ACCOUNTABILITY LAB PAKISTAN
AL Pakistan has expanded our programs to include capacity building and accountability leadership training for local governments, in addition to our core programs including Integrity Icon and the Accountability Incubator. The regions we work in include some of the most neglected areas in Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The AL Pakistan team has worked with more than 30,000 participants over the past year, successfully implementing our Integrity Innovation Lab, Accountability Incubator, Civic Action Teams and Integrity Icon. Through our programs, more than 350 government officials were trained on good governance, solidifying their commitment to accountability and transparency in their work. The Youth Peace Incubation program saw the participation of over 3,000 young individuals, 55% of them women, who were introduced to groundbreaking ideas to contribute to the peace of society effectively. To build community resilience to Covid-19, AL Pakistan engaged 339 women leaders who reached out to vulnerable and high-risk populations to help them cope with ongoing challenges linked to the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more about our work below.
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Why do local government laws in Pakistan keep changing with successive governments, while meaningful devolution remains elusive? Despite repeated legislative reforms across provinces, questions persist about the transfer of political, administrative and financial authority to elected local Read moreinstitutions.
In upcoming episode of AccountabiliTea, Rashid Chaudhry, speaks with Rao Akram Khurram, a Supreme Court lawyer and local government expert who has worked on local government frameworks since 2001, to examine why Pakistan’s local government systems struggle to translate legislation into effective democratic governance.
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As 12 districts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa remain excluded from local government elections, questions surrounding provincial governance and constitutional rights persist.
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As 12 districts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa remain excluded from local government elections, questions surrounding provincial governance and constitutional rights persist. Meanwhile, 41 journalists have been murdered in Pakistan since 1992, with no accountability in 36 cases. Inflation has risen to Read more10.3%, while 25 million children remain out of school.
Explore these developments and more in our latest Country Analysis Report.
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Link: https://pakistan.accountabilitylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/CAR-16-31-Oct-2026.pdf
How do we measure impact and learn from what needs to change?
Our latest blog explores how Accountability Lab’s core values shape our work, learning and approach to accountability.
Read more: Read morehttps://pakistan.accountabilitylab.org/our-values-at-work-learning-adapting-and-reflecting/
How do we know our work is making a difference? And what do we do when the evidence tells us something needs to change?
At Accountability Lab, documenting impact is not just about capturing results at the end of a project. It is part of how we reflect on our work, listen to the people and Read moreinstitutions we engage with, recognise gaps, and adapt our approaches.
Across our programmes, we have seen that meaningful change rarely comes from a single activity or intervention. It takes time, trust, collaboration and a willingness to learn from experience. It also means looking beyond immediate outputs to ask whether an initiative is responding to real needs, strengthening relationships and creating conditions for change to continue.
Our latest blog reflects on how Accountability Lab's core values – integrity, humility, innovation, practicality and collaboration – shape the way we work, assess progress and learn from experience. These values also remind us that accountability begins at home; we must be willing to examine our own approaches with the same openness we encourage in the institutions and communities we work alongside.
Read the full blog here.
Link: https://pakistan.accountabilitylab.org/our-values-at-work-learning-adapting-and-reflecting/
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Mukhtar Ahmad Ali, Executive Director of CPDI, discusses the growing regulatory challenges facing civil society organisations in Pakistan and the need for balanced oversight.
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