Pakistan

Description: This case study elaborates the costs and benefits of the Mountain Area Conservancy Project’s sustainable policies and activities with respect to the local communities in the project area.

UNDP Pakistan - Mountain Areas Conservancy Project

Description: This paper is part of a series of Country studies on trade in environmental services aimed at stimulating a more intensive debate on trade and human development issues in Asia. It summarizes the trend and growth of trade in environmental services, within the context of multilateral negotiations and beyond, and their interface with select human development objectives.

Syed Ayub Qutub

Description: The study highlights important success stories, which have unmasked the vicious cycle of the poverty-environment nexus and establishes innovative ways to address it. It details the reasons behind the increasing poverty and environmental degradation and the factors that most affect it.

Dr. Chaudhry Inayatullah, Merium Khan

Description: This report on a Symposium on Pro Poor Growth Policies provides a useful opportunity to discuss and deliberate on the issues of growth, inequality, and poverty, and also provide insights into forward looking pro poor policies and its predicates.

United Nations System in Pakistan

Description: This year’s report, entitled Capacity Development – Empowering People and Institutions, showcases UNDP’s achievements in supporting countries to improve the lives of their citizens and strengthen national institutions. The publication presents results in UNDP’s four focus areas of poverty reduction and achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, democratic governance, crisis prevention and recovery and environment and sustainable development

Description: This study has been carried out as part of the “Sustainable Development of Wind Power Production Project”. In line with the project objective, it includes a comprehensive assessment of the potential of the area, to develop as a wind farm in near future.


Comulative Impact Assessment & Alternatives
Environmental Management Plan

Taller de Ingeniería Ambiental, Eolic Partners, Halcrow Pakistan (Pvt) Limited

Description: The Mid-Term Review (MTR) of the Community Empowerment through Livestock Development

Description: This is a comparative study about the Parliamentary system framework and a need to make rules, regarding, Public and Media access to committees and points towards the need of guidelines to help committees, legislator and committee staff to hold public hearings


UNDP Pakistan – Strengthening Democracy through parliamentary Development (SDPD)

Description: This publication is part of a briefing paper series that highlights the role of Parliament in democratic polity and its position vis-a vis its executive and judicial branches across the political system, keeping in view the principles of separation of powers. The paper discusses the role of head of state and government and cabinet in the parliamentary form of government.


UNDP Pakistan – Strengthening Democracy through parliamentary Development (SDPD)

Description: This report lays out the framework for a Training and Research Unit housed in the Election Commission which will determine how it would work , the kinds of activities it would conduct,its staffing and other needs , and so on.


UNDP Pakistan - Strengthening Electoral Processes to Ensure Greater
Participation in Pakistan (SDEPP II)

Description: In 2005, the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Department of Finance in Punjab launched Gender Responsive Budgeting Initiative (GRBI) Project with the support of UNDP and its cost sharing partners with an aim to mainstream gender in public finance. This resource kit is developed for the stakeholders of gender responsive budgeting in Pakistan. http://www.grbi.gov.pk/grbidoc.asp


Katrin Schneider

Description: It celebrates the stories of 15 local women politicians who heroically challenged deep rooted cultural and institutional constraints.


UNDP Pakistan

Description: This is a capacity assessment report of Pakistan Metrological Department (PMD), Alternate Energy Development Board (AEDB) and the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) and includes concrete recommendations for the improvement of the wind energy promotion framework in Pakistan.

Description: This document is a compilation of all gender related data that is available from various sources. It contains national censuses and major sample surveys, based on large sample size. The bibliography also provides the basis for planners, policy-makers and researchers to identify missing gender-relevant data.

UNDP Pakistan

Description: This report documents the outcome of the first MenEngage Pakistan core group meeting. MenEngage is a Global Alliance to Engage Men and Boys in Gender Equality and Ending Violence. This is a useful document for those working on gender and violence issues.

UNDP Pakistan- Gender Justice through Musalihat Anjuman Programme

Description: These stories reflect some of the diverse and pressing environmental challenges facing Pakistan, as well as innovative solutions to overcome them. From efforts to preserve Ziarat’s ancient Juniper forests to developing a comprehensive waste disposal mechanism for the Shandur polo Festival, to community efforts in Dera Ismail Khan to prevent illegal trade in soft-shell turtles, each story is a testament to how communities were able to make positive sustainable changes in their lives. Rehan Rafey Jamil & Zia Hashmi

Description: This report addresses the issue of vulnerability among Pakistani populations living around camps of Afghan refugees where camps have either been closed or most of the camp population has been repatriated or dispersed inside Pakistan

UNDP Pakistan

Description: This evaluation is largely based on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) I since PRSP II has not been finalized yet (the draft was consulted where relevant). It provides an analysis of the premises underlying the PRSPs, and of the performance of the government on the basis of the commitments made the PRSPs. SDPD UNDP

Description: This document provides a synopsis of the Stakeholder Consultation in 2007 and includes discussion and recommendations. It also serves as one snapshot of local government development in late 2007.


Shirin M. Rai, Nafisa Shah and Aazar Ayaz

Description: This Project Cycle Operations Manual is a set of jointly agreed rules and proceedures between UNDP Pakistan and Government of Pakistan for management and implementation of Nationaly executed projects.
PCOM 4 Vol II
UNDP Pakistan