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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Haleji Lake, a Ramsar-designated wetland in Sindh, plays a vital role as a biodiversity hotspot, climate buffer, and support system for local livelihoods. Recognizing its significance, Accountability Lab Pakistan, in collaboration with the Green Media Initiatives, organized a field engagement for ...young female journalists from the province.
The initiative aimed to strengthen women-led climate reporting by grounding national conversations in district-level realities. Female journalists were deliberately selected to amplify underrepresented voices and ensure inclusive perspectives in climate storytelling.
At the lake, journalists engaged with site management staff and surrounding farming communities, observed ecological indicators, and documented the impact of water management, biodiversity loss, and institutional coordination gaps on both nature and livelihoods. Guided by expert briefings and hands-on field observation, they translated technical insights into evidence-based narratives linking policy decisions with on-the-ground realities.
To advance impactful climate journalism, Accountability Lab Pakistan, with the Green Media Initiative GMI, held its third training session to equip women journalists with practical tools for reporting solution-oriented climate stories.
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To advance impactful climate journalism, Accountability Lab Pakistan, in collaboration with the Green Media Initiative (GMI), convened its third training session focused on strengthening women journalists’ capacity to report on climate change. Building on earlier discussions around climate ...governance and institutional accountability, this session translated theory into practice by equipping participants with practical storytelling tools to transform local environmental realities into compelling, solution-oriented narratives.
The training centered on moving beyond episodic disaster coverage toward journalism that is rooted in lived experiences, structured narrative flow and evidence-backed solutions. Participants critically examined how gendered dimensions of climate vulnerability often remain underreported and how women journalists can play a pivotal role in amplifying community voices, exposing governance gaps and highlighting pathways for reform. By investing in female journalists, the initiative contributes to a more inclusive, justice-oriented climate discourse that connects policy debates to grassroots realities.
February begins for Pakistan with guarded stability but persistent structural strains. Early 2026 shows policy effort and capacity, yet governance, economic, and social vulnerabilities remain.
Read the full report: ...https://pakistan.accountabilitylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/CAR-Ed.-71-Feb-1st-15th-2026.pdf
February begins for Pakistan with a complex mix of guarded stability and unresolved structural strain. Early 2026 reflects a country managing immediate pressures with visible policy effort, yet still navigating deep governance, economic, and social vulnerabilities that shape its long-term ...trajectory.
The latest Country Analysis Report highlights:
1. Security & Prevention of Violent Extremism: Sustained counterterrorism operations demonstrate operational capacity, yet recurring violence underscores the limits of a security-first approach. Governance gaps, youth exclusion, weak justice delivery, and limited institutional trust continue to sustain long-term risk.
2. Economy & Competitiveness: Inflation shows signs of moderation and reserves appear cautiously stable, but high public debt, declining exports, energy costs, and regulatory unpredictability constrain competitiveness and durable growth.
3. Politics & Governance: Heightened political contestation and institutional strain across parliament, courts, and federal-provincial coordination mechanisms deepen polarisation and weaken confidence in rule-based governance.
4. Diplomacy & External Engagement: Diplomatic outreach emphasises geo-economic priorities, trade expansion, and regional connectivity, yet implementation capacity and reform credibility remain critical constraints.
5. Social & Human Development Pressures: Nutritional gaps, literacy disparities, limited job creation, outward migration, and weak social protection systems reflect persistent pressures on social mobility and institutional trust.
6. Outlook: Without coordinated structural reform across governance, economic management, justice systems, and human development, underlying fragilities are likely to persist beneath short-term stabilisation throughout 2026.
Read the full report for detailed analysis and insights.
Link: https://pakistan.accountabilitylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/CAR-Ed.-71-Feb-1st-15th-2026.pdf
Building on the first session’s focus on climate storytelling, Accountability Lab Pakistan, in collaboration with the Green Media Initiative (GMI), convened a second training session centered on climate governance, justice and institutional accountability.
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