Saibaan Development Organization

Saibaan was founded in May 1999 to promote the general development of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Province (then still known as North Western Frontier Province). On 5 June 2000, Saibaan was registered in Peshawar as a non-governmental organization (NGO) under the Societies Registration Act of 1860. In 2010, the Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy (PCP) evaluated Saibaan’s management, financial management, and program implementation, and certified the organization as a non-profit NGO with a good result (84.9 out of 100 points). Saibaan has adopted several policies on professionalizing its work processes, including a gender policy on supporting projects focusing on women.

Saibaan’s stated objective is integrated rural development by means of promoting women, livelihoods, income generation, health education, informal education, water supply and sewage disposal, and infrastructure measures. Cross-cutting issues are civic participation, gender equality, environmental protection and disaster risk reduction. The organization’s goal in adopting this approach is to promote gender equality and sustainable changes to social structures and attitudes.

Saibaan established the Child Rights Advocacy Network (CRAN) in Mansehra District, which comprises organizations active in the field of children’s rights. In addition, Saibaan is a member of the Pakistan Environment Club, the Human Resource Development Network (HRDN) and the Trust of Volunteer Organizations in Pakistan. Saibaan is also a member of the Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP), an international organization that has adopted a voluntary commitment on accountability and quality management in implementing humanitarian interventions.

Since 2005, Saibaan has implemented more than 30 projects and has been supported by various international donor organizations, including Oxfam Novib, Catholic Relief Services (CRS), Care International Pakistan, Action Aid Pakistan, Save the Children Sweden (SCS), the SDC, Concern Worldwide, the ILO, IOM, UNICEF, UN World Food Program (WFP), UNFPA, UNDP Pakistan, UN Habitat, and Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC). The table in the Annex provides an overview of a selection of Saibaan’s completed and ongoing projects. Oxfam Germany and KNH are the organization’s biggest funding donors. In 2016, Saibaan entered into a partnership with Action Aid Pakistan for a women's economic empowerment project in district Mansehra and UNESCO for the improvement of girls’ education program in AJK