Data for research report "Navigating Civic Spaces During a Pandemic: Pakistan Report"

This dataset was created as a part of the Navigating Civic Spaces project within the larger Action for Empowerment and Accountability (A4EA) programme at IDS. The dataset contains newspaper articles and social media reports regarding changes in Pakistan’s civic space amidst the pandemic.<br>This dataset is a repository of 700+ news articles and social media posts in English, Urdu and Sindhi focusing on changes in Pakistan’s civic space between June 2020 and March 2021. The data is tabulated through content type, source, source type, date, title, summary, issue covered, online link to the content, and key actors involved. The issue covered: has ten themes in accordance with recurring themes in Pakistan’s context. The themes are: crisis in health sector, education and controlling the narrative, marginalizing religious minorities, missing persons, media and narrative slips, violence against women, labour and livelihoods, regulating civic spaces, politics and governance and Covid-19 management. The event type includes restricting space, opening space, changing rules, changing discourse, civic action and popular protest.<br><br>This data can be viewed on Excel Viewer.<br>Summary of Report-This report provides an overview of how different actors responded to the pandemic in ways that affect civic spaces. The research identified areas of civil society which underwent some forms of public mobilization, whether through articulating new or ongoing claims, forming new associations, or using innovative strategies to respond to shrinking civic spaces. The discussion sheds light on new forms of social and political action, in particular the opposition political alliance (Pakistan Democratic Alliance) that was formed in September. It ends with an assessment of the implications of these changes in civic spaces for the governance context in Pakistan.<br>

本数据集系IDS旗下规模更大的「赋权与问责行动」（A4EA）项目下属「公民空间导航」项目的组成部分。本数据集收录了新冠疫情期间巴基斯坦公民空间变迁相关的报纸文章与社交媒体报道。

本数据集共收纳700余篇英文、乌尔都语及信德语的新闻文章与社交媒体帖文，聚焦2020年6月至2021年3月间巴基斯坦公民空间的变迁情况。数据集按内容类型、来源、来源类型、发布日期、标题、摘要、涉及议题、内容在线链接及关键参与主体进行分类制表。

本数据集涵盖的议题共10大类，均契合巴基斯坦本土反复出现的典型议题，具体包括：医疗卫生系统危机、教育与叙事管控、宗教少数群体边缘化、失踪人员问题、媒体与叙事偏差、针对女性的暴力行为、劳工与生计、公民空间规制、政治与治理，以及新冠疫情防控。事件类型涵盖空间受限、空间开放、规则变更、话语转变、公民行动及民众抗议。

该数据集可通过Excel查看器浏览。

报告摘要——本报告概述了不同行为主体以影响公民空间的方式应对新冠疫情的情况。研究识别出公民社会中经历各类公共动员的领域，这些动员或通过提出新的或持续的诉求、组建新的社会组织，或是采用创新策略以应对公民空间不断收缩的困境。报告探讨了新型社会与政治行动形式，尤其是2020年9月组建的反对党政治联盟——巴基斯坦民主联盟（Pakistan Democratic Alliance）。最后，报告评估了巴基斯坦公民空间的这些变迁对该国治理环境的影响。