UN ResultsReport 2020 Pakistan

ONE UN PAKISTAN
ANNUAL
REPORT
2020
PUBLISHED MARCH 2021
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD 3
MESSAGE FROM THE UN RESIDENT COORDINATOR 3
UN COUNTRY TEAM IN PAKISTAN 4
KEY DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS 4
CHAPTER 1
KEY DEVELOPMENT TRENDS 5
CHAPTER 2
UN RESPONSE TO COVID-19 6
CHAPTER 3
ONE UN PROGRAMME III 7
OUTCOME 1 ECONOMIC GROWTH 8
OUTCOME 2 DECENT WORK 9
OUTCOME 3 HEALTH AND WASH 10
OUTCOME 4 NUTRITION 12
OUTCOME 5 FOOD SECURITY AND AGRICULTURE 13
OUTCOME 6 RESILIENCE 14
OUTCOME 7 EDUCATION AND LEARNING 15
OUTCOME 8 GENDER, EQUALITY AND DIGNITY 16
OUTCOME 9 GOVERNANCE 17
OUTCOME 10 SOCIAL PROTECTION 18
SUPPORT TO PARTNERSHIPS AND FINANCING THE 2030 AGENDA 19
UN COHERENCE, EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCY 19

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FOREWORD
The Government of Pakistan responded decisively to this unprecedented health, economic and social emergency and worked
hand-in-hand with the United Nations. Immediate actions to contain the spread of the virus were paired with measures to
strengthen health systems and services, assistance for families in need through the Ehsaas programme and support for small
businesses. Action to mitigate the pandemic’s social and economic consequences focused on shielding the poor and most
vulnerable segments of the society.
The COVID-19 pandemic has made the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals even more challenging. The
Government of Pakistan is determined to rise to the challenge. We will continue our highly valued partnership with the United
Nations to steer Pakistan’s recovery toward a more sustainable and inclusive path, so that no one is left behind.
Noor Ahmed
Secretary, Ministry of Economic Affairs (MoEA)
Government of Pakistan
©UNCG Pakistan
MESSAGE FROM THE

UN RESIDENT
As One UN, we worked to keep public services accessible, households afloat, businesses solvent,
supply chains functioning, institutions strong and human rights at the forefront. UN initiatives
created cash-for-work opportunities, trained entrepreneurs and aided business continuity. We
helped Pakistan’s health system to address the coronavirus, plan for the roll-out of COVID-19
The UN’s
COORDINATOR
vaccines and ensure the continuity of essential health services. We combated malnutrition and
strove to cement food security, even as the pandemic hit agricultural livelihoods hard. Our efforts response to
built resilience to disaster risks and fomented environmental sustainability because, if COVID-19
COVID-19
has taught us anything, it is that we cannot afford to ignore risks to our planet and its people.
We supported children to continue learning, both remotely and safely in classrooms. We worked in Pakistan
The COVID-19 pandemic rocked the world to its core. This report showcases how the UN in Pakistan mobilized to mount a to prevent, address and respond to gender-based violence while ensuring psychosocial support is about
swift defence against COVID-19 and change millions of lives for the better in 2020. To respond to the massive needs triggered services for survivors. Our efforts prioritized strengthened social protection, so that no one is
by the pandemic, we worked tirelessly with our partners across all tiers of Government, development organizations, donors, left behind. We engaged with governance stakeholders and mobilized Pakistan’s young people, saving lives,
communities, local leaders, civil society, the private sector, the media, youth activists and the people of Pakistan. communities and civil society to overcome the impacts of this seismic crisis across the board. protecting
The UN’s response to COVID-19 in Pakistan is about saving lives, protecting people and recovering better. Throughout 2020 will be remembered as a tragic, traumatic year. On behalf of the UN family, I would like people and
2020, we supported the Government’s country-level coordination, planning and monitoring. Our immediate WHO-led health to pay tribute to the thousands of people in Pakistan who lost their lives to COVID-19. We owe a recovering
response helped to control the transmission of the coronavirus, reduce mortality and get people the health care they need. tremendous debt of gratitude to Pakistan’s health workers, who are the heroes of this pandemic.
We assisted better surveillance and case identification, stronger laboratory capacities and testing, and precautions at points From doctors, nurses and midwives to sanitary workers, technicians, essential businesses and
better.
of entry. We provided logistics, common services and operational support to the Government and other partners on the administrators, frontline workers put themselves in harm’s way every day to save lives. We salute all
frontline of the pandemic. Building on the humanitarian-development nexus, the UN’s humanitarian response simultaneously those who stood up to misinformation and followed safety protocols. You have helped to protect us
helped the most vulnerable people in Pakistan to withstand the COVID-19 crisis. Better planning, life-saving emergency all. We commend our partners, across Pakistan and abroad, for making the achievements outlined
supplies, food and cash assistance reached those most in need, especially communities recovering from floods and multiple in this report possible. To all of you, from all of us at the UN in Pakistan, thank you.
shocks. Our socio-economic response framework supported the Government to minimize, mitigate and manage the effects
of the pandemic. We pinpointed resource requirements and aided resource mobilization to ensure that Pakistan can protect COVID-19 has fundamentally changed the world, but the UN’s mission in Pakistan remains
economic activity and meet the social and health needs of vulnerable groups in a cohesive, collaborative manner. unchanged. We are here to help Pakistan achieve its sustainable development priorities in a way
that leaves no one behind, and reaches those farthest behind first. Together, we must make the
Our COVID-19 response confronted the human crisis that the pandemic has wrought on Pakistan’s society and economy, promise of the Sustainable Development Goals a reality for all the people in Pakistan.
cutting across every outcome of the One UN Programme III, the UN’s framework for cooperation with the Government of
Pakistan. In each of these areas, we prioritized risk communication and community engagement (RCCE), alongside infection
control and prevention (IPC). We reached out to communities, authorities, the media, religious leaders, parents, teachers,
students, law enforcement agencies, young people and vulnerable groups nationwide to raise awareness of the very real
threat that COVID-19 poses. We used different platforms in innovative ways to battle the tide of COVID-19 misinformation by
increasing the volume and reach of trusted, accurate information – from the mass media to social media, helplines and public Julien Harneis
announcements. Our IPC measures tackled COVID-19 head on by providing personal protective equipment, training frontline Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator
workers, disinfecting schools and health centres, and rehabilitating and building WASH facilities. United Nations Pakistan
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UN COUNTRY TEAM KEY DEVELOPMENT
IN PAKISTAN PARTNERS
The United Nations Country Team LINKING INVESTMENTS, PARTNERS AND THE SDGS IN PAKISTAN, 2020
(UNCT) is composed of the heads of all
the UN agencies, funds and programmes
active in Pakistan. The UNCT leads
the implementation of the One UN
Programme III, guided by a Joint UN-
National Oversight Committee, which is
chaired by the Secretary of the Economic
Affairs Division and the UN Resident
Coordinator. The UN family works as
one with the Government and partners
to improve people’s lives, reduce
inequalities and protect the planet.
THE UN FAMILY IN PAKISTAN*
The key development partners of the UN system in 20 DONORS REGISTERED ON THE

Pakistan are the Government of Pakistan, international COVID-19 PARTNERS PLATFORM
development organizations and financial institutions,
donor governments and development agencies, civil ASIAN
GOVERNMENT
society, the private sector, academia, the media and the DEVELOPMENT
OF GERMANY
BANK
people of Pakistan.
ASIAN ISLAMIC
We wish to thank and acknowledge the many partners INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT
who have supported our work during the COVID-19 INVESTMENT BANK BANK
response in 2020, without whom the results presented in
this report would not have been possible. GOVERNMENT GOVERNMENT
OF AUSTRALIA OF JAPAN
Special thanks are due to the Federal Government of
Pakistan – particularly the Economic Affairs Division, the JAPAN
GOVERNMENT INTERNATIONAL
Poverty Alleviation and Social Security Division, and the OF CANADA COOPERATION
Ministries of Climate Change, Federal Education and AGENCY
Professional Training, Finance, Human Rights, Information
EMBASSY OF THE GOVERNMENT
Technology and Telecommunication, National Food PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF THE REPUBLIC
Security and Research, National Health Services OF CHINA OF KOREA
Regulation and Coordination, Overseas Pakistanis
and Human Resource Development, and Planning, EUROPEAN SAVE THE
Development and Special Initiatives – the Provincial UNION CHILDREN
Governments of Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,
Punjab, and Sindh, the Regional Governments of Azad EUROPEAN GOVERNMENT
Jammu and Kashmir, and Gilgit-Baltistan, the National COMMISSION OF THE UNITED
(DG ECHO) ARAB EMIRATES
and Provincial Disaster Management Authorities, and the
National and Provincial Commissions on the Status of ECONOMIC DEPARTMENT FOR
Women, among many others. AFFAIRS DIVISION, INTERNATIONAL
GOVERNMENT DEVELOPMENT,
OF PAKISTAN UNITED KINGDOM
We are especially grateful to the many generous donors
who supported UN initiatives in 2020, whether financially GOVERNMENT OF
GOVERNMENT
THE UNITED STATES
or in-kind, including our dedicated implementing OF FRANCE
OF AMERICA
partners who led field activities on the ground during the
unprecedented COVID-19 crisis. GLOBAL
ALLIANCE FOR WORLD
VACCINES AND BANK
*
All of these are resident UN entities in Pakistan, with the exception of UN Environment (UNEP). IMMUNIZATION

KEY DEVELOPMENT OVERALL CONTEXT
Home to 220.9 million people1, Pakistan is the fifth most populous country in the world. It is also one of the youngest – 61.4%
TRENDS of Pakistanis are of working age (15–64 years old)2 and 51% are under 19.3 Despite recent development gains, challenges
persist. Pakistan ranked 154th of 189 countries on the Human Development Index 2020 (HDI), falling four places since 2018.
One in four Pakistanis lives in poverty – income-based poverty stands at 24.3% and multidimensional poverty at 38.8%.4
Malnutrition affects nearly half of Pakistan’s children. Women’s labour force participation rate (22.5%) is among the lowest in
South Asia.5 Pakistan also has among the highest rates of maternal and child mortality, and among the lowest rates of gender
Pakistan embraced the 2030 Agenda GILGIT-BALTISTAN parity in education in the region. It is home to the second highest number of out-of-school children in the world (22.8 million),
for Sustainable Development in 2016 KHYBER
53% of whom are girls).6 Inequality is pervasive between regions and geographic (urban-rural) locations. Discrimination and
by adopting the SDGs as part of its PAKHTUNKHWA violence affect women, girls, transgender people and minorities; as a result, it ranks 151st of 153 countries on the World
own national development agenda, AZAD Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2020 (GII). Pakistan hosts 1.4 million Afghan refugees, the largest protracted
JAMMU &
Vision 2025. Since then, there has been KASHMIR refugee population in the world. Germanwatch’s Global Climate Risk Index 2020 considers it the fifth most vulnerable country
considerable progress on mainstreaming in the world to the impact of climate change and natural disasters, including floods, drought and earthquakes.7
the SDGs in national policies and strategies, ISLAMABAD
CAPITAL
including the Five-Year Plan, provincial NEWLY TERRITORY
MERGED
growth strategies and Pakistan’s long-term
development perspective.
DISTRICTS
COVID-19 IN PAKISTAN
PUNJAB
BALOCHISTAN
POPULATION 13,935 -1.5% 1.2 TRILLION

