Support Units situated all over Pakistan and hands-on-experience, NCHD aims at enlarging the scale and scope of the efforts made by the government in ensuring the effective provision of social services. It perceives human development as a process of enlarging choices, building capacities and encouraging participation of communities at the grass roots. To ensure this, NCHD is directed towards supporting government line departments, civil society organizations and the local communities in the sectors of education, basic health care and income generating activities at the grassroots.
NCHD identifies, and consequently presents innovative and cost effective solutions to fill implementation gaps, building the capacities of the involved agencies and stakeholders to effectively address the issues hampering the process. Through extensive training programs and capacity building workshops which cater to all the stakeholders involved in the process, NCHD helps ensure a lasting impact. These capacity building exercises are targeted towards Government Line departments, community based organizations and the community.
National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) was established by the Government of Pakistan in 2002 as a statutory autonomous federal body, mandated with the role to support and augment human development efforts in Pakistan. NCHD is registered under Ordinance No. XXIX of 2002.
What they do:
They are functioning as the support agency providing both the provincial and federal governments with the technical and hands-on experience to achieve both Education for All and Millennium Development Goals in Pakistan.
Vision
They seek a literate and healthy nation, where government is empowered to provide basic education and health facilities to all. Their vision is to learn from the experiences of both public and private sectors at national and international level, identify best practices and use them for effecting improvements in the social sectors in Pakistan.
As the leading organization for Literacy in Pakistan, National Commission for Human Development is striving to empower the people at the grassroots to become the agents of social change.
Mission
Their mission is to support the government by filling the implementation gaps and improve public sector delivery mechanisms to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and “Education For All” with focus on:
They are deeply committed to promoting learning for all people-especially for the most vulnerable adults and children who are most difficult to reach. The basic NCHD strategy is to introduce a process complimenting the ongoing efforts to achieve MDGs in Pakistan.
Strategy
Developing an operational framework to introduce processes that remain consistent with the objective of achieving the MDGs has been one of the cornerstones of NCHD’s strategy. NCHD has adopted an innovative strategy for improving the state of human development, directly focused on people’s needs by acting as a support organization at the grassroots to fill the implementation gaps through community participation.
The core of NCHD strategy lies with:
