AAWAZ II – Inclusion, Accountability and Reducing Modern Slavery Programme

The AAWAZ II programme is a DFID funded 5-year initiative which will work with local communities to promote; the rights of the most vulnerable population including children, women, youth, religious minorities and people with disabilities to strengthen their control over their own development. The programme has a focus on exclusion and exploitation issues in local communities that disproportionately affects vulnerable and marginalized groups. The AAWAZ II programme is the successor initiative to AAWAZ I (a voice and accountability programme implemented between 2012-2018, also funded by DFID) that reached over 7 million poor and marginalised people across 45 districts of KP and Punjab. The AAWAAZ II programme aims to work on the development and promotion of a more inclusive, tolerant and peaceful Pakistan. The programme aims to achieve this vision by working both with communities and state institutions to support increased voice, choice and control for women, girls, boys, youth, religious minorities and marginalised groups by supporting/ strengthening systems and community responses that provide protection from exploitation and prevent discrimination and intolerance at all levels.