SINDH 220.9 DEATHS FROM COVID-19 & REAL GDP GROWTH (PKR) GOVERNMENT STIMULUS
633,741 CONFIRMED CASES8 IN FY2020 PACKAGE LAUNCHED
MILLION
COVID-19 has compounded these challenges. Pakistan is facing an unprecedented economic shock due to the pandemic,
coupled with enormous pressure on its health sector. Real GDP growth declined from 5.5% in FY18 to 1.9% in FY19 and
-1.5% in FY20, according to the World Bank. A complete lockdown (March–June 2020) to stem the spread of the virus
restricted consumption and production. COVID-19 has increased the incidence and intensity of multidimensional poverty,
especially for the most vulnerable – the elderly, persons with disabilities, women, children and non-nationals. Some 56.6%
of Pakistan’s population has become susceptible to becoming multidimensionally vulnerable; thus, an estimated 126 million
people are likely to be pushed into multidimensional poverty.9 During the lockdown, 20.6 million workers lost their jobs and
MULTI HDI RANKING LABOUR FORCE 6.7 million lost income. More than 2 million remained out of work in December.10 Young people are being disproportionately
DIMENSIONAL
POVERTY 154 OF 65.5 affected, particularly in the world of work. Women are bearing the brunt of the COVID-19 crisis and are on the frontline of
responding to it. They represent 70% of frontline health workers and face growing risks, including of gender-based violence
38.8% 189 MILLION and additional burdens of unpaid care work. Despite the challenges, Pakistan’s COVID-19 response has drawn praise from
the international community, including the UN. The Government launched a fiscal stimulus package worth PKR 1.2 trillion that
involves expanding the Ehsaas emergency programme’s outreach from 5.2 million to 12 million households, providing cash
grants to 3 million daily wage labourers in the informal sector, and distributing food items to poor families at subsidized rates.
It established a multi-stakeholder National Command and Operation Centre – including members of opposition parties – to
oversee the COVID-19 response and coordinate with the provinces. The country’s ‘smart’ lockdown approach, following an
initial full lockdown, maintained economic activity while keeping the reported number of infections relatively low.
1
According to the last Population Census, the country’s population was 207.8 million in 2017. This figure reflects the projected population in light of the population
GINI GII RANKING GDP PER growth rate of 2.4% recorded by the Pakistan Economic Survey 2019–20. See World Population Prospects 2019.
COEFFICIENT CAPITA 2
UNDP (2017). National Human Development Report 2017: Unleashing the potential of a young Pakistan. Islamabad: UNDP.
151 OF
3
Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (2018). Labour Force Survey 2017–18. Islamabad: Government of Pakistan.
31.6 US$1,285
4
Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (2019). Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey 2018–19. Islamabad: Government of Pakistan; UNDP, OPHI and
Ministry of Planning, Development & Reform (2015). Multidimensional Poverty in Pakistan. Islamabad: UNDP.
153 5
6
Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (2018). “Table 6”, Labour Force Survey 2017–18. Islamabad: Government of Pakistan; World Bank Group (2019). Pakistan@100: From
Poverty to Equity Policy Note. Washington, DC: World Bank.
United Nations Children’s Fund (2021). “Education: Pakistan”. Islamabad: UNICEF.
7
GermanWatch (2020). Global Climate Risk Index 2020. Bonn: GermanWatch.
8
As of 23 March 2031, see: Government of Pakistan (2021) “Health Advisory Platform: Pakistan Case Details, 23 March 2021”.
9
UNDP (2020). Multidimensional Vulnerability Index. Islamabad: UNDP.
10
Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (2020). Special Survey For Evaluating the Socio-Economic Impact of COVID-19. Islamabad: Government of Pakistan.

UN RESPONSE TO
COVID-19
A THREE-PRONGED RESPONSE TO THE PANDEMIC 130,000 36.6 3,700
+ MILLION +
FRONTLINE HEALTH PEOPLE REACHED WITH HANDWASHING STATIONS
THE FOCUS OF OUR IMMEDIATE WORKERS WERE COVID-19 PREVENTION INSTALLED IN STRATEGIC
PROVIDED PPE MESSAGES PUBLIC LOCATIONS
UN PAKISTAN WHO-LED HEALTH RESPONSE
COVID-19 UN agencies in Pakistan mobilized swiftly and comprehensively to respond to COVID-19. The United Nations Resident and
RESPONSE
Humanitarian Coordinator led our three-pronged health, humanitarian and socio-economic response, bringing the UN Country
COORDINATION, PLANNING & MONITORING Team together to support the Government. The WHO-led health response focused on science, solidarity and solutions. The UN
assisted coordination at the federal and provincial levels, leading task forces, working groups and regular meetings across a
RISK COMMUNICATION & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
range of sectors, from health and nutrition to WASH, education, child protection, gender-based violence, disaster risk reduction
SURVEILLANCE, RAPID RESPONSE & CASE INVESTIGATION and many more. UN agencies contributed to planning for the rollout of COVAX in 2021, in addition to providing support for
cold chain procurement, vaccine logistics, community engagement, crisis communications and training.
LABORATORY CAPACITIES
INFECTION PREVENTION & CONTROL The UN assisted Pakistan’s Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) Plan on responsive, transparent and
consistent messaging in local languages through trusted communication channels, community-based networks and key
QUARANTINE & CASE MANAGEMENT
influencers. For example, engaging 423,662 religious leaders expanded the reach of COVID-19 awareness raising through
OPERATIONAL SUPPORT & LOGISTICS mosque announcements and Friday sermons that promoted preventive behaviours, such as handwashing, mask-wearing,
physical distancing and immunization. Partnerships with provincial governments and community-based organizations – including
local leaders and youth groups – helped COVID-19 prevention messages reach 36.6 million people. UN support for the
detection of COVID-19 cases, contact tracing and case identification included training surveillance teams and donating vehicles
to transport samples between health facilities and laboratories. To strengthen laboratory systems, specialists were deployed to
train lab workers on biosafety and quality assurance. Installing automated hand hygiene stations at major airports, training staff
THE COVID-19 PAKISTAN and information displays made points of entry safer. We aided infection prevention and control (IPC) in communities and health
facilities to promote preventive behaviours, raise awareness and stem the transmission of the coronavirus. For example, installing
SOCIO-ECONOMIC FRAMEWORK 3,767 handwashing stations in public places and training 7,172 frontline sanitary workers built critical IPC capacities in health
facilities and high-risk communities. In terms of operational support and logistics, we actively procured medical supplies and
(DEVELOPED IN MAY 2020) HAS personal protective equipment (PPE). For instance, UN agencies provided 130,154 frontline health workers with PPE kits and
5 PILLARS
distributed 50,000 PPE and hygiene kits through the National and Provincial Disaster Management Authorities.
The UN’s response also addressed the humanitarian impact of COVID-19 on the most vulnerable groups in Pakistan. For
example, UN agencies supported the Government’s flood response in Sindh with medical supplies, mosquito nets, food and
cash assistance for over 70,000 people. In May 2020, the UN Country Team collectively developed the COVID-19 Pakistan
Socio-Economic Framework in partnership with the Ministry of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives, establishing the
HUMANITARIAN basis for the Government’s response to the pandemic. The framework includes an analysis of technical and financial resource
requirements. It seeks to support the Government to implement new economic priorities, protect jobs and economic activity,
RESPONSE ensure food security, and meet the social and health needs of vulnerable groups in a cohesive, collaborative manner. The rest of
this report highlights the high-impact results achieved in aid of the socio-economic response in 2020.
DELIVERED
ECONOMIC Rapidly assessing emerging needs, the UN revised project strategies, reprogrammed and adapted interventions. We revisited
LIFESAVING BASIC SERVICES &
RECOVERY
MULTILATERAL work plans to devise safe avenues for service delivery, including using virtual means of communication and incorporating strict
CASH,
SOCIAL PROTECTION COLLABORATION adherence to COVID-19 Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) during in-person meetings. Online training was delivered
wherever possible, as was ‘hybrid’ or ‘blended’ training combining online and face-to-face sessions. Some activities had to be
dropped or delayed, such as large-scale in-person events and field activities. New actions were added, particularly COVID-19
FOOD & awareness raising campaigns, support for helplines and the provision of key supplies – running the gamut from PPE to medical and
IT equipment, ventilators, sanitary supplies, disinfectants and hygiene kits. For instance, the UN supported toll-free government
EMERGENCY helplines in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to address stigma, discrimination and mental health issues, benefiting 20,181
HEALTH SERVICES SOCIAL COHESION people. We provided assistance and handholding for technological solutions by, for example, providing the Government of
SUPPLIES & SYSTEMS & RESILIENCE Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with secure video conferencing equipment and software to ensure connectivity. UN agencies repurposed
resources to address COVID-19, including US$0.55 million to provide humanitarian and technical support to rule of law
stakeholders. Some US$4.63 million was mobilized to mitigate the pandemic’s impact on food security, nutrition and livelihoods.

ONE UN
PROGRAMME III
ECONOMIC GROWTH
1
DECENT WORK
The One UN Programme III 2
HEALTH AND WASH
(OP III), also known as the
United Nations Sustainable
Development Framework 1 3
2018–2022, is the framework
for cooperation between the
10 2 4
NUTRITION
UN and the Government of
Pakistan. The OP III articulates
9 3 FOOD SECURITY AND SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
the shared purpose of the UN
family in Pakistan:
5
delivering as one to
achieve the SDGs.
8 4 6 RESILIENCE
Leaving no one behind, and
reaching those farthest behind 7
first, are the common thread 6 EDUCATION AND LEARNING
that connects all UN efforts 7 5
in Pakistan, across all 10 8
outcome areas of the One UN GENDER, EQUALITY AND DIGNITY
Programme III. These are:
9
GOVERNANCE
10
SOCIAL PROTECTION
EXPENDITURE IN 2020
TOTAL UN OUTCOME 1 OUTCOME 2 OUTCOME 3 OUTCOME 4 OUTCOME 5 OUTCOME 6 OUTCOME 7 OUTCOME 8 OUTCOME 9 OUTCOME 10
BUDGETARY 7.06 million 30.14 million 237.19 million 30.58 million 41.66 million 16.67 million 22.51 million 5.47 million 48.63 million 21.19 million
EXPENDITURE 1.53% 6.53% 51.43% 6.63% 9.04% 3.62% 4.88% 1.18% 10.55% 4.59%
IN 2020 of total OP III
expenditure
U S $
461.10
M I L L I O N
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OUTCOME 1
ECONOMIC
GROWTH
10 50 3,400
PER CENT PER CENT METRIC TONNES
INCREASE IN 300 REDUCTION IN OF CO2 EMISSIONS WILL BE
SMES’ EXPORTS WITH PAKISTAN’S HCFC PREVENTED BY 5MWS
UN SUPPORT QUOTA SOLAR PROJECTS
The COVID-19 pandemic was a seismic shock to economies everywhere. In Pakistan, the UN ramped up support for government
1
©UNOPS Pakistan/Rabail Habib efforts to spearhead economic recovery, protect small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and develop a roadmap for inclusive
OUTCOME 1 is coordinated by
AGENCIES
and sustainable industrial development (ISID). To promote industrial competitiveness, the UN’s World Bank-funded Cluster
UNIDO, bringing together the efforts of
Development Initiative supported 300 SMEs on design and development, resource optimization and export enhancement. It
UNV, UN Habitat, FAO, UNESCO,
mobilized foreign investment for technology transfer in the automotive sector, facilitated export diversification to African markets
the ILO, IOM, UNCTAD, UNOPS and
and helped set up two design studios by galvanizing commitments to cost sharing. The results speak volumes: beneficiaries’
UN Women KEY
exports have grown by 10%. Inspired by the initiative, the Government of Punjab has positioned ‘cluster development’ as a key
RELATED
part of its growth strategy and is looking to develop an Industrial Intelligence Unit. In Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the
SDGs
Project for Agri-food and Agro-industry Development Assistance revitalized livelihoods in the cattle meat and apple value chains
– among farmers, herders and food processors, especially women and youth. Funded by the Japan International Cooperation
Agency, the project’s support and introduction of best practices improved quality, safety, value addition and productivity, reducing
MODULUSTECH’S STORY: production losses while boosting marketability, profits and access to high-end markets. We also identified horticultural value
STARTUPS COPING WITH COVID-19 chains to upgrade in Balochistan and the Newly Merged Districts based on their development potential. Capacity building will
enhance their efficiency through technology, value addition, access to markets and services, and by addressing critical gaps.
“The summer heat in Karachi, coupled with the fasting month of

