Rehbar Foundation works with Pakistan's workers, women, and youth to build their agency, safeguard their rights, and strengthen the communities they depend on.
Who we are
Rehbar Foundation is a Pakistani NGO working at the intersection of labour welfare, skill development, and community protection. Rehbar was founded to close a gap that runs across Pakistan's supply chains: workers are essential to production but structurally excluded from recognition, protection, and voice.
Rehbar's work spans all over Pakistan, reaching cotton pickers, factory workers, children and youth in marginalized communities groups among the most invisible in the country's supply chains. Rehbar's programs bring together agriculture and industry under a shared commitment to agency, protection, and sustainability.
OUR MISSION
Thematic programs
Each thematic program is delivered through Rehbar's intervention model and reported through the same transparent, evidence-based approach.
Prevention & response
Equips workers, supervisors, and community members to recognise, prevent, and respond to workplace and community harms, including gender-based violence, harassment, discrimination, forced and child labour, wage violations, and violations of freedom of association, building safer pathways for reporting, protection, and resolution both on the farm/factory floor and at home.
Gender Equity
Promotes women's equal participation, leadership, and economic opportunity across agricultural and factory worksites, addressing discriminatory norms and practices that limit women's access to jobs, fair pay, and decision-making, and reinforcing Rehbar's human rights due diligence commitments to gender equality.
Occupational safety
Delivers occupational health and safety training aligned with human rights due diligence standards, covering hazard identification, protective equipment, and safe work practices across agricultural and factory settings.
Access to care
Brings basic health screening, treatment, and referrals directly to worksites and worker communities, alongside emergency relief support during climate-related disasters such as floods and heatwaves, addressing gaps in access to care as part of Rehbar's human rights due diligence commitments.
Care infrastructure
Provides safe, accessible childcare near worksites so that working parents, particularly women, are not forced to choose between income and their children's safety, while reducing the burden of unpaid care work.
Climate Policy & Sustainability
To mobilise Public–Private–Philanthropic Partnerships (4P) that make Pakistan's low-carbon transition affordable and bankable by deploying first-loss capital to de-risk investment, strengthening monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) systems, supporting industrial decarbonisation that safeguards jobs and community resilience, and enabling farmers to adopt climate-resilient crops and sustainable land and water management practices that diversify livelihoods and build resilience to climate change.
Target group & approach
Workers across Pakistan's agriculture and industry, including field workers and factory workers, men and women.
Programs are not divided by sector at the strategic level. Each is designed for the workers it reaches, whether in the field or on the production line, and most are built to serve both from the outset.
Building workers' knowledge, voice, and bargaining position, so they are recognised as rights holders and economic agents, not only as labour.
Embedding environmental and livelihood resilience into every programme, so gains are not eroded by climate stress, resource depletion, or unsustainable production practices.
Securing workers' right to physical and psychological protection at work, including protection from occupational hazards, violence, and harassment, so that economic participation does not come at the cost of health, dignity, or life.
Our work streams
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Direct, field-based programming with workers, designed and delivered through a multi-level approach that creates change at the individual, household, community, and institutional level. Extended through thematic programs across the wider worker base.
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A sustainable resource base built through ethical fundraising and welfare support that keeps communities at the centre. From emergency relief and health camps to child labour prevention, every resource is allocated transparently and reported honestly.
03
Rigorous, Pakistan-grounded research that shapes our programs and contributes to wider sector learning. Delivered through field studies, practical toolkits, policy briefs, and partnerships with academic and research institutions.
Before designing any intervention, we traveled to Ghotki to listen directly to the community.
Rehbar visited Dadhro Village to share books with children, opening new spaces for curiosity and discovery.
Get involved
Whether you represent a business, a donor, a research institution, or your own two hands, there's a way to work with us.
For organisations
Work with us on human rights due diligence, responsible sourcing, and on-the-ground worker welfare across your supply chain.
For individuals
Bring your time, skills, or research background to our field programs and evidence work across Pakistan.
For supporters
Support ethical fundraising that keeps communities at the centre, from health camps to child labour prevention.
