HIVE Pakistan
HIVE is a social-impact organization that works on social entrepreneurship, community-led research, facilitative grant-making, upstream mobilization, innovative campaigning, needs-based mentorship, mutual-learning mechanisms, and inclusive development.
HIVE is based in Islamabad with team across Pakistan and has a full-time staff of 15 members from diverse religious backgrounds. HIVE was founded in 2015 when two of Pakistan’s biggest youth organizations merged as a single entity.
In the past 10 years, through 50 contextualized training curriculums HIVE trained more than 25,000 youth in over 750 training-workshops, engaged more than 300,000 youth, women and minorities on-the-ground through community engagement activities, carried out five national-level campaigns that reached out to over 35 million users online, designed and implemented over 30 social-development projects directly benefitting 30,000 households and administered over 140 needs-based grants to diverse partners across Pakistan. HIVE has carried out six academic researches with leading international institutes. Moreover, HIVE has within its portfolio over 10 social impact enterprises.
CEO’s Message
Pakistan is surely passing through a great “transition.” The ever-expanding youth-bulge, coupled with unemployment, inequality, injustice, and lack of social services paints a bleak picture of our future. More than 60 million people still live below the poverty line and our Human Development Index (HDI) is the lowest in South Asia. Adding to the misery, the tendency of youth towards violent extremism (VE) harms our collective persona and purges our ethos of humane dispositions. Many have been disillusioned and believe that nothing can happen in Pakistan that will rid her of her burdens. HIVE Pakistan does not concur.
We believe that a better- Pakistan is possible. We believe that our glorious past, diverse traditions, poignant culture, literary character, and intellectual capital combined with the recent progress in ICT, infrastructure development and fight against extremism bring us, as a community, in a unique position to navigate through our problems and manifest a reality that is closer to our dreams. We believe that this philanthropy obsessed nation can collaborate with the public and private sector in a meaningful manner to instigate processes of social change that will help us evolve as a collective. It is with this belief that HIVE Pakistan was formed.
Functional Expertise
Research
Academic and informal studies (qualitative and quantitative). We specialize in community-led participatory research methodologies.
Training
Development of training content, trainer guides, organizing and conducting training workshops on diverse thematic areas
Creatives
Designing creative content including infographics, videos, and other interactive campaigning material particularly cause-driven messaging.
Campaigning
Digital media and on-ground campaigning using varying tools and methodologies
Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning
Designing and performing meal, and other innovative learning interventions
Community Engagement
Mobilizing communities, creating ownership, and facilitating sustainability
Small Grants
Flexible and adaptive funding mechanism through our Community Innovation Lab
Social Impact Enterprises
We have a dedicated department for startups and cause-driven businesses
Disaster-relief and rehabilitation
Crowd-funding, needs assessment and delivery of relief aid, and rehabilitation programs
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awards
Our Peace Rickshaw Project won the Intercultural Innovation Award in 2019 at UN Headquarters by the UN and BMW Group competing with several thousand entries from over 100 countries.
HIVE’s founding organizations won the Civic Education Award and the Azm-e-Aalishan Award for services rendered to Pakistan.
HIVE won the Nelson Mandela-Graça Machel Innovation Award in 2021 competing with organizations from over 70 countries.
Thematic Expertise
Through our vast experience in social development across Pakistan and strong networks- we offer a complete turnkey- 360 degrees solution consisting of Inception, Implementation, and Impact assessment
- Peacebuilding
- Countering/Preventing Violent Extremism (C/PVE)
- Social-impact startups and businesses
- Interfaith harmony and minority rights
- Social cohesion
- Working with marginalized groups and communities
- Integrating innovative technologies with cause-driven programs
- Intersectional approaches
- Youth development and leadership
Our Approach
Guiding pillars of our approach towards social programming are summarized below
Social Innovation
to innovate new solutions and practices that address society’s problems in a better way as compared to existing solutions.
Emancipatory programming
to carry out programs that center around true emancipation of communities instead of making them dependent.
Community ownership
to facilitate community ownership of every project through inclusion of communities at every level of programming.
Do no harm
to be mindful of the do-no-harm principle through the implementation of every project.
Decolonializing development
to decolonize development by taking a people-centric, bottom-to-top, and non-extractive approaches through the cycle of programming.
Key Programs
Only some key programs undertaken by HIVE are listed below:
Community Innovation Lab
community innovation lab
Previously known as Simurg Fund and Social Innovation Labs by HIVE – Community Innovation Lab is a collaborative space and an action-learning platform that incubates, tests, and catalyzes innovative solutions to complex social problems. Based on our expansive experience in community development, social innovation, peer to peer mentoring and funding over 150 projects across Pakistan from 2015 onward we have developed a flexible, adaptive, and iterative methodology that helps us to provide resources, mentorship, and an enabling environment to local actors to foster change as they see it. Breaking away from doctor-patient style social development – we believe in embracing uncertainties, emergent social change, emancipatory decision-making, participatory mobilization, and mutual learning. From 2021-2024 we have implemented over 48 projects in 22 cities under this program
Quaid e Azam Holograms
AIK – Better Together is an awareness campaign that uses the vision of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah for promoting his message of social cohesion and navigates its theory of change through an interplay of innovative holographic technology, community capacity building trainings and campaigning for inclusive Pakistan.
Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development
Under the aegis of world’s number 1 Institute for Development Studies (IDS – University of Sussex) HIVE implemented inclusive development projects in the most affected communities of Pakistan that face intersectional marginalization. The program assesses and analyses the situation of religious harmony in communities and then gathers the best practices regarding inclusive development initiatives with a special focus on informal minority settlements.
Dil Say Pakistan
Dil Say Pakistan is Pakistan’s first transmedia campaign which entails documentaries, music videos, TV shows, radio programs, virtual reality experiences, social media activities, animation series, film festivals and on ground activities across the country to celebrate Pakistan’s diversity, acknowledge its unsung heroes and enable social good. Being the foremost partner of the campaign, HIVE Pakistan engaged 2 million users online and 5 lac people on ground in a matter of 12 months.
YouthCAN Lab and Young Cities
youthCAN lab and young cities
HIVE Pakistan as a part of the Institute of Strategic Dialogue Global’s Youth Civil Activism Network implemented Youth Innovation Labs Pakistan. These innovation labs engaged youth in developing campaigns that tackle a range of issues and later transformed into Young Cities fellowship. Over 20 projects have been supported under its umbrella.
Intersectional Leadership Program (ILP)
In partnership with CYAAD – HIVE has developed an Intersectional Leadership Program that focuses on peace’s intersection with climate, gender, and tech. It provides resources and encourages leadership in the specialized domain of intersectional peace-building.
Social Impact Fund
Through a dedicated social-impact fund for startups and businesses, we have brought on-board several ventures under our umbrella ranging from eco-tourism, e-commerce to women and minority owned business and platforms.
Disaster Relief Programs
As a result of the catastrophic floods in Pakistan 2022, we carried out a mammoth volunteer citizen-led flood relief response in 49 remote villages across Pakistan. Through this, a total of 150,488 persons were impacted.
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