Pakistan

Description: Based on information from 12,000 households, elected representatives and government officials from100 union councils and 71 tehsils/towns in 21 districts, the DTCE Social Audit (2009/10) is designed to measure the status of state-citizen relationship.The report presents the findings of the social audit survey capturing the level of engagement of the public with local government, their participation in local development in their communities and their feedback on adequacy and quality of service delivery.

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

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 report reviews and highlights the achievements of three modules of the Gender Promotion through Skill Development in the garment/clothing sector, at three locations

GEN-PROM/UNDP

Description: This booklet defines Gender Responsive Budget (GRB) in Pakistan, which is a part of the Government’s large agenda on gender reform. It describes how GRB came in to fruition, how it is being implemented and what tools it has employed to achieve its successes. It also indicates how further improvements can be made in the future. This is a useful resource for Government employees, policy makers, people working in gender related areas and the general public.

GoP and PRS/UNDP

Description: This study is a criminological and sociological analysis of the use and application of the Zina (extra-marital sexual intercourse between a man and a woman regardless of their marital status). It maps different stages of the criminal justice system from the registration of the case until the conclusion of a trial. This is a useful resource for political and religious leaders, other policy-makers, and the public.

UNDP Pakistan, Gender Support Programme

Description: Women Councilors’ Data Profile provides basic information on elected female representatives at the local level (district/tehsil/Union Council). It gives details of their socioeconomic status, political affiliation, and effectiveness as Councilors, knowledge/awareness of the Local Government system, and their views on the system. It is a useful resource for officials responsible for managing/monitoring local government affairs and training elected representatives.

EYCON (PVT.) LTD

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: 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