Pakistan

Description: A selection of photos of various interventions of UNDP's Environmental Recovery Programme. The interventions are carried out through community participation.

Description: This booklet gives a pictorial account of the early recovery needs of the Internally Displaced Persons as they return home.

Description: The booklet illustrates the many facets of UNDP’s work in Crisis Prevention and Recovery in an engaging and human way. It illustrates the challenges faced in this area and reiterates the need for disaster risk management in Pakistan

Description: This booklet gives an overview of the initiatives of the UNDP’s Gender Justice Programme’s initiatives to end violence against women

Description: The social audit allows comparisons over time in citizens’ views, use and experience of public services under devolved local government. It also helps assessment of the level of engagement of the public with local government and their participation in local development in their communities.

Description: To conduct the survey in 80 districts across Pakistan, social audit methodology, developed by CIET (Community Information Empowerment and Training) has been adapted to the context of the Pakistan devolution.

Description: This report gives indicative glance of the expansive stock of socio-economic data for the purpose of researchers, planners, academicians, sociologists and other interested users at large.

Description: This is a study in which Pakistan’s empirics on growth and inequality are scrutinized in terms of poverty decomposition into growth and distribution components and assessment of growth in terms of its distributional neutrality with the help of widely-used methodological and statistical tools.

Description: The paper describes the extent of and trends in inequality levels in terms of income, land ownership, level of education of breadwinners and multi-dimensional regional disparities.

Description: The paper examines policy responses to inequality in Pakistan on the part of the government as well as international development partners and non-government actors.

Description: The booklet has been produced under the One UN Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Joint Programme Component in support of the National Disaster Management Authority. It seeks to highlight what UNDP is doing as part of the One UN DRM JPC in a simple, readily comprehensible manner.

Description: This booklet highlights various issues of Violence Against Women (VAW) to influence key stakeholders to take individual or joint action against it.

Description: The study was conducted by the Sustainable Policy Development Institute and to establish service delivery benchmarks regarding law-and-order and the dispensation of justice. It reviews the establishment of the judicial institutional structure after the devolution of power plan of 2000.

Description: A glimpse at UNDP's Practice

The booklet aims to illustrate communication for development in practice across UNDP through selected case studies drawn from country and regional offices as well as headquarters.

Prepared by Elizabeth McCall under coordination from Oslo Governance Center (OGC), UNDP.

Description: The Report breaks new ground in applying a human development approach to the study of migration. It discusses who migrants are, where they come from and go to, and why they move. It looks at the multiple impacts and barriers to migration and gives recommendations to maximize gains from human movement.

Description: This report examines the UNDP’s response to the crisis in the immediate aftermath of the October 8, 2005 Earthquake. It is an evaluation with the approach that divides the relief and recovery phases into two distinct progressive programmes and addresses the subsequent interventions taken up by them. This may prove to be a useful resource for anyone working on disaster recovery.

Description: More than halfway to the 2015 deadline to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), major advances in the fight against poverty and hunger have begun to slow or even reverse as a result of the global economic and food crises. This report warns that, despite many successes, overall progress has been too slow for most of the targets to be met by 2015. The report is coordinated and published by the Statistics Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

The Millennium Development Goals Report 2009

Description: This evaluation was conducted by independent experts assesses the contribution of UNDP Pakistan’s interventions to address gender equality within Pakistan’s development context. The recommendations in the evaluation will be very useful for our partners specially, the government and civil society in formulating future strategies and programmes on gender.

Description: This is booklet gives an overview of the role of Musalihat Anjumans in providing speedy justice

Description: This magazine provides all the disaster related information for journalists, highlighting the role of media at the time of crises. This is a useful resource for journalists and public.

NCBDRM/UNDP