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Juliet Chowdhry Trustee for the BACA (centre) meets with sisters Sherish and Farzana who survived a brutal gunpoint gang-rape.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sign our petition to stop UK foreign aid to Pakistan (here)<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

BPCA has expressed a number of concerns to the International Development Committee parliamentary inquiry team examining the nature of British aid to
\n Pakistan. In a submission prepared by Desmond Fernandes, a <\/p>\n

former senior lecturer at De Montfort University, BPCA has highlighted the way
\nin which many Department for International Development (DFID) educational aid-linked projects in Pakistan have not<\/u> been designed or implemented
\nin an effective, transparent or publicly accountable manner. We additionally hope that these concerns will be taken on board by Alok Sharma, the newly appointed international development secretary.
<\/span>
\n
Children from religious minority groups in Pakistan (inclusive of Christians, Ahmadi Muslims and Hindus) often have a very real and credible fear in schools
\nof being subjected on a daily basis to<\/p>\n

violence, death threats, being abducted and raped, being possibly forced into below legal-age marriages, being forcibly converted and being unfairly expelled
\nfrom school due to discriminatory grounds linked to their religious orientation.<\/p>\n

Additionally, many face the threat of:<\/p>\n

\u25cf being accused of blasphemy (which can invite criminalisation and murderous mob violence to the targeted student and his\/her family and religious community
\nin which he\/she lives)<\/p>\n

\u25cf being segregated in apartheid-like conditions (e.g. being seated separately whilst teaching in classrooms or whilst eating during lunch-times; not being
\nallowed to use washrooms\/toilets\/the safe drinking water facilities in schools lest they \u2018pollute\u2019 them for Muslim students)<\/p>\n

\u25cf being subjected to a host of other discriminatory actions that create \u2018mental harm\u2019 and \u2018unsafe environments\u2019 for the children from minority groups.<\/p>\n

Despite this, we have noted that DFID does not consider it to be \u2018best practice\u2019 to insist that all these identifiable above discriminatory actions should
\nbe explicitly banned from taking place in any of its education-funded schools and linked schooling projects and programmes in Pakistan.<\/p>\n

We have also pointed out to the inquiry team the following shocking and scandalous findings:<\/p>\n

\u25cf Nadia Naviwala: \u201cThe education programme in Punjab became DFID\u2019s largest programme in the world. Pakistan is also now the largest recipient of DFID funding in the world … <\/span>Unlike USAID, DFID does not \u2018follow their dollar\u2019, in other words, track how the Punjab government actually spends its money<\/em>. DFID accepts the risk that it could be diverted<\/em>…
\nAccording to a recently released [2016] World Bank assessment: \u2018Despite over a decade of focused support to large scale education programmes and what some
\nhave termed \u2018cutting edge\u2019 [privatisation-linked] reforms, education outcomes, including enrolment rates and learning outcomes in … Punjab are only
\nmarginally better than those in the rest of the country. Gains made over the last decade have stagnated, despite increased sector financing by the [government
\nof] Punjab and support to the sector by the World Bank and other Development Partners (DPs)\u2019\u201d.[i]<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u25cf \u201cAnother scandal has arisen after DFID, in an attempt to avoid some of the problems involved in working with state governments, turned to giving money
\nto private companies running non-government schools. DFID has since found that women teachers in \u2018low-cost private schools\u2019 are paid sweatshop wages of just 70p a day \u2013 less than a quarter the legal minimum<\/em>.
\nCivil servants at Ms Greening\u2019s [DFID] department warned two years ago that there was a high risk of damage to the Government\u2019s reputation if news of the
\nillegal wages leaked out. But the project was [still] allowed to go ahead [despite such knowledge] because it was judged good value for money and officials wanted to be able to claim quick successes to justify the huge aid budget <\/em>…
\nIn Punjab, these schools are funded through the Punjab Education Foundation (PEF), which receives \u00a368.7 million in UK aid … But an academic study of the programme co-authored by Professor Roy Carr-Hill, from University College London, and his Pakistan-based colleague Ali Murtaza found that the way areas were selected to receive UK help \u2018almost certainly means the very poor are excluded\u2019. They concluded that private sector involvement increased the \u2018likelihood of corruption\u2019\u201d<\/em>.
\n[ii]<\/span><\/span>
\n <\/span>
\n <\/a><\/p>\n

