Centre for Public Policy & Governance

From the Director’s Desk

It gives me pleasure to share with you that since 2008, we have been publishing the Quarterly Research & News magazine. Raheem ul Haque has been the dynamic team leader ably assisted by Saba Shahid, since 2016 while, I have played only the supervisory role. Over the years Quarterly has performed a very useful function of sharing the Centre’s activities and views of our guest speakers, while occasionally publishing research articles, policy briefs and consultative dialogue reports. Read More

The Discussion Paper analyzes the policy framework for Lahore’s hazardous waste management with respect to hospitals and evaluates the extent to which disaster risk reduction is integrated into the implementation process. Whilst previous studies have evaluated the effectiveness of hospital waste management procedures in the country, this research brings to attention the environmental risks that can result from improper waste disposal. It argues that by building adaptive governance, policymaking that anticipates a matrix of development concerns, a public administration response can be cultivated that is able to respond to the dynamic governance challenges improper waste disposal raises.

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Digital technology opens up space for enormous economic opportunity and growth: can serve as a tool to bring about socio-political change, become an arena for entertainment, and serve as a medium for governance and law enforcement.

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Research Fellow CPPG, Saba Shahid’s essay “Public Policy Lessons from Pakistan’s Experience with COVID-19” has been featured in Observer Research Foundation’s monograph Rebooting the World: Six Months of COVID-19. The monograph looks at countries hardest hit by the pandemic and the various economic, social and political dimensions of managing the disease. The essay which assesses Pakistan’s public policy challenges under the public health crisis can be found at the following link:

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Abstract: This study anticipates the possible challenges that are likely to arise as the Covid-19 vaccine is developed and distribution mechanisms are designed across governments. More specifically, it critically explores the governance aspects the Pakistani leadership should be considering while developing a Covid-19 vaccination program. It argues that equitable distribution be the guiding objective of such a program and this implies that the program is built around principles of anticipatory governance, relies on evidence-based decision making, and that invests in public health programs that are inclusive and representative of the Pakistani population’s varying sociocultural, economic and health needs.

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Abstract: The US and China are invoking threat and security concerns but the approach of the two is different. For the US, the issue is autonomy, freedom, and democracy. For the Chinese, it is terrorism, extremism and separatism from foreign collaboration. Thus Hong Kong is both a pretext and battleground for the Strategic Competition between the US and China.
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”Water is the true wealth in a dry land; without it, land is worthless or nearly so. And if you control water, you control the land that depends upon it.” (Stegner in Gleick, 1993 a; 9) Click here to read full text article

The rapid spread of COVID-19 in Pakistan has led to several governance challenges. The public policy response during 2020 should prioritize relief in the short term, rehabilitation in the medium term and livelihood asset development in the long-term.
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The CPPG’s monograph “China Pakistan Economic Corridor: Demands, Dividends and Directions” has been published and is available for purchase at the Centre for Public Policy and Governance, Room E-017 Elahi Building Forman Christian College (A Chartered University) Lahore. It is also available at Readings 12 K 2, Main Boulevard Gulberg, Block K Gulberg 2, Lahore and other leading bookstores. Click here for more detail

CPPG’s seventh and latest Position Paper “Chaning Dynamics of China-India Relations: CPEC and Prospects for Pakistan” authored by Dr. Saeed Shafqat and Saba Shahid is now available online.

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