Sungi’s experimental learning reveals that there exists a general lack of awareness about basic human rights, role of state, rule of law, local and national power structure, constitution and the coordination amongst the three pillars of the state as well as lack of responsibility and responsiveness had badly affected every sphere of life in the country. Sungi’s all programmatic inputs centers around the nucleus of social mobilization approach. Sungi’s Good Governance Program (GGP) enables people to organize for collective action and supporting right’s holders to demand their rights and hold duty bearers accountable for their obligations.

The program facilitates in empowering men and women to organize their own democratically self-governing groups or community organizations The program builds awareness and enhances capacities of community partners, government line agencies and elected representatives about democratic and civic rights.

The program goal is beyond community organization, infact it promotes harnessing the potential efforts of the government, non-government sector and citizens to work towards equitable social, economic and political development. Sungi believes that a better coordination among the community based platforms, legislature and executive is the only way to bring sustainable impacts of the state policies on the lives and poor and marginalized.

Pakistan is among those developing countries that have registered upward trend in their economic growth indicators during 70’s, 80’s and early 90’s. This economic progress, however, was not accompanied by socio political betterment of the country’s general masses. The downward trend of Human Development Infer flew in the face of increase in per capita income. With one of the lowest literacy rates and one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world Pakistan’s development since its birth leaves much to be desired. A ray of hope, however, is there as in the age of globalization an increasing number of grass root movements are flourishing where people are forming alliances by organizing themselves to advocate their rights. These are the people who have long been sidelined by their governments. SUNGI believes in the participation of these neglected masses in mainstream development. And a prerequisite for such a progressive and tolerant society is redefining and reestablishing the link between, the government and the governed and the public and policy makers. This is what SUNGI’s vision of an equitable and just society includes. It is built upon the principles of ownership and accountability. And a deep commitment to these principles has translated into the Social Mobilization and development approach, which is followed by SUNGI.

SUNGI believes that the present state of underdevelopment of Pakistan is a legacy of our colonial past that persists in our feudal culture. At the same time there are other socio political and socio economic factors that are also helping to maintain the control of a small elite group over large amount of country’s resources. The ultimate result of this unfair distribution of the nation’s wealth is poverty for teeming millions. Therefore any attempt at social change must focus on poverty alleviation. And this goal can only be reached at through changing the existing power structure. The latter transformation is only possible through sustained actions both by the state and people. Therefore, SUNGI strongly believes that all policies, whether state or otherwise, must be people centred, emphasizing greater participation and a voice for the most marginalized. SUNGI believes that communities and citizen’ groups should act as support structures for individuals so as to encourage them to take socially valuable action as well as to express their concerns. When properly endowed and informed, communities can contribute to decisions that affect them and play an invaluable role in creating a sustainable society. With these specific objectives the Social Mobilization Section of SUNGI attempts at creating transparent democratic and efficiently managed village organizations, which are the foundation for all other programmatic interventions. Social Mobilization is one of the three sub components of Social Mobilization and Development Program, which is one of the core programs of SUNGI. The other two components of this program are Civic Rights and Health and Sanitation sections.