Pakistan's deteriorating education system has radicalised many young people while failing to equip them with the skills necessary for a modern economy. The public, government-run schools, which educate the vast majority of children poorly rather than the madrasas (religious seminaries) or the elite private schools are where significant reforms and an increase in resources are most needed to reverse the influence of jihadi groups, reduce risks of internal conflict and diminish the widening fissures in Pakistani society. Both the government and donors urgently need to need give this greater priority.
The Government of Balochistan shares the national commitment with regard to meeting the Millennium Development Goals and achieving Education for All (EFA) objectives, agreed upon at International forums. It has been making utmost efforts to provide access to quality education, to all the children at their threshold. The Government has dedicated handsome investment to achieve its targets. The donors have also been making significant interventions for promotion of education in the province. However it was observed that all these endeavors could not make required impact. The devolution of education to the provinces under 18th amendment in the constitution of Pakistan and introduction of Article 25A necessitated to review and revisit the approaches, so far adopted, for promotion of Education.
Achieving gender equality and women’s rights depends on transformative change that uproots discriminatory policies, norms and practices, wherever they lie. This is the high ambition of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the promise of the Beijing Platform for Action, agreed at the Fourth World Conference on Women more than two decades ago.
UNICEF is releasing our Annual Report 2019 against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic represents a shared global struggle against an invisible enemy. Not only are children and young people contracting COVID-19, they are also among its most severely impacted victims. Unless we address the pandemic’s impacts on children, the echoes of COVID-19 will permanently damage our shared future.
Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurements (PSLM), 2018-19 is the eleventh round of a series of surveys, initiated in 2004. Current round of PSLM (Social & Household Integrated Economic Survey (HIES)) at provincial level survey covered 24809 households and provide detailed outcome indicators on Education, Health, Population Welfare, Housing, Water Sanitation & Hygiene, Information Communication & Technology (ICT), Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) and Income & Expenditure. This report contains result on main indicators whereas detail reports for Social indicators and HIES 2018-19 will be released separately.
The goal for a well-functioning education system is quality education for all children, in an inclusive and conducive learning environment. Such a system provides children with convenient access to school so that they are able to enrol, continue their schooling, and learn well enough to gain meaningful employment and to contribute to society. Ideally, it means getting children into school at the right age, establishing a strong foundation for future learning, and building upon that foundation with age and context appropriate material, taught by competent and responsive teachers, in well-resourced classrooms. It means regularly collecting data on schooling and learning outcomes and using this data to inform continuous improvement. It also means providing targeted support to enable all students to stay in school, and to learn well, regardless of their personal limitations.
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Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey (PSLM), 2014-15 is the tenth round of a series of surveys that were to be conducted up to June 2015. The survey has been conducted with the aim to provide data to be used by the government to monitor development plans at district level and rapid assessment of programmes initiated under Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRSP) in the overall context of MDGs. Going forward this survey would be instrumental in SDG indicators monitoring.
The Punjab Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW) was created by the Punjab Assembly through the Punjab Commission on the Status of Women Act, 2014 as an oversight body to ensure that laws, policies and programs of the Government of Punjab promote women's empowerment; that efforts are made for expansion of opportunities for socio-economic development of women, and discrimination against women in all forms is eliminated. PCSW started functioning in March, 2014.
In an invigorating reform environment in the province and with school education completely under the ambit of the provinces after the 18th Constitutional Amendment, Punjab School Education (SED) has been a primary focus area for the provincial government. In April 2011, Government of Punjab announced the School Education Reforms Roadmap with the objective to ensure quality education to all and 100% enrolment and retention of all school going age children. The Punjab School Education Sector Plan (PSESP) has been developed in order to strategize and provide an operational plan to implement the school education reforms for improving the quality, access and governance of education in the province. The document lays the path for achievement of the goals of Article 25-A.
The National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW) organized at two-day conference in Islamabad on ‘Extremism and its Impact on Society: Implications for women’ (on 18-19 August, 2009). The themes of the conference were symbiotic relations between State and Religion, Patriarchy and Extremism, Mobilization of Women for extremist causes and consequences of Extremism. The participants of the conference included Bushhra Gauhar MNA/Chairperson Standing Committee on Women Development, Shahnaz Wazir Ali, Special Assistant to P.M on Social issues various academicians, and civil society activists.
The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2017 reviews progress made towards the 17 Goals in the second year of implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The report is based on the latest available data. It highlights both gains and challenges as the international community moves towards full realization of the ambitions and principles espoused in the 2030 Agenda.