About

Who Are We

The Welfare Research Archive primarily documents interviews with welfare leaders and practitioners to examine initiatives, challenges, and recommendations for improving future welfare efforts.

Knowledge
Building

Increase understanding of welfare efforts across education, health, poverty, and peacebuilding.

Experience Documentation

Record experiences, challenges, innovations, and recommendations from welfare leaders and practitioners.

Public Research Archive

Create an accessible archive supporting learning, research, and future policy development.

The Welfare Research Archive aims to primarily conduct, transcribe, and archive interviews of leaders in Pakistan working along the lines of welfare activities. Such activities include programs, laws, and interventions that promote social wellbeing, reduce poverty and inequality, and provide social protection by ensuring access to basic needs and services such as poverty alleviation, healthcare, housing, and education.

Development of welfare efforts is not limited to the state; it is influenced by other stakeholders and leaders such as NGOs, civil society organizations, and faith-based organizations. In recent years, welfare policy has been considered from a broader perspective, including environmental protection, online safety, skill development, and lifelong learning. Overall, ‘welfare’ is an umbrella term that will allow us to archive a wide range of interviews and data from diverse professionals and practitioners. Pakistan, with its broad range of challenges, is in need of holistic welfare development, and thus, the relevance of this Centre.