Diamond Jubilee Goals

Points for discussion and consideration - Meeting between Mr Bolani Chairman AKRSP and Brigadier Hisamullah Beg former VP ICP.

Date and Venue: 24th May 2018, Boardroom TPS Serena Islamabad

In presence: Mr Javed Iqbal Vice Chairman/Coordinator UNDP for AKDN

1.   Three targets for AKRSP

2.    Issue of a public document in the context of goals assigned at the time of launching.

3.   Diamond Jubilee goals covered by MHI.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mxaq095PBc
4.    Individual Idea Demonstration Projects for study and adoption by Institutions.

5.    Civil Society Learning Material Compiled by AKDN and it's implementation on Priority.

6.   Networking of LSOs.

Action Points:

Issue of operating manuals to all VO/LSO's/WO on the basis of CIVIL SOCIETY LEARNING MATERIAL by AKRSP.

From this experience in stabilisation, we would emphasise three crucial elements:

The first key lesson is to concentrate at the local level. Wherever the national conditions are unfavourable - in fragile or conflict situations they rarely are favourable - meaningful changes often start fastest locally, quickly building credibility and confidence.

The second lesson is that commitment to pluralism is essential. The consultations must be wide, and everyone in the community must benefit. I have learnt this lesson during my more than 60 years as the Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims, responsible for the spiritual and physical well-being of my Jamat and - most crucially in this context - for those with whom they live, whatever their faith or creed.

Finally, we would insist on the critical importance of civil society, which we refer to as private organisations designed to serve public goals. Such institutions are stabilising factors and points of continuity where security is fragile and politics are volatile. Consequently, investing in them, alongside the state, remains critical.
H.H AGA KHAN,15 Jan 2019, Germany

إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يُغَيِّرُ مَا بِقَوْمٍ حَتَّىٰ يُغَيِّرُوا مَا بِأَنفُسِهِمْ

خدا کسی قوم کو نہیں بدلتا جب تک کہ وہ اپنی حالت کو نہ بدلے

 Lesson and purpose of sharing: The LSOs, VOs, WOs and above all the local Jamat institutions need to believe in this philosophy and organize according to CIVIL SOCIETY LEARNING MATERIAL.
PRESENTATION

Idea demonstration to be shown to AKRSP :

BACKGROUNG TO THE GOALS: 
https://hisamullahbeg.blogspot.com/2017/06/civil-society-learning-material-energy.html

STRATEGY TOWARDS FOUR DJ GOALS:

https://hisamullahbeg.blogspot.com/2018/02/citizen-engagement-in-development.html

 DJ GOAL ONE &THREE:

https://hisamullahbeg.blogspot.com/2014/08/knowledge-society-initiative-life-long.html

GOAL TWO:

https://hisamullahbeg.blogspot.com/2010/04/civil-society.html

https://hisamullahbeg.blogspot.com/2010/03/civil-soceity-guidelines-on-governance.html

DG GOALS ONE AND FOUR:

https://hisamullahbeg.blogspot.com/2017/04/concrete-proposal-towards-hunza-power.html

TASK FORCE

"DAI" Implications of the term used by MHI in Portugal recently.(Page-30 Encounters in Muslim history student reader volume-1 of TALIMAT curriculum): "A teacher who promotes the message through direct teaching and through their moral conduct and model behavior." The webcast on 11th July 2017 provides a good opportunity to spread the message by every mureed. Kindly go to para (F) of the preamble to the Constitution 11th July 1998 as well.

Recent dialogues:

1.         Hunza Thinkers Forum: Hunza thinker’s forum arranged meeting today in Ali a bad. We are going to arrange a conference on issues of Hunza and their way forward.

In this conference all stakeholders of hunza will be invited. Political leadership, VOs, LSOs, KBOs, SBOs. Hunza Chamber of Commerce, societies (financial institutions) hotels association. Bazaar associations, Nambardars, community and sister community leadership, District Bar Association, press club, and other stakeholders.

We will discuss the issues and way forward in this conference and establish grand jirga.

