Pakistan—Building Resilience and Addressing Vulnerability to Emergencies (BRAVE) Institutional Strengthening

Pakistan faces increasingly frequent climate-related shocks, from extreme rainfall and flooding to heatwaves and glacier melt. These risks place growing pressure on the public institutions responsible for planning, financing, and coordinating responses across federal, provincial, and district levels.

The Building Resilience and Addressing Vulnerability to Emergencies (BRAVE) Institutional Strengthening programme supports the Government of Pakistan to strengthen the systems, coordination mechanisms, and capabilities needed to manage these risks more effectively. It works alongside community resilience, social protection, and humanitarian response investments to ensure that government institutions are better equipped to anticipate, prepare for, and respond to climate-related shocks.

The programme focuses on embedding climate resilience and disaster risk management within Pakistan’s existing government systems. This approach includes strengthening coordination across ministries and tiers of government, improving the way climate risks and evidence inform planning and budgeting decisions, and supporting institutions to access and manage climate finance more effectively. Rather than creating parallel structures, BRAVE Institutional Strengthening works through established policies, planning processes, and public financial management systems to support durable, government-led reform.

Together with our local partners, DAI provides flexible, demand-led technical assistance to federal, provincial, and district counterparts. Support is tailored to government priorities and political realities, helping institutions translate strategies and policies into routine practice. The programme works closely with public institutions, civil society, and other BRAVE partners to ensure reforms are practical, inclusive, and capable of being sustained beyond the life of the programme.

By strengthening how institutions plan, coordinate, and deliver, BRAVE Institutional Strengthening contributes to a more resilient system of governance, one that enables Pakistan to respond more effectively to climate shocks while laying the foundations for long-term resilience for vulnerable communities across the country.