Community Resilience Activity (CRA) Safe Charity Assessment: Phase 1 Business Data

Abstract

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/Pakistan-funded Safe Charity campaign seeks to reduce financial support to violent extremist groups by educating those who give charity about how to direct their charity to safe recipients in Multan and Karachi. In Multan, the campaign trained influential farmers to disseminate safe charity messages to other farmers; and chambers of commerce and industry, trade and marketing associations, and the Rotary Club to reach the business community. In Karachi, the campaign engaged community youth centers to disseminate messages. The campaign timed its activities to align with common periods of charitable giving, namely Ramazan, Eid ul-Fitr, and Eid ul-Azha. These surveys established a baseline of current knowledge and practices with respect to safe charity in Multan and Karachi during each giving period and identified changes in knowledge and practices that could be plausibly linked to the safe charity campaign