CIET has worked in collaboration with district, provincial and national governments and other groups in Pakistan since 1995 to build capacity for evidence-based planning and to strengthen national governance systems.

Projects in Pakistan include:

•  A multi-cycle study from 1996 to 1999 in three provinces and one district on issues related to children, entitled Community voice in planning
• A smaller study that developed and tested a set of evidence-led communication tools
• A pilot study in the city of Karachi in 2001-02 on access to justice for women
• The nationwide social audit of abuse against women from 2001 to 2004
• A national social audit on governance and devolution, piloted in 2001 and planned to continue until 2009
• A 2004 study about enrolment of children 5-9 years of age in religious schools (madaris).
• A focus district scheme for evidence-based planning in selected districts covered by the national social audit, also planned to continue until 2009
• A special eight-week course on evidence-based planning conducted in 2005
• A study of household cost-benefit decisions about immunisation, 2005-2009.