HomeNet Pakistan

Advocacy| Capacity Building| Research| Netwokring| Capacity Development

HomeNet Pakistan

Women Empowerment| Women Livilihood| Women Challaneges| Minimum Wage

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Advocacy

For the development of a national policy for home based workers, undertake advocacy with public representatives at all levels and with government, policy makers and planners.

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Baseline Surveys

Baseline surveys on the issues of Home based workers in Pakistan

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Capacity Building

Facilitate learning opportunities for home based women workers and organizations working with them.

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Research

Research on Social Security needs and Round Table Discussion to develop strategy for home based women workers.

Networking

Develop and strengthening of network among home based women workers and organizations working with them and facilitate their cross learning and cooperation to empower women.

Information development

Gather and re-package information about international best practices, governmental and non-governmental programmes, the home-based workers.

HomeNet Pakistan

What is HomeNet Pakistan

WHO WE ARE

HomeNet Pakistan is a network of organizations formed to raise awareness about the working conditions of home based workers who comprise 74% of the informal workforce behind the country economic activities. HBW’s

HomeNet Pakistan is a network orgaanizations formed to raised awareness about the working conditions of Home Based women workers who comprise 70% of informal workforce behind the country economic activities.

Mission

HomeNet Pakistan, as a member of HomeNet South Asia, strives to empower home based workers to realize their economic, political and social rights through the strengthening of their respective organizations, adoption of fair trade practices, resulting in the improvement of their working and living conditions.

Vision

HomeNet Pakistan is a membership based network, comprising of membership-based organizations representing the majority of home based workers across Pakistan. HomeNet Pakistan envisions a society in which home based workers are ensured visibility, recognition, legal and social protection, and a decent standard of living.

Goal

To mainstreaming home based workers in national policies and programmes in order to attain greater human security including economic security to meet basic needs and to deal with risks and vulnerabilities, while still ensuring their visibility and participation.

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Domestic Workers

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Our Achievement Since 2005

Since 2005 HNP has been involved in organizing, mobilizing, data collection, advocating and lobbying for the issues and rights of home based women workers. HNP has an outreach in 86 districts of the country. Since 2005 HNP took the initiative of bringing organizations working for women homebased workers under its umbrella. Currently 538 organizations are registered with HNP with 58,262 women homebased workers. (Till date according to figures collected since 2004).

A number of Networking Meetings with NGO’s and field visits through out country were held along with meetings with Government officials and insurance companies for finding opportunities for these home based women workers. Provincial Networking meetings were held in all four provinces where 481 organizations participated.

A National workshop on Designing A National Strategy’for Strengthening Women Home-workers, was held on 27 April 2002. Followed by Round Table discussion on Developing Social Security Strategies for Women Home-workers in Pakistan in September 2004. A Research on Social Security needs of home-based workers was conducted in 2004-2005 and findings were shared with HNSA. South Asian Home-based Women Workers’ Craft Mela was organized by HNP on 8-10 April 2005 where home based workers and organizations from India , Srilanka and Nepal participated. The objective was to develop linkages and provide market to the women based workers products. Four Marketing and Designing Workshops” were held at provincial level where 78 organizations participated and 198 women homebased workers received training.In 2008 HNP in collaboration with Aurat Foundation and Action Aid gathered suggestion and recommendations on a Draft Bill on home based workers for social protection in a series of Consultations at National and Provincial level.

BackGround

An estimated 50 million out of 151 million are currently living below the poverty line in Pakistan and the poverty level is rising sharply.

HomeNet Pakistan

BackGround

An estimated 50 million out of 151 million are currently living below the poverty line in Pakistan and the poverty level is rising sharply. The capacity of the poor to improve their conditions of living is constrained by their powerlessness within political and social systems and is linked to inappropriate government policies, no access to information and resources, poor quality of social services and gender inequality.

It is also increasingly evident that women and girls in poor households bear a disproportionately high share of the burden of poverty. Their greater deprivation is due to a host of factors, including restricted mobility, lack of education and training, lower access to or ownership of resources and assets, and limited access to credit and social services. As a result of this Pakistani women have limited participation in decision-making in all spheres of life from family to state. This is however, a vicious cycle, as this state of affairs persists because women have no say in decisions affecting their economic and social status in society.

Mainstreaming home-based workers

Pakistan’s home-based workers will finally have access to labour laws dealing with union formation, social security and old-age benefit. Years of deliberations and meetings have now reached a point where the provincial governments of Punjab and Sindh have finalised a...

HomeBased workers Rights Priority

LAHORE: Punjab Labour Minister Raja Ashfaq Sarwar has said that the Home-based workers are priority of the Punjab government as they are the marginalized among the labor force and they are also contributing in our economy. He stressed that it is our priority to end...

Informal exploitation

The fire incidence of the factory in Baldia Town Karachi has exposed negligence and lack of sufficient control by the government machinery. It is reported by the media that factory owners violated multiple regulations. The majority of the workers were working on a...

Sindh govt urged to approve home-based workers policy

KARACHI, Nov 6: Civil society organisations and trade unions on Wednesday asked the government to approve the policy draft for home-based workers (HBWs), lying with the Sindh cabinet for the past two-and-a-half-months. The executive director of HomeNet Pakistan Ume...

Issue No. 12 National Consultation

The Opportunities for HBWs in Purview of Draft Policy for HBWs and Post Devolution Scenario One day National Consultation on the Opportunities for HBWs in purview of Draft Policy of HBWs and Post devaluation scenario was held on 29 October 2011 at Lahore with a the...
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