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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆 𝗮 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻’𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴?

At the DARE-RC International Education Summit 2026 at LUMS, Umar Nadeem, CEO of Tabadlab, presented Parental Engagement for Improved Learning Outcomes, a randomised controlled trial (RCT) across 506 government schools in Khairpur, Sindh.

The study set out to answer a simple but important question: can stronger parental engagement lead to better learning outcomes for children? Parents received an in-person orientation, Neero Kitab (a Sindhi activity booklet designed for low-literacy households), and weekly phone calls.

The study offers valuable insight into how parents can be engaged effectively in low-tech settings. The early findings are promising, with important lessons for scaling up and shaping future iterations.

The full study will be published soon. Stay tuned.

@DARERCPK

#EDCON26 #EducationPakistan #ParentalEngagement #Sindh

AI can reason, write, create and increasingly make decisions. But as we hand over more of these tasks, what are we giving up in return?

The debate on AI often centres on productivity, efficiency and capability. The harder question is what happens to human judgement, creativity and agency when machines do more of the thinking for us.

At SOT XX, Tabadlab is putting that question up for debate.

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗨𝘀 𝗟𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻.

Four speakers. Two sides. And you get a vote.

Join Gulalai Khan, Usama Khilji, Sidra Jalil and Athar Osama اطہر اسامہ (صدیقی), with moderator Hiba Fatima, for a live debate on who thinks, who creates and who decides when AI enters the picture.

📅 24 October 2026
🕑 1450–1550 hrs PKT
📍 Ambiance Boutique Art Hotel, Islamabad

Free to attend. Register here:
register.sotevents.com

@SOTevents | @BeaconhouseGrp

#SOTXX #Tabadlab

148 out of 148.

Pakistan ranked last on the Global Gender Gap Index 2025.

Since 2006, Pakistan fell from 112th on the index to the lowest-ranked country, with a marginal score improvement of 2.3 percentage points.

How do we understand Pakistan’s performance on the index?

𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀, 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀: 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝗸𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻 unpacks the Global Gender Gap Index and presents:

➡️ How scores and ranks are calculated and how Pakistan’s position should be interpreted
➡️ GGGI benchmarks across Pakistan and six regional peers
➡️ Analysis of the reforms in Bangladesh and Ethiopia that enabled sustained gains
➡️ Six priority areas for reform that can improve Pakistan’s score on the GGGI

Read the full report 👇

tabadlab.com/global-ranking…

#GenderParity #WomenEmpowerment #Pakistan #GGGI #GenderGap #WEF #LabourForce #Tabadlab

Gender-responsive budgeting is not just targeted spending on women. It is how governments build a gendered perspective into every revenue and expenditure decision.

Pakistan's publicly available budget documents include no gender tags, and no way to tell how much public money is being spent on girls versus boys.

Tabadlab's Policy Roundtable, 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗱: 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿-𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝗸𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻, examines what it would take to change that. The discussion covered:

➡️ What gender-responsive budgeting means in practice, and how it differs from targeted spending on women and girls
➡️ What budget documents reveal and conceal about gendered financing
➡️ How other countries have adopted it
➡️ What it would take to develop a methodology for gender-responsive budgeting in Pakistan

What would Pakistani budget documents look like if gender were built into the classification from the start?

Watch the full discussion on Tabadlab's YouTube channel 👇

lnkd.in/dXxDKEMp

#GenderResponsiveBudgeting #PublicFinance #WomenEmpowerment #Pakistan #GenderPolicy #EducationFinancing #Tabadlab

Happy Independence Day from the team at Tabadlab!

#14thAugust