Resources on SRHR

Click below to view organisations working on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

Aahung

Aahung is a Karachi-based NGO that has been working to improve the sexual health of men, women and adolescents since 1995 with a belief that all human beings have the right to sexual health and other human rights, as enshrined by the United Nations and ratified by all of its member states. At present Presently, the Aahung team engages in awareness raising, capacity building, advocacy and research and resource development.  We also offer a range of consultancies, tailored to the specific needs of our partner organisations. Aahung works with schools, universities, government organizations, hospitals, international agencies, in the health, education and human rights sector.
Website: http://www.aahung.org/

Shirkat Gah – Women’s Resource Centre

Shirkat Gah - Women’s Resource Centre, was formed in 1975 to integrate consciousness raising with a development perspective, and to initiate projects translating advocacy into action. Shirkat Gah meaning ‘place of participation’, has been striving for last 30 years for empowered women by increasing their access to information, resources, skills and decision making. In this process Shirkat Gah has brought positive change to policies, laws, and practices. Shirkat Gah has ECOSOC status at the United Nation.
Website: http://www.shirkatgah.org/

TARSHI

TARSHI (Talking About Reproductive and Sexual Health Issues) is a Delhi-based not-for-profit organization that works towards expanding people's sexual and reproductive choices by operating a telephone helpline, conducting trainings, creating public education materials and through advocacy for sexual and reproductive rights for all.
TARSHI also hosts the South and Southeast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality which aims to increase knowledge and scholarship on issues of sexuality, sexual health and sexual well being in the South and Southeast Asia region. TARSHI is one of the few NGOs in India that works on sexuality, without restricting it to a disease-prevention, violence against women or sexual minorities' framework, but rather from an affirmative and rights-based perspective.
Website: http://www.tarshi.net/

Rozan

Rozan is an Islamabad based NGO working on issues related to emotional and psychological health, gender, violence against women and children, and the psychological and reproductive health of adolescents. Most of the team members of Rozan are qualified psychologists who work to enhance the emotional health of people from all sections of the society by conducting awareness raising activities, trainings and counseling. The organization is striving for a society that is self-aware, violence free, and accepting of itself and others.
Website: http://www.rozan.org/

Marie Stpoes Society

Marie Stopes Society (MSS), a non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO) was registered in 1990 to provide reproductive health services with a development perspective. Beginning with one center in 1992, today MSS has expanded to more than 100 information and service delivery centers across the four provinces of Pakistan. Applying modern marketing and management techniques to the achievement of social ends and contributing towards national poverty reduction, MSS services are accessible to approximately 40 million people of the country.
Website: http://www.mariestopespk.org/

Rahnuma-Family Planning Association of Pakistan

Rahnuma started serving poor and marginalized people of Pakistan as the Family Planning Association of Pakistan (FPAP) way back in 1953, as one of the pioneers in providing family planning services and advocating for the small family norm. The organization has the biggest infrastructure by an NGO in Pakistan, which consists of the Family Welfare Centers, Family Health Hospitals, Focus Area Programs and a wide network of referrals from the private practitioners and has pioneered in the concepts of social marketing of contraceptives, family welfare centers and reproductive health services. Rahnuma has been working on various innovative programs to increased access of people to quality and affordable health services, advocate for a right-based agenda, empowering the communities, especially the women and young girls, and strengthen the civil society in Pakistan.
Website: http://www.fpapak.org/