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Technical Note

A Note on Sungi

Farmanullah Anjum, Jamshed H Khan

INDUSTRY :

AREA : Production & Operation Management

ORGANIZATION : SUNGI

LENGTH : 8

LUMS No : 03-832-2004-2

PUBLICATION YEAR : 2004

KEYWORDS:

SUNGI,Production,Operations Management,NPO,Hazara,NWFP,Pakistan,1989,Development,Transform Lives,Resource Utilization

DESCRIPTION:

Sungi, a non-profit organization based in Hazara, in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan was established in 1989. Sungi grew rapidly under the guidance of its founder, Omar Asghar Khan; by1999 it had extended its advocacy program to the whole of Pakistan. Sungi soon felt that unless the advocacy was combined with development initiatives, the results would always be misleading and the development would not benefit the people. Therefore it undertook a unique and rare approach of combining advocacy strategy with the strategy of development. Sungi¿s mission was ¿To bring about policy and institutional changes by mobilizing deprived and marginalized communities, with a view to creating an environment in which the communities at the local level may be able to transform their lives through equitable use of resources¿. Sungi¿s senior staff felt that there was an urgent need for an overall program review because Sungi had reached a size where it had become essential to establish some long-term policies for the security, motivation and retention of staff. They felt that all the programs, procedures and their impact had to be reviewed critically and the lessons learnt from the exercise implemented.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

N/A

SUBJECTS COVERED:

Production, Operations Management