South Asia Partnership Pakistan (SAP-PK) is a well-known Pakistani not-for-profit organization formed in 1989 and registered under the Societies Registration Act 1860, playing a vital role in promoting human development, collective actions, and right-based activism in Pakistan for the last 35 years. SAP-PK is certified by the Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy (PCP) and also has signed MoU with the Economic Affairs Division (EAD).
Formed under a core fund of CND 3.5 million in 1989 SAP-Pakistan formed and capacitated more than 750 community-based organizations since 1989 to 2016. Most of those CBOs are now grown as mid-level or national level development organizations and promoting the agenda of human development, policy and legislative reforms and protection of fundamental rights. Its focus on building human resources at grassroots has help formed and capacitated more than 1500 community organizations and most of those are led by either women or other excluded classes. In order to influence policies and legislation of the country SAP-Pakistan is building networks of these community organizations, volunteers and other range of CSOs including labor, peasants, minorities, PWDs, Trans-persons and other voiceless. It is gradually mainstreaming those excluded groups in the country’s planning and policies. It strives for the creation of a society based on the principles of equality, peaceful coexistence, democracy, good governance, and justice for all. SAP-PK is not just an organization rather it in itself is an institution and a platform for women, minorities, trans-persons, PWDs, youth, and all other marginalized segments of Pakistani society. SAP-PK’s strengths are in its work in rural and peri-urban communities where it has developed several thousand social activists, community groups through regular and focused human development interventions, advocacy for better social services and basic rights, and improvements in social service delivery system.