UN projects funded by the Global Environment Facility advanced resilient industrial infrastructure and green development. The
Ramadan, was making it impossible for doctors to sit outside wearing
Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation through Water Resource Management in Leather Industrial Zone Development project
personal protective equipment and they urgently required a screening
finished work on a drainage system, culverts, roads and electrification in Punjab’s Sialkot Tannery Zone. Civil works began on a
room,” explains Nabeel Siddiqui, CEO of the startup ModulusTech. “We
common effluent treatment plant, while the designs of a chrome recovery plant and green tannery guidelines were completed. The
provided them with a low-cost – around US$4,400 – air-conditioned
Transforming the Leather Processing Industries towards Low Emissions and Climate Resilient Development Paths project assessed
screening room with space for further testing of patients in less than
solid waste in Sindh’s Korangi Leather Area, while a report on COVID-19’s impact informed a response plan for Korangi’s leather
10 days, while there was a lockdown in the city and all markets were
sector. The Sustainable Energy Initiative for Industries in Pakistan advanced energy system optimization by helping 50 industries to
closed [...] The hospital staff were super happy with the speed of
implement an energy management system in sectors like textiles, paper and pulp, food and beverages, foundries and ceramics. It
delivery, as well as the energy efficiency of the structures.”
paired capacity building with support for developing energy policies, conducting energy audits, setting baselines and targets, and
ModulusTech’s design of energy efficient houses won first prize at the applying energy saving measures. Implementing this system yielded energy savings and reduced the industries’ carbon footprint.
Pakistani edition of the UN Global Cleantech Innovation Programme Renewable energy investment support grants aided the initiative’s business-to-business model, enabling the completion of 5 MW
in 2017. “The prize was essential for our survival, as we were able solar projects at industrial and commercial sites. These projects will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 3,400 metric tonnes
to get initial funding for our startup and start operations, as well as annually. UN assistance under the Montreal Protocol is helping Pakistan to phase out ozone-depleting substances from its foam
find the right partners,” Nabeel says. ModulusTech spent 2020 working and refrigeration sectors. By implementing the Hydrofluorocarbons (HCFC) Phase Out Management Plan, Pakistan reduced its
with hospitals, designing emergency response units for public authorities HCFC quota by 50% in 2020. As the cultural and creative industries are key to sustainable development, UN initiatives improved
and creating a conveyor system for disinfecting packages. Their story is a understandings of heritage management at the Provincial Directorate of Archaeology and Museums and the Evacuee Trust
testament to how Pakistani entrepreneurs mobilized to save lives during the Property Board. Three management plans reflecting best practices – for Gurdwara Sacha Sauda, Gurdwara Rohri Sahib and
©ModulusTech/UNIDO
COVID-19 pandemic. Taxila Museum – were submitted to the Government to lay the groundwork for responsible tourism.

OUTCOME 2
DECENT WORK
900 74,390 3
+ + MILLION
PEOPLE BENEFITED FROM COTTON PICKERS TRAINED WORKERS REACHED BY A
A UN CASH-FOR-WORK ON LABOUR ISSUES COVID-19 AWARENESS
INITIATIVE AND COVID-19 PREVENTION RAISING CAMPAIGN
The COVID-19 pandemic turned the world of work upside down. Every worker, every business and every corner of Pakistan
was affected in 2020. The UN mobilized in support of the Government to protect workers, especially the most vulnerable and
marginalized, and advance decent work for all. For example, one UN cash-for-work scheme with the Sarhad Rural Support
Programme provided immediate temporary employment for 900 villagers (34% of whom are women) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
This income stream was a lifeline for vulnerable families hit hard by the pandemic, while benefitting the community by desilting
2
©UNDP Pakistan/Shahzad Ahmad irrigation channels, stitching and distributing school uniforms, running COVID-19 awareness sessions and forming 90 community
AGENCIES
OUTCOME 2 is coordinated by the ILO, organizations.

bringing together the efforts of UN
Women, UNHCR, UNESCO, UNDP, A large-scale UN campaign saved lives by raising awareness of COVID-19 safety at work, reaching 3 million workers and 1,000
UNIDO and IOM KEY
employers. Sensitization on fundamental rights and principles at work, occupational health and safety (OSH) and other labour
issues engaged a range of key players – from public officials to workers’ and employers’ organizations, brick kiln owners and
RELATED
workers, cotton farmers and workers, and civil society. With UN support, the Pakistan National Textile, Leather, Garments and
SDGs
General Workers Federation developed an awareness toolkit in Urdu and trained 1,366 cotton pickers – including women and
adolescents – on child and forced labour, OSH and COVID-19. UN assistance helped 30 Migrant Workers’ Resource Centres
reach out to 150,000 prospective and returned migrants on safe, regular migration.
ULFAT’S AND ZAFAR’S STORY:
A PATHWAY TO RECOVERY We continued to prioritize capacity development to expand sustainable livelihoods. The Skills Development Programme provided
certified vocational and technical skills training to 4,715 young refugees and Pakistani host community members. Among them,
200 refugees were placed in internships for on-the-job training. Acquiring skills in demand by the labour market, and receiving
“Our business was at a standstill because of coronavirus. It constrained
certificates from a recognized training institution, helped trainees secure work. Entrepreneurship education, career counselling
our finances where it became difficult to make ends meet,” says Ulfat
and support services for 74,394 young people (38% of whom are women and 0.03% are transgender persons) aimed to
from the village of Tarnab in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. She is one of
unleash youth’s economic potential. Livelihood skills training and psychological counselling aimed to help 157 young prisoners
900 people, including 306 women, for whom a new UN’s cash-for-work
reintegrate in society, as did free legal aid for 25 prisoners. Training sessions in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa engaged youth on heritage
initiative has been a game-changer in a time of crisis. “Skilled women were
entrepreneurship. Business management training, in-kind grants and incubation support benefited aspiring entrepreneurs.
given tailoring kits to stitch school uniforms, and also get paid for the
Pakistani trainers were certified by the Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE) programme, facilitating the
work,” she explains. “I registered myself and worked diligently [...] I am
programme’s implementation in 12 enterprises. As a result, their labour turnover declined and productivity increased. Training
now planning to buy an ironing table with the cash I earned from this
24 enterprises and conducting environmental audits of 14 businesses boosted compliance with international environmental
activity. I will use it as my workstation for embroidery, and stitching.”
standards. With UN support, the first textile company from Pakistan was certified by the Alliance for Water Stewardship 2.0.
“The work done by UNDP and SRSP is very well designed and it
benefited a lot of people.” said Sohail Ahmad, president of Gara Policy progress advanced the decent work agenda, with UN support for the development of a National Emigration and Welfare
Tajik village’s community organization. For Zafar Shah from the village Policy, the rules of business for Sindh’s Home-Based Workers Act and a Skills Development Strategy for the post-COVID ‘new
of Palam Deri, for example, the initiative cushioned the blow dealt by normal’. UN research provided a strong evidence-base for further progress, including on Pakistan’s international commitments,
COVID-19 . “We worked for 10 days to dispose-off solid waste and gender-responsive budgeting, young women’s economic empowerment and labour migration. A seminal Decent Work Country
received PKR 10,500 (US$63),” he reports. “I spent some of this money Profile and strategy on promoting decent work in the rural economy were finalized, as was a policy paper on private sector
to buy groceries for my house and medicines for my children. With engagement and the ease of doing business in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Newly Merged Districts – vital prerequisites for the region’s
the remaining money, I paid back a loan that I had taken during the economic and social development. Knowledge products also explored ways to extend social security to brick kiln workers, bridge
©UNDP Pakistan/Shahzad Ahmad
lockdown to fulfil my family’s daily basic needs.” decent work deficits in the brick kiln and cotton sectors, and mitigate COVID-19’s impacts on these sectors and many more.

OUTCOME 3
HEALTH AND WASH
39 14.3 9
MILLION MILLION MILLION
CHILDREN TARGETED BY PEOPLE SENSITIZED ON NEWBORNS AND CHILDREN
14 POLIO VACCINATION BETTER HEALTH-SEEKING BENEFITED FROM IMPROVED
CAMPAIGNS BEHAVIOUR HEALTH CARE
The UN mobilized in support of Pakistan’s health system in 2020, helping it address COVID-19 while sustaining essential health
services. UN support provided 130,000 frontline health workers with protective personal equipment (PPE), while training 83,744
on COVID-19 and 142,978 on infection prevention and control (IPC) using specially developed training manuals. Training
1,570 paediatricians enabled the identification and safe management of 4 million suspected cases among children. In aid of an
effective COVID-19 response, UN specialists seconded to government entities enhanced capacities and coordination forums like
3
©UNICEF Pakistan/Asad Zaidi the UN-H5 partnership and the Development Partners’ Group supported the Government to coordinate health sector partners.
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OUTCOME 3 is coordinated by WHO The UN assisted planning for the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines under the COVAX initiative in 2021 so that no one is left behind.
and UNICEF, bringing together the efforts
of UNFPA, UNAIDS, UNODC, UN With UN support, 2.5 million people accessed primary health care services. Telemedicine benefited 8,185 people in Khyber
Habitat, UNHCR and IOM KEY
Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab. The Tele-ICU Programme linked 5,000 medical professionals, enabling critical care specialists provide
advice virtually to 60 public and private intensive care units. Training at seven hospitals in Balochistan honed capacities on critical
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care, COVID-19 screening and treatment, and tele-ICU implementation. In five flood-affected districts of Sindh, 20 mobile
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teams provided 111,772 people (28% of whom are children and 46% are women) with integrated immunization, nutrition, and
maternal, newborn and child health services. UN assistance enabled access to improved health care for 9 million newborns and
children nationwide. For instance, 40,248 sick newborns received lifesaving medical care, 1,150 pre-term babies were managed
UMME AMMARA’S STORY: in 17 Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) Centres, and the Point of Care Quality Improvement was rolled out in 10 districts. Scaling
HELPING CHILDREN SURVIVE AND THRIVE up home-based newborn care, KMC and the management of possible serious bacterial infections in seven districts increased the
survival chances of 399,299 newborns. Urgently-needed clinical guidelines were launched, including on managing pregnancy
and children with COVID-19. In Punjab and Sindh, 1.67 million children (121% of the target) were treated for pneumonia and
“Having access to treatment locally saved my child,” says Zainab,
diarrhoea by community health workers trained using UN Guidelines on the Integrated Management of Newborn and Childhood
holding her 8-month-old baby boy. “Some months ago, Muhammed
Illnesses. Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services reached 136,947 people (94% women and girls), including 653 persons
Kabir fell sick. His body temperature was high, his umbilicus was red
with disabilities (83% women and girls). The UN supported 35 health facilities and 8,675 skilled deliveries in Balochistan and
and drained pus, which we found worrisome.”
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, as well as mobile medical units and health workers trained on the Minimum Initial Services Package.
“On the advice of the local Lady Health Worker, my mother took Training another 2,000 health care providers improved SRH telemedicine services, as did the creation of six telemedicine centres.
him to Kanganpur Rural Health Centre but she could not take him to
the bigger hospital in Kasur, as doctors suggested, because it is 60 Enhancing health workers’ capacities was pivotal in 2020. Training of trainers’ (ToT) sessions were delivered on the Baby-friendly
kilometres away. Happily, the Health Centre here was able to give him Hospital Initiative and 11,208 frontline workers – including 3,000 polio workers – were trained on the parenting package by
injections and medicines, and he recovered after a week.” 284 master trainers. To end the tragedy of obstetric fistula, the UN supported fistula surgeries and trained health professionals
on fistula prevention, repair and rehabilitation. A digital Paediatric HIV Case Management Training Protocol was developed as
Umme Ammara is the paramedic at Kanganpur Rural Health Centre in
the UN rallied assistance from the Paediatric European Network for the Treatment of AIDS. Following up on the HIV outbreak
Punjab who identified Muhammed Kabir’s condition: he was suffering from a
in Larkana, Sindh, 35 paediatricians were trained using the new protocol, enabling them to care for 1,339 children living with
possible serious bacterial infection.
HIV/AIDS enrolled in anti-retroviral therapy (ART) with a 94% adherence rate. With UN support, Pakistan devised strategies to
After she was trained on the integrated management of childhood illnesses scale up the prevention of parent-to-child transmission (PPTCT) and paediatric HIV treatment. We trained national trainers on the
with UN support, she has saved countless lives. “I have since screened Universal Prevention Curriculum and organized 30 awareness sessions on preventing drug use and COVID-19 in communities,
more than 100 children for PSBI and referred those who might be 500 counselling sessions, and community-based drug treatment services for 98 drug users in Faisalabad, Punjab. In Khyber
seriously sick to the programme. All of them were treated and have Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab and Sindh, 95 health care professionals and prison staff were trained on HIV testing and counselling
©UNICEF Pakistan/Sameer Ahmad Khan
recovered,” explains Umme. services while the Drug Demand Reduction Prevention and Control initiative conducted 2,434 HIV tests in Sindh’s Malir prisons.

