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Pakistan

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People walking on the streets on Karachi.

Are international financial institutions becoming disconnected from reality?

Insight, 29 May 2026

Aerial view of downtown Karachi.

Karachi’s housing crisis is about inequality, not just infrastructure

Insight, 23 April 2026

Image of informal settlement in Pakistan showing houses built very close together.

What I have learnt in 50 years of engagement with urban issues

Insight, 18 March 2026

Aerial photo of a busy street, packed with vehicles through a smoky haze and with flags flying above.

Anger issues and infrastructure in Karachi: why are we all so angry?

Insight, 21 January 2026

Buildings destroyed after devastating floods in Pakistan.

Delivering low-cost, high quality sanitation – at scale

Insight, 02 September 2024

A busy city street with several vehicles on the road and building on the back.

Lobbying for land then and now: reflections on what changed in Karachi

Insight, 13 March 2024

Row of motorbikes parked on the road.

The rise of the motorbike

Insight, 25 March 2022

Building split in half

From protector to evictor of slum residents – reversal of roles for the judiciary

Insight, 24 February 2022

Car driving through a heavily flooded road.

Urban flooding: the case of Karachi

Insight, 27 October 2020

Preview of 17257IIED

Forwards and backwards evidence-based learning on climate adaptation

Publication, 01 September 2014

Preview of 10864IIED

Pakistan: the causes and repercussions of the housing crisis

Publication, 01 October 2018

Preview of 10069IIED

TAMD Pakistan 2013-2014 Q1 Report

Publication, 01 July 2013

Physical barriers have been installed around Karachi to protect the city from violent conflict, but their impacts have been publically disruptive and socially divisive (Photo: Noman Ahmed and colleagues)

Barricading Karachi: how private security contributes to dividing the city

Insight, 01 December 2015

Three-wheeler vehicles known as Quinqis are a popular and cheap method of transport in Karachi, but they cause considerable congestion (Photo: Carol Mitchell, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Karachi's transport challenge

Insight, 13 August 2015

Abid Lashari, president of the National Disability and Development Forum, Pakistan, is interviewed at CBA8

Voices of people with disabilities must be heard in climate change adaptation debate

Insight, 16 May 2014

Watch the Karachi Rising film

The houses that Karachi's poor want

Insight, 23 April 2014

Senbetge, in Ethiopia's Amhara region is prone to droughts and flooding. Credit: EC DG ECHO (Creative Commons Licence)

Six nations to share progress on measuring adaptation to climate change

News, 19 March 2014

Left: Women and schoolgirls discuss the benefits of harvesting rainwater (Credit: ISET). Right: A girl collects water from the rainwater storage tank (Credit: Fawad Khan)

Climate adaptation and good development: two sides of the same coin

Insight, 18 March 2014

A row of houses called Garden Road Colony, Karachi, Pakistan.

Study reveals roots of urban land issues that limit development

News, 26 March 2013

Discussing climate resilience in Kinna, northern Kenya.

How do we tell whether climate change adaptation is making headway?

Insight, 06 December 2012

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