Need your input sir

Me:   Great, finally someone has embarked on what needs to be done. I am talking through IDEA DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS in which I have invested my meagre resources as BETTER TOMORROW contribution and also sharing the GUIDANCE in original towards building mindsets and remindinding the Institutions about their constitutional obligations and the goals assigned to these entities. Reason: Institutions survive, individuals perish. My input is in written form and communicated through the post : ROAD-MAP

https://hisamullahbeg.blogspot.com/2019/05/sustainable-development-goals.html, Read the speech on 19^th January 2019 as well.

نزہ کے مسائل کی حل اپنی مدد آپ کے تحت اور ریاستی اداروں کی مدد سے حل کرنے کےلئے سماج کے تمام حصوں کا باہم ملنا بہت ضروری ہے ۔ اس لئے ہنزہ تھنکرز فورم ہنزہ کے تمام سیٹیک ہولڈرز کو ایک فورم پر سر جوڑنے کی دعوت دیتا ہے ۔ہنزہ تھنکرز فورم ہنزہ ایک کانفرنس بہ عنوان "Better Tomorrow ۔" منعقد کر رہا ہے جس میں مندرجہ ذیل ہنزہ کے سیاسی و سماجی، معاشی و تجارتی ، مذہبی و عمرانی ادارے و انفرادی اشخاص کو دعوت دی جائے گی ۔ 1۔تمام سیاسی رہنما 2۔ نمبرداران 3۔مذہبی رہنما تمام مسالک 4۔ بازار ایسویشن 5۔ہوٹل ایڈیشن 6۔LSOs 7۔ KVOs 8۔CBOs 9۔ Local NGOs 10۔ سوسائٹیز Financial Institution 11۔ Music Bands 12۔ہنزہ چمبر آف کامرس 13۔ پریس کلب 14۔ ڈسٹرکٹ بار ایسویشین سماج کے یہ حصے ایک جسم کے مختلف اعضاء ہیں انکا باہم ملنا اور تندرست ہونا از حد لازمی ہیں ۔ اس کانفرنس کا مقصد عملی لائحہ عمل طے کرنا ہے ہم آپ تمام سے اس کی کامیابی اور منطقی انجام تک پہنچانے میں مدد کے لئے التماس کرتے ہیں ۔ من جانب ہنزہ تھنکرزفورم

2.         Amin Beg - Development Specialist: Are you looking for equity investment from community members or need private capital?

In both cases the champion of the idea need to sell the technical and business proposal to the relevant local institutions like Chamber of commerce, RC and network of LSOs/Kado and the cooperatives having pool of money.

Me:     Please go through the road map compiled subsequent to AKRSP and KADO workshop in Galmit in 2004, every Hunzukutz has to participate through NETWORK of LSOs and invest BETTER TOMORROW donations as well as TANZIM savings in HUNZA POWER SUPPLY COMPANY. Loans from AIIB are a distinct possibility as further sources for Mega projects.

Amin:  Yes have seen that. Yet as you mentioned how to solve the dilemma, it can only be done by talking directly to relevant leadership in those institutions by someone who knows what is the solution that is you taking the lead and walking the talk. Nobody else is better qualified to mobilize this.

Me:   I am talking through IDEA DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS in which I have invested my meagre resources as BETTER TOMORROW contribution and also sharing the GUIDANCE in original towards building mindsets and reminding the Institutions about their constitutional obligations and the goals assigned to these entities. Reason: Institutions survive, individuals perish.

Amin: Thanks for sharing sir. I am a reader of your posts on your blog. Some of the posts on AKDN website or Ismaili.org are written by professionals sharing field experiences and a general knowledge publicity matter on civil society activities. In practice we all know how it works, what are the constraints both legal, political and social, and the strengths and weaknesses’ and sensitivities in our context.

Just for information. I am no more AKRSP staff; occasionally engage in contractual work with them and other AKDN in the region as freelancer and as volunteer on need basis.

