FAFEN Governance Monitors visited 92 Mother and Child Health (MCH) Centers across Pakistan during May 2010 – 35 MCHs in 24 districts of Punjab, 25 MCHs in 20 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, five MCHs in as many districts of Balochistan, 25 MCHs in 18 districts of Sindh, one MCH in FATA, and one MCH in…
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More than one-third of lecturers posts are vacant in degree colleges for boys monitored nationwide during the month of April 2010. In almost 20 percent of monitored boys colleges across the country, only half or fewer of hired lecturers were present on the day FAFEN conducted its assessment. ‘FAFEN Education Institution Monitor’ is based on…
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During the month of May 2010, FAFEN Governance Monitors collected prices of 69 commodities and services at retail outlets in 142 National Assembly Constituencies in 90 districts in the four provinces, FATA and Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT). Consumers in parts of the country faced quite high increases in the prices of a few food items…
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Lack of personnel and facilities to serve the primary health care needs of women is among the issues of greatest concern revealed by FAFEN’s inaugural Health Institution Statistics Monitor for April 2010. This study provides a baseline of data from which remedial action by government and elected representatives can be measured. Most of the Basic…
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This is the second report issued under the PEVER project. Between March 1 and May 31, 2010, PEVER recorded a total of 440 incidents of political violence, four incidents of electoral violence, and 100 peace events in Pakistan. Of these, 525 reports were compiled through media monitoring and were not able to be verified by PEVER personnel, while 19 reports were compiled by constituency-based and election monitors, and were verified through primary sources.
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The Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) is a nationwide coalition of 35 civil society organizations working to strengthen all forms of democratic accountabilities in Pakistan. Currently, FAFEN is implementing the Democratic Governance Programme in 150 National Assembly constituencies across 108 districts of the country, seeking to encourage and facilitate public actions and demands for…
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The Ministry of Health has undertaken strategies aimed at improving standards of pediatric and female reproductive health, as well as to reduce communicable diseases like TB, in light of commitment to the Millennium Development Goals. However, 17% RHCs monitored by FAFEN Governance Monitors in January 2011 were deficient in trained staff to deal with TB,…
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Between October 15, 2009 and February 28, 2010, PEVER recorded a total of 368 incidents of political violence, 11 incidents of electoral violence, and 420 peace events in Pakistan. PEVER recorded a total of 368 incidents of political violence across the country between October 15, 2009, and February 28, 2010. A total of 24 reports were received from the field, and 344 were reported in the media.
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Women members have been more active, assertive and effective voices of citizens than their male counterparts in the National Assembly that is set to complete its Second Parliamentary Year this month, says a Performance Analysis of Women Members of the National Assembly released by the Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) to mark International Women’s Day.
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ISLAMABAD, November 12, 2009: Voters of Gilgit-Baltistan went to the polls on November 12, 2009, in an election characterized by weak electoral administration, procedural irregularities, erroneous voter lists and heavy government interference, but following a competitive election campaign that offered fairly equal opportunities to all political and independent contestants. These preliminary findings are based on…
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