Registration Status. As can be discerned from Table 2A 37% organisations have a legal entity under any one of the five existing government regulations for registration. The unregistered organisations (63%) also include NGOs that have applied for registration and their cases are under processing. They also include organizations that have as yet not opted for applying for registration.

Table 3A shows that out of the 636 registered organizations, 588 organization i.e. 92% are registered under the Voluntary Social Welfare Agencies Registration and Control Ordinance, 1961. Only 48 NGOs are registered under the remaining three Registration laws, with only 2 opting for the Trust Act, 1882. It may be pertinent to mention have that the various registration laws call for particular legal formalities and obligations including aspects like " what an organization can do," " what will be its organizational structure," etc,. Table 3A is thus indicative of the preference by NGOs of the Voluntary Social Welfare Agencies Ordinance 1961 for most of their programmes/activities and organizational structure. In all the districts, the Department of Social Welfare is authorized for registration of NGOs under the Social Welfare Agencies Ordinance 1961 while the Department of Industries registers NGOs opting for the Societies Act of 1860.

The district with the highest proportion of registered NGOs is Chitral, Lakki Marwat and with the lowest percent is Hangu and Batagram. Kohistan has only one NGO in the entire district and that too is unregistered.