Pakistan

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

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 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: 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 publication is a report of trainings on Gender Promotion in the Garment / Clothing Sector through Skill Development. The key output expected from the project is to generate employment for women in garment sector through training and to build the capacity of the private sector and advocate gender main streaming in garment sector.
Learning... Threading Ahead... Stitching Life... A New Beginning!

Skill is a jewel in prosperity...and refuge in adversity

Description: The GENPROM project launched in August 2006 for 5 years, aims to reduce poverty by generating employment for women in the garment industry through training.

Description: This report reviews the education budget through a gender lens and analyzes if budget allocations are in line with different priorities of women and men and their needs in the education sector. This report primarily relies on a review of policies, budgets and statistical data. The research is useful for government officials, civil society representatives and education experts in the field.

Saba Gul Khattak, SPR/UNDP

Description: This major findings of the UNDP/ UNIFEM mission emerged from a review of the documents and literature on the earthquake relief and transition to recovery phase, international experiences, field visits to the affected districts, consultations with government at the Federal, Provincial and District levels as well as with aid agencies, the UN Clusters, NGOs, communities, in particular, women in the rural and urban areas.


UNDP Pakistan

Description: The relief related response to the 8 October 2005 earthquake in Pakistan has been acclaimed internationally as a success, avoiding the much feared second wave of death and exodus of affected communities to the cities. To facilitate a smooth transition from relief to recovery, United Nations and Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA) have jointly prepared an Early Recovery Plan (ERP).


UNDP Pakistan

Description: This publication gives the pathway for UNDP and its projects on how to effectively mainstream gender in its operations and programmes. This gender strategy for Pakistan was developed through a consultative process in 2005 and has been adopted to ensure that gender is reflected effectively across the board.


Tariq Husain, Aamina Adham

Description: The study on Women’s Political and Legislative Participation in Pakistan: Issues and Perspectives is intended to assess the general current situation of women’s political participation of Pakistan, as well as to provide some focused analysis of the real challenges being faced by the fairly large number of women who have today entered the formal political and legislative arena in the country.


UNDP Pakistan