Pakistan: Recent submissions
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Residential Security as Social Protection
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/07/2010)This article argues that residential insecurity and social marginalisation are closely linked, particularly in communities where housing is accessed through traditional and patriarchal social institutions. It uses community ... -
Food Prices and the Politics of Hunger: Beneath Market and State
(01/11/2015)What accounts for the persistence of hunger and undernutrition in political and administrative systems which might be otherwise sensitive to the risk of food price volatility and market failure? If pre?empting food price ... -
Interrogating the Rights Discourse on Girls' Education: Neocolonialism, Neoliberalism, and the Post?Beijing Platform for Action
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2015)This article examines how girls' education since 1995 has emerged as a prominent symbol within the ‘rights’ discourse coming out of the Beijing Platform for Action. By highlighting the neoliberal and neocolonial processes ... -
Transformative Social Protection: Reflections on South Asian Policy Experiences
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1/11/2011)This article argues that social transfers as such, are a ‘good thing’. They can alleviate the immediate economic impact of poverty and vulnerability. It cautions, however, that such transfers may be a ‘bad thing’, since ... -
The Emerging Social Contract: State? Citizen Interaction after the Floods of 2010 and 2011 in Southern Sindh, Pakistan
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, May 2013)This article looks at the post?disaster context of Lower Sindh, a region devastated by super floods in 2010 and 2011, in an attempt to understand what government policies were implemented to assist people whose lives had ... -
Nutrition Policy in the Post-devolution Context in Pakistan: An Analysis of Provincial Opportunities and Barriers
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, May 2013)In this article we take a comparative look at strategic opportunities and barriers for action on nutrition in Pakistan's four provinces in the post?devolution context. Provinces have faced historically common constraints ... -
Missing Dimensions in Addressing Child Malnutrition in Pakistan: Lessons from the Tawana Experience
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, May 2013)This article uses the Tawana Pakistan Project (TPP) as a case study of how to promote self?sustaining improvements in nutrition status. The programme used a participatory approach to mobilisation around malnutrition, had ... -
Achieving Universal Salt Iodisation (USI) in Pakistan: Challenges, Experiences and the Way Forward
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, May 2013)This article aims to describe the history, progress, success and challenges of the Universal Salt Iodisation (USI) programme in Pakistan, which was launched in 1994. Revitalised in 2005 with financial assistance and ... -
Impoverished Rural Districts of Pakistan: An Independent Evaluation of Impact on Educational and Cognitive Outcomes in Sindh Province, Pakistan
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, May 2013)This article presents findings of cognitive and performance assessment among recipient and non?recipient school girls in the catchment schools of the Tawana Pakistan Project using standardised matrices. This is the first ... -
Impact on Health and Nutrition Outcomes in Sindh Province, Pakistan
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, May 2013)We independently conducted the impact assessment of the Tawana Pakistan Project (a school?based feeding programme to improve the nutritional status of primary school girls in impoverished rural districts of Pakistan). The ... -
Inflation and Food Security in Pakistan: Impact and Coping Strategies
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, May 2013)Food security will remain an important component of any strategy for nutritional improvement in Pakistan. The country experienced acute price spikes and shortages during 2007 and 2008, corresponding with food price inflation ... -
Towards Improved Food and Nutrition Security in Sindh Province, Pakistan
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, May 2013)The 2011 National Nutrition Survey (NNS) in Pakistan showed that Sindh province continues to have some of the worst undernutrition rates in South Asia. For determinants of acute and chronic malnutrition to be better ... -
Seeing the Unseen: Breaking the Logjam of Undernutrition in Pakistan
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, May 2013)After a lost decade, there is clearly a groundswell of momentum for nutrition in Pakistan, driven by a confluence of policy, evidence and events. This momentum needs to be sustained at the national level, reinforced at the ... -
Engaging Development Partners in Efforts to Reverse Malnutrition Trends in Pakistan
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, May 2013)After two decades of failed efforts to launch a national nutrition programme and nutrition action largely limited to low coverage interventions, a promising multisectoral nutrition scenario is unfolding in Pakistan led by ... -
Evaluation of the Strategy for Support via Swedish Civil Society Organisations 2010-2014: Final Country Report - Pakistan
(Sida, 2015-11-11)This report shares the findings and recommendations from an evaluation of Sweden’s Civil Society Strategy 2010–2014 as implemented by Swedish civil society organisations and their national partners in Pakistan, as one of ... -
Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility: Evidence from Two Communities in Pakistan
(2014-09-22)This report contributes to the Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility project by examining the impact of food price volatility on poor and vulnerable households through qualitative research conducted in 2012 and 2013 at ... -
Policing Urban Violence: Lessons from South Asia
(IDS, 2014-03)As densely populated urban centres emerge as economic powerhouses where global GDP is concentrated, they are also increasingly vulnerable to shocks of violence and insecurity. Well-managed urban economies have the potential ... -
Action on Under-Nutrition in Pakistan: Opportunities and Barriers
(IDS, 2013-10)Undernutrition rates in Pakistan have remained unchanged for over half a century. Success in tackling under-nutrition relies on cross-sectoral action across health, food, agriculture, poverty, water and sanitation. A ... -
Adaptive social protection: mapping the evidence and policy context in the agriculture sector in South Asia
(Institute of Development Studies (UK), 2011-02)An aim of government and the international community is to respond to global processes and crises through a range of policy and practical approaches that help limit damage from shocks and stresses. Three approaches to ...