CEDO was formed by the group of people from all over the country with the aims and objectives of social development of the most marginalized people of the country through participatory, innovative and sustainable development of the communities. Community Empowerment & Development Organization, Pakistan, (CEDO) was established on 27th August 1996 under section 7 of the Voluntary Social Welfare Age
ncies (Registration and Control Ordinance 1961 (XLVI of 1961). With the passage of time educated people took interest in the development initiative of the organization. In December 2010 the group young experienced professionals decided to broader the objectives and geographic outreach of the organization. to achieve this objective the active young professional first invited people from Giglit Baltistan and than from down country to join their hands to struggle for the basic rights of marginalized communities in the country. In the short span of time many people from all over Pakistan support this cause and offered their generous support. Objectives
The aims and objects for which the Organization is established are the following:
1. Education, research and training:
i. To promote education, especially girl education. ii. To conduct educational, environmental and sociological studies. iii. To promote use of Information & Communication Technology (ICT) for socio-economic development of the community. iv. To organize training and refresher programmes for the volunteers and officials of different Non Government Organizations to strengthen the development skills of trainees through IEC (information, education and communication) which they can use in the development sector. v. To disseminate information and knowledge, to edit, publish, and print literature and documents, maintain libraries, and to organize seminars/ conference/ meetings etc. vi. To promote participation of youth (unemployed as well as students) in income generation activities. vii. To establish educational, professional and vocational institutions that would strengthen the developmental process. viii. To organize lectures, seminars and workshops to help or strengthen the character building process.
2. Health:
i. To spread awareness about STD and HIV/AIDS, TB and work for the welfare of people living with HIV/AIDS & TB. To work in the field of reproductive and child health services. To create awareness about communicable and vector-borne disease control measures through better hygiene and sanitation. To narrow the difference between the health status of people on the basis of their religion, region, class and gender.
3. Development:
i. To promote social welfare activities with special emphasis on women empowerment. To work for the betterment of weaker sections viz. SC/ST, women, children, senior citizens, and disabled etc. with a vision of social justice. To speed up the process of rural development and strengthen the agricultural, tourism, gemstone, and animal husbandry sector. To eliminate child labour, child trafficking, and child abuse and focus on the education and resettlement of these deprived children. To form self help groups and cooperatives and run income generation activities by linking them with banks through micro-credit.
4. To work for environmental awareness, sustainable development and participative management of local natural resources for village level development.
5. To fight against social wrongs like discrimination and harassment based on gender, and class.
6. To create awareness among people about functions and powers rights of them and increase people’s participation in democratic institutions.
7. To create awareness about disaster management.
8. To fight against corruption and make people aware about their legal and consumer rights.
9. To collaborate with corporate houses to full fill their social responsibilities.
10. Policy formulation and implementation:
i. To work with the government and other NGOs at the policy formulation level. To network and collaborate with the govt. departments, NGO's, CBO's and international development organizations/agencies
