Women's land rights : policy brief

The research focuses on women’s rights regarding the inheritance framework of private agrarian land; it does not encompass private residential or commercial property. Women’s land ownership and control has important connections with empowerment. This policy brief presents key findings of the research, and situates women’s rights to land within legal, social, and policy contexts, and puts forth recommendations for future policy interventions that would help develop an equitable solution to the issue of unequal rights of women to own and control agricultural land. Findings indicate that women’s ownership has positive linkages with sustainable development, reduction of poverty, food security and environmental concerns

From field research to policy engagement : enhancing parliamentary involvement in climate action

Creating policy impact through research and policy interface is one of the key objectives of Pathways to Resilience in Semi-Arid Economies (PRISE). This story of change highlights how Sustainable Development Policy Initiative (SDPI) changed its approach to stakeholder engagement and communication, which led to the identification and promotion of key stakeholders as champions of policy-to-action for PRISE research in Pakistan. SDPI joined with elected officials at the Ministry of Climate Change to focus on key climate issues facing Pakistan. The political economy plays a huge role in determining the uptake and implementation of research messages in Pakistan

Europe Sustainable Development Report 2019 : towards a strategy for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in the European Union: Includes the SDG Index and Dashboards for the European Union and member states

Resumen: Este Informe de Desarrollo Sostenible en Europa identifica las prioridades políticas de la Unión Europea (UE) para alcanzar los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible e implementar El Acuerdo sobre el Clima de París. El informe compara la actuación de la UE y sus 28 estados miembros en relación a los 17 ODS y proporciona perfiles detallados de los países cruzando diversas fuentes de datos. La evaluación se basa en la metodología desarrollada desde 2016 por la Red de soluciones para el Desarrollo Sostenible (SDSN)y el Bertelsmann Stiftung

Energy transition pathways for the 2030 agenda : SDG 7 roadmap for Pakistan

Developed using the National Expert SDG7 Tool for Energy Planning (NEXSTEP)The key objective of this SDG 7 Road Map for Pakistan is to assist the Government of Pakistan to develop enabling policy measures to achieve the SDG 7 targets. This Road Map contains a matrix of technological options and enabling-policy measures for the Government of Pakistan to consider. It presents three core scenarios (BAU, CPS and SDG scenarios) and two ambitious scenarios that have been developed using national data, and which consider existing energy policies and strategies and reflect on other development plans. These scenarios are expected to enable the Government to make an informed decision to develop and implement a set of policies to achieve SDG 7 by 2030, together with the NDC

Repurposing NGO data for better research outcomes: A scoping review of the use and secondary analysis of NGO data in health policy and systems research

Background Non-government organisations (NGOs) collect and generate vast amounts of potentially rich data, most of which are not used for research purposes. Secondary analysis of NGO data (their use and analysis in a study for which they were not originally collected) presents an important but largely unrealised opportunity to provide new research insights in critical areas including the evaluation of health policy and programmes. Methods A scoping review of the published literature was performed to identify the extent to which secondary analysis of NGO data has been used in health policy and systems research (HPSR). A tiered analytic approach provided a comprehensive overview and descriptive analyses of the studies which: 1) used data produced or collected by or about NGOs; 2) performed secondary analysis of the NGO data (beyond use of an NGO report as a supporting reference); 3) used NGO-collected clinical data. Results Of the 156 studies which performed secondary analysis of NGO-produced or collected data, 64% (n=100) used NGO-produced reports (e.g. to critique NGO activities and as a contextual reference) and 8% (n=13) analysed NGO-collected clinical data.. Of the studies, 55% investigated service delivery research topics, with 48% undertaken in developing countries and 17% in both developing and developed. NGO-collected clinical data enabled HPSR within marginalised groups (e.g. migrants, people in conflict-affected areas), with some limitations such as inconsistencies and missing data. Conclusion We found evidence that NGO-collected and produced data are most commonly perceived as a source of supporting evidence for HPSR and not as primary source data. However, these data can facilitate research in under-researched marginalised groups and in contexts that are hard to reach by academics, such as conflict-affected areas. NGO–academic collaboration could help address issues of NGO data quality to facilitate their more widespread use in research. Their use could enable relevant and timely research in the areas of health policy, programme evaluation and advocacy to improve health and reduce health inequalities, especially in marginalised groups and developing countries

Summary : gender and land reforms in Pakistan

The persistence of the power structures governed through land has remained largely unchallenged. This three-page paper provides a succinct overview of land reforms in Pakistan, and includes women’s rights which have typically been absent from the discourse. The question of land rights is assumed to be related to an undifferentiated homogenous category of landless poor peasants, ignoring the power relations and hierarchies within the poor, which place women below men, single women below married women, low caste Hindus below Muslim and etc. The first land reforms under the Provincial Tenancy Act (1950) granted peasants very modest concessions

Women's land rights in Pakistan : consolidated research findings

Draft versionThis research focuses on women’s rights vis-à-vis the inheritance framework of private agrarian land. It explores women’s landlessness, both the process and the outcome, and the systemic barriers in place. It does not encompass private residential or commercial property, or other possible means of land acquisition by women (like purchase or gift). Given that agricultural land value increases or decreases depending upon arable or non-arable land, it contains analyses from different field sites across the four provinces of Pakistan while capturing different geographical zones. There has been negligible research to determine how many women own or control land in Pakistan