Pakistan may see a modest improvement in its 2026 Global Gender Gap Index score. Projections based on updated data suggest that Pakistan’s score could increase from 𝟬.𝟱𝟲𝟳 𝘁𝗼 𝟬.𝟱𝟵𝟴 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - an estimated 5.5% improvement. The projected improvement is driven by progress across three key dimensions: 📈 Economic participation and opportunity 🏛️ Political empowerment 🎓 Educational attainment The gain may be nominal, but reflection in international benchmarks matters. Recognition of progress could help drive momentum, sharpen policy focus, and keep gender equality firmly on the development agenda. The @wef Global Gender Gap Report, 2026, is expected to be released this month and will show whether these projected gains are realised, and if they result in improved rankings. Read the 2025 WEF Global Gender Gap Report here 👇 weforum.org/publications/glo… 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘶𝘮’𝘴 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘎𝘢𝘱 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘹 𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘥𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺. 𝘈𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘥𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 2025 𝘎𝘎𝘎𝘐 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘶𝘱𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘱𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘣𝘺 𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴. #GenderGap #Pakistan #DataForPolicy #WomenEmpowerment #GenderEquality #Tabadlab

Pakistan depends on water for agriculture, food systems, energy supply, and livelihoods. But it can store only enough to last roughly 90 days. 💧 Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal Chaudhary (@betterpakistan ) has called for a shift from crisis management to a coordinated national water security framework. Climate change is accelerating pressure on an already depleted system. And India's recent suspension of its Indus Waters Treaty obligations adds a geopolitical layer to an already strained picture. In its 2024 conference, Water: Conflict and Cooperation, @tabadlab mapped the structural fault lines driving Pakistan's water insecurity: ➡️ A weak data and monitoring regime that limits integrated resource management ➡️ Inequitable access, with some regions facing chronic water stress ➡️ Governance fragmentation across federal, provincial, and community levels ➡️ Population growth placing mounting pressure on already depleted resources Watch the full panel discussion here: Water Conflict: Trends and Trajectories for 2024 and Beyond 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=FcTKnrrk… #WaterSecurity #ClimateChange #WaterGovernance #FoodSecurity #WaterConflict #Pakistan #Tabadlab #WaterResilience #WaterScarcity #ClimateResilience

Can tech help student retention? Can AI help improve education systems? And can these solutions overcome behavioral frictions? 📚🏫 Let’s explore this together at #Glocal Evaluation Week, a global knowledge-sharing event organised by the Global Evaluation Initiative to advance #MonitoringAndEvaluation practice worldwide. As part of #Glocal2026, Tabadlab is hosting the event “Keeping Students in School: Behavioral and Tech Solutions from Pakistan.” In this online session, the panel will discuss findings from the Middle School Transition Study, supported by Data and Research in Education (DARE), and explore how behavioural science, technology, and AI can support education systems and improve post-primary school enrolment in Pakistan. Speakers: Riffat Jabeen | Dr Umar Taj | Umar Nadeem | Khadija Hammad Moderator: Zainab Latif 📅 Tuesday, June 2, 2026 | 6:30 PKT Sign up here: glocalevalweek.org/event/kee… Global Evaluation Initiative | DARE - Research Consortium #Education #AI #BehaviouralScience #Pakistan #Evaluation #EdTech #DARERC

Eid Mubarak from the team at Tabadlab! 🌙

Women in Pakistan are 25% less likely than men to use mobile internet. But closing the usage gap is only the beginning of the story. 📱 Pakistan's digital transition is not one experience. For women especially, it is shaped by compounding barriers: affordability, family norms, safety concerns, and a digital ecosystem that was not designed with them in mind. The woman in Mardan who sees digital tools as an economic opportunity but cannot afford a smartphone. The female adopter in Islamabad who worries about fraud and harassment, not connectivity speeds. The recent adopter in KP, whose sense of what digital can do is defined by what those around her have already tried. 🌐 Access without safety, skills, and institutional support does not close the gender gap. It relocates it. Pakistan's digital transformation is a systems challenge. Connectivity matters. So do institutions, digital skills, trust, and the specific conditions that let women convert access into opportunity. Read more in Tabadlab's Digital Now 👇 tabadlab.com/digital-now-a-g… #DigitalInclusion #DigitalTransformation #5G #Pakistan #DigitalEconomy #GenderEquity

In 2025, a USD 27.2 million reduction in Global Fund allocations halved TB monitoring activities in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, reduced diagnostic support, and placed tens of thousands of patients at risk of delayed or missed treatment. TB cannot be managed on commodities alone. When funding recedes, it takes with it the monitoring, the diagnostics, and the clinical pathways that keep patients from falling through the cracks. Tabadlab's video series on ODA cuts documents how these disruptions are taking shape on the ground, drawing on voices from across Pakistan's health sector. What will it take to maintain these functions once external support is gone? #PublicHealth #PakistanHealth #ODA #HealthFinancing #GlobalHealth #AidCuts #Tuberculosis #HealthSystems #Policy #Tabadlab

For years, development partners have supported family planning commodities, last-mile logistics, and community-based counselling. As ODA contracts, access to reliable family planning services is becoming harder, particularly for low-income and rural women. These cuts not only affect commodities. They weaken the systems and community networks that connect women and families to information, care, and choice. Tabadlab's latest video series captures the human stories behind the ODA cuts shaping Pakistan's health system. Drawing on voices from across the sector, it documents the lived realities emerging as external support recedes. This is the first video in the series. #PublicHealth #PakistanHealth #ODA #HealthFinancing #GlobalHealth #AidCuts #FamilyPlanning #HealthSystems #Policy #Tabadlab

