All Research Projects
  1. Between Reforms and Reprisals - Permutations of Patriarchy in Pakistan

    (July 2022 - )

  2. Rubbish, Resources and Residues: Waste and Well-being in Ethiopia and Pakistan

    (November 2020 - July 2021)

  3. Family and Community in the Time of Covid-19 (FACT Pakistan)

    (May 2020 - )

  4. Living Income for Rural Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

    (May 2020 - October 2021)

  5. Maternal Health Fact-Finding

    (March 2020 - November 2020)

  6. Gender and Vulnerability Framework

    (December 2018 - January 2019)

  7. Mainstreaming Inclusive Resilience in South Asia

    (November 2018 - December 2019)

  8. Maintaining Essential Services after Natural Disasters (MAINTAINS)

    (October 2018 - March 2019)

  9. Linking Right to Information with SDGs

    (July 2018 - July 2019)

  10. Tackling Private Corruption in Pakistan's Pharmaceutical Sector

    (July 2018 - August 2020)

  11. Women's Mobility, Agency and Labour-Force Participation in the Mega-city of Karachi

    (June 2018 - March 2019)

  12. Updating Living Wage Benchmarks

    (April 2018 - January 2019)

  13. Social Processes and Individual Behaviour: A Qualitative Study of Public Service Delivery in Informally Settled Areas of Karachi

    (June 2017 - November 2018)

  14. Action for Empowerment and Accountability

    (April 2017 - December 2021)

  15. Political Risk Assessment of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP)

    (November 2016 - June 2017)

  16. UNDP Youth Employment Project (YEP)

    (July 2016 - February 2017)

  17. AKU Vaccine Study - Economic Costs of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease

    (June 2016 - January 2017)

  18. Framework Towards an Inclusive City: Karachi

    (March 2016 - September 2016)

  19. Women of the World (WOW) Festival Karachi

    (January 2016 - May 2016)

  20. Sindh Social Protection Policy

    (November 2015 - May 2016)

  21. Estimating a Living Wage

    (September 2015 - March 2017)

  22. Economizing Stability: Political economy of informal sector activity in Karachi

    (September 2014 - May 2016)

  23. Best practices in girls' enrolment in Pakistan: a TCF case study

    (August 2014 - August 2015)

  24. The Role of Central Banks in Supporting Economic Growth and Development: The Case of Pakistan

    (March 2014 - March 2015)

  25. Being an Adolescent in Karachi

    (October 2013 - October 2016)

  26. Community-Based Reproductive Health Rapid Assessment in Rural Sindh

    (September 2013 - March 2014)

  27. BISP Beneficiary Feedback Survey

    (September 2013 - December 2013)

  28. Impact Evaluation of DFID's Elections Programmes in Pakistan

    (September 2013 - September 2014)

  29. Understanding Conflict in Swat

    (August 2013 - June 2014)

  30. IDS Bulletin, Volume 44, Issue 3

    (May 2013)

  31. Maximising the impact of cash transfers on undernutrition in Pakistan

    (January 2013 - August 2013)

  32. Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility

    (September 2012 - April 2016)

  33. Financial Inclusion and Literacy

    (May 2012 - September 2012)

  34. Impact Assessment of DFID's Improved Citizens Engagement through Devolution (ICED) project

    (February 2012 - May 2012)

  35. Impact Assessment of WFP's School Feeding Programme

    (February 2012 - May 2012)

  36. Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA)

    (February 2012 - June 2019)

  37. Political Settlements in Conflict Zones Study

    (January 2012 - August 2012)

  38. Kinship Groups and Marginality

    (December 2011 - December 2019)

  39. Mapping and Assessment of Child Protection in Pakistan

    (November 2011 - March 2013)

  40. Power Mapping Indus for All Programme-WWF

    (October 2011 - April 2012)

  41. BISP Process Evaluation of Roll Out

    (August 2011 - September 2013)

  42. Globalisation and Labour

    (December 2010 - January 2011)