1.5 9.8 1.1
PEOPLE GAINED PEOPLE BENEFITED FROM WASH MORE PEOPLE NOW LIVE IN
ACCESS TO CLEAN IN HEALTH FACILITIES OPEN DEFECATION-FREE
DRINKING WATER AND SCHOOLS ENVIRONMENTS
In the fight against COVID-19, communication was key. With the Ministry of National Health Services, the UN developed
standard public awareness messages to spread accurate health information and dispel myths. We reached over 14.3 million
people with targeted messages to improve health-seeking behaviour, service delivery and demand for essential services through
social media, the mass media and by engaging community influencers and gatekeepers. Over 4,087 radio spots were broadcast
on 10 radio stations, and 636,000 scrolls displayed on national and regional television channels. Through the Neighborhood
Watch Project, 1,224 community health workers and reached 600,000 households with COVID-19 prevention messages and
support to link them with reproductive health services. Effective awareness raising contributed to keeping people safe and getting
children immunized. For example, enhanced outreach activities (EOA) had a huge impact on improving routine immunization
coverage after a sharp dip during the lockdown period. These activities reached 144 districts, deploying 18,656 vaccinators and
social mobilizers to provide 2.2 million children with 31.6 million doses of essential vaccines (over 80% of the target).
To save lives through immunization, the UN supported the installation of 4,476 cold chain equipment systems with continuous
temperature monitoring and the deployment of the Cold Chain Equipment Optimization Platform. The transition to the District
Health Information System 2 (DHIS2) and the rollout of the Electronic Logistics Management Information System (eLMIS) in Sindh
and Punjab enhanced the management of medical commodities. An emergency plan for resuming Expanded Programme on
Immunization (EPI) services was developed in May 2020 with key partners. The improved cold chain system, microplanning and
demand creation supported the Government to achieve routine immunization coverage of 83% for Penta-3 and 94% for the
measles vaccine. Piloting birth dose vaccinations at four hospitals in Balochistan boosted the proportion of newborns vaccinated
– from 5% to 95%. Fourteen UN-supported polio vaccination campaigns reached 97.8% of 39 million targeted children. In
addition to deploying 13,000 community-based vaccinators and mobilizers to polio-endemic regions, we ensured 100% vaccine
availability by procuring 302 million vaccine doses. Applying a communication and social mobilization strategy for high-risk
districts, the campaigns successfully engaged community actors, conducted research and spearheaded community listening and ©UNICEF Pakistan/Asad Zaidi
dialogue. As a result, vaccine refusals fell from 0.47% in February to 0.33% in November. Integrated service delivery was rolled NASEEB GUL’S STORY:
out in 40 union councils at ‘super-high risk’ of polio (SHRUCs), where 80 health camps delivered an integrated service package HANDWASHING PREVENTING COVID-19
to 45,596 people. Vaccinators were equipped with PPE and trained on IPC, as were EPI staff – enabling them to deliver cascade
training to 5,258 of their colleagues. Over 2,000 EPI centres were refurbished and 9,081EPI staff trained to develop microplans.
“I heard that it can be caught by touching dirty surfaces, but what can
With direct UN support as part of the COVID-19 response, 1.5 million people (48% of whom are women) accessed clean I do? I have to search through garbage dumps all day long to find
drinking water, 0.57 million (49% women) accessed safe sanitation, and 9.8 million (5.3 million men and boys, and 4.5 million anything valuable that I could sell,” says 19-year-old Naseeb Gul. “This
women and girls) benefited from WASH facilities in 686 health care facilities and 1,249 schools. Inclusive community-centred is my livelihood and my family depend on it.”
interventions provided safe, sustainable drinking water to 1.42 million people – with a roughly 50/50 gender breakdown – by Like scores of others in Pakistan, Naseeb had no real way of washing
rehabilitating WASH infrastructure and constructing 656 hand pumps, 124 piped water systems and 56 climate-resilient solar- his hands with soap, either at home or in public. This is why the UN and
powered water systems. Another 1.119 million people (51% of whom are women and girls) are now living in open defecation- Abbottabad’s Water and Sanitation Services Company (WSSCA) installed
free (ODF) environments in 744 ODF-certified communities as the UN integrated WASH interventions with polio eradication, 54 hand washing stations across the city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, paired
nutrition, health and child protection programmes in super-high-risk union councils. Building the capacities of 744 Village WASH with a public information campaign. “When I noticed the large number
Committees and community resource persons to promote hygiene and maintain WASH facilities helped sustain services and of water drums being placed all over the city, I didn’t know their
encourage transformative behavioural change. Gender-sensitive WASH services benefited 365,414 students in 1,533 schools, purpose,” reflects Naseeb. “But once I saw a banner with pictures on it, I
including 1,077 institutions supported as part of the COVID-19 response with WASH and IPC packages. Some 46,074 girls understood that they were here to help us wash our hands with soap.”
received menstrual hygiene management supplies and engaged in awareness sessions. Private sector partnerships enabled the
provision of menstruation supplies to 73,108 women and girls, who were rendered especially vulnerable by the pandemic. Naseeb is among the 300,000 people who used these handwashing stations
UN efforts coordinated sectoral partners, mobilized service providers in 20 cities to implement IPC activities and leveraged every day, helping to keep them safe from COVID-19. “Now I wash my
flagship government WASH programmes for the COVID-19 response. For instance, 119,000 youths and adolescents actively hands with soap many times a day, including each time after I touched
engaged as Clean Green Champions played a key role in disseminating COVID-19 prevention messages. Using existing garbage,” he explains. “I hope that these water drums and soap will
WASH communications network of social mobilizers, religious leaders, community resource persons and social media platforms ©UNICEF Pakistan/Umar Swati stay even after the virus is gone.”
empowered over 9.5 million people with information on maintaining hygiene and preventing COVID-19 infection.

OUTCOME 4
NUTRITION
0.43 57,700 3,200

MILLION + +
CHILDREN AND CHILDREN TREATED GOVERNMENT STAFF
WOMEN RECEIVED FOOD FOR SEVERE ACUTE TRAINED TO
ASSISTANCE MALNUTRITION IMPROVE NUTRITION
The UN supported Pakistan to sustain and scale-up nutrition programming in 2020, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Our
initiatives prevented and treated malnutrition, especially among vulnerable children and women. The Community-based
Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) programme was successfully handed over to the Government and implemented in
22 districts. Some 57,745 children (52% of whom are girls) were treated for severe acute malnutrition, while 435,489 people
– including children suffering from moderate acute malnutrition, and pregnant and lactating women – received 4,565MT of
4
©UNICEF Pakistan/Asad Zaidi food assistance through CMAM in 20 districts. To combat micronutrient deficiencies, the UN directly provided micronutrient
AGENCIES
supplements to 333,478 children (52% girls) and 246,493 pregnant and lactating women. In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 27,318
OUTCOME 4 is coordinated by WFP,
adolescents received micronutrient supplements as part of integrated service delivery in 15 union councils at ‘super-high-risk’
bringing together the efforts of WHO,
of polio. While COVID-19 prevented two rounds of Vitamin A supplementation, one round was successfully carried out in
UNICEF and FAO
130 districts nationwide. With the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), the UN supported Ehsaas Nashonuma, the
KEY
Government’s new stunting prevention programme that reached 4,442 children, 6,996 women and set up 29 facilitation centres.
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SDGs
To safeguard nutrition during the COVID-19 crisis, we provided protective personal equipment to professionals delivering
nutrition services, everywhere from health facilities to UN offices. UN agencies assisted the Government to develop a COVID-19
communication package, including messages on maternal and child nutrition, FAQs on COVID-19 and nutrition, and a nutrition-
KHAN BIBI’S STORY: sensitive food distribution kit. The development of simplified guidelines aided the continuation of services to address severe and
FOOD ASSISTANCE BECOMES A LIFELINE moderate acute malnutrition and improve infant and young child feeding (IYCF). Capacity strengthening was the backbone of the
nutrition response. The UN supported 76 Nutrition Stabilization Centers and trained 3,287 government workers, in addition to
training staff at Outpatient Therapeutic Programme and Targeted Supplementary Feeding Programme sites. As part of the Khyber
“My sons are daily labourers. Now that all the shops and markets
Pakhtunkhwa Stunting Prevention and Rehabilitation Integrated Nutrition Gain (KP SPRING) initiative, 1,940 government staff
are closed, they can’t go out and look for work. I pray to God to stop
were trained. With UN assistance, the Government translated the Pakistan Dietary Guidelines for Better Nutrition and adapted
this virus from spreading, it will make our lives more difficult if things
them into an eLearning course for service providers and policy makers for cost-effective, high impact interventions. A food safety
continue like this,” says Khan Bibi.
manual and eLearning course will deliver key messages to food business operators, handlers, mothers and care providers.
She is one of an estimated 16,000 people who remain displaced from the
Newly Merged Districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, formerly known as the UN advocacy, policy support, evidence generation and innovation pushed for better nutrition in Pakistan. Tax and duty exemptions
Federally Administered Tribal Areas. With the restrictions imposed to curb granted on imported raw materials will reduce the costs of producing specialized nutritious foods locally by 30%. To move
the spread of COVID-19, UN food assistance has become ever more critical food fortification forward, a pilot was launched through 10 small-scale mills (chakkis) in Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Strategic
for safeguarding nutrition among vulnerable families. communication boosted consumer demand for fortified wheat, including radio jingles and clips. UN research made a strong
case for strengthening nutrition services – from the Pakistan Overview of Food Insecurity and Malnutrition 2020 to a food security
Every month, Khan Bibi receives a pack that consists of wheat flour, pulses,
and livelihood assessment, a rice fortification study, and operational research on stunting prevention that benefited 3,535
cooking oil and salt. When she arrives at the UN food distribution site, her
children and women in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Newly Merged Districts. Nutrition governance grew stronger as
temperature is taken. Everyone is asked to thoroughly wash their hands with
the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Secretariat and provincial SUN Units pursued multisectoral nutrition strategy processes and action
water and soap. Waiting in a queue to verify her identity and collect the food,
plans with UN support. Policy progress included provincial Breast Milk Substitute Rules, draft national standards for specialized
social distancing is observed, with people standing a metre apart in chalk
nutritious foods and work on maternal nutrition and dietary diversification strategies. The UN contributed to the Federal Nutrition
circles. While the pandemic prevented temporarily displaced families from
PC-1, which will transform the national nutrition response. To expand the availability of nutrition services at the primary care and
returning home and becoming self-sufficient, UN support has been essential
community levels, we supported the inclusion of key services in the Universal Health Care Benefit Package – such as treatment for
©WFP Pakistan to seeing vulnerable households through the crisis.
severe wasting, the promotion of breastfeeding and complementary feeding, and Vitamin A, iron and folic acid supplementation.

