A district-level climate adaptation strategy aligned with Pakistan’s National Adaptation Plan, translating national priorities into a localized, actionable resilience framework addressing flood risk, drought, extreme heat, agriculture-water systems, ecosystem protection, disaster risk management, and climate-resilient infrastructure.
A research initiative examining how data and information function as economic, institutional, and cultural infrastructure across key sectors in Pakistan. Through sectoral value chain mapping, and economic analysis, the project traces how information is owned, monetized, and regulated, revealing power structures, gaps, and opportunities for more equitable and resilient knowledge governance.
A national-level analysis of road crash mortality, institutional fragmentation, and economic impact, with actionable recommendations for data reform, enforcement, infrastructure safety, and trauma response systems.
Curatorial research support on Pakistan’s independence movement, focusing on key figures and their stories, detailed biographies, timelines, and human-interest narratives for layered presentation of personalities and their contributions.
A national guide mapping emerging AI-enabled green job pathways for Pakistani youth, linking climate adaptation priorities with digital transformation trends and outlining practical skills, training routes, and institutional recommendations to address the country’s growing skills mismatch.
A community-led museum model to preserve the lived heritage of disaster-affected and displaced communities in Pakistan, beginning with a pilot concept inspired by the formation of Attabad Lake. The initiative reframes museums as spaces of dignity, healing, and climate memory, with a replicable framework currently under development and fundraising.
Miras is a Manara flagship project dedicated to preserving and celebrating women across Pakistan through the creation of a women’s history archive. Through a unique, legacy-driven approach, partners such as individuals, philanthropists, or organizations make preservation pledges, selecting women from their families, communities, or regions to honor, while simultaneously supporting research and curatorial work that uncovers and celebrates additional unsung female heroes from a specific geographic area, field of work, or sociocultural movement. Together, these legacies are building a growing repository of women’s stories that will form the foundation for a future physical archive.
A crowd sourced, youth led project for preserving oral and documentary heritage of mountain communities in Gilgit Baltistan. The initiative is funded by Manāra, and part of its celebration of International Decade of Indigneous Languages.
An independent analytical initiative by Manara examining the design, implementation, and impact of major Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) campaigns in Pakistan over the past three decades. The initiative seeks to assess how these campaigns have shaped public behavior across health, climate resilience, and social protection domains, and to identify systemic strengths and persistent gaps in strategy, delivery, and sustainability. Through a comparative and forward-looking lens, the project aims to generate evidence-informed insights to support more resilient, context-sensitive, and institutionally grounded behavior change programming in Pakistan.