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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Where have the spaces for young people to participate and emerge as political leaders gone?
Rashid Chaudhry speaks with Rao Akram Khurram on the decline of student politics and youth participation in Pakistan in our upcoming AccountabiliTea episode.
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What happens to a country’s political culture when young people lose the spaces to organise, participate and emerge as leaders?
Political party workers have historically played an important role in shaping political movements and bringing new leadership into mainstream politics. However,Read more the decline of internal party elections and the ban on student unions have narrowed these pathways for young people seeking to participate in political life.
In this episode of AccountabiliTea, host Rashid Chaudhry speaks with Rao Akram Khurram, a Supreme Court lawyer and local government expert. The discussion explores the decline of student politics, changing political party structures and the shrinking opportunities for young political workers to develop leadership and participate in mainstream politics.
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Why does meaningful local devolution remain elusive in Pakistan despite repeated legal reforms?
Rashid Chaudhry speaks with local government expert Rao Akram Khurram in our upcoming AccountabiliTea episode.
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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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