Time for Local Governments on December 4, 2020Localisation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is how local and regional governments and other local governance actors can critically contribute towards the overall achievement of the SDGs. Local governments are ultimately judged on their ability to provide their citizens with quality basic services such as water, sanitation, health, education, waste management, and transport. Failure to […]
Lift the blanket lockdown on April 14, 2020Lockdown remains a debated issue in Pakistan. Imran Khan-led federal government disagrees with the provincial governments with the former arguing vulnerability of the below poverty population to the economic impacts of the lockdown. I choose to analyse whether lockdown is the best strategy to contain the pandemic, COVID-19, in Pakistan. I do this keeping aside […]
Registering children and securing the future on May 28, 2015According to UNICEF, around 230 million children under the age of five worldwide (approximately one in every three) have never been recorded. Large differences can be found in the coverage of birth registration among regions. Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CEE/CIS) has the highest level of birth registration, with 98 […]