• Environment
  • Hazardous Waste Management
  • Sustainable Industrial Development
  • Trade and Environment
  • Environmental Conservation
  • Forestry
  • Water
• Globalization and Rural Livelihoods
• Governance
• Human Development: Social Sector
  • Labour
  • Gender and Globalization
  • Women/Gender Issues
  • Migration
  • Education
  • Health
  • Peace and Security
  • Disaster Management
  • History

• Information and Communications

Environment

a. Hazardous Waste Management (read more)

• Studies on Dioxin Emission from Incinerators and the resulting Health Impacts in collaboration with the International Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Elimination Network (IPEN).

b. Sustainable Industrial Development

• National Environmental Quality Standards (NEQS).

c. Trade and Environment (read more)

• Regional Trade Integration, Violent Conflict, and Peace Building funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
• Foreign Investment Contracts and Sustainable Development funded by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
• GHG Assessment
• Biofuels (Ethanol) Prospects in Pakistan
• SDC Monitoring, Evaluating, Reporting and Verifying (MERV)
• Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation Study in South Asia

d. Environmental Conservation

• National Sustainable Development Strategy for Pakistan in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment, GoP and UNEP.
• Inland Fisheries and Resource Rights.
• Environmental Cooperation Initiative in collaboration with the UNEP ROAP

e. Forestry (read more)

• Investigating a Market Based Solution to Timber Logging in Pakistan funded by SANDEE. (completed)
• Looking at Public-Private Partnerships in Forestry in collaboration with SUNGI (completed)

f. Water (read more)

• Imagine South Asia: A Common Vision for Water Management in South Asia
• NADI Filtered Safe Drinking Water for Remote Areas of Thatta District, Sindh, Pakistan

Globalization and Rural Livelihoods (read more)

• Farmer's Rights to Access and Benefit-sharing from Plant Genetic Resources carried out in collaboration with the South Asia Watch on Trade Economics and Environment (SAWTEE) network.
• Impact of Enhanced Participation (through Decentralization) on Natural Resource Management under the National Center for Competence in Research Project: North-South Partnership for Mitigating Syndromes of Global Change.
• Trade Linkages with Development and Poverty Reduction is a collaboration with UK Department for International Development (DFID) and RNE through Consumer Unity and Trust Society (CUTS) India.
• Regoverning Markets: Integration of Small Producers and Farmers in collaboration with UK Department for International Development (DFID), additional support from the Swiss Development Cooperation Agency (SDC) and The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DGIS).
• Various Agreements of WTO and their Possible Impacts for South Asia
• WTO Doha Round & South Asia: Linking Civil Society with Trade Negotiations named as South Asia Forum for international Trade (SAFIT-II) in collaboration with CUTS Centre for International Trade, Economics & Environment (CITEE).

Human Development: Social Sector

a. Labour (read more)

• Impact Assessment of ILO’s Time Bound Program on the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labor in Pakistan

b. Gender and Globalization (read more)

• Gendered Employment in the Post-quota Era Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC) - A Gendered view from Pakistan.
• From Vulnerability to Resilience with National Centre of Competence in Research North-South (NCCR) Transversal Package (TP) 2.
• Clean Pick: Advocacy for Decent Working and Living Conditions of Cotton Pickers and their Communities.
• Situational Analysis of Cotton Farming in Pakistan in collaboration with IKEA Services AB and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi, India.

c. Women/Gender Issues (read more)

• Women’s Land rights in Pakistan in collaboration with ActionAid, Pakistan and IDRC.
• State, Religion and Social Change for Women in the North West Frontier Province.
• Women's Access and Control over Micro Credit in RSP Areas.
• Country Gender Assessment Study.

d. Migration

• Consultations on the Future of Afghan refugees in Pakistan in collaboration with UNHCR. (completed)

e. Education (read more)

f. Health (read more)

g. Peace and Security (read more)

• Engaging with East Pakistan/Bangladesh: Building a Field of Scholarship and Dialogue. (completed)

h. Disaster Management

• Assessing Action Aid’s Earthquake Relief and Rehabilitation Effort solicited by ActionAid Pakistan. (completed)
• The Role of the Military in Humanitarian Assistance: Bridging the Gap solicited by Action Aid Pakistan. (completed)
• Post-earthquake Displacement Issues solicited by Action Aid Pakistan. (completed)
• Environmental Degradation, Social Marginalization and the Institutional Dynamics of Vulnerability in the October 8, 2005 Pakistan Earthquake funded by IDRC.
• Socio-economic Impact Assessment Study of Siran Program Group (SPG) Interventions in Siran Valley in collaboration with Mercy Corp. (completed)
• Cash versus Food Debate and the WV Position funded by ODI.
• Mapping of Institutional Care for Children funded by Save the Children, UK.

i. History

• Rewriting Oral Histories

Information and Communications

• Study Group on Information and Telecommunication

Please contact Sarah Siddiq (sarah@sdpi.org), Research Coordinator and SDC Associate, for more details on SDPI's research program.