Potohar Organization for Development Advocacy (PODA) is a women’s rights non-governmental organisation (NGO) working for the promotion and protection of human rights in rural areas of Pakistan since 2003. PODA’s vision is a democratic society based on education and gender equality for everyone. PODA’s mission is to facilitate the empowerment of marginalised rural communities, children, women and youth through formal and non-formal education, legal empowerment and human rights advocacy to build a locally democratic and globally peaceful society.