Me:     Only constraint: Lack of MISSIONARY ZEAL to implement the guidance. LITMUS TEST: Let us jointly visit any dormant and weak TANZIM and see if an operating manual based on the CIVIL SOCIETY LEARNING MATERIAL - as stated by you compiled by the professionals in AKDN - does actually exists and practiced.

Amin: Not across all 4500 v/wos and over 80 LSos for many reasons including the one you mentioned missionary zeal field staff. But part of the work done by Richard Holloway was translated into urdu training organized for activists. But when Richard left AKDN civil society back in mid 2000s the new leadership and team had other views and ideas for strengthening CSOs. The current strategy focuses on CAT: capacity, asset and trust building of akdn own agencies as civil society and by extension mobilizing resources for legacy and non-legacy grassroots orgs due to funding and other limitations the gap surely exists.

Me:     I am talking about the training and monitoring of LSOs, VOs and WOs and guiding them towards SELF HELP I. A. W  July 2017 WEBCAST and Speech of 15th January 2019. One of priority assignments: Motivate every adult member of the family to join a TANZEEM towards re-invigorating social asset created by AKRSP. CIVIL SOCIETY LEANING MATERIAL HAS BEEN ISSUED IN 2007, it did not exist in this format in 2000.

Amin: Yes those are generic for whole world. Outreach is a major challenge despite being part of strategy to do so but lacks the financial muscle: it requires 90 USD reach each household in gbc. So the implementation is done subject to donor funding which is always skewed and location and time specific. Under the imamat finding in seven valleys they are trying to reach that goal but with it's own challenges.

Me:     You have identified the handicaps associated with donor funding, I am talking about leveraging the available resources to achieve goals of Imamat in Hunza, Ghazer, CHITRAL and some localities in Gilgit. This link contains the minutes of meeting with chairman AKRSP.

https://hisamullahbeg.blogspot.com/2018/05/diamond-jubilee-goals.html

Amin: Yes sir found it. Leveraging has been a mantra for some years now. The perils are it mainly covers for non-developmental costs while actual investment at community level is left to the communities themselves. I am talking of the dev industry as a whole AKDN included.

Me:     No one on the list defined in the civil SOCIETY publications is JAMATI INSTITUTIONS, No two AKDN, as such I do not consider them generic specially when Imam has given a clear reference in the web-cast and through appointment meeting guidance .

Amin: The likes of governance in service companies might not have the time, knowledge and vision how to leverage community investments for self-help. They are more concerned about saving Imamat resources. Global AKDN program area o mean not specific to gbc context.

I spent last 10 years in different units of akrsp in advisory positions and project lead and yes I take the responsibility for most failures on my part as part of the team. There is too much focus on combing and measurements and hands off approach when it comes to investing in civil society and less on investing in capacities asset and trust building. I have been a vocal critic of this approach inside but failed to change those mindsets who consider this social capital old fashioned and wanted to invest more in business and economic sectors. No 7 on the list VCCS VILLAGE_ /Valley CONSERVATION COMMITTEES.

Me:     Request you to read this page: AKDN Civil Society Programme has produced a series of internal booklets to help those involved with AKDN agencies to acquire the skills they need to build and strengthen effective civil society organisations (CSOs). There are basically four types of institutions for whom these booklets are intended:

1. The Jamati Institutions: National Councils, ITREB, GRB, NCAB, and EPB

2. The Boards of the Service Companies – AKHS, AKES, AKPBS

3. Associations set up by the Service Companies or by other AKDN agencies to support the purposes of their programme – such as PTAs, school management committees, nurses associations, midwives associations, teachers associations, tenants associations

4. CSOs outside AKDN agencies which support their purposes

All such organisations involve people who have committed themselves to improving the society in which they live by what they do and how they behave. Commitment and voluntarism may, however, not be enough for an effective organisation – specific organisational skills are needed as well. And these skills can be learnt. The following booklets are also available in this series:

1. Problems in Managing Organisations

2. Skills in Managing Organisations

3. Improving Management

4. The Board and its Functions

 5. Organisational Structures and Systems

6. Managing People and their Work

7. Managing Finance

8. Building a More Civil Society