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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Elections are not where Pakistani politics happens anymore.
Pakistan holds elections. Pakistan votes. Pakistan forms governments. And yet, ask people who actually speaks for them, and the answer is increasingly someone outside parliament altogether. Our latest policy brief looks at ...why.
From the Lawyers' Movement to PTM, the Baloch Yakjehti Committee and the Joint Awami Action Committee in AJK, a pattern keeps repeating itself. Movements build real public trust, negotiate directly with the state, even shape constitutional debate. But they stop short of contesting a single election.
Right now this is playing out in real time. A protest that began over electricity bills and wheat prices in AJK has grown into a 38 point charter on governance and accountability, and it has pushed the region's biggest party to boycott the upcoming Legislative Assembly election entirely.
So what happens when the people with the most public legitimacy have no seat in the system built to hear them?
We break it down, swipe through and tell us what you think.
Read the full brief here: https://pakistan.accountabilitylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Changing-Representation-Dynamics-in-Pakistan.pdf
Elections are not where Pakistani politics happens anymore. Pakistan holds elections. Pakistan votes and forms governments. And yet, ask people who actually speaks for them, & the answer is increasingly someone outside parliament altogether.
Our latest policy brief looks at why
Pakistan's biggest challenges are deeply interconnected as young people continue to face a widening skills and employment gap
Pakistan's biggest challenges are deeply interconnected.
Young people continue to face a widening skills and employment gap. Poverty remains a persistent barrier to inclusive development. Climate change is affecting livelihoods, with mango exports declining due to heatwaves and ...erratic weather. At the same time, uncertainty around the Indus Waters Treaty raises serious concerns for the country's water security, while progress in narrowing the mobile gender gap shows that meaningful change is possible.
Explore these insights in our latest Country Analysis Report.
Link: https://pakistan.accountabilitylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/CAR-July-1st-15th-2026.pdf
Gilgit-Baltistan is home to more than 1.7 million people across 10 districts. It elects a Legislative Assembly and a Chief Minister. Yet it remains outside Pakistan’s constitutional framework as a province.
For more than 75 years, the region has lived with unresolved constitutional ...status, without representation in the National Assembly or Senate and without a final settlement of its political future.
Democracy is not complete when a population can vote but cannot be fully represented. It requires constitutional recognition, equal rights and a clear place in the federation.
Read more in our latest policy brief.
Link: https://pakistan.accountabilitylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/The-Digital-Democracy-Ecosystem-in-South-Asia.pdf
Gilgit-Baltistan is home to more than 1.5 million people across 10 districts. It elects a Legislative Assembly and a Chief Minister. Yet it remains outside Pakistan’s constitutional framework as a province.