OUTCOME 5
FOOD SECURITY
AND AGRICULTURE
330 27 44,000
+ PER CENT +
OFFICIALS TRAINED ON AGRICULTURE OF BENEFICIARIES OF FARMERS TRAINED ON
AND NATURAL RESOURCE-RELATED FFA CONDITIONAL CASH CLIMATE-RESILIENT
SDG INDICATORS ASSISTANCE WERE WOMEN AGRICULTURE
Food assistance was a lifeline for communities facing a multitude of risks aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic. UN relief
5
©FAO Pakistan assistance targeted families affected by this crisis and other shocks, such as extreme snowfall in Pakistan Administered Kashmir
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and Balochistan, and floods in Sindh. Monthly food rations sustained families who remain displaced from the Newly Merged
OUTCOME 5 is coordinated by FAO,
Districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. As transgender people are especially vulnerable, the UN’s multi-hazard response registered 30
bringing together the efforts of WFP and
transgender people in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for cash assistance. Throughout 2020, we paired lifesaving food aid with recovery
UNIDO
support. The Food Assistance for Assets (FFA) initiative helped disaster-stricken communities rehabilitate their lives and livelihoods.
KEY
They included families in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa returning to their homes after prolonged displacement, complementing the
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Government’s stabilization efforts, and food-insecure communities in drought-affected areas of Sindh and Balochistan. Women
SDGs
represented 27% of FFA conditional cash assistance participants in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa – far more than in the past.
The UN partnered with the Government and key stakeholders to cement food security by building sustainable food systems,
HAJI MOHAMMAD ISMAIL’S STORY: promoting climate-smart agriculture, improving value chains and strengthening safety nets to ensure that vulnerable people have
PRODUCING IN A PANDEMIC access to sufficient nutritious food. With UN assistance, a Food Security and Nutrition Information System was operationalized,
including a Food Price Dashboard to track anomalies in supply chains and prices. To support the Government’s COVID-19
response, the UN published weekly price bulletins on major food items. UN knowledge products offered evidence to inform
“This is the first time in about 15 years that Lahore-based traders are
policy-making and action on the ground – from the Pakistan Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2020 to the Pakistan Food
purchasing our dates from Balochistan,” explains Haji Mohammad Ismail.
Forecast 2020–21 for Kharif crops and an Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Acute Food Insecurity Analysis of Khyber
Like other date farmers in Balochistan’s district of Washuk, he had struggled
Pakhtunkhwa’s Newly Merged Districts. Rapid needs assessments shed light on urgent concerns like COVID-19’s impact on food
to access national markets. While Balochistan is the largest producer of
security and needs in 17 flood-affected districts, 21 locust-affected districts and 16 districts deluged by heavy rain and snowfall.
dates in Pakistan, accounting for 51% of total annual production, challenges
prevent farmers from selling their produce – from small-scale output to high
To safeguard food security in a changing climate, UN initiatives built the capacities of 44,000 smallholder farmers (18% of whom
transaction costs and challenges in meeting quality and quantity requirements.
are women) on climate-resilient agriculture techniques and smart water techniques practices, while providing them with quality
UN support is helping to turn the tide. Capacity development and market agricultural inputs. By rehabilitating irrigation channels, we helped to restore 26,134 hectares of land to its productive best,
linkages for date growers like Mohammad Ismail enhanced their agribusiness benefiting 2,400 households. Capacity development honed the skills of 1,398 farmers (27% are women) on value addition,
skills and post-harvesting operations. It introduced them to new ways of marketing and business development. UN support enhanced the tomato, potato and poultry value chains in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
doing business, enhancing their profitability several times over. and Balochistan, while improving land governance and tenure security in Sindh through 985 informal tenancy agreements
between sharecroppers (haris) and landlords. Initiatives in 2020 strengthened the capacities of government officials to advance
“Thanks to support from FAO, we are able to sell our dates in major
food security, such as 110 officials trained on agriculture and natural resource-related SDG indicators and 221 trained on
markets at a time when our livelihoods have been severely disrupted
genetic resource use in pre-breeding, varietal development and seed systems. The UN aided policy development, including a
due to the COVID-19 pandemic,” Mohammad Ismail says. “We are able
National Policy for Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s draft Livestock Action Plan and Food Security
to reach buyers by phone and have signed new contracts even during
Policy. Four seminal provincial Agriculture and Natural Resources Programmes/Plans were designed. To support the transition
this difficult time. This new way of doing business will help us to increase
towards eAgriculture, the UN went beyond supporting the development of an eAgriculture Policy and Strategy to promote
©FAO Pakistan date production and processing and to expand our businesses.”
practical solutions for their implementation. The AgriSurge Innovation Challenge invited startups and entrepreneurs to leverage
new technologies to develop innovative, cost-effective solutions to agricultural challenges.

OUTCOME 6
RESILIENCE
140 0.6 4.3

+ MILLION KM2 MILLION
DISTRICT OFFICIALS TRAINED OF LAND SURVEYED AND ANIMALS VACCINATED
ON DISASTER RISK 11,300 KM² TREATED TO CURB AGAINST FOOT AND
REDUCTION LOCUST ATTACKS MOUTH DISEASE
COVID-19 has shown us the urgent need to build more resilient societies. In 2020, the UN strengthened resilience across
Pakistan by pairing immediate relief with a focus on reducing risks, enhancing preparedness and improving the response to
disasters – from COVID-19 to climate change-induced disasters. We prioritized institutional strengthening at three levels. At
the national level, the UN supported the National Disaster Management Authority to develop evidence-based policies and
recommendations aligned with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. Work began on integrated water resources
6
©UNDP Pakistan/Shahzad Ahmad management (IWRM) guidelines for Pakistan. The UN’s World Water Development Report 2020 was launched, as was the
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OUTCOME 6 is coordinated by IOM, bringing Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources’ Groundwater Investigations and Mapping in the Lower Indus Plain. UN
together the efforts of UNDP, WFP, UNIDO, UN webinars tackled a range of subjects, from ‘open science’ to IWRM, the water-energy-food nexus and COVID-19’s relationship
Habitat, UNESCO, WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, with nature. At the provincial level, 147 participants in disaster risk reduction ‘hackathons’ brainstormed innovative ideas to
FAO, UNOPS, UN Environment and UN Women KEY
address climate change, disasters, locust attacks and the pandemic. The UN is now helping young people to pilot these ideas.
Karez cultural landscape mapping began in three districts of Balochistan. Support for Disaster Management Authorities also
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involved monsoon contingency planning, and disinfecting government buildings and public sites to guard against COVID-19.
SDGs
At the district level, the UN reviewed Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Plans with local administrations and helped to develop
DRM plans for five of Pakistan’s most disaster-prone districts: Chitral and Dera Ismail Khan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Tharparkar
JAMAN’S STORY: and Dadu in Sindh, and Jhang in Punjab. These frameworks will help to integrate disaster risk reduction in sectoral planning.
PREPARING FOR DISASTERS District Emergency Operation Centres set up in all five districts will boost monitoring and emergency response. Officials in
Sindh’s districts of Ghotki, Kashmore, Dadu, and Tharparkar have stronger capacities to address disasters thanks to UN-
backed training on DRR, climate change adaptation and early recovery needs assessments. They put their learning into practice
“We were used to dealing with disasters on our own, which was not very
when floods inundated Sindh. The UN was on the frontline supporting the Government’s flood response, including by distributing
helpful,” recalls Jaman Bheel. He was one of the first teachers trained by a
emergency cash assistance to 72,000 flood-affected people in September and another 78,234 by December. When earthquakes
UN-supported initiative on disaster risk reduction (DRR). Implemented with
struck Azad Jammu and Kashmir, the UN helped remove debris, build shelters and repair pavements in Bhimber and Mirpur.
the provincial Education Department, the project strengthened preparedness
To tackle livestock diseases, UN initiatives vaccinated 4.3 million animals against foot and mouth disease (FMD) – benefiting
across schools and communities in Sindh.
410,500 households – 3.29 million ruminants against peste des petits ruminants – benefiting 150,615 families – and 4,500
“The new techniques and information I received were very useful. It animals against contagious caprine pleuropneumonia and enterotoxemia. All 443 outbreaks of FMD were successfully controlled.
was particularly interesting to learn that sometimes a timely action is
enough to prevent a bigger loss,” Jaman says. Before the pandemic, he As rainfall patterns change, swarms of desert locusts are threatening crops and pastures across Pakistan, putting agriculture
trained his students on first aid management. “We have all become more and food security at risk. In January 2020, the Prime Minister declared a ‘national desert locust emergency’. To support
aware of our surroundings following this exercise,” Jaman explains. For the Government’s response, the UN paired urgent operational and early warning support – such as forecasts, technical
instance, community members came together to fix electrical wires hanging advice and capacity building – with IT support, equipment and assistance for monitoring, coordination, inter-regional and
loose in the local school. His newfound knowledge turned out to be a blessing global collaboration, including through the International Desert Locust Appeal. We mobilized resources for pesticide sprayers,
at home as well. “After attending the training, I trained my wife how vehicles and surveillance equipment from core funds and donors’ generous contributions in aid of Pakistan’s huge surveillance
to perform first aid,” he says. “A few months ago, our 4-year-old son, and control operation – which surveyed over 600,000 km² and treated 11,300 km². By May–June, 1,000 surveillance teams
Sooraj, fell into the water pond while my wife was washing clothes. The were equipped with the UN’s ‘eLocust3 suite’ of digital tools for data collection and real-time transmission. These improved
water is 12-feet deep so without wasting a minute, she jumped in the early warning by rapidly detecting locust outbreaks and likely sites of infestation, yielding a more strategic, effective approach
water and pulled him out, while also administering first aid to help him to surveillance and control. Weekly virtual meetings of the South West Asia Commission’s Technical Operational Committee
© UNICEF Pakistan/Asad Zaidi
breathe easily.” facilitated dialogue between Pakistan, India, Iran and Afghanistan on locust infestations, control operations and forecasting.

OUTCOME 7
EDUCATION
AND LEARNING
1.06 1.27 0.215

CHILDREN BENEFITED FROM SMC MEMBERS, TEACHERS AND OUT-OF-SCHOOL CHILDREN
HYGIENE MEASURES TO EDUCATORS SENSITIZED ON SUPPORTED TO ACCESS
PREVENT COVID-19 IN SCHOOLS KEEPING SCHOOLS SAFE EDUCATION
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the education of 42 million learners in Pakistan. It threatens to reverse years of progress by
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©UNDP Pakistan/Shahzad Ahmad raising the risk of learning losses, education inequality and dropouts, especially for girls. The UN helped education stakeholders
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OUTCOME 7 is coordinated by adapt rapidly, while continuing sectoral reforms. Pakistan developed a National Education Response and Resilience Plan with
UNICEF, bringing together the efforts of UN assistance, as well as a simulation and costing model, and a Continuity of Learning Framework covering remote ‘blended’
UNESCO, UNHCR, UNFPA, UNV, learning. With UN support for GPE-funded sector planning, provincial Education Sector Plan Implementation Grants valued at
WFP and the ILO KEY
US$94 million were developed, and Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa endorsed pioneering Education Sector Plans (ESPs).
In a major move, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa included refugee education in its ESPs for 2020–21and 2024–25. The UN developed
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age appropriate, gender-sensitive National Guidelines on Life Skills-Based Education (LSBE) and LSBE content on child protection
SDGs
was incorporated in the curriculum for Grades 1–5 under the Prime Minister’s Single National Curriculum initiative. After a
participatory webinar, the National Vocational and Technical Training Commission resolved to adopt a hybrid approach for
technical and vocational education and training, combining digital and face-to-face solutions to mitigate COVID-19’s impact.
NAJEEBA’S STORY:
MY HOME, MY SCHOOL UN support for remote learning modalities like the Government’s Teleschool initiative contributed to the immediate continuity
of learning, mitigating the effects of school closures. As so many children do not have access to the Internet, the UN backed
alternative solutions, such as radio-based distance learning in 18 marginalized districts. Guidance adapted from the COVID-19
“It feels like being at school. I really enjoy the video lessons, which
Education Response Toolkit aided Education Departments, while teachers benefited from capacity building and ‘consolidated
Najeeba Baji helps us understand whenever we find it difficult,” says
curriculum academic plans’ devised by government authorities with UN assistance. To make schools safe once they reopened,
8-year-old Mariam. Her 19-year-old cousin, Najeeba, is one of the many
the UN supported the development of SOPs and trained 2,705 School Management Committees (SMCs) and 28,285 teachers
women and men who volunteered to participate in My Home, My School.
on reopening, mental health and psychosocial support. Hygiene promotion and supplies prevented the spread of COVID-19,
Supported by the UN Balochistan’s Secondary Education Department, the
benefiting 1.06 million children in 13,177 schools and Alternative Learning Programmes (ALPs). Equipping schools with personal
initiative helps children continue learning during the pandemic by providing
protective equipment and rehabilitating WASH facilities proved vital. For example, UN-supplied health and hygiene kits kept
guidance on how to teach children at home, and how to protect themselves
16,236 students safe (44% of whom are girls) in refugee villages in Balochistan.
from COVID-19, including through What’sApp groups.
Najeeba turned a spare room into a classroom to teach children mathematics, UN efforts placed marginalized children centre stage. For instance, 215,161 out-of-school children (54% of whom are girls)
science and English. Some of her students are enrolled in public schools, accessed education in early 2020 through ALPs, non-formal and formal schools with UN support. UN initiatives enrolled over
others in non-formal UN-supported Accelerated Learning Programmes. 20,000 out-of-school children in marginalized districts. Unconditional cash transfers for 4,697 adolescent girls encouraged
“Since the lockdown started one month ago, children have learned retention in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Newly Merged Districts. In Peshawar, IT and English courses helped madrassa and public
more about germs and viruses than anything else,” Najeeba says. school students to keep learning. With UN support, 57,200 Afghan refugee children (35% of whom are girls) accessed free
education, a transportation allowance helped girls get to school and the Provincial Institute for Teachers’ Education honed the
“They now willingly wash their hands with soap, and I make sure that
skills of 469 refugee teachers. School feeding programmes, designed by national and provincial governments with the UN, are
they do it every hour or when required. I have set up a handwashing
poised to boost education and nutrition. Innovative communications activities reached out to communities, parents, students and
point especially for children and explained to them that they have to
education stakeholders. The UN sensitized 1.7 million SMC members, teachers and educators on COVID-19 prevention through
©UNICEF Pakistan/Waheed maintain a certain distance from each other at all times.”
SMS messages, robocalls and social media. We used What’sApp groups to communicate with teachers and virtual outreach to
engage young people, including 1,897 girls in Balochistan on menstrual hygiene management.

