Social Policy Development Center, Karachi launched its Social Development in Pakistan Annual Review 2009-10 on March 5, 2011 at Hotel Avari Towers in Karachi.
The report was launched in a simple but decent gathering of diplomats, academics, scholars, researchers, representatives from Nonprofit organizations, intelligentsia and concerned citizens including electronic and print media.
Mr. Javed Jabar Member Board of Directors presided the session and Dr Khalida Ghous, Managing Director presented the gist on the findings of the report.
The report is based on post 9/11 situation in Pakistan and how the people of Pakistan have been paying the cost of interfering in Afghanistan. The report comprehensively touches the contextualizing the security situation of Pakistan, relevant theories, the making of the problem, system failures etc. Chapter on Impact of the war on terror on the economy, meticulously touches governance indicators, state of the economy and economic cost of war on terror. The findings are mind boggling.
Fiscal impacts of the security crisis incorporate appalling security related expenditures and downsizing of public expenditures and pro poor spending.
Social development during security crisis shows how people in conflict ridden areas have been deprived of basic education, food, drinking water and health facilities.
The report has particularly pinpointed situation in Khaiber Pukhtoonn Kuwah province as prime target of terrorism. Impact of conflict on household and response of civil society states peoples’ response to situation.
The audience highly appreciated the publication of research report but some also pinpointed the missing factors that must have been incorporated.
The report is loaded with valuable statistics and data and reveals alarming situation. The report seems highly valuable single document available on the situation and is a worth refereeing document by all the stakeholders in Pakistan as well as by those people in other parts of the worlds who are interested in Pakistan.
Regarding Social Policy and Development Centre (SPDC) provides decision makers in the government, private sector and civil society organizations with a multi-disciplinary approach towards issues of development and growth. A non-profit, policy research center established in April 1995 as a limited company based in Karachi, SPDC has made significant intellectual contribution in placing issues of pro-poor growth and social development on Pakistan's policy-making agenda.
Being an independent and non-partisan research organization, SPDC collaborates and cooperates with organizations working on issues relevant to its mandate both at home and abroad. It determines its own agenda and has successfully maintained its independence and a balance between responsive and proactive social sector research. The main areas identified for research by SPDC are: poverty, inequality, governance, provincial finances, social sector policies, gender issues and macroeconomic policy issues. Having established its credibility, SPDC is considered as one of the outstanding research policy institutions of Pakistan focusing on public policy analyses and social sector development. Ref:http://www.spdc.org.pk
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