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Pakistan Voluntary Health and Nutrition Association (PAVHNA)
64-C, 21st Commercial Street, Phase-II Extension, D.H.A., Karachi
Tel: 021-35883698/021-35801401/3
Fax: 021-35887859
Email: pavhna@super.net.pk
Date of Formation :	1979
Type of Organization :	Non-Profit Organisation

Mission Statement

To achieve excellence as a reproductive health training, service delivery and umbrella organisation, PAVHNA is committed to promote quality gender sensitive health services and information through innovative and rights based approach.

Head of the Organisation
Name:	Ms. Afsheen Ahmed	Designation:	President

Areas of Focus
1	Capacity building and Training
2	Reproductive Health
3	Research and Documentation
4	Adolescent Reproductive Health

Brief Profile of the Organisation

PAVHNA is an umbrella body with over 40 NGOs and CBOs (small community based organisations) as its members, working in the development field in Pakistan. Established in 1979, and registered at federal and provincial levels, PAVHNA was originally set up with the objective of improving the nutritional and related health and socio-economic status of the most disadvantaged sector of society - women and children. The idea was to pool the resources of like-minded agencies to make a concerted effort to achieve these objectives. Its activities were started off by an UNICEF project on providing better nutrition for severely malnourished children and a programme of vaccination. It was soon realized that nutrition was too narrow a focus and to achieve objectives of better health for women and children the projects needed to be far more integrated and with a broader vision.

Relevance with Standing Committees of the National Assembly
No.	Committee Name	View Members
1	National Assembly Standing Committee on National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination

Relevance with Standing Committees of KPK Provincial Assembly
1	Standing Committee on Excise and Taxation Department
2	Standing Committee on Local Government, Elections and Rural Development Department
3	Standing Committee on Zakat, Ushr, Social Welfare and Women Development Department
4	Standing Committee on Relief, Rehabilitation and Settlement Department

Relevance with Standing Committees of Punjab Provincial Assembly
1	Standing Committee on Colonies
2	Standing Committee on Excise and Taxation
3	Standing Committee on Local Government and Rural Development

Relevance with Standing Committees of Sindh Provincial Assembly
1	Standing Committee on Finance
2	Standing Committee on Irrigation
3	Standing Committee on Auqaf, Religious Affairs, Zakat and Ushr

Selected Publications
No.	Name of Publication
1	Study of Filed staff of CBD Programme (An Evaluati
2	Oral Pills Demonstration Project
3	Impact Assessment of PAVHNA (RHI) Project
4	Reproductive Health Indicators of Project Areas an

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