USAID Pakistan Gender Equality

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) works with the Government of Pakistan and development partners to address gender inequality, which affects women of all ethnic groups and socio-economic strata. The USAID Pakistan program has develop the following actions: (i) provided health, legal, and counseling services to approximately 61,000 female survivors of Gender Based Violence (GBV); (ii) Awarded more than 6,600 higher education scholarships to young women in Pakistan; (iii) Supported the Federal Ministry of Human Rights to train 196 public prosecutors on laws protecting women’s rights, gender issues, and legal protections for GBV survivors; (iv) Trained and financed more than 50,000 women entrepreneurs; (v) Facilitated national identity card registration for approximately 1.5 million women to promote women’s voting rights; (vi) Helped train almost 16,000 female political party representatives. Also, to ensure more girls have the opportunity to pursue education, USAID partnered with the Sindh government to improve the learning environment for female students in Sindh public schools and rehabilitated girls’ primary schools in the Newly Merged Districts. Additionally, USAID partnered with the Government of Pakistan to train female primary and secondary school teachers on improved teaching methodologies and provide access to reading materials to female students in grades one and two across Pakistan.