This fact based informative booklet is construed from a study based on primary data gathered from 10 districts of Punjab that includes Faisalabad,Bahawalpur, Rahim Yar Khan, Chakwal, Lahore, Vehari, Muzaffargarh, Multan, Kasur and Rajanpur.The study reached out to three core groups, i.e. Adults (including parents, SRHR experts, media personnel, religious scholars, policy makers, transgenderindividuals and people living with disabilities who were 29years or above); Healthcare Providers and Young People (between the ages of 15 – 29 years).
The study aimed to investigate the knowledge, attitude and behaviors of the communities regarding Reproductive Health Rights and Gender Based Violence.Punjab based booklit will give an idea on current situation and lead towards a more enabling environment in Pakistan at the levels of policy making and implementation; community acceptance, practice and implementation of SRHR through increased awareness among stakeholders from local government officials, media, religious groups, parents, school community, civil society organizations and parliamentarians.

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This fact based informative booklet is construed from a study based on primary data gathered from 10 districts of Sindh that includes Mirpur Khas, Thatta, Dadu,Hyderabad, Karachi East, Larkana, Sukkur, Umer Kot, Karachi Central and Sanghar. The study reached out to three core groups, i.e. Adults (including parents, SRHR experts, media personnel, religious scholars, policy makers, transgender individuals and people living with disabilities who were 29years or above); Healthcare Providers and Young People (between the ages of 15 – 29 years).
The study aimed to investigate the knowledge, attitude and behaviors of the communities regarding Reproductive Health Rights and Gender Based Violence. Sindh based booklit will give an idea on current situation and lead towards a more enabling environment in Pakistan at the levels of policymaking and implementation; community acceptance, practice and implementation of SRHR through increased awareness among stakeholders from local government officials, media, religious groups, parents, school community, civil society organizations and parliamentarians.

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Since 2013, Balochistan has made some progress in curtailing teacher absenteeism, identifying ghost schools and partially
addressing the inequality between the numbers of primary schools and the number of middle and high schools. Between
2011–2012 and 2016–17, the budget for education rose from Rs. 22.66 billion to Rs. 48.61 billion. However, significant
challenges remain.
While the recurrent budget for expenses such as teacher salaries and learning materials has risen each year, the development
budget for infrastructure, missing facilities and teaching materials has declined. The current education development budget
stands at Rs. 6.44 billion against a recurrent budget of Rs. 42.18 billion. Balochistan has also consistently allocated
significantly less to education than all other provinces. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) has the second-lowest education budget —
but at Rs. 123.07 billion for 2016–17, it dwarfs the Rs. 48.61 billion allocated in Balochistan.

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Overview
Since 2008, governments in KP have made efforts to improve school facilities and infrastructure, increase budgets and
invest in teachers. During the last five years, KP is the only province that has regularly allocated more than 20% of total
budgets to education. In 2011–2012 the total allocation for education stood at Rs. 63.17 billion. This increased to Rs.
123.07 billion in 2016–17. However, substantial challenges remain.
The province continues to struggle to make education more accessible for girls and to ensure students have the
opportunity to pursue education beyond the primary level. Budget increase has largely fed into recurrent and
salary-related costs rather than towards development and the construction of new schools.

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12 years of quality education
Pakistan’s Right to Education Act 2012 guarantees every child aged 5 to 16 the right to a free and compulsory
education. However, the act is not implemented — and girls are left without the education they need to build a better
future for their families, communities and country.
Pakistan’s education system is also critically under-resourced. The 2017 National Education Plan recognised the low
levels of investment in public education and set a target to allocate 4% of GDP and 25% of the national budget for
education. However, currently just 2.7% of GDP is allocated to education. There remains no specific strategy to
improve girls’ access to education.

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Since 2003, Punjab has made significant efforts to reform school infrastructure, teachers’ management and overall
education sector governance. Yet given the scale of the problem in the province, the need for a renewed focus and
increased resourcing is urgent. The provincial government is currently conducting an education policy review.
The 2011 Punjab Education Policy estimated that Rs. 3387 billion would be required in order to achieve 98% enrolment
rate of all children aged 5–16 years by 2024–25. While education budgets have increased since 2011, they fall far short
of the required levels currently standing at Rs. 296.19 billion for 2016–17.

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Though Sindh’s Education Sector Plan (ESP) commits to improving equity, access, quality, accountability and financing
in the province, there has been little progress for girls. While the total education budget in Sindh increased by 39%
between 2014–15 and 2017–18, there has not been a significant accompanying increase in school enrolment numbers.
Lack of secondary schools means dropout rates remain high.
Most of Sindh’s education budget is currently allocated to recurring expenses such as teachers’ salaries, which leaves
little room for capital investment in infrastructure. Financial inefficiency and governance issues mean funds are not
released on time and often remain unused at the district and school level. For the year 2015–2016, Rs. 134 billion of the
allocated Rs. 148 billion were spent.

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COVID-19 outbreak was first time experienced in the Wuhan City of China at the end of December 2019. Different steps have been taken worldwide for the control of COVID-19. Even with less resources Pakistan also taken rigorous measures like designed special hospitals, laboratories for testing, quarantine facilities, awareness campaign and lock down to control the spread of virus.
According to the Ministry of Health, Government of Pakistan, there are total 185,294 confirmed cases in Pakistan with 3,003 critical cases as of June 25th, 2020.
Since the outbreak of Corona Virus, Ujala network1 under the aegis of AwazCDS-Pakistan decided to contribute in difficult economic and health pandemic period by running different awareness raising campaigns to educate communities on COVID-19. To provide the financial assistance to deprived segment of the society, Ehsaas Emergency Cash program was launched by the Prime Minister on April 1, 2020 in the context of the economic hardship being experienced by the vulnerable due to the ongoing coronavirus crisis. The financial help under the program was meant to help poor buy rations so that they don’t go hungry during lock down period. The program covered 12 million families; PKRs 12,000 per family was given and worth of PKRs. 144 billion were successfully distributed.
Other emergency responses were also designed, financed and implemented by many people in their private capacity as well as on behalf of hundreds of thousands of NGOs and other private sector organizations across the country.
In this regard AwazCDS-Pakistan and its 46 partner organizations working together in 45 districts across the country including A J & K and Gilgit Baltistan under its Ujala Program decided to divert its resources in to Ujala Corona Emergency Response Program. Apart from mass sensitization campaign through the display of 550 banners, 150 Op-eds’, 150 radio programs, Ujala Partners also did observation of 3 distribution points in their respective districts. Therefore, the altogether 135 observational surveys were planned.
Finally, 44 Ujala partners carried out observational survey in their respective district headquarter at cash distribution places to observe some of the basic indicators like accessibility, taking care of health & safety protocols, transparency in cash transfer, witness discipline and coverage of most vulnerable sections of society like PWDs, Transgender, minorities / other socially excluded groups etc. in the said program. Other than observing Ehsaas cash grant distribution, we also observed the ration distribution activities conducted by non-governmental/ other service providing welfare and humanitarian organizations. A comprehensive survey format was developed and a half day online capacity orientation on how to conduct the survey was given to all the district focal points of partner organizations.
The report is based on 129 observatory surveys conducted at 129 cash and other relief distribution sites in 44 districts (Annexure-b) including 10 districts from each of the four provinces and 02 each from Azad Jammu & Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan.

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