Health is the primary domain of Development Strategies. Our work spans the full spectrum of public health, from primary healthcare system strengthening to national-level disease surveillance and evaluation.
We have extensive experience working with health departments at district, provincial, and federal levels; with Lady Health Workers (LHW) programmes; with reproductive, maternal, and child health (RMNCH) programmes; and with nutrition, immunisation, and WASH interventions.
Our team comprises physicians and public health specialists with master's and doctoral qualifications from leading national and international institutions, bringing both technical depth and practical field experience.
Education is a critical pillar of sustainable development. Development Strategies works to improve access to quality education and enhance educational outcomes, particularly for marginalised children and communities.
Our work in education covers school health and nutrition, teacher capacity building, curriculum and training material development, profiling of schools and educational facilities, and the development and evaluation of educational programmes at district and provincial level.
Strong institutions are the backbone of effective service delivery. Development Strategies provides comprehensive institutional development support, from organisational diagnosis and restructuring to developing management systems and governance frameworks.
Our expertise includes conducting organisational audits, developing management information systems (MIS), formulating personnel policies, right-sizing establishments, and putting in place management structures for provincial to national level programmes.
Sustainable development begins at the community level. We work directly with communities and community-based organisations to build local capacity, strengthen livelihoods, and promote social cohesion and empowerment.
Our community development work spans refugee support services, gender-based violence (GBV) response, family planning and reproductive health community programmes, social protection assessment, and behaviour change communication (BCC) interventions.
Pakistan is one of the world's most disaster-prone countries, facing recurring floods, earthquakes, droughts, and conflict-induced displacement. Development Strategies provides evidence-based support for disaster preparedness, risk assessment, and emergency response planning.
Our work in this domain focuses on assessing community vulnerability, designing risk reduction programmes, evaluating emergency response effectiveness, and strengthening local government and community capacity to respond to and recover from disasters.
Building the capacity of people and institutions is central to our development philosophy. We believe that lasting change only comes when local capacities are strengthened, at community, district, provincial, and national levels.
Development Strategies has developed and delivered training programmes for community health workers, mid and senior level managers, government functionaries, school teachers, and NGO staff. We have developed comprehensive training modules on CMAM, entrepreneurship, M&E, leadership, and healthcare marketing, among others.