WORK

Youth Agency, Inclusion & Engagement

This theme is about treating young people as people who help shape education policy, not just as the ones it affects. It means helping them build the skills to lead, giving them real platforms to be heard, and letting them influence the decisions that shape their lives, instead of asking their opinion only after the real choices are made. For PCE, this is both the right thing to do and the smart thing: the young people living inside the system understand it best.

It matters because Pakistan is one of the youngest countries in the world. Most people are under 30, yet young people are almost never in the room when education decisions are made. A population this young can be a huge advantage or a serious problem, and which one it becomes depends on whether the country invests in these young people and listens to them now. Our work puts youth at the centre of the movement.

What we do

PROGRAMS & INITIATIVES

Conventions & Conferences

17th Annual Convention on Youth Agency in Education

PCE's next flagship convention puts young people's agency at the centre of the education agenda. Details, dates, and registration coming soon.

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Policy Dialogues & Consultations

Youth Dialogue on Climate and Education

With IVS CEP in Karachi, a youth dialogue on making education resilient to climate change.

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Policy Dialogues & Consultations

Harvesting Hope Youth Community Dialogues

A series where young people turned their own stories into advocacy for girls' education.

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PUBLICATIONS

Research Report

Whose Voice Matters? Youth Agency in Determining and Learning the Skills that Matter in Pakistan's Public Secondary Schools

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.

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Research Report

Learning What Matters in Pakistan: Rethinking Skills and Education Systems Transformation

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.

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Scorecards

Mapping Skills for the Future: Capturing Student Aspirations at District Level

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

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INISGHTS

Documentaries & Films

Primary Education Issues | Lights! Camera! Education! Student Film Contest Copy Copy Copy Copy

Sania Nasir, IBA Sukkur (5th). PCE invited filmmaking and academia students across Pakistan to capture the country's primary-education issues in one-minute films. The top five — judged on content, creativity, imagery, story, and technical quality — were screened at PCE's 6th Annual Convention on 30 December 2015.

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Documentaries & Films

Sowing Weeds to Reap Wheat | Lights! Camera! Education! Student Film Contest

Awais Siddiqui, Bahria University (4th). PCE invited filmmaking and academia students across Pakistan to capture the country's primary-education issues in one-minute films. The top five — judged on content, creativity, imagery, story, and technical quality — were screened at PCE's 6th Annual Convention on 30 December 2015.

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Documentaries & Films

Half Education | Lights! Camera! Education! Student Film Contest

Yasir Ali, Riphah University (3rd). PCE invited filmmaking and academia students across Pakistan to capture the country's primary-education issues in one-minute films. The top five — judged on content, creativity, imagery, story, and technical quality — were screened at PCE's 6th Annual Convention on 30 December 2015.

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