OUTCOME 8
GENDER, EQUALITY
AND DIGNITY
600 10.15 100,000

+ MILLION +
LAW ENFORCEMENT AND PEOPLE SENSITIZED ON RURAL WOMEN
JUSTICE OFFICIALS TRAINED PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT SENSITIZED ON
TO ADDRESS GBV AND GBV COVID-19 PREVENTION
Women and girls are disproportionately affected in times of crisis – the COVID-19 pandemic is no exception. It has laid bare, and
8
©WFP Pakistan/Saiyna Bashir often intensified, gender inequality by increasing women’s vulnerability to income loss, unpaid care work, threats to mental health
AGENCIES
OUTCOME 8 is coordinated by UN Women, and soaring rates of gender-based violence (GBV), so high that GBV has been dubbed a ‘shadow pandemic’. The UN remained
bringing together the efforts of UNICEF, a staunch advocate for gender equality and gender-responsive solutions. While phase II of the Essential Services Package (ESP)
UNAIDS, UNODC, UNESCO, UNFPA, programme ended in December 2019, UN agencies continued to rollout activities in 2020 using the ESP as a guiding framework
WHO, FAO, ILO, UNOPS and UNDP KEY for responding to violence against women and girls (VAWG), and initiated the programme’s third phase. Training materials
were developed and over 600 law enforcement and judicial officials trained on addressing GBV and upholding pro-women
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laws. We strengthened the capacities of criminal justice institutions, legal staff, law enforcement, decision makers, opinion
SDGs
leaders and service delivery sectors to plan, legislate, implement and respond to women’s and girls’ needs, while addressing
COVID-19’s gendered dimensions. We reached out to people directly by supporting helplines, shelters and Women-Friendly
Health Centres, training social workers to deliver mental health and psychosocial support services, and spearheading awareness
NAYYAB’S STORY: raising campaigns. For example, an awareness campaign on psychosocial support and GBV reached 10.15 million people.
EMBRACING INCLUSION We leveraged existing government initiatives for maximum impact, including at the provincial level in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and
Punjab, such as the Punjab Police’s Women Safety Application, as well as at the federal level, such as the Ministry of Human
Rights’s Cyber Harassment Helpline. Some 4,200 people (60% of whom are women) and 250 women with disabilities accessed
Nayyab Ali is one of Pakistan’s most prominent transgender activists and
tele-psychosocial support and GBV referral services. Another UN campaign sensitized 100,000 rural women on how to mitigate
educators. As a UNDP master trainer, she is at the forefront of capacity
COVID-19 risks. Capacity building and COVID-19 sensitization strengthened women-led value chains in Balochistan, Punjab,
development to challenge transphobic stigma and discrimination.
Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Newly Merged Districts, advancing rural women’s economic empowerment. In Sindh, 14 radio
As the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affected transgender people shows and six online sessions on mental health and GBV reached 240,682 youths and 348,179 community members.
across Pakistan, trainers like Nayyab have been key to the UN response,
including training of trainers (TOT) sessions for duty bearers, rights holders We worked to address the root causes of gender inequality, especially social norms and practices that pose structural barriers
and civil society. These trainings foster an enabling environment for rights- to women’s empowerment. The UN supported legal and policy reforms to establish functional accountability mechanisms, both
based approaches to meet the needs of socially excluded groups. national and sub-national, to keep women and girls safe and enable them to claim their rights. All four provincial governments
finalized and endorsed Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Policies, replete with implementation frameworks, and
To combat COVID-19’s impact on the transgender of community in 2020,
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab included gender-responsive planning and budgeting in their annual plans. With UN support,
the UN also supported the Ministry of Human Rights to distribute Eid Relief
government partners monitored and reported on Pakistan’s international commitments. UN research shed light on urgent issues,
Packages for 120 COVID-affected transgender persons. Beneficiaries
such as the Gap Analysis of Legislation Related to Ending Violence against Women Reports, based on which the UN helped draft
were identified through a trans community-led socio-economic rapid needs
amendments to select legislation to make them more pro-women through consultative, legal expert-led processes. A Women’s
assessment in Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Transgender focal points in the twin
Safety Audit in Public Places offered evidence-based recommendations to overcome challenges to women’s safety and mobility,
cities — who are also members of the National Implementation Committee
while a study on Child Marriage in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab contributed to UN advocacy on ending child marriage with
of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act 2018 — guided
women parliamentarians, parliamentary caucuses and Alliances for Ending Violence against Women and Girls. Based on a rapid
the assessment to identify vulnerable community members. UN agencies also
assessment of COVID-19’s impact, the UN distributed relief packages to transgender persons, as well as to women and other
©Jamil Akhtar/UNDP Pakistan assisted the establishment of a Transgender Protection Centre in Islamabad.
vulnerable groups in remote areas, shelters and prisons to ensure that the COVID-19 response leaves no one behind.

OUTCOME 9
GOVERNANCE
1,600 2.5 4.5

+ MILLION MILLION
OFFICERS TRAINED TO CHILDREN’S BIRTHS PEOPLE REACHED BY A
COUNTER TRAFFICKING AND HAVE BEEN REGISTERED COVID-19 YOUTH
ILLICIT FINANCING WITH UN SUPPORT AWARENESS CAMPAIGN
In times of crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic, good governance matters more than ever. Throughout 2020, the UN worked with
Pakistan’s Federal and Provincial Governments to make governance more accountable, transparent, inclusive and responsive.
For example, UN support strengthened the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s capacities for planning, communications and
implementing reforms. We assisted the integration of the Financial Management Information System, the development of a Local
Government Budgetary Framework, the creation of a Technical Assistance Unit and a technologically-assisted land resettlement
9
©UNOPS Pakistan/Rabail Habib exercise. With UN support, the province developed its economic recovery plan, Azm-e-Nau. A Village and Neighbourhood
AGENCIES
OUTCOME 9 is coordinated by UNDP, Council profiling exercise yielded a critical evidence-base for development programming in the Newly Merged Districts. Awareness
bringing together the efforts of UNFPA, UNODC, raising increased demand for local governance in the region by bridging the information deficit on governance mechanisms and
UN Habitat, UNHCR, UN Women, UNICEF, reforms – reaching 46,452 people (29% of whom are women) face-to-face and many more with civil society events, talk shows,
WHO, IOM and UNESCO KEY
television and social media. At the national level, UN efforts enhanced the capacity of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)
by helping to formulate the Federal Election Academy’s mandate, training 330 ECP staff and finalizing implementation plans for
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the ECP’s third strategic plan. We also assisted the creation of an Online Appeals Management System at the Pakistan Information
SDGs
Commission. Eight anti-corruption policies were drafted, as were guidelines for the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Leadership is increasingly taking ownership of the SDGs’ implementation, as the Government notified a Sub-Committee of
AMANAT’S STORY: the National Economic Council on the SDGs and a Sub-Committee to explore innovative SDG financing. Improvements in
LOCAL GOVERNMENT AMBASSADORS public financial management systems included a tracking system in the Financial Accounting and Budgeting System to track
development and current expenditures vis-à-vis the SDGs. The UN helped strengthen the rule of law by training members of the
judiciary, prosecutors, police and civil society on key issues – from forensic science to police-prosecutor collaboration, eJustice,
“Stay at home.” 33-year-old Amanat Ali Afridi spoke the words through
gender-responsive law enforcement and gender-based violence. More than 600 duty bearers were trained on freedom of
a loudspeaker the remote village of Jamrud, Khyber, in the Newly Merged
expression and the safety of journalists and human rights defenders. UN-backed Advice and Legal Aid Centres built the capacities
Districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The villagers fumed; many questioned the
of 881 lawyers, prosecutors and law enforcement staff on refugee protection, while providing legal aid to 25,900 refugees.
ongoing COVID-19 awareness campaign. Amanat projected a phone call
Training honed 1,600 officials capacities to counter organized crime, including illicit financing, narcotics and human trafficking.
from a COVID-19 patient in a neighbouring village through the loudspeaker.
It was a turning point. The patient’s ordeal opened people’s eyes to the real
Youth engagement bolstered responsive governance, enabling youth champions to advocate for inclusive policies and 35,256
threat of the virus.
young people (49% women and 0.01% transgender) to participate in federal and provincial planning processes. The UN’s
Amanat is one of 120 Local Government Ambassadors who have gone Adolescent and Youth Engagement Initiative partnered with young people to contribute to the Government’s COVID-19 response
from social mobilizers to frontline workers with UN support. Equipped with through the Youth Innovation Challenge, mentoring 209 young leaders and a digital campaign that reached 4.5 million people.
training, sanitation manuals, safety kits, posters and leaflets, they are helping A youth-led policy dialogue forum was set up and Generation Unlimited was launched in Pakistan. Community stabilization
the region’s new Tehsil Municipal Administrators to conduct COVID-19 programmes in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab and Sindh offered meaningful livelihood opportunities, training, psychosocial
awareness campaigns through loudspeakers mounted on vans. Amanat also support and sensitization to prevent youth from falling prey to violence. UN efforts strengthened the Child Protection Case
supervised disinfection in residential areas and quarantine centres, burial Management and Referral System to respond to violence against children, enabling 2,297 children in Balochistan (48% girls) and
measures, and other aspects of the community response. The Chief Secretary 1,441 in Sindh (27% girls) to access protection services. Backed by UN training, 6,705 social workers delivered mental health
of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa awarded him a well-deserved certificate for saving and psychosocial support services (MHPSS) to 114,857 people (52% women and girls). Since UN agencies began supporting
lives as an agent of change. “This validation of being loved and accepted birth registration in Pakistan, 2.5 million children have been registered and 784,432 (45% girls) were registered under the Civil
for your efforts by the community compensates for all our struggles and Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) reform agenda. With UN support, new data emerged to inform policies and programming,
©UNDP Pakistan
sleepless nights,” says Amanat with a smile. including the first Maternal Mortality Survey, the Pakistan Population Situation Analysis, the National Human Development Report
on inequality, a Monograph on Family Planning and the SDGs and child labour surveys piloted in all four provinces.

