Kausar is the elder of two daughters born in the small village of Hasomat Serian in Mansehra district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, Pakistan. In this highly conservative region, many girls are denied the opportunity to receive an education, let alone to embark upon a career. Kausar did both. Today, she is the only woman from her village with an education, and is now working as its first police officer, a constable.
The year 2016 marked the 50th anniversary of UNDP’s close partnership with the world’s governments and peoples to realize our shared dream of a world without poverty, inequality and injustice.
UNDP and CPNE have held workshops in Karachi and Lahore to intensively build media skills on reporting on climate change and climate finance in Pakistan.
In Pakistan, UNDP has celebrated significant progress in sustainable human development during the past year, with many initiatives focusing on those who risk being left behind in development
This year, the International Youth Day is committed to ‘celebrating young people’s contributions to conflict prevention and transformation as well as inclusion, social justice, and sustainable peace’.
Manthaar Ali’s family are ethnic Sindhis who have lived in the violent Korangi neighbourhood of Karachi for generations.
UNDP aims to ensure that displaced people returning home could rebuild their lives and livelihoods in an enabling environment, characterized by rehabilitated infrastructure, access to services, good governance and re-established law and order.

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22.2%

of parliamentary seats held by women

29.5%

of people live below the poverty line

6%

unemployment ratio

5.28%

GDP growth

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