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Executive Summary
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Introduction (1 page) |
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- Background and objective of the National Sustainable
Development Strategy (NSDS), report and guidelines
- Structure of the document
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Sustainable Development for Pakistan
(2 pages) |
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- The concept of Sustainable Development
- The notion of sustainable development in the national
context
- A vision for Pakistan’s sustainable development
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Challenges for Sustainable Development
in Pakistan (10 pages) |
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- Combating poverty and vulnerability, promoting equitable
development and sustainable livelihoods
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Situational analysis |
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Driving Force |
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Unemployment Rate
People under poverty line |
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State Indicators |
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Population below national poverty line, total, percentage
32.6%
Poverty gap ratio 2.4
Poorest quintile's share in national income or consumption,
per cent – 9.3(refers to expenditure shares by percentiles
of population)
Youth unemployment rate, aged 15-24, both sexes 13.4
Gini coefficient of expenditure inequality increased from
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Vision |
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Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
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Strategies/principles |
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Strategy encompassing protection and conservation of
environmental resources along with consideration for those
who depend on these resources for livelihood
Strategy focusing mainly on increasing the production
of goods without addressing the sustainability of resources
on which production is based will sooner or later run
into declining productivity.
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- Gender-equitable development
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Situational analysis |
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- Women to men parity index, as ratio of literacy rates,
15-24 years old 0.72
- Share of women in wage employment in the non-agricultural
sector 8.6
- Seats held by women in national parliament, percentage
21.3 (73 seats)
- Youth unemployment rate, aged 15-24, women 20.6
- Youth unemployment rate, aged 15-24, both sexes 13.4
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Vision |
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Main streaming Gender And Development
initiatives. |
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Strategies/principles |
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Control over resources and access
to knowledge systems
An enabling legal environment and regulation
Measures for Economic Empowerment
Employment Quotas and Micro-credit
Access to Institutions and Increased Mobility
Registration Boards |
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- Protecting and promoting human health
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Situational analysis |
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State Indicators |
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- Children under 5 severely underweight, percentage 2.6%
Population undernourished, percentage 23
- Population undernourished, number of people 35200000
- Proportion of the population using improved drinking
water sources, total 91
- Infant mortality rate (0-1 year) per 1,000 live birth
85
- Maternal mortality rate per 100,000 live births 500
- Births attended by skilled health personnel, percentage
23
- Proportion of the population using improved sanitation
facilities, total 59
- AIDS deaths 3000
Tuberculosis prevalence rate per 100,000 population 329
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Vision |
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- Availability of good affordable health care and an effective
regulatory regime for the provision of quality health
care.
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Strategies/principles |
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- Reducing health risks from environmental pollution
- Meeting primary health care needs especially rural
poor
- Control of communicable diseases
- Protestant the vulnerable
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Responce Indicators |
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- Contraceptive prevalence Presently ( presently 19.9%)
- Immunization against infectious childhood diseases
- Proportions of potentially hazardous chemicals monitored
in food
- Total national health expenditure related to GNP
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- Education for sustainable development
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Situational analysis |
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State Indicators |
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Literacy rates of 15-24 years old, both sexes, percentage
65.5
Children reaching grade 5 of primary education 69.7
Net enrolment ratio in primary education, both sexes 66.2 |
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Vision |
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Developing a system of delivery of quality
education at all levels along with a system of quality technical
education |
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Strategies/principles |
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- Reorienting education towards sustainable development
- Increasing public education
- Promoting training
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Response Indicators |
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- Sustainable demographic dynamics
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Situational analysis |
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Driving Force |
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- Population growth rate 1.4%
- Net migration rate
- Total fertility rate
- Youth unemployment rate, aged 15-24, both sexes 13.4 |
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State Indicators |
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Population density |
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Vision |
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Strategies/principles |
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- Developing and disseminating knowledge concerning the
links between demographic trends and factors and sustainable
development
- formulating integrated national policies for environment
and development taking into account demographic trends
and factors
- Implementing integrated, environment and development
programs at the local lebel, taking into account demographic
trends and factors.
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