OUTCOME 10
SOCIAL
PROTECTION
88,600 74,000 50
+ + +
VULNERABLE HOUSEHOLDS REFUGEE HOUSEHOLDS FOCAL POINTS FROM
BENEFITED FROM SHOCK- BENEFITED FROM SOCIAL PROTECTION
RESPONSIVE CASH ASSISTANCE UN CASH TRANSFERS INSTITUTIONS TRAINED
Throughout 2020, the UN supported the Government to mitigate COVID-19’s impact on the poorest, most marginalized groups
10
©ILO Pakistan in Pakistan, while paving the way for large-scale social protection reforms. Using existing safety nets helped us respond to the
AGENCIES
OUTCOME 10 is coordinated by the crisis in a swift, cost-effective manner. For example, the UN’s shock-responsive social protection initiative with the Benazir Income
ILO, bringing together the efforts of Support Programme (BISP) leveraged the BISP’s existing system to distribute cash assistance – worth PKR 131 million in total – to
UNICEF, UNAIDS, WFP, UNHCR, 88,664 vulnerable households. This multi-donor-funded initiative addressed food deficits in the districts of Sindh (Tharparkar
IOM and WHO KEY and Umerkot) and Balochistan (Jhal Magsi, Kharan and Nushki) hardest hit by drought-like conditions and the repercussions
of the pandemic. It provided beneficiaries with a humanitarian top-up of PKR 4,000 each – a lifeline for families in dire straits.
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Reaching out to 74,442 vulnerable Afghan refugee families with unconditional cash transfers cushioned the blow of COVID-19
SDGs
on one of the groups most affected by the pandemic’s socio-economic fallout, as they rely heavily on informal work. This UN
intervention with the Pakistan Post and the Ministry of States and Frontier Regions (SAFRON) mirrors the Government of Pakistan’s
Ehsaas emergency cash programme, that provides vulnerable Pakistani families with PKR 12,000 each (approximately US$77)
RESHAM’S STORY: to cover a four-month period. Integrated livelihood and social protection support for refugees, including productive assets for
RELIEF AFTER THE RAINS 2,500 refugee households through the Poverty Graduation Programme in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, improved food
security, coping strategies, psychosocial well-being and self-esteem, while enabling refugees to build sustainable livelihoods.
“I cannot forget the night when our home collapsed due to continuous
With UN support, a web-based data portal on social protection coverage (SDG 1.3.1) was set up, paired with training for focal
rains and all our food was destroyed by knee-deep floodwaters,”
persons from 54 social protection institutions. The process of digitizing national registries and adopting data analytics to support
shudders Resham. “I covered my children with the plastic sheet and
social protection mechanisms began in earnest, as work on a digital transformation roadmap and the Ehsaas programme’s
spent that night under the open sky while it was still raining.” Before
introduction of a One-Window Portal for integrated social protection services. Tripartite constituents now have stronger capacities
the devastating monsoon rains inundated Sindh in August 2020, the widow
on social protection and workers’ rights, thanks to UN-backed capacity development. eLearning courses on social security
worked as a domestic helper. Then the floods came. Their house was washed
systems trained 33 participants from the public sector and social partners, while online workshops on employment injury systems
away, leaving Resham and her children with no place to go.
honed the capacities of medical officers and staff of Employees’ Social Security Institutions. To aid the continued provision of
To assist vulnerable families like hers, the UN provided emergency food lifetime pensions for survivors of the Baldia Town factory fire of 2012, the UN worked with the Sindh Employees’ Social Security
aid in early September, followed by cash assistance. In their moment of Institution to improve its management system for the disbursement of top-up benefits. UN initiatives identified 36 injured workers,
need, this support was all that stood between Resham’s family and hunger, while supporting 22 workers to secure a one-time compensation payment and nine to secure a life-time ‘disablement’ pension.
homelessness and despair. When Resham received her first cash transfer, she
immediately hired someone to repair her house so that she and her children UN research, coordination and policy development support advanced the social protection agenda. A Social Protection Policy
have a roof over their heads. With the second transfer she will receive by was drafted for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and work began on a framework to extend social security coverage to vulnerable groups,
the end of January 2021, she plans to buy fruits and vegetables to make including domestic workers, construction workers, miners and brick kiln workers. With UN assistance, a tripartite Coordination
nutritious meals for her children. Forum for Social Security Agencies was set up. UN studies explored the possibilities for a National Registry of Workers and
Enterprises and an Unemployment Insurance Scheme. A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Ehsaas Programme devised a monitoring
“I am hopeful,” says Resham. “Once I am back on my feet, I will resume
and evaluation framework to gauge the impact of Ehsaas interventions. UN agencies also worked with the Pakistan Bureau of
©WFP Pakistan my work and so that I can continue supporting my children.”
Statistics to include questions on social security in Pakistan’s latest Labour Force Survey, launched in July 2020.

SUPPORT FOR PARTNERSHIPS AND WHERE WE WORK
FINANCING THE 2030 AGENDA
UN FUNDING GAP BY SDG: HOW MUCH WE HAVE VS. HOW MUCH WE NEED
Innovative partnerships forged by the UN in Pakistan helped to advance the SDGs and leverage financing to achieve the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. For instance, to support the Government’s COVID-19 response, the UN mobilized
US$4.63 million from the allocated budget and additional assistance to address the pandemic’s impact on food security,
nutrition and livelihoods. Following recommendations by the UN’s COVID-19 Pakistan Socio-Economic Response Framework, the
Government allocated a substantial sum for emergency unconditional cash transfers (PKR 144 billion), primarily to support daily
wage labourers and informal economy workers. The UN’s long-term approach of building strong relationships with government LESSONS LEARNED FROM A CHALLENGING YEAR
authorities helped lay the foundation for systematic, shock-responsive social protection platforms to protect vulnerable groups
from recurring disasters. Based on learning from its work with the UN, the Benazir Income Support Programme elected to club
cash disbursements together so that beneficiaries could access support ‘in one go’, thereby making protection services more The pandemic compelled us to rethink our approach, while remaining true to the central pledge of the OP III and the SDGs:
time-efficient and cost-effective. With UN support, the Government developed a successful US$71 million proposal for the to leave no one behind, and to reach those farthest behind first. Adjusting to remote work was challenging, both for the
Global Fund on HIV/AIDS. Following UN advocacy, routine immunization was moved from the development budget to the UN in Pakistan and our partners. The growing pains of shifting from office work to teleworking eased slowly over the course
recurrent budget, which enhanced the sustainability of immunization financing. of the year, as we redistributed tasks and became used to new routines and modes of communication. Technical assistance
and handholding was required to overcome gaps in technological infrastructure among government entities and implementing
The WASH sector offers another telling example of UN partnerships advancing the 2030 Agenda. As a result of our partnership partners. Most challenging of all were the delays in project implementation, particularly during the complete lockdown period
with Pakistan’s Federal and Provincial Governments – including advice and technical support for capacity assessments, public (March–June). Disruptions in global and national supply chains delayed the delivery of supplies, while restrictions on movement
expenditure reviews and capacity building – government WASH sector spending almost doubled to US$346 million. Despite the affected emergency outreach in the field. Limited internet access among many groups was a major hurdle. It took time for
pressure that COVID-19 placed on the economy, the Federal Government allocated an unprecedented US$77 million to water, information to trickle down to the district level and for implementing partners and contractors to remobilize in compliance with
sanitation and hygiene, with US$52 million to be allocated by the provinces, leading to a total allocation of US$128 million for new COVID-19 procedures. The pandemic has significantly reduced fiscal space to finance development expenditures, both
the national WASH programme. The UN supported successful pilots of two flagship government WASH programmes – Clean within the Government of Pakistan and among multilateral donors. As resources were redirected to the COVID-19 response,
and Green Pakistan and the Clean Green Champions Programme – to create climate-resilient, gender-responsive green jobs for there was a paucity of funds for long-term programmes in many sectors, such as nutrition. Other challenges also persisted in
Pakistan’s youth. These programmes leveraged political will and public sector financing for WASH, prompting the Prime Minister 2020, such as rapid government staff turnover, an unpredictable security situation in some areas and difficulties in obtaining the
to approve their nationwide ‘scale up’ with an estimated US$800 million in federal funding over the next three years. No Objection Certificates (NOCs) required for implementing partners to access certain districts.
Despite the challenges, 2020 was enlightening. The pandemic made clear how necessary it is to be flexible, plan for contingencies
and adapt to the situation on the ground. Key lessons learned include the importance of prioritizing community engagement,
UN COHERENCE, EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCY: especially through participatory social mobilization and engaging young people to increase the impact of interventions. Investments
THE RESULTS OF WORKING BETTER TOGETHER in capacity building are essential for strengthening institutions, supporting communities and enhancing resilience. Grappling with
the challenge of reaching remote areas with limited connectivity compelled us to turn to innovative solutions, including the power
of the radio and mass media for disseminating information. Where internet access exists, digital solutions emerged as the best
The UN in Pakistan has been ‘Delivering as One’ since 2007. As part of UN reforms to enhance efficiency, the Delivering as way forward for everything from communications and coordination to cash transfers. The value of communicating has never been
One approach streamlines UN interventions, increases national ownership, improves joint programming among UN agencies clearer – both with authorities and donors to keep them abreast of developments and regularly discuss bottlenecks, as well as
at the country level, reduces transaction costs, and fosters accountability and coherence. In 2020, UN agencies in Pakistan with staff and other partners to maintain cohesion. The year underscored the importance of partnerships with the Government,
worked together ‘as one’, demonstrating significant flexibility as we adapted to the rapidly changing environment. This helped us international organizations, donors, civil society, the media, the private sector, communities and key actors on the ground. These
respond effectively to Pakistan’s emerging needs for technical support during the COVID-19 pandemic. Initiatives that illustrate partnerships allowed the UN to identify exactly where support was most needed, and what technical assistance we are best placed
the results of multiple UN agencies working better together include the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Merged Districts Support Programme, to provide. The effectiveness of using existing government service delivery systems was also made clear in 2020. For instance, the
which sought to build stability, reduce poverty, improve access to services, strengthen the social contract, foster resilience and efficacy of providing cash assistance through the Benazir Income Support Programme’s existing system, or delivering emergency
advance the sustainability of returns to the Newly Merged Districts. Another example is the multiagency Adolescent and Youth support for refugees through the Pakistan Post which, as an essential service provider, is exempt from movement restrictions.
Engagement Initiative, whose activities ranged from a large-scale COVID-19 youth awareness raising campaign to a Youth
Innovation Challenge. These initiatives leveraged the unique technical expertise of each UN agency – combining their know-how, Above all, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown us precisely why we need the SDGs, in Pakistan and around the world. The
resources and partnerships to deliver high-impact results for the people of Pakistan. principles on which the SDGs are based are key to building back better – for people, planet, peace and prosperity.

FINANCIAL
In 2020, the third year of the One UN Programme III’s implementation in Pakistan, the UN’s required budget
was US$647.94 million. Of this, US$571.98 million was obtained, yielding a funding gap of US$75.96
million. Total expenditure was US$461.1 million, reflecting a strong delivery rate of 80.62% across the
OP III’s 10 outcome areas. In addition to these funds, a total of US$145.8 million was requested through
OVERVIEW
the Global Humanitarian Response Plan for COVID-19, of which US$89.3 million (61.2%) was received,
with a funding gap of US$56.5 million (38.8%). Of the total humanitarian funds received, OCHA-managed
funds include US$11.9 million from the Central Emergency Relief Fund (CERF) and US$9.7 million from the
Pakistan Humanitarian Pooled Fund (PHPF).
OP III FINANCIAL OVERVIEW BY OUTCOME

OUTCOME 1 ECONOMIC GROWTH OUTCOME 6 RESILIENCE
US$
647.94 571.98 461.10 80.62% US$ US$

million million million
8.
8.46
46 7.
7.62
62 7. 06 92.59% 31.23 19.87 16.67 83.89%
million million million million million million
BUDGET AVAILABLE EXPENDITURE DELIVERY BUDGET AVAILABLE EXPENDITURE DELIVERY BUDGET AVAILABLE EXPENDITURE DELIVERY
OUTCOME 2 DECENT WORK OUTCOME 7 EDUCATION AND LEARNING
Required Available Expenditure % Delivery

One UN Programme III Outcome
resources (US$) resources (US$) [a] (US$) [e] [100*a/e]
US$ US$
1: Economic Growth 8,464,928.00 7,620,858.00 7,056,230.00 92.59%
40.12 38.73 30.14 77.82% 51.54 26.49 22.51 84.95%
2: Decent Work 40,117,908.11 38,732,110.48 30,140,466.48 77.82% million million million million million million
3: Health and WASH 316,167,018.15 304,889,098.00 237,188,158.00 77.79%
4: Nutrition 42,511,838.60 44,002,540.38 30,577,788.34 69.49%

BUDGET AVAILABLE EXPENDITURE DELIVERY BUDGET AVAILABLE EXPENDITURE DELIVERY
5: Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture 56,527,924.61 58,118,870.08 41,662,938.53 71.69%
6: Resilience 31,231,301.68 19,868,925.43 16,669,024.34 83.89%
7: Education and Learning 51,538,374.11 26,494,911.94 22,506,467.29 84.95% OUTCOME 3 HEALTH AND WASH OUTCOME 8 GENDER, EQUALITY AND DIGNITY
8: Gender, Equality and Dignity 4,484,000.00 6,059,557.00 5,473,556.00 90.33%
9: Governance 65,381,369.25 43,719,169.53 48,630,613.00 111.23% US$ US$
10: Social Protection 31,514,310.10 22,472,870.71 21,196,661.72 94.32% 316.17 304.89 237.19 77.79% 4. 84 6.06 5.47 90.33%
Total 647,938,972.60 571,978,911.55 461,101,903.70 80.62% million million million million million million
BUDGET AVAILABLE EXPENDITURE DELIVERY BUDGET AVAILABLE EXPENDITURE DELIVERY
UN agency in Pakistan Required resources (US$) Available resources (US$) Expenditure (US$)
FAO 21,909,107.31 29,720,209.31 21,909,107.31 OUTCOME 4 NUTRITION OUTCOME 9 GOVERNANCE
ILO 5,341,731.00 5,341,731.00 2,668,854.00
IOM 5,158,817.00 1,600,000.00 1,032,000.00

