The evidence that drives our work

Pakistan's education system is built for young people, but almost never with them. A study of who decides what students learn, and what it costs when students have no say.

A research study co-published with CUE Brookings as part of the Network for Education Systems Transformation (NEST). It examines why Pakistan's classrooms still fall short of 21st-century learning, and the systemic shifts in the 4Ps - purpose, power, pedagogy, and positioning - needed to close the gap.

Over 13 million girls are out of school in Pakistan and the budgets meant to reach them are rarely designed with them in mind. This brief reframes girls' exclusion as a financing failure, and makes the case for gender-responsive budgeting as the foundation of inclusive education.

With less than five years left to meet the Sustainable Development Goals, Pakistan is moving backwards on education. This Civil Society Spotlight Report on SDG 4 puts gender equality and social inclusion at the centre and charts a path toward an education system that leaves no learner behind.

PCE's skills-mapping study across 12 districts surveryed students in grades 10 and 12 to profile their skills aspirations.

This report maps the contradictions holding the system back and lays out a 12-point framework for transforming Pakistan's education system—from a rote, exam-driven model into one that builds the skills young people actually need to thrive.

A policy brief built with adolescent girls themselves setting out how Pakistan's education emergency response must put girls at its centre.

PCE's flagship white paper on Pakistan's education emergency that sees the crisis through three connected lenses: gender-transformative education, equitable financing, and climate resilience.

PCE's primer on building an education system that can withstand Pakistan's recurring shocks—from floods to political instability—so that learning never stops for the children who can least afford to lose it.