Pakistan

Country Focus

Consulted stakeholders in Pakistan’s landscape analysis highlighted that strict parenting styles and parental career pressure can hinder open dialogue within families, leading to an increased risk of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and stress among Pakistani youth.

Consultations revealed that while youth mental health interventions exist in Pakistan, they are mainly small-scale, with significant barriers to broader implementation. This presents an opportunity to strengthen implementation guidance and resources and increase advocacy at the national level to scale and sustain these initiatives.

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What we’re funding in Pakistan

Proof-of-concept funding:

Proof-of-concept (POC) funding up to $250,000 CAD will be awarded to early-stage projects that can implement, test and refine solutions to country-specific personal, social, and/or environmental factors impacting young people’s mental health and wellbeing in one of the 12 countries.

In Pakistan, we’re funding POC ideas to strengthen family functioning. These innovative solutions will address strict parenting styles and a lack of parental support with a goal of improving parent-child relationships.

Transition-to-scale funding:

Transition-to-scale (TTS) funding between $300,000 CAD and $1,500,000 CAD will be awarded to support tested mental health promotion and prevention approaches that align with country-specific priorities along their scaling journey to help catalyze their sustainability and impact.

In Pakistan, we’re funding TTS approaches to strengthen family functioning. These innovative solutions will address strict parenting styles and a lack of parental support with a goal of improving parent-child relationships.

Ecosystem catalyst funding:

Ecosystem catalyst (EC) funding between $200,000 CAD and $300,000 CAD will be awarded to organizations that can address priority barriers to scale, such as legislation, evidence, coordination, and mobilize demand to help mental health initiatives succeed and grow in one of 12 priority countries.

In Pakistan, we’re funding EC proposals that can convene national-level stakeholders from different ministries, as well as non-government organizations, to increase their commitment, create demand and resource mobilization for youth mental health promotion and preventive approaches.  