US$ US$
UN Habitat 103,917.00 4,664.58 4,664.58
42.51 44.00 30.58 69. 49% 65.38 43.72 48.63 111.23%
UNAIDS 150,164.00 150,164.00 95,861.00 million million million million million million
UNDP 37,328,294.00 37,328,294.00 37,328,294.00
UNESCO 5,515,826.46 6,167,376.25 1,940,887.00 BUDGET AVAILABLE EXPENDITURE DELIVERY BUDGET AVAILABLE EXPENDITURE DELIVERY
UNFPA 5,750,000.00 11,569,343.00 10,906,376.00
UNHCR 86,599,424.68 42,429,936.53 47,924,098.00

OUTCOME 5 FOOD SECURITY AND SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE OUTCOME 10 SOCIAL PROTECTION
UNICEF 135,927,229.00 135,927,229.00 135,838,677.00
UNIDO 7,864,928.00 7,164,928.00 6,796,133.00
UNODC 12,676,792.00 5,433,220.00 3,939,627.00 US$ US$
UNOPS 29,687,335.00 27,570,545.00 23,086,408.00 56.53 58.12 41.66 71.69% 31.51 22.47 21.19 94. 32%
million million million million million million
UN Women 1,632,550.00 1,632,550.00 1,270,872.00
WFP 104,051,614.15 71,697,477.88 46,457,056.81
188,241,243.00 188,241,243.00 119,902,988.00 BUDGET AVAILABLE EXPENDITURE DELIVERY BUDGET AVAILABLE EXPENDITURE DELIVERY
WHO

UNCT FOCUS
FOOD SECURITY AND SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
Key priorities include supporting the Government’s safety net implementation in Balochistan and
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for severely food-insecure households, in coordination with the Ehsaas
FOR 2021
programme. The UN will assist the implementation of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Food Security Strategy,
while helping provincial Food Departments to improve food storage and transportation, in order to
reduce food losses. Emergency food assistance will continue in response to disasters, whenever this
is requested by the Government. Other priorities include value chain development, policy support,
backing the use of technology in climate-smart agriculture, and resilience-building.
The COVID-19 pandemic has made the implementation of the SDGs both more challenging and more urgent.
For the UN in Pakistan, 2021 will be about supporting an inclusive recovery from the pandemic that accelerates RESILIENCE
action to achieve the SDGs for all of Pakistan’s people.
Key priorities include strengthening disaster risk governance and the understanding of risks in order to
improve disaster risk management. To advance resilience building, the UN will advocate for greater
investments in disaster risk reduction and disaster preparedness to enhance response, rehabilitation
OVERALL FOCUS FOR THE COMING YEAR
and reconstruction. We will work to improve understandings of the multifaceted economic, social
and environmental impact of hazards, while scaling up community-based DRR/DRM programmes.
The UN will continue implementing the One UN Programme III, strengthening capacities to deliver
Capacity building will remain a priority to bolster public officials’ capacities on DRR, early warning
quality services, building synergies and offering more and better technical assistance for evidence-
systems and climate change adaptation.
based policy-making and implementation. We will advocate for greater accountability and equality.
Above all, we will work toward the socio-economic recovery of those most affected by the COVID-19
EDUCATION AND LEARNING
pandemic, while fortifying health and disaster preparedness systems. Proactively seeking resource
mobilization opportunities and supporting digitization are other key priorities.
Key priorities include implementing programmes funded by the Global Partnership for Education in
Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab. UN support will continue for the design and delivery
ECONOMIC GROWTH
of distance learning programmes, alongside digitization and teacher training. We will pair assistance
for safe school operations nationwide with a focus on community engagement to promote enrolment,
Key priorities include promoting green and circular economic recovery nationwide, supporting
boost retention and reduce dropouts, especially among girls and other vulnerable groups, such
the socio-economic diagnostics of economic and structural transformation plans, and facilitating
as refugees. Research is planned on COVID-19’s impact on education to monitor the continuity
public-private partnerships for industrial development. UN initiatives will seek to build manufacturing
of learning and inform decision-making. UN initiatives will strive to strengthen government school
resilience with partnerships on fourth industrial revolution initiatives, re-skilling and digital investments.
feeding and cash-based education programmes. Other priorities include expanding our focus on
To improve TVET, we will support business plans that tap into indigenous resources. Other priorities
skills development, particularly through Generation Unlimited, as well as by engaging youth.
include enhancing municipal finance to promote growth and reduce poverty, as well as assisting the
development of cultural heritage site management plans to boost sustainable tourism.
GENDER, EQUALITY AND DIGNITY
DECENT WORK
Key priorities centre on freedom from violence and the equal rights of women, girls and people of
diverse gender identities. The third phase of the Essential Services Package joint programme will work
Key priorities include expanding the coverage and implementation of labour legislation, especially
to ensure that survivors of violence receive timely, responsive and quality services. The UN will promote
to highly vulnerable groups of workers in the informal economy. The UN will strive to enhance
decent work and the economic empowerment of women and transgender persons, especially those
stakeholders’ capacities for research and analysis, build the institutional capacities of tripartite
from rural or low-income backgrounds. We will strengthen Gender Desks and the capacities of rule
constituents and partners, and provide technical assistance. Above all, our priority is to address
of law institutions, particularly in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and its Newly Merged Districts. Adolescent-
decent work deficits for all, including Pakistani migrant workers, domestic workers, home-based
responsive services will be implemented with a focus on girls, including counselling on the risks of
workers, miners, cotton pickers and brick kiln workers, among many others.
early/child marriage. Other priorities include monitoring gender gaps in immunization programming.
HEALTH AND WASH
GOVERNANCE
Key priorities include continued support for COVID-related WASH and IPC services in health facilities
Key priorities include extending rule of law programming in Balochistan, expanding efforts in Gilgit-
and schools, especially to support the Clean and Green Pakistan movement. Ensuring the continuity
Baltistan and supporting local governance mechanisms in the Newly Merged Districts of Khyber
of essential health services will remain centre stage – essential immunization, polio eradication,
Pakhtunkhwa. The UN will assist the implementation of Rule of Law Roadmaps, especially on gender
reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health services, and the treatment of communicable and
equality and women’s empowerment. Collaboration with the Ministry of Human Rights will seek
non-communicable diseases – while scaling up newborn, immunization and polio services. The UN
to promote harmonized human rights initiatives. UN efforts will strengthen media and information
will continue strengthening capacities for COVID-19 testing, surveillance, laboratory diagnostics,
literacy, as well as legal literacy to improve access to justice, especially for women. We will work
IPC, risk communication and community engagement. We aim to boost coordination for the
to enhance the operational capacity of law enforcement, while promoting community ownership to
availability of supplies and knowledge sharing. Other priorities include advocating for investments
advance community-oriented policing, rights protection and gender-responsive governance. Legal
in family planning and sexual and reproductive health, as well as integrating family planning in the
aid and outreach will target refugees. Support will continue for civil registration and vital statistics
Universal Health Care package.
systems, as well as the inclusion of the population dimension in strategies, planning and monitoring.
NUTRITION
SOCIAL PROTECTION
Key priorities include leveraging the Global Action Plan for Wasting to reinforce synergies in wasting
Key priorities include supporting the Government to improve coordination among social protection
management and addressing malnutrition. The UN will work to improve programme coverage,
institutions, as well as to expand access to social protection mechanisms for all – including informal
integration and quality, while ensuring a continuum of care in the provision of nutrition services.
workers, refugees, internally displaced persons and non-nationals. Advocacy will continue on aligning
Joint advocacy will be undertaken to mobilize resources for better nutrition, as well as to maintain
the social protection system with global standards, as well as meeting the needs of vulnerable groups,
and expand interventions by sustaining and increasing allocations for nutrition-specific and nutrition-
such as returned Pakistani migrant workers. The UN will also support moves to develop an integrated
sensitive interventions. Other priorities include greater coherence and synergies in terms of policy
approach to sustainable financing, to advance progress on the SDGs through social protection.
and strategic engagement with the Government of Pakistan.

ACRONYMS
COVID-19 Coronavirus disease 2019
DRR/DRM Disaster risk reduction/disaster risk management
FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
GBV Gender-based violence
ILO International Labour Organization
IOM International Organization for Migration
IPC Infection prevention and control
HIV/AIDS Human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
OCHA United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
OP III One United Nations Programme III 2018–2022 (also known as the UNSDF)
PKR Pakistani Rupee
RCCE Risk communication and community engagement
SDGs Sustainable Development Goals
UN United Nations
UNCT United Nations Country Team
UNDP United Nations Development Programme
UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNFPA United Nations Population Fund
UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
UNICEF United Nations Children’s Fund
UNIDO United Nations Industrial Development Organization
UNODC United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
UNOPS United Nations Office for Project Services
UNSDF United Nations Sustainable Development Framework for Pakistan 2018–2022 (also known as the OP III)
©WFP Pakistan/Saiyna Bashir
UN Habitat United Nations Human Settlement Programme
UN Women United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
US$ United States Dollar
WASH Water, sanitation and hygiene
WFP World Food Programme
WHO World Health Organization

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2020 UN COUNTRY
ANNUAL RESULTS
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MESSAGE FROM THE UN RESIDENT COORDINATOR 3

UN COUNTRY TEAM IN PAKISTAN 4

KEY DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS 4

KEY DEVELOPMENT TRENDS 5

ONE UN PROGRAMME III 7

OUTCOME 1 ECONOMIC GROWTH 8

OUTCOME 2 DECENT WORK 9

OUTCOME 3 HEALTH AND WASH 10

OUTCOME 5 FOOD SECURITY AND AGRICULTURE 13

OUTCOME 7 EDUCATION AND LEARNING 15

OUTCOME 8 GENDER, EQUALITY AND DIGNITY 16

OUTCOME 10 SOCIAL PROTECTION 18

SUPPORT TO PARTNERSHIPS AND FINANCING THE 2030 AGENDA 19

UN COHERENCE, EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCY 19

Cover photo: © UNDP Pakistan/Shahzad Ahmad UNCT FOCUS FOR 2021 21

MESSAGE FROM THE

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THE UN FAMILY IN PAKISTAN*

The key development partners of the UN system in 20 DONORS REGISTERED ON THE

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POPULATION 13,935 -1.5% 1.2 TRILLION

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“The summer heat in Karachi, coupled with the fasting month of

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OUTCOME 2 is coordinated by the ILO, organizations.

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HEALTH AND WASH

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0.43 57,700 3,200

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140 0.6 4.3

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1.06 1.27 0.215

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600 10.15 100,000

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1,600 2.5 4.5

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OP III FINANCIAL OVERVIEW BY OUTCOME

647.94 571.98 461.10 80.62% US$ US$

OUTCOME 2 DECENT WORK OUTCOME 7 EDUCATION AND LEARNING

Required Available Expenditure % Delivery

3: Health and WASH 316,167,018.15 304,889,098.00 237,188,158.00 77.79%

4: Nutrition 42,511,838.60 44,002,540.38 30,577,788.34 69.49%

6: Resilience 31,231,301.68 19,868,925.43 16,669,024.34 83.89%

8: Gender, Equality and Dignity 4,484,000.00 6,059,557.00 5,473,556.00 90.33%

9: Governance 65,381,369.25 43,719,169.53 48,630,613.00 111.23% US$ US$

BUDGET AVAILABLE EXPENDITURE DELIVERY BUDGET AVAILABLE EXPENDITURE DELIVERY

FAO 21,909,107.31 29,720,209.31 21,909,107.31 OUTCOME 4 NUTRITION OUTCOME 9 GOVERNANCE