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Pakistan NHDR 2023/2024

UNDP's pioneering Digital Development Index for Pakistan finds that districts performing better on digital transformation are also performing better on human development

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Striving for Safer, Just, and Peaceful Communities in Pakistan – UN Assistant Secretary-General and UNDP Regional Director Kanni Wignaraja visits Police Training College Quetta

Ms. Kanni Wignaraja visited the Police Training College Quetta where the UNDP Pakistan Rule of Law Programme has increased the training and accommodation capacity for policewomen and -men through infrastructure development support.

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Stitching Dreams: Nameera’s Path to Empowerment

“Since childhood, I have been very passionate about designing my own clothes and sewing delicate embroidery on them. I wanted to create my own dresses rather than relying on tailors to sew a dress for me.

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Inauguration of UNDP installed Oxygen Plant at the Sheikh Zaid Bin Khalifa Hospital in Quetta, Balochistan

The Plant functions on the Pressure Swing Absorption (PSA) technology and is funded by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.

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Future-proofing Pakistan’s Development Pathways: From Recovery to Resilience

Pakistan knows crisis and adversity. Yet, recent years have seen an intensity in the country’s multidimensional socio-economic and climatic challenges: climate and environmental shocks as witnessed in the 2022 floods, economic pressures with an increased debt overhang, a challenging security . . .

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Inauguration of Renovation Work at the Government Girls High School, Killi Qambrani, Quetta

Today marked a milestone in the journey towards improving educational infrastructure and access in Balochistan province as Ms. Kanni Wignaraja inaugurated the renovated building of the Government Girls High School (GGHS) in Killi Qambrani, District Quetta.

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Pakistan’s pathway towards universal rights, freedom, equality and justice

The year 2023 appears to be an especially difficult year to celebrate human rights day, but then again, which year is not difficult. Whether it is a violation against an individual or a mass atrocity in a war, the current state of the global human rights agenda should leave us all gravely . . .

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To The Polling Station and Beyond: Reflecting on Pakistan's Electoral Landscape and the Path to a More Inclusive Political Space

As Pakistan gears up for its general elections scheduled for February 8, the nation witnesses a monumental moment in its democratic journey, with 128.5 million individuals – over half of the country’s population – registered to cast their votes.

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Pioneering Community-Led HIV/AIDS Response Across Pakistan

Over the past years, the term ‘polycrisis’ has surged in popularity as a way to explain a macro-crisis of interconnected, runaway failures of Earth’s vital natural and social systems that irreversibly degrades humanity’s prospects’ (Polycrisis and long-term thinking, UNDP, August 2022).

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Government of China and UNDP Collaborate to Accelerate Post-Flood Reconstruction in Pakistan

The Government of China announced a generous contribution to support the flood-affected communities in Pakistan, through its established long-standing partnership with UNDP under the framework of Global Development and South-South Cooperation Fund.

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UNDP with the Ministry of Climate Change & Environmental Coordination kicked off the In-Country Process for the Global Shield to Reduce Climate Risks with a Multi-Stakeholder Consultation

The Global Shield is an initiative launched at COP27 in response to the increasing threat of climate change by the Vulnerable Twenty (V20) Group and the G7; ensuring that the various programmes and stakeholders pursue a coordinated approach and mobilize additional funds to meet the . . .

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Reform or Rupture: A Resilient Economy for Pakistan

At the 78th U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) held in September this year, Secretary-General, Mr. António Guterres put forward a critical decision facing the world today. “It is reform or rupture,” he said, outlining unfolding fractures in global economic and financial systems.

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Consultative Workshop to Develop Environment Policy for Gilgit-Baltistan

The workshop was aimed at strengthening the climate resilience of communities through the generation of imperative and strategic policy interventions based specifically on context of the area.

