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- Gender Responsive Financing of Education in Pakistan: A Comparative Analysis of Punjab and Sindh
The study aimed to examine and analyze the education budgets of Punjab and Sindh from the standpoint of gender responsiveness. It reviews the existing trends of budget allocation and spending on girls' education in Punjab and Sindh Province.
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- Bargain It Just: Domestic Resource Mobilization in Pakistan
The study maps the socio-economic inequities being faced by women in Pakistan and examines system of resource generation, taxation and expenditure regimes in Pakistan to identify gaps in resource mobilization. It also highlights avenues which can inform the development process for designing a Domestic Resource Mobilization (DRM) regime which is responsive to gender justice from a distributive as well as institutional perspective.
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- Maternal, Newborn, and Child Healthcare in Pakistan: Bridging the Gap of Community Participation and Voice
To bridge the gap between consumers and providers of maternal, new-born and child health services, I-SAPS implemented an innovative model to aggregate community voices in district Lodhran by establishing health support committees at tehsil and district levels. This policy brief summarizes the findings and encourages to mainstream the model from district Lodhran.
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- Health Report Card: District Lodhran
To bridge the gap between consumers and providers of maternal, new-born and child health services, I-SAPS implemented an innovative model to aggregate community voices in district Lodhran by establishing health support committees at tehsil and district levels.
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- Education-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
With the MDGs not being achieved by Pakistan, there is a need to re-align the priorities so that the post-2015 agenda can be achieved. This document provides an overview of the education-related SDGs, Pakistan’s progress on MDGs and suggests 4R of the roadmap to SDGs.
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- Comparative Study of Local Government Legislations in Pakistan
The Constitution of Pakistan, under Article 140 A, requires all the provincial governments to establish a local government system and devolve administrative, political, and financial responsibility and authority to elected representatives of local governments.
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- Education Budget Proposal for Financial Year 2015-16
These budget proposals for all the provinces have been developed as part of the wider initiative of I-SAPS aimed at contributing towards enhancing the effectiveness of public spending on education in Pakistan.
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- Public Financing of Education in Pakistan 2010-11 to 2014-15
The current study is sixth in a series of publications on public financing of education in Pakistan dealing with federal and provincial level budget analysis. Like the last study, the current volume also includes district level budgets.
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- Education Sector Procurements in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: A Horizontal Accountability Perspective
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has more than two million out-of-school children. Those who are already in schools are not learning enough to an acceptable standard. Constant exposure to conflict and disasters has further exacerbated this challenge by increasing the need for reconstruction and rehabilitation of schools.
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- Education Sector Procurements in Punjab: A Horizontal Accountability Perspective
This study discusses the procurement of school civil works, textbooks and purchases by school councils in
Punjab from an accountability perspective. Multiple government departments are involved in these
procurements with the School Education Department (SED) as the primary client.
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