According to the IPRI report on “Education System of Pakistan; issues, problems and challenges” Pakistan is lagging behind in achieving its SDGs of education. The SDGs have laid down two goals for education sector; goal two of universal primary education and goal three of Promoting Gender Equality and Women Empowerment. The major causes of low literacy in Pakistan are economic disparity, gender inequality, population growth and lack of quality education policy, planning and its implementation. The report reveals that most out-of-school children are in Balochistan while more than half of the country’s out-of-school children live in Punjab. It is harder for girls to go to school who make up more than half of all out-of-school children. Around 70% of children out-of-school have never been to a school. Girls mostly drop out of school to help with work while children from poor families far more likely to be out of school.

Civil society organizations have a greater role to improve the state of education in Pakistan. HUJRA implemented school infrastructure improvement and school enrolment enhancement program in KP. Keeping in view the dismal condition of education especially girls primary education, primary education is identified as one of the program theme for HUJRA. Non formal education is an important area in education for HUJRA keeping in view the geographic areas of HUJRA and related essentiality of this type of education. NFE is also a growing priority for the Government and major donor agency, therefore HUJRA is focusing on the theme in its educational program. The objectives of initiating non-formal system in the organizational context are to ensure that the children are being provided the facility of education in rural areas of KP and NMDS.