Pakistan

Description: The Asia-Pacific Regional Human Development Report (APHDR) is an important resource and instrument to explore critical development concerns. The Report informs policies and actions from a human development perspective, putting people at the centre of development debates. As a regional public good, the APHDR focuses on issues that are of common concern to several countries in the region, have sensitivities that are better addressed at a regional level, or have clear cross-border dimensions, calling attention to the fact that development challenges are no longer confined within geographic spaces.

Description: Under UNDP’s Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific, the Human Development Report Unit (HDRU) located at the UNDP Asia-Pacific Regional Centre leads the work on the flagship Asia-Pacific Human Development Report (APHDR) series. APHDRs are independent policy advocacy documents supported by UNDP as outcomes of multi-stakeholder participatory processes. The central mandate of HDRU is to produce Regional Human Development Reports for Asia-Pacific to support advocacy and capacity development on critical regional development concerns.

Description: The Asia Pacific Human Development Network (AP-HDNet) is an e-platform where members exchange knowledge, raise and debate issues on human development in the region. Working with stakeholders in the region to guide the directions of the Asia-Pacific Human Development Reports is critical. It helps in shaping and prioritising issues, builds capacity, provides an experience-sharing platform, helps dissemination and promotes buy-in. The AP-HDNet is therefore an integral part of the process leading to the preparation of the Asia-Pacific Human Development Reports (APHDRs), and it helps to disseminate the findings of the APHDRs.

Description: The report focuses on the critical question of advancing gender equality, as seen through the prism of women’s unequal power, voice, and rights. Despite the region’s many economic gains, the Report chronicles how in many instances women across the region continue to be held back and disadvantaged. Even as many women have benefited from their countries’ improved education, health, and prosperity, they continue to face barriers to the same opportunities available to men.

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 Publication is a consolidated reply of an E-Discussion on Transforming Corruption through Human Development. The principal objective of this discussion was to engage stakeholders in a constructive and multifaceted debate on corruption for the Asia Pacific Human Development Report. The results of the discussion enriched the Report and gave it a sharper focus on the poor. It is a useful resource for Governance sector officials.

UNDP Regional Center

Description: This Regional Human Development Report examines the problem of corruption from the perspective of the countries of Asia and the Pacific. This report is action-oriented, and proposes a seven-point agenda for change, building upon ongoing anti-corruption efforts and provides a coherent, comprehensive vision for tackling the problem of corruption in the Asia-Pacific region.



Anuradha Rajivan, Gry Ballestad, Elena Borsatti,

Description: Human Development Report 2007/2008, a product of research and analysis by international experts and staff across the UN system, is intended to stimulate debate and dialogue on Fighting Climate Change while discussing the issue of human solidarity in a divided world that will have a profound bearing on progress towards achieving the human development.



Kevin Warkins

Description: This Report, a product of research and analysis by international experts and staff across the UN system, is intended to stimulate debate and dialogue around a set of issues that will have a profound bearing on progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals and human development.


UNDP Pakistan

Description: This is the first National Human Development Report 2003 for Pakistan. The report examines new questions such as: How do distorted markets for goods and services result in the loss of income for the poor? How do local structures of power (landlords, local officials, etc…) deprive the poor of their income and assets?
The report examines the challenges and pitfalls of implementing decentralization reforms and articulates a multi-pronged strategy for overcoming poverty, based on an analysis of the processes of poverty and the structure of the national economy. For the first time, the report presents the HDI at the provincial and district levels.