Pakistan: Recent submissions
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ESRC-DFID Research for Policy and Practice: Disability and Education
(Institute of Development Studies and The Impact Initiative, 2017-12)This collection of ESRC–DFID funded research provides new evidence on what governments must consider in order to ensure that children with disabilities benefit from quality education without discrimination or exclusion.This ... -
Women Agricultural Workers and Nutrition in Pakistan
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, 2017)Pakistan has high rates of child undernutrition (both stunting and wasting). The country’s agricultural sector is a source of livelihood for over 40 per cent of the workforce. The LANSA Evidence Review for Pakistan found ... -
A Strategic Approach to Social Accountability in Pakistan
(IDS, 2017-10)This paper explores the progress of the Empowerment, Voice and Accountability for Better Health and Nutrition (EVA) project implemented by Palladium in partnership with the Centre for Communications Programmes Pakistan. ... -
Competing to deliver? Political workers and service delivery in Pakistan
(2017-10)Why do some citizens receive better municipal services than others? Comparative political economy is deeply concerned with this question, but most answers so far suggest that unequal access to these services is determined ... -
Climate Change and Disasters: Institutional Complexities and Actors’ Priorities for Mitigation, Adaptation and Response
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-07-31)Over the last decade, Pakistan has faced several major disasters, involving both natural hazards and conflict. These crises prompted tremendous national and international response, and triggered the Government of Pakistan ... -
Social Vulnerability and Local Adaptation in Humanitarian Response: The Case of Pakistan
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-07-31)This article looks at the experiences of two areas hit hard by the 2010 mega-floods in Pakistan, one in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and one in Sindh. It examines how different humanitarian actors understand climatic changes, risk ... -
Cross-border Conflict Drivers and Breaks – Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq
(Institute of Development Studies, 2017-02-27)This report provides an overview of the evidence on cross-border conflict drivers and breaks along the Pakistan–Afghanistan–Iran–Iraq route. Direct evidence on the nature of conflict-related flows along this route in its ... -
Innovative Methods for Research on Social and Political Action in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings
(IDS, 2017-06)Fragile and conflict-affected settings present particular challenges for researchers seeking to study the effect of social and political action (SPA). These challenges are not simply due to prevalent violence and conflict, ... -
Social accountabilty initatives in health and nutrition: lessons from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
(2017-04)South Asia is home to nearly a quarter of the world’s population and is a region of dynamic economic growth, yet it performs relatively poorly on health and nutrition indicators. As a potential route towards addressing ... -
Review of Agri-Food Value Chain Interventions Aimed at Enhancing Consumption of Nutritious Food by the Poor: Pakistan
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), 2016-07)How can agriculture play a more effective role in improving nutrition in countries with a high burden of hidden hunger and where an increasing proportion of the poor sources its food from the market? There is a need to ... -
Women’s Agricultural Work and Nutrition in Pakistan: Findings from Qualitative Research
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), 2015-01)Does women’s work in agriculture help or hinder nutrition in Pakistan? This question has assumed great significance due to the steady feminisation, over the last decade, of the agricultural labour force, and the absence ... -
Agriculture and Nutrition in Pakistan: Pathways and Disconnects
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), 2014-10)Results of the latest nationwide nutrition survey show that Pakistan has persistently high rates of undernutrition despite respectable rates of economic growth. Amongst economic sectors, agriculture could have positive ... -
Convergence on Nutrition in Agricultural Systems of Innovation: Concepts and Methods, with Examples from Pakistan
(Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), 2014-10)The paper first briefly sketches the origins of the system of innovation (SoI) concept and the need it was seen to fulfil in agriculture. It then illustrates the different ways it has been employed as a framework to explain ... -
Can China’s Bold New Plans Make the Difference in Pakistan?
(IDS, 2016-06)Ever since the 1955 Bandung Conference of Afro-Asian states, China has been active in civil engineering projects around the world, especially in Africa, as a sign of its commitment to the world emerging from colonialism. ... -
Pakistan: Year 3 Findings from the Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility Study
(IDSOxfam International, 2015)Major shifts in food prices are significant events in people’s lives; in 2012 researchers at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex (IDS) and Oxfam started a four-year project to track the impacts of this volatility. ... -
Understanding Low-Level State Capacity: Property Tax Collection in Pakistan
(Institute of Development Studies, 2015-03)This paper is based on a detailed analysis of how field staff in the Excise and Taxation Department of the Punjab Provincial Government collect the (very low-yielding) property tax. In general, informal practices and ... -
Accountability Failures and the Decentralisation of Service Delivery in Pakistan
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Living on the Periphery: The Khawaja Siras of Pakistan
(IDS, 2016-01)Academic literature suggests that development is inherently heteronormative in its narratives, policies and practices: as a result, ‘heterosexuality is normalized, naturalized, and privileged in societies of the global ... -
Women in Local Government: The Pakistan Experience
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/09/2010)This article looks at women's representation in local government in Pakistan, focusing particularly on the introduction of a quota setting 33 per cent of the seats for women brought in under General Musharraf's Devolution ... -
Introduction: Overcoming Barriers to the Extension of Social Protection: Lessons from the Asia Region
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 01/07/2010)The contributions to this IDS Bulletin report on some of the findings from research undertaken under the Social Protection in Asia programme. This is a three?year policy?oriented research and network building programme, ...