Maula Dinno and his wife and children at their home in Sindh.

Pakistan

Why are we in Pakistan? Pakistan is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change and faces disaster levels of drought, floods, and rising sea levels. In tandem with this, the country also faces severe economic challenges, with over 40% of the country living below the poverty line.

Pakistan sits at the nexus of the climate crisis, poverty, and hunger

The world’s fifth-largest country by population, Pakistan is on the frontlines of the climate crisis, facing both devastating droughts and floods. In 2024, the country is facing protracted droughts in two of its six provinces (Sindh and Balochistan), while also still recovering from the catastrophic floods of 2022 — the worst on-record since 1961 — which had a lasting impact on one-third of the country’s population. The Pakistan Red Crescent estimated that, by the end of 2023, 1.8 million people still lived near polluted flood waters.

Disasters such as these have further hindered the country’s economic progress, as well as its fight against hunger. The 2022 floods resulted in food prices in rural areas increasing by as much as 45%, leaving an additional 1 million people relying on humanitarian assistance. The World Food Programme estimates that 20.5% of the population is undernourished, with 44% of children under the age of five facing stunting (low height for age) due to malnutrition.

RAPID Fund Programme

Through the USAID funded 'Responding to Pakistan's Internally Displaced' (RAPID) Fund Programme, Concern provides grants to national and international NGOs who are responding to the humanitarian needs of disaster-affected populations in Pakistan. This programme supports humanitarian responses across the country in a range of sectors. It also supports national NGOs and disaster management authorities to enhance their disaster management capabilities, and help nurture national capacities in Pakistan.

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Latest achievements

Emergency response

Mounting large-scale humanitarian responses is a key feature of our work in Pakistan, one that distinguishes us from other international NGOs. In 2023, we reached over 1,260,000 people in Pakistan with our emergency response programmes.

Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)

CMAM Surge

Maula Dinno is a farmer in Sindh. He sows cotton seeds on the farm land. He attended trainings at a farming school facilitated by Concern Worldwide and also received the cotton seeds to help him overcome the losses he faced during the floods in 2022. (Photo: Khaula Jamil/DEC/Concern Worldwide)

Ali Salman Anchan along with Mumtaz Ahmed interact with Maula Dinno's family in their home in Sindh. (Photo: Zoral Khurram Naik/DEC/Concern Worldwide)

Nusrat, Maula Dinno's wife, washes her children's clothes outside their home in Sindh. (Photo: Zoral Khurram Naik/DEC/Concern Worldwide)

Subbi gives her daughter Wazeeran emergency therapeutic food. Photo Khaula Jamil / Concern Worldwide

Jamna (37) and her daughter Shanti (7 months) on a traditional Charpai in their humble hut located in Umerkot, Sindh. Photo: Arif Shad/Ingenious Captures/Concern Worldwide

Concern's support helped install a solar pump in Moda Seieo, and with Amir's commitment to maintenance and cleaning, the village in UC Kantio now enjoys access to water. (Photo: Arif Shad/Ingenious Captures/Concern Worldwide)

Khairi (80) resident of Nawabshah, Sindh with her grandson at a goat market facilitated by Concern Worldwide. This intervention aims to help vulnerable women from flood affected areas develop a sustainable economical future via obtaining an asset (goat) that belongs solely to them. (Photo: Khaula Jamil/DEC)

How we're helping Pakistan

We are working hard to combat suffering and build resilience in Pakistan. We are doing this by establishing programmes which will build livelihoods, respond to emergencies, and combat hunger and malnutrition.