ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) and Pakistan Center for Philanthropy (PCP) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to promote joint research and enhance knowledge on issues surrounding philanthropy as a means of achieving social progress and community development in the Country.
The MoU was formally signed by the Executive Director SDPI Dr. Abid Qaiyum Suleri and the Executive Director Pakistan PCP Shazia Maqsood Amjad in Islamabad.
While terming the need of joint efforts by civil society crucial in the philanthropy sector, Dr. Suleri said that the collaboration between SDPI and PCP would provide good impetus for the promoting SDGs as a shared objective.
Dr. Suleri said that SDPI believed in establishing partnerships with all the stakeholders in Sustainable Development including government, civil society and private sector as such collaborations would strengthen overall national endeavor towards important international commitments such as SDGs .
“Working for a just and inclusive society should be a common ground for collaboration among CSOs (Civil Society Organisations)”, Dr. Suleri said and added that SDPI was approaching private sector to harmonize the efforts around social development while performing corporate social responsibilities.
Shazia Maqsood Amjad on the occasion that collaboration for shared research between civil society organizations would be instrumental to improve philanthropy sector in Pakistan.
The Executive Director Pakistan PCP said that the role of philanthropy sector was critical to achieve developmental goals, especially to improve health and education related facilities when the state was facing constraints in enough budgetary allocations for these sectors.
In addition, she said that the MoU between SDPI and PCP would induce further collaborations among CSOs.
Under the MoU, SDPI and PCP also shown agreement to coordinate advocacy efforts on different themes of philanthropy as a means of promoting social development and to make collaborated efforts in different research areas.
