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 - Syed Ali Abbas Zaidi
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
Some key programs are highlighted below. Contact us for a detailed portfolio of works.
Community Innovation Lab is a collaborative space and an action-learning platform that incubates, tests, and catalyzes innovative solutions to complex social problems
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 training and campaigning for inclusive Pakistan.
Under the aegis of world’s number 1 Institute for Development Studies (IDS – University of Sussex) HIVE Pakistan implemented inclusive development projects in the most affected communities of Pakistan that face intersectional marginalization. The program assesses and analyzes 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.
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.
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 the Young Cities fellowship.
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.
The Pakistani chapter of Extremely Together, a global PVE movement launched by the former Secretary General of the United Nations, The program mentors a network of youth activists working together to prevent violent extremism, build peace and create a more inclusive society for all.
The Peace Rickshaw Project is an innovative project that uses the bodies of auto-rickshaws as a tool for peace messaging. Over 250 rickshaws were decorated using classical art-forms and 250 rickshaw drivers were trained as ambassadors of peace. The project fostered social cohesion and in doing so earned international recognition, including the Intercultural Innovation Award at the United Nations
Through a dedicated social-impact fund for startups and socially conscious businesses, HIVE has brought on-board several ventures under its umbrella ranging from eco-tourism, e-commerce, food processing to minority led ventures.
HIVE engages in disaster relief and rehabilitation as a 100% volunteer-run initiative with zero overheads. During the floods of 2022, HIVE carried out a mammoth citizens-led flood relief response in 49 remote villages across four provinces of Pakistan. Through this, a total of 150,488 persons were impacted
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HIVE strives to work for an inclusive, equal, and peaceful Pakistan.
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