The document summarizes a 5-day workshop on citizenship education and community engagement held at the University of Karachi in collaboration with the British Council and Higher Education Commission. 45 students from various faculties attended the workshop and participated in modules covering topics like identity, culture, gender, conflict resolution, and development. They learned skills for planning and implementing social action projects to address issues in their communities. The workshop aimed to promote social leadership and development among youth in Pakistan. Overall, the workshop helped equip students with skills and perspectives to become active citizens working for positive change.

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University Of Karachi (UoK) Organizes
A Five Day Workshop On Citizenship
Education And Community Engagement
Programme In Collaboration With
British Council And Higher Education
Commission (HEC)
(January 04-08, 2016)
Citizenship Education and Community
Engagement is inherently a global endeavor.
Envisaging emblematic citizens’ role in our
society, Faculty of Management and
Administrative Sciences under an MoU with
the British Council organized a five-day
workshop on ‘Active Citizens’ for the
students of the University of Karachi. Forty
five participants from the Faculties of Social
Sciences, Education, Islamic Learning,
Science, and, Management and
Administrative Sciences attended the
workshop.
The workshop kicked off with the greeting
speech of Syeda Hoor-Ul-Ain, a prominent
corporate trainer and motivational speaker,
currently associated as Program Coordinator
and Facilitator – Active Citizens with the
University of Karachi. She briefed the
participants about the core components of
the program namely capacity building, youth
led social action projects, policy dialogues
and developing networks at national and
international fronts. The climax of the event
was the magnificent video shown to the
participants to cherish tremendous
achievements of the Active Mentor – Prof.
Dr. Khalid M. Iraqi who has developed a
‘League of Facilitators’ for enabling ‘Active
Citizens’ in Pakistan.
Prof. Dr. Khalid M. Iraqi, the visionary
doyen and the Focal Person of the Active
Citizens Program, recently nominated as
Member Syndicate UoK against the
category of Dean, Faculty of Management
and Administrative Sciences, opened the
session with his welcome address.
Expressing the importance of social
leadership acumen, he highlighted the fact
that universities have a special role to play
in the places we inhabit to promote
academics and social action projects for the
betterment of the society. He advised youth
to learn and gain various skills sets during
the 5-day learning journey to address public
issues and cement pathways of educational
opportunity for the next diverse generation
of civic leaders, professionals, and citizens.
The thematic modules consisting of Identity
& culture, Intercultural dialogue, local and
global communities, gender sensitization,

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conflict resolution, inclusive development,
and planning social action are covered in the
5-day journey of Active Citizens to promote
social leadership and community-led social
development in youth. The workshop was
focused on a number of training methods,
including students’ feedback, group
discussions, dialogues, debates, and
practical and kinesthetic exercises. A richly
knowledgeable ‘League of 12 Facilitators’
assisted participants in developing and
refining their ideas for enabling them to plan
youth led social action projects. Especially,
Prof. Dr. Khalid M. Iraqi, Ms. Saima A.
Mallick, Syeda Hoor-Ul-Ain, Dr. Amjad
Ali, Dr. Imtiaz, Ms. Mariya Khan, Dr.
Akram Sharif, Dr. Izhar Baig and Mr.
Danish Ahmed went through great lengths
and critical discussions with the participants
to establish a value driven mindsets in all
their social actions.
Initially participants demonstrated usual
state of mind; they started with the slow
pace but later they innovated on the learning
modes with high absorption and deep
interest. Many of them learn to shed the
shackles of the traditional ways of looking at
things. They got involved in the workshop
proceedings very enthusiastically and
participated in all interactive activities.
Many of them narrated their personal
experiences avoiding self-censorship to
reinforce learning.
Most of them displayed good cohesion
during the sessions while participating in the
exercises and rated as winners. At the
beginning, they were found vibrating around
the emotional composition but later they
have learnt to stay composed in enervating
situations for the ultimate resolve of
problems and achievement of objectives to
endorse and implement decisions that
resulted in increased effectiveness by means
of complementary skills and coordination.
During the proceedings of the workshop,
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Sajidin, Director,
Quality Enhancement Cell and Prof. Dr.
Shakeel Farooqi, President, Karachi
University Teachers Society (KUTS)
highlighted the importance of collectivism,
sense of responsibility, sensitized citizenship
and coordination for making our inhabits a
more fairer and inclusive society.

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Accompanied by Prof. Dr. Khalid M. Iraqi
and Prof. Dr. Shakeel Farooqi, the Vice-
Chancellor – Prof. Dr. Muhammad Qaiser,
University of Karachi also paid a visit to the
workshop venue on day 4. Dr. Iraqi thanked
the Vice Chancellor for his continued
support for the academic and co-academic
programs.
On day 5, portal training for students and
facilitators was held in the newly revamped
computer lab of the Department of Public
Administration.
This workshop helped in bringing together
students with different beliefs, perspectives
and disciplines to learn from and share with
each other. The modular learning journey
equips students with ‘Active Citizens Skill
Set’ for carrying out social action projects to
affect social change in their communities.
The highly interactive and informative
workshop concluded with a simple
ceremony in which the focal person of the
program, Prof. Dr. Khalid M. Iraqi took
feedback from the students.
The program has transformed students into
‘Hyper Active Citizens’ who will play a
meaningful role for the sustainable
development of their communities through
deliberations, discussions, decision-making
and implementation of social action projects
in their realm of wisdom and jurisdiction.