- welfareresearcharchive@gmail.com
Follow Us :
Documents interviews with welfare leaders and practitioners to examine initiatives, challenges, and recommendations for improving future welfare efforts.
Increase understanding of welfare efforts across education, health, poverty, and peacebuilding.
Record experiences, challenges, innovations, and recommendations from welfare leaders and practitioners.
Create an accessible archive supporting learning, research, and future policy development.
Through systematically conducted interviews with leaders and practitioners, The Welfare Research Archive seeks to understand welfare initiatives, the challenges faced, and recommendations for strengthening future efforts. Interviews are transcribed and archived on the website for public access, to support students and researchers in conducting secondary analysis, and to inform policymakers and others involved in welfare development. Access to the archived interviews will be open and available for all without restrictions.
The primary goal of The Welfare Research Archive is to transcribe interviews of people working in welfare, to document their experiences, challenges, and recommendations for an improved welfare net, in aim of:
The Welfare Research Archive is supported by a small skilled team with clearly defined job descriptions to ensure professional management, ethical data collection, and effective public outreach. For questions or suggestions please contact:
Dr Sara Rizvi Jafree
Assistant Professor, Taxila Institute of Asian Civilisation (TIAC), Qu
All interviews and research conducted under this initiative adhere to established ethical standards for social science research. Informed consent is/ will be obtained from all participants first, with clear explanations of the purpose of the interviews and the intended use of the data. Particular care is taken when engaging with sensitive topics related to peacebuilding and public policy, ensuring respectful representation. Data protection protocols are followed in line with the research ethics guidelines of the Belmont Report. (1)
The Welfare Research Archive offers multiple long-term gains for the community by creating a reliable and accessible body of knowledge on welfare efforts in Pakistan. First, it aims to preserve the voices, experiences, and practical wisdom of leaders and practitioners whose insights are often lost due to lack of documentation. By recording these perspectives, future generations of students, researchers, policymakers, and citizens will benefit from locally grounded knowledge rather than relying solely on foreign models or incomplete records. Furthermore, the archive can also promote social unity and recognition of service by highlighting positive contributions made by individuals and organizations from diverse ethnic, regional, and religious backgrounds. By documenting common efforts toward public wellbeing, the project hopes to encourage cooperation, mutual respect, and a stronger sense of shared civic responsibility.
The archive also aims to strengthen evidence-based policymaking by making real experiences and recommendations available to decision-makers. Interviews with professionals working in fields such as poverty alleviation, healthcare, education, peacebuilding, child protection, and disaster response can help identify service gaps, successful interventions, and practical reforms. This can support more responsive and contextually suitable welfare policies for communities across Pakistan. The project will create educational value for universities, colleges, schools, and training institutes. Students will be able to learn directly from practitioners through transcripts, improving research skills, critical thinking, and awareness of national welfare challenges. Researchers can also use archived interviews for secondary analysis, dissertations, and publications, while gaining inspiration for their own research and welfare efforts.
The Welfare Research Archive serves as a model for sustainable knowledge-based charity through its Cash Waqf structure. By combining charitable giving, transparency, research, and public benefit, the initiative demonstrates how faith-inspired resources can be used for lasting intellectual and social development. In this way, the project seeks not only to document welfare work, but also to actively contribute to a more informed, compassionate, and socially responsible society.
Ms Junaid serves as Chairperson and trustee-patron of the Ghulam Mohammad Public…
The Welfare Research Archive project is funded through a Cash Waqf Model, following the
jurisprudential lines of the Twelver Shia. The cash Waqf is donated by Dr Sara Rizvi Jafree, in
honor of the Ahlalbait a.s and in memory of her deceased parents and grandparents. A newsletter
and the accounts of the cash Waqf will be published online quarterly for the sake of
transparency, information communication, and replication of Islamic Waqf models by others
who may be interested in developing family Waqfs.
Signup to get information and periodic reports.