PAKISTAN DIALOGUES

1 October 2021

Delayed enrollment and out-of-school adolescents – the missing link

Huma Zia Faran

In Pakistan, 26% of children in the 5-16 age cohort have never been to a school. This translates into 16 million children (out of a total of 20 million children who are out of school) as reported in The Missing Third...

1 October 2021

From Ivory Towers To Building Blocks

Shad Moarif

Today, we see bright, knowledgeable folks of all ages, male and female, who know and understand education far better than those with decision-making powers. Almost all come from a segment of society that has benefitted from...

17 September 2021

Using Cash Transfer Programs to Get Children Back to School from Work

Nasir Iqbal

The prevalence of child labour in Pakistan is very high: up to 22% of children between the ages of 5 and 14 years are engaged in the worst form of child labour, including bonded labour in agriculture and brick kilns...

17 September 2021

Why did Covid-19 increase women’s care and housework in Pakistan?

Ali Cheema, Sarah Khan, Shandana Khan Mohmand

Ali Cheema, Sarah Khan, Shandana Khan Mohmand Covid-19 lockdown measures resulted in an increase in care and housework in homes around the world. But with the greater presence of men at home as a result of lockdown and job losses, why are women...

3 September 2021

How did Covid-19 affect women’s autonomy and access to healthcare in Pakistan?

Ali Cheema, Sarah Khan, Shandana Khan Mohmand

With Pakistan facing a fourth wave of the Covid-19 pandemic and new restrictions being imposed in major cities, research from the IDS-led Action for Empowerment and Accountability programme sheds new light on the gendered impacts and experiences of the pandemic in urban Pakistan...

3 September 2021

What about these Covid-19 learning losses?

Soufia A. Siddiqi, Momina Idrees, Musharfa Shah

As educational institutions across Pakistan slowly reopen for a new academic year, an underlying anxiety is taking root: by how much has the learning of Pakistani students been set back? If lessons from recent scholarship are anything to go by, our youngest children...

11 August 2021

Education and Women’s Labor Force Participation

Dr. Hadia Majid, Syeda Warda Riaz

There remains an overwhelming need to reduce the gender gap in labor force participation rates in Pakistan. As of 2021, women’s participation rates remain at around 22 pc with the country recording the slowest progress in closing the gender gap in the Economic Participation...

11 August 2021

Are the walls of civic spaces closing in on women in Pakistan?

Ayesha Khan

In a study conducted as part of the Action for Empowerment and Accountability multi-country research programme, we found that Covid-19 has accelerated the shrinking of civic space in Pakistan. A narrowing civic space...

23 July 2021

Learning to Labour: samples of life in Pakistan under Covid-19

Zahra Mughis, Syed M. Hasan

This blog is based on the paper “Who can work and study from home in Pakistan: Evidence from a 2018–19 nationwide household survey” by Syed M. Hasan (LUMS), Attique ur Rehman (LUMS) and Wendong Zhang (Iowa State University) and published in World Development

23 July 2021

Exploring ‘Spaces’ of Learning: Girls’ Education during COVID in Pakistan

Aliya Khalid, Musharfa Shah

Any continuous area or expanse which is available for consumption is typically referred to as ‘space’. In the Urdu language, this can translate to ‘khalaa’ understood as the ‘absence’ of forms, but at the same time generative of other or newer forms, much like silence in a musical composition...

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