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Civil Servants Conferred Award Due To Work Excellence, Integrity

The Integrity Icon Pakistan on Tuesday conferred awards to Pakistani civil servants in recognition of their work excellence, integrity and honesty in respective categories. Amna Baig, ASP at Frontier Constabulary Lines in Islamabad; Daryan Khatoon, Principal of the Government Girls Lower Secondary school in Sukkur, Sindh; Mukhtar Paras, Director General of the Secretariat Training Institute in Islamabad; Tariq Javed, Deputy Commissioner in Qila Abdullah, Balochistan; and Azhar Ali, Chief Conservator of Forests in the Forest Department in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, were awarded in a ceremony held here, said a press release issued here. Integrity Icon is an annual event to benchmark [...]

2021-03-03T15:04:28+00:003rd March 2021|

SSUET inks MoU with Accountability Lab

The Sir Syed University of Engineering & Technology (SSUET) and Accountability Lab inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) earlier this week to execute capacity-building initiatives to engage faculty and students to develop their various skills including critical thinking, civic engagement, responsible leadership, empathy and conflict management. The SSUET will provide its infrastructure for carrying out workshops, seminars and other project activities and encourage its faculty and students to actively taking part in those activities. Under the MoU, small grants will be given to small-scale innovative social action plans. The Accountability Lab is working to strengthen academic and community networks to [...]

2021-03-31T13:14:07+00:0014th February 2021|

Women’s Health During COVID-19 in Pakistan

Dangers of not knowing enough about COVID-19’s impact on women in Pakistan According to UN Women’s data, as compared to their male counterparts, women in Pakistan and Bangladesh are less likely to receive information about COVID-19. This is attributed to a variety of reasons including limited access to the internet, limited cell phone ownership, and comparatively lower levels of education amongst women. According to the 2018 Global Digital Report, women in Pakistan are 37% less likely than men to own a mobile phone or have internet access. Limited access to necessary information about COVID-19 puts, not only women, but also [...]

2020-12-17T08:09:27+00:0017th December 2020|

Public Speaking Scares

“Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you got, and fix it along the way.” - Paul Arden, author of It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want to Be Many people find public speaking to be a daunting task so very few take a chance on it. We decided to explore public speaking failures through our fail faire event series in order to learn from the experiences of established public speakers. Specifically, we wanted to find out how their [...]

2020-12-18T09:34:31+00:0025th November 2020|

The Pakistan volunteers battling Covid-19

Fouad Bajwa’s expertise extends from being an Internet evangelist and social entrepreneur to artificial intelligence, governance and biomedical engineering. That last area of interest is something that’s been keeping him awake at night of late. Bajwa is part of a growing group of Pakistani volunteers under the banner of PAC-V - Pakistan Against Covid-19 Volunteers. The group comprises just over 500 engineers and doctors, development experts, funders, entrepreneurs, manufacturers and others who are dedicating their time, skills and resources to producing parts for ICU grade ventilators and other essential personal protective equipment (PPE) like face shields, goggles and hazmut suits. [...]

2020-07-07T19:41:47+00:0016th April 2020|

Creativity from the Bottom up: The SDG 16 Innovation Challenge in Pakistan

“Youth inclusion does not happen by saying it is important; it happens when you actually bring young people into the room to come up with collective solutions to problems,” says Muhammd Shoaib, a young social activist from Karachi. Shoaib is absolutely right, which is why we recently brought him to Islamabad as part of the Accountability Lab Pakistan and UNDP Pakistan SDG16 Innovation Challenge in collaboration with the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Planning, Development and Reforms. The primary goal of the innovation challenge was to encourage new thinking and creative ideas to solve challenges related to [...]

2020-02-04T00:00:00+00:004th February 2020|
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