There are endless opportunities for responsible businesses seeking to build CSR programmes in Pakistan. The unequal distribution of wealth and lack of employment opportunities in and outside major urban centres are taking their toll and choking Pakistani cities.
Pakistan is the world’s sixth most populous country and more than 70 per cent of its 165 million people live in the rural areas. Development of infrastructure and community improvement programmes in rural areas could reduce the population pressure on cities, as well as bridge the widening gap between the standards of living of urban and rural communities.
For Pakistan to become a productive and progressive nation able to feed itself, development of rural areas is essential. The poor infrastructure and lack of basic amenities of life in remote rural communities is one of the biggest challenges. For the continuity of a self-sustaining and merit-based political and judicial system in Pakistan, development of rural areas ought to be a priority.
Rural areas account for more than 75 per cent of the registered voters in Pakistan. They could only produce better leadership to represent them at the federal level if people are able to make informed decisions. If they have security and protection of law, access to education, healthcare, water and sanitation, roads and telecommunications facilities, as well as awareness about individual and collective human rights and duties towards community and country.
Selected sectors in need of CSR:
There are several sectors and areas that need immediate attention, funding and management support:
- Education
- Healthcare
- Special Healthcare
- Water and Sanitation
- HIV/AIDS
- Child Protection
- Biogas power projects for small communities
- Development Research
- Vocational Education & Skills Training
- Information Technology
- Awareness creation through:
- Knowledge and research on rural, provincial and national issues
- Social networks and platforms to highlight development challenges and how they could be overcome
- Encouraging and inciting positive action among a maximum number of people by engaging them through constructive participation
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