\u25cf The Lord Bishop of Coventry in a recent parliamentary debate queried DFID\u2019s project effectiveness when he stated, after informed evaluation and
\n appraisal, that \u201cthe epact evaluation of phase 2 of the Punjab education sector programme deems: \u2018Inequities in educational access and attainment are persisting\u2019.<\/em> It recommends both that equity of access, including socioeconomic status, disability and gender, are mainstreamed and that systems are devised for
\n assessing the success in doing so. Will this advice be applied to future DFID programmes? Does the Minister agree that that task cannot be done without
\n building in some element of minority community criteria? Is the current programme [really] hitting the spot?\u201d[iii]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u25cf Lord Alton, as co-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Pakistan Minorities, recently with two members of the Commons \u201csaw firsthand the
\n appalling conditions in the apartheid-style \u2018colonies\u2019 in which many from the minorities are forced to live. We saw families living in hovels with
\n dirt floors, in shacks without running water or electricity; little education or health provision<\/em>; squalid and primitive conditions \u2013 all completely off the DFID radar<\/em> … We heard first hand testimonies \u2013 including horrific accounts of abductions, child marriages, rape and forced conversions … [Founding
\n state] principles [aimed at protecting religious minorities from various forms of persecution] have proved worthless … Over the past decade,
\n \u00a32.6bn of British aid has poured into Pakistan \u2013 on average, that is \u00a3383,000 every single day. But failure to differentiate how and where we spend this money leads DFID to say that it has no idea how much of the aid reaches these destitute, desperate minorities\u201d<\/em>.
\n [iv]<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u25cf In a recent House of Lords debate,[v]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> Lord Alton questioned why DFID fails to insist upon the removal of hate material from school textbooks even though this is a pressing and urgent human
\n rights and security problem (note that this failure to
\n
insist upon the removal of hate material from school textbooks even relates to DFID\u2019s own massively funded and linked schooling programmes in Pakistan).<\/p>\n

We also recommended that the disturbing findings presented by Bethan Staton and Farhan Bokhari in their 24 August 2019 Financial Times article
\n [vi]<\/span><\/span>
\n <\/span>
\n <\/a> be further investigated: \u201cBuildings in more than nine in 10 schools in Pakistan delivered under a \u00a3107m project funded by the UK\u2019s DFID are not
\n fit for purpose, leaving 115,000 children learning in makeshift classrooms as a new academic year begins. Internal DFID documents seen by the FT
\n show that new and renovated facilities, including classrooms and toilets, at 1,277 of the 1,389 schools covered by the UK Aid programme are potentially
\n affected by structural design problems …<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problems affecting the project … put the school buildings at risk of collapse, especially those in areas prone to earthquakes. Despite
\n two separate assessments of the project dating as far back as 2016 about the quality of the building work and similar concerns raised by local
\n authorities in Pakistan, DFID allowed IMC to continue to run the project. The crisis finally came to a head in June when a third safety report
\n commissioned by DFId found flaws in IMC\u2019s construction methods and designs. The UK government\u201d only at this late point \u201ctold local authorities
\n to close all the new facilities at the 793 schools where work has been completed so inspectors could identify which required remedial work. The
\n decision leaves an estimated 115,000 students, who returned to school this week, facing months studying in makeshift accommodation, including tents
\n and verandas\u201d.[vii]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

As noted by Stephen Twigg, chair of the House of Commons International Development Select Committee: \u201cThe allegation that there are thousands
\n of DFID-funded classrooms that are both inadequate and fall short of safety standards is doubly alarming … It raises serious concerns about
\n value for taxpayers\u2019 money and, just as importantly, for the education of tens of thousands of children who should have a safe and secure place
\n to learn\u201d.[viii]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Indeed, as pointed out by a development professional with knowledge of this educational initiative: \u201cThis will mean children are sitting outside
\n in high temperatures, in overcrowded rooms, or with multiple grades learning together\u201d.[ix]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