Half of Pakistan's federal budget goes into debt servicing. What remains is expected to fund the development needs of a country of 240 million. The SDG financing gap sits at $60 billion. This is not an abstraction. It means 26 million children are out of school. It means 38% of children are stunted. It means female labour force participation remains stuck at 25%. At the first session of the Debt-to-Development roundtable series, "From Pressures to Pathways", Mohamed Yahya put it plainly: every rupee spent on debt servicing is a rupee not spent on education, health, or climate adaptation instead. The full roundtable episode drops next week. In the meantime, hear @Momalindi on why this conversation matters. 📌 #DebtSustainability #Pakistan #SDGs #FiscalPolicy #DevelopmentFinance #PublicFinance #Tabadlab #UNRCO

How can parents play a stronger role in learning outcomes? ✏️📚 As part of @tabadlab's work on parental engagement, 𝗡𝗲𝗲𝗹𝗶 𝗞𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗯 was developed with education and behavioural science experts to support parents of public school students in Khairpur, Sindh. 🏫 Designed for low-income communities, the booklet uses simple language and practical prompts to help parents engage more actively in their child’s learning journey. 🧒 At a time when nearly half of Grade 5 students in Pakistan cannot read a Grade 2-level story (Source: ASER 2023), Neeli Kitab focuses on one of the most underutilised drivers of learning: support at home. #NeeliKitab #ParentalEngagement #EducationInPakistan #LearningOutcomes #PublicEducation #BehaviouralScience #Sindh #Khairpur #EducationReform #AajKyaSeekha #Tabadlab

Pakistan's health system is losing more than funding-it's losing the functions that keep it running. Tabadlab's latest report, Beyond dependence: Understanding the impact of ODA cuts on Pakistan's health system, breaks down exactly how the global aid withdrawal is inflicting real, measurable shocks to TB, HIV-AIDS, and immunisation programmes-and what Pakistan must do before more ground is lost. The numbers are stark. USAID's suspension alone disrupted care for 1.7 million people. With global #ODA projected to fall a further 5.8% in 2026, this is a structural shift-not a temporary setback. Tabadlab’s analysis goes further than the numbers. It maps every exposed function, identifies the highest-risk populations, and proposes a concrete roadmap for managing Pakistan's ODA transition. Read the full report 👇 tabadlab.com/beyond-dependen… #Pakistan #GlobalHealth #HealthPolicy #Tabadlab

Pakistan’s population growth isn’t simply a numbers issue — it’s a sustainability challenge. When population growth outpaces planning, the pressure is felt everywhere: overcrowded classrooms, stretched health facilities, and limited economic opportunity. This is not a challenge unique to Pakistan, but it is the one that demands urgent, evidence-based action. Research shows that every $1 invested in family planning can generate up to $23 in savings elsewhere — freeing up public resources for better schools, stronger healthcare, and a more resilient future. To learn more, read the Research and Development Solutions research article highlighting the economic cost of unintended pregnancies and making a strong fiscal case for prioritising family planning to support Pakistan’s economic stability 👇 lnkd.in/ddPgJbta #FamilyPlanning #PopulationPolicy #EconomicGrowth #PublicHealth #SustainableDevelopment

Happy New Year from the team at Tabadlab — here’s to many more years of growth, impact, and meaningful change ahead! 🎉 #HappyNewYear2026

A new @Tabadlab report reveals nearly 25% of girls’ primary schools in #Pakistan operate with just one teacher. With a shortfall of 115,000 teachers, overcrowding & poor facilities, the girls’ education crisis is deepening. #GirlsEducation #EducationCrisis #TeacherShortage #SDG4

195,550 teaching positions in Pakistan are currently vacant. It’s a number that speaks for itself — and one that shapes learning outcomes every single day. 🧑‍🏫 Tabadlab, in collaboration with @PIEPakistangov, has just launched '𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐔𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐚𝐧𝐢', a report on Pakistan’s teacher shortages. This report examines why teacher shortages persist, why some districts face acute gaps while others have surplus staff, and how these imbalances affect classrooms across the country. Our analysis unpacks where the system is struggling, what drives deployment challenges, and what it will take to ensure that every child has access to a qualified teacher — regardless of geography. 🧑‍🎓 📚 The Missing Ustaani combines data, district-level insights, and policy analysis to spark a long-overdue conversation on building a more equitable and resilient education workforce for Pakistan. Read the full report here 👇 tabadlab.com/the-missing-ust… @shahidsoroya | @nishatriaz | @MalalaFund #TheMissingUstaani #EducationInPakistan #TeacherShortage #PublicPolicy #Tabadlab #PIE

A missing Ustani (female teacher) means missing opportunity, lost promise, and wasted potential. Today’s discussion on recruitment, retention, reward and respect hit hard. Well done @tabadlab and @PIEPakistangov. @MalalaFund Pakistan is humbled to be part of this piece. Now policymakers must turn this evidence into real action. @EduMinistryPK @SchoolEduPunjab @GovernmentKP @MinisterEduGos