  43. Land Rights and Indus Floods 2010

    (October 2010 - March 2011)

  44. Employment Program in the Flood Affected Areas

    (October 2010 - May 2011)

  45. Update of National Social Protection Policy

    (February 2010 - August 2010)

  46. Political Activism in Pakistan

    (January 2010 - June 2013)

  47. Land Rights and Poverty - Power Analysis

    (November 2009 - June 2010)

  48. Design and feasibility of proposed Employment Guarantee Scheme in Pakistan

    (September 2009 - December 2010)

  49. Benazir Income Support Program Graduation Strategy

    (August 2009 - January 2010)

  50. Poverty and Social Protection Specialist Inputs for Test Phase Process Evaluation of Benazir Income Support Programme

    (July 2009 - February 2010)

  51. Food Security in Pakistan

    (July 2009 - December 2010)

  52. Sindh Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH) Study

    (November 2008 - March 2009)

  53. Policies on Economic Inequality

    (November 2008 - April 2009)

  54. Residential Land Security as Social Protection

    (June 2008 - December 2010)

  55. Economic Analysis of Unsafe Abortion Related Morbidity and Mortality

    (January 2008 - April 2011)

  56. Politics of Land Reform in Pakistan

    (January 2008 - September 2008)

  57. State Fragility and State-Building in Pakistan

    (December 2007 - September 2011)

  58. Elections Data Analysis

    (November 2007 - April 2008)

  59. Drivers of Change Update

    (November 2007 - March 2008)

  60. Migration Information System in Asia (MISA) Project

    (September 2007 - December 2008)

  61. Pathways to Women's Empowerment

    (July 2007 - August 2010)

  62. Conflict in Sindh

    (June 2007 - June 2007)

  63. Background Paper on Social Structures and Migration for the Balochistan Economic Report

    (December 2006 - February 2007)

  64. Country Background Report: Trade Unions in Pakistan

    (October 2006 - November 2006)

  65. Domestic Commerce Study

    (October 2006 - May 2007)

  66. Social Marginalisation and Education in Pakistan

    (August 2006 - January 2007)

  67. Understanding State-Business Relations Through the Prism of India-Pakistan Trade: Structural Continuities in a Changing World

    (November 2005 - April 2008)

  68. Citizenship and Social Protection: Towards a 'Transformative' Agenda for Pakistan

    (May 2005 - March 2006)

  69. Poverty Specialist Inputs to Balochistan Rural Development and Drought Mitigation Project

    (March 2005 - August 2005)

  70. Irregular Migration and Non-Traditional Security Threats

    (January 2005 - August 2006)

  71. Determinants and Drivers of Poverty Reduction in Rural Pakistan

    (December 2004 - September 2006)

  72. Afghans in Pakistan - Case Studies and Policy Thinking

    (December 2004 - December 2005)

  73. Determinants and Trends of Internal Migration

    (September 2004 - January 2005)

  74. Poverty Specialist Inputs to the Balochistan Resource Management Program

    (May 2004 - December 2004)

  75. International Migrants and the City

    (April 2004 - December 2004)

  76. Evaluation of ADB’s Middle School Project

    (March 2004 - July 2004)

  77. Swedish Development from the Developing Country Perspective

    (March 2004 - January 2005)

  78. Poverty and Access to Land in South Asia

    (January 2004 - May 2004)

  79. Labour and Governance in the Road Sector

    (January 2004 - December 2004)

  80. Survey of Bonded Labour

    (November 2003 - March 2004)

  81. Social Protection in Pakistan

    (October 2003 - February 2004)

  82. Labour Markets and Poverty in Pakistan

    (October 2003 - February 2004)

  83. Drivers of Pro-Poor Change in Pakistan

    (July 2003 - January 2004)

  84. Migration, Development and Pro-Poor Policy Choices in Asia

    (March 2003 - June 2003)

  85. Rapid Assessments of Bonded Labour

    (November 2002 - March 2003)