This IMC-led project was allowed to proceed despite the company\u2019s troubled history. As documented by Staton and Bokhari: \u201cThe company …
\n was originally contracted in 2014 to build 31,084 classrooms as well as other facilities in more than 10,000 schools, under a \u00a3184m contract that
\n was part of a bigger DFID programme … But more than four years into the partnership, the project has been scaled back to 5,618 classrooms
\n — just a fifth of the original number — after IMC admitted it had underestimated the costs. IMC said it would deliver th[is] much smaller
\n project for [the still substantive sum of] \u00a3107m. The problems with IMC\u2019s work were well documented by engineering experts on three separate occasions.
\n According to the internal correspondence, the warnings started three years ago … [and] two assessments [at an early stage] flagged that
\n the classrooms did not comply with local building codes, failed tests for earthquake safety and were generally of poor quality\u201d.[x]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Apart from these significant concerns, we also noted (citing sources) the manner in which publicly unaccountable decision-making has led to DFID
\n promoting major educational aid initiatives that have problematically shaped Pakistan\u2019s national and provincial development and educational strategies
\n in linguistically genocidal and other detrimental ways. Such dysfunctional approaches do not enhance the Pakistan government\u2019s capacity to move
\n towards attaining several key Sustainable Development Goals (including those relating to SDG\u2019s 4.1, 16.5, 16.6 and 16.7). <\/p>\n

Sign our petition to stop UK foreign aid to Pakistan (here)<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

BPCA regularly writes submissions for UK Government inquiries and for international reviews such as the Universal Periodic Review of Pakistan and other nations by the United Nations.  Please help us continue this valuable advocacy work by donating <\/span>(here)<\/a>.<\/span>
<\/strong>
\n <\/p>\n

[i]<\/span><\/span><\/a> Nadia Naviwala
\n (2016) Pakistan\u2019s Education Crisis: The Real Story<\/em>. Wilson Centre: Washington, p. 21.
\n <\/div>\n
\n

[ii<\/span>]<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/span>Gethin Chamberlain (2016) \u2018<\/span>Aid Minister and the scandal school tsar\u2019, Mail on Sunday<\/em>, 2 April 2016 (accessed at: https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3520897\/Aid-Minister-scandal-school-tsar-Pakistan-700m-year-education-supremo-probed-5-000-schools-don-t-exist-Justine-Greening.html<\/a>).<\/span>
<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

[iii]<\/span><\/span><\/a> The Bishop of Coventry in \u2018Pakistan\u2019s Minorities House of Lords Debate – Pakistan: Aid Programmes and Human Rights – 2 July 2019\u2019, Hansard<\/em>,
\n 2 July 2019, Volume 798 \u2013 Speech at 6.43pm.<\/p>\n

[iv]<\/span><\/span><\/a> David Alton
\n (2019) \u2018Target government aid at Pakistan\u2019s persecuted minorities\u2019, The House Magazine<\/em>, 1 July 2019 (accessed at: https:\/\/www.politicshome.com\/news\/uk\/foreign-affairs\/house\/house-magazine\/104912\/david-alton-target-government-aid-pakistans<\/a>).
\n
[v]<\/span><\/span><\/a> Lord Alton in
\n \u2018Pakistan\u2019s Minorities House of Lords Debate – Pakistan: Aid Programmes and Human Rights – 2 July 2019\u2019, Hansard, 2 July 2019, Volume 798 \u2013 Speech
\n at 6.30pm.
\n
[vi]<\/span><\/span><\/a> Bethan Staton
\n and Farhan Bokhari (2019) \u2018Uproar over \u00a3107 million UK aid for shoddy schools in Pakistan\u2019, FT, 24 August 2019 (accessed at: https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/ea1800e2-becf-11e9-89e2-41e555e96722<\/a>).
\n
[vii]<\/span><\/span><\/a> Bethan Staton
\n and Farhan Bokhari (2019) \u2018Uproar over \u00a3107 million UK aid for shoddy schools in Pakistan\u2019, FT, 24 August 2019 (accessed at: https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/ea1800e2-becf-11e9-89e2-41e555e96722<\/a>).
\n
[viii]<\/span><\/span><\/a> Bethan Staton
\n and Farhan Bokhari (2019) \u2018Uproar over \u00a3107 million UK aid for shoddy schools in Pakistan\u2019, FT, 24 August 2019 (accessed at: https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/ea1800e2-becf-11e9-89e2-41e555e96722<\/a>).
\n
[ix]<\/span><\/span><\/a> Bethan Staton
\n and Farhan Bokhari (2019) \u2018Uproar over \u00a3107 million UK aid for shoddy schools in Pakistan\u2019, FT, 24 August 2019 (accessed at: https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/ea1800e2-becf-11e9-89e2-41e555e96722<\/a>).
\n
[x]<\/span><\/span><\/a> Bethan Staton
\n and Farhan Bokhari (2019) \u2018Uproar over \u00a3107 million UK aid for shoddy schools in Pakistan\u2019, FT, 24 August 2019 (accessed at: https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/ea1800e2-becf-11e9-89e2-41e555e96722<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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