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UNDP Pakistan Renovates and Equips Government Girls High School in Quetta

UNDP Pakistan, in collaboration with the District Education Department Quetta, organized an event today to inaugurate the recently renovated and equipped Government Girls High School at Killi Ismail.

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Jazz and UNDP collaborate to launch Women Initiative in Social Entrepreneurship Bootcamp

Jazz, Pakistan’s leading digital operator, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Pakistan inaugurated the Women's Initiative in Social Entrepreneurship (WISE) Bootcamp, a transformative program that aims to empower and uplift 400 women social entrepreneurs across 12 cities in Pakistan.

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Climate Action Plan for Karachi City kickstarts with Rapid Strategic Appraisal & Visioning Workshop

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Pakistan in collaboration with its partners at C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40), Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) and The Urban Unit conducted a Rapid Strategic Appraisal and Visioning Workshop to commence the development ...

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UNDP's Commitment to Strengthening Democracy in Pakistan

Collaborating with the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), the UNDP recently conducted a ten-day Train the Facilitator (TtF) workshop in Islamabad as part of the Strengthening Electoral and Legislative Processes (SELP) Project.

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Flood Response Plan

Joint Launch of 2022 Pakistan Floods Response Plan by Government of Pakistan and the United Nations.

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Co-Chairs Summary International Conference on Climate Resilient Pakistan

During the conference, delegations recalled their assistance to the immediate relief efforts and affirmed their support to the people of Pakistan for a resilient recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction. Read the joint statement.

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Zero tolerance for Harassment, Sexual Harassment, Discrimination, and Abuse of Authority

UNDP is committed to creating and maintaining a working environment that respects the inherent dignity of all persons, affording them the opportunity to reach their fullest potential and empowering them to deliver the best possible results for UNDP and the people we serve.

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What we do

UNDP is working with the Government of Pakistan, civil society, national partners and the people of Pakistan to help find solutions to persistent development challenges.

We work to build lasting institutional capacity, provide technical expertise to improve development outcomes, and help link the Government and people of Pakistan to innovative global solutions in areas such as improved data quality and collection, better environmental management, climate change finance and adaptation, strong and accountable governance mechanisms and capacities to respond effectively to conflict and disasters.

Publications

Report

UNDP in Pakistan: Annual Report 2022

In 2022, UNDP continued its long-standing partnership with Pakistan to achieve its development goals and to ensure that no one is left behind.

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Prosperity for Pakistan: A Resilient Economy

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UNDP Strategic Plan 2022-2025

The Strategic Plan 2022-2025 describes how UNDP intends to work together with our partners to deliver what’s required of us in these extraordinary times. This bold, ambitious Plan is structured around “3x6x3” – 3 directions of change, 6 signature solutions and 3 enablers – a clear framework for where we need to head. Over the next four years, we will work with countries to expand people’s choices for a fairer, sustainable future. Helping to get us back on track to deliver on the SDGs.

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Pakistan National Human Development Report on Inequality

Reform or Rupture: A Resilient Economy of  Pakistan

The choice may appear clear between 'reform or rupture,' but it must be translated into bold and decisive action to pave the way for a prosperous, resilient Pakistan.

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Our Impact

Our work in sustainable development, governance, resilience building

and environment and climate change.

15.1

million

voters reached with information on the local government elections

8,188

people

(1,884 women) attended legal awareness sessions in the Merged Areas

615K

people

in KP’s Merged Areas benefited from community mobilization, improved services and economic opportunities

158

people

(50 women) in Balochistan received entrepreneurship training, 100 people (25 women) received vocational training

78K

young people

(37,200 women, 20 transgender) participated in youth engagement and economic empowerment activities

09

Districts

Emergency Operations Centres strengthened

18K

youth

spoke up about their needs through the Youth Conversations platform

87K

hectares

of land in Sindh freed of encroachment and brought under the forest department

19.4K

people

in GB accessed health services – 17,825 youth, 250 people in extreme poverty, 1,385 women, 27 people with disabilities

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