The Integrated Social Protection Development Programme (ISPDP) is part of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), Pakistan’s flagship social protection programme. The initiative aims to alleviate the poverty of poor women and their families through stronger social protection and climate resilience, improved access to education, and better access to health services and nutrition.

Within the broader programme, EAA-EAC support is focused on access to primary and secondary education for children and adolescents of poor families. The primary-education component aims to enrol 960,000 out-of-school children by the end of 2025.

Barriers

• Poverty
• Gender discrimination
• Natural disasters and climate change
• Low perceived education quality
• Overage status
• Geographic disparities

Solutions

• Cash transfers
• Community mobilisation
• Capacity building
• Training for teachers and principals
• Accelerated-learning programmes for overage out-of-school children
• Financial literacy programmes for women