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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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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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. While the earlier session strengthened ...participants’ narrative skills, this discussion shifted attention to the structural drivers of climate vulnerability, including weak water governance, disaster mismanagement and gaps in policy implementation.
Participants were encouraged to move beyond episodic disaster coverage and pursue sustained, investigative reporting on institutional responsibility, climate finance transparency and the community implications of carbon credit initiatives. Trainers emphasized ethical standards, countering climate misinformation and carefully identifying responsible authorities before assigning accountability.
Accountability Lab Pakistan in collaboration with the Green Media Initiative (GMI), convened a series of online training sessions for district-level female journalists aimed at elevating the quality, rigor and reach of climate reporting in Pakistan’s underserved regions.
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Accountability Lab Pakistan in collaboration with the Green Media Initiative (GMI), convened a series of online training sessions for district-level female journalists aimed at elevating the quality, rigor and reach of climate reporting in Pakistan’s underserved regions. The initiative was ...strategically designed to strengthen climate storytelling as a tool for public accountability by equipping participants with the analytical depth and narrative precision required to translate complex environmental data into accessible, community-centered journalism.
First session centered on the philosophy and craft of storytelling, guiding participants to identify high-impact story angles, humanize climate-induced vulnerabilities and transform fragmented data into coherent, evidence-based narratives. Foundational climate concepts were unpacked to ground reporting in credible, verifiable knowledge. Through structured discussions and practical exercises, journalists refined their skills in digital and radio storytelling, ethical disaster reporting and responsible source verification.
Afraz, participant at the Public Dialogue on Youth Engagement & Inclusive Governance, urged universities to create training hubs so students from backward areas can return home and empower their communities with essential skills.