A Step-by-Step Practical Toolkit for Development Workers – Involving Religious Scholars on Sensitive Issues

Center provided technical assistance to Oxfam in developing an engagement toolkit for involving religious scholars for promotion of sexual and reproductive health and right issues, based on their experiences and learnings in Pakistan. Oxfam engaged Center after completion of a project on Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights by the Women Empowerment Group which prompted documentation of the process of engaging the religious leaders around sensitive issues. Center assisted Oxfam in exploring the factors for the success of the project and in documenting the best practices. Center, in view of its experience of engaging the religious organisations and leaders in Pakistan, took stock of strategies and activities that did not work and point out key lessons learned during the course of the implementation of the project in form a guideline that others could also follow.