Resident Representative, @UNDP_Pakistan
Islamabad, Pakistan
Joined April 2011
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Sam Rizk retweeted
Keeping the momentum going after the #SDGsInvestmentFair2026. 🤝
The next step: turning investor interest into investment-ready projects. Dr. @SamuelRizk, Resident Representative, and @Van_ntn, Deputy Resident Representative #UNDPinPakistan, met Najam Shah, Chairman P&D Board @SindhGovt1, and Asad Zamin, Head of the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Unit, to map the way forward. Dr. Rizk reaffirmed UNDP’s continued support to Sindh through project preparation, feasibility studies and investor convenings, so that high-impact PPP projects can attract private capital.
One shared goal: unlocking #FinancingForDevelopment to accelerate the SDGs in Sindh. 🌱
#SDGsPlusProgramme
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Eighty-one years on, the promise of the @UN Charter, peace, dignity, and opportunity for all, matters as much as ever. Days like this remind us that lasting change happens when people come together and every voice has a role in shaping the future.
From Karachi to every corner of Pakistan, the work continues. 💚
#UNDPinPakistan #LeaveNoOneBehind
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We were honoured to be joined by the First Lady of Pakistan, @AseefaBZ. Her presence added special meaning to the day and reflected a shared commitment to people, peace, and progress across the country. 💚
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Shukriya, Karachi, for showing up for #UnitedNationsDay! 🇺🇳🇵🇰
The city of lights brought the colour, the energy, and the heart. From young changemakers to communities and partners, it was a day of coming together around something we all share: hope for a more peaceful, fair, and sustainable future for every Pakistani.
#ForPeopleForPlanet🧵
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🌍 Karachi, let's come together for #UnitedNationsDay!
Join us at the 📍Youth Development Centre, South Lawn, for a celebration of the spirit of the @UNinPak and the values that connect us across communities and borders.
🗓️ 24 October | 4 PM onwards
#UNDay #ForPeopleAndPlanet
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At @undpasiapac we have been asking and analyzing responses to the question: what actually makes people feel safer?
Clearly protection from immediate security threats. But it is also about a decent job, institutions one can trust, basic services that work, reliable information. And to be better prepared and withstand that next shock.
Tomorrow at 10 a.m. ET we launch our new regional @UNDP report exploring security through that wider development lens. Looking to shared positive outcomes.
Read more here and join us for this conversation at @ipinst.
go.undp.org/xmd
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💡 Every great business starts as an idea. Turning it into a living takes skills, courage and values.
📍 Day 1 of #WELD Punjab Chapter in Bahawalpur 🇵🇰 brought together 40+ women.
@amaneconomist, Project Manager @PunjabSDGsUnit #UNDPinPakistan, spoke on values-based leadership and practical business skills. Prof. Dr. Shazia Anjum, Vice Chancellor, @gscwuofficial, shared her journey: leadership takes courage and staying true to your values. Sessions covered market research, business models, resilience, growth, formalization and communication.
🎯Ideas become businesses when skills meet values.
#WomenInLeadership #CharacterDrivenLeadership #LeaveNoOneBehind
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🇯🇵🤝🇵🇰 What is development ultimately for? For Japan, the answer begins with human security.
In our new Development Advocate Pakistan, H.E. AKAMATSU Shuichi, Ambassador @JapaninPak, reflects on how investing in people, strengthening institutions and building lasting partnerships can advance shared prosperity in an uncertain world.
As Japan and Pakistan approach 75 years of diplomatic relations, he looks back on decades of cooperation, from disaster recovery and community resilience to infrastructure, public services and emerging technologies.
📖 go.undp.org/xgP
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🇵🇰 What leadership does Pakistan need?
In our latest #DAP, @senator_Baloch, @mir_sana05, and @DrAmjadsaqib1 reflect on inequality, governance, social development, and the leadership needed to drive lasting progress in Pakistan.
Read their perspectives: go.undp.org/xgm
#DevelopmentAdvocatePakistan #Leadership #SustainableDevelopment
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Good to meet Pakistan’s Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb.
Jobs are the foundation of prosperity.
We discussed how @UNDP’s new Investment Accelerator and Jobs for Prosperity flagship initiatives can help turn financing into investment, support small businesses and farmers, and create more and better jobs.
#IMFMeetings #WBGMeetings
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Finance Minister, UNDP Administrator Discuss Development Financing, Climate Resilience and Employment
Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue, Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb, met with Mr. Alexander De Croo, UNDP Administrator and UN Under-Secretary-General, on the sidelines of the World Bank Group–IMF Annual Meetings 2026 in Bangkok, Thailand, to discuss development financing, climate resilience and employment.
The Finance Minister emphasized strengthening implementation capacity to translate available financing and policy frameworks into bankable projects. Both sides discussed UNDP’s Implementation Bridge and developing an investable project pipeline through the SDG Investment Fair and the V20 platform.
The meeting explored various options, including integrated financing, blended finance, public–private partnerships and closer UNDP-World Bank cooperation. The discussions also covered biodiversity financing and potential debt-for-nature and debt-for-climate swaps, considering Pakistan’s external debt composition.
The Finance Minister highlighted private sector-led job creation and expanding cash flow-based lending, digital finance and guarantees for small businesses and farmers. He outlined collaborative opportunities for cooperation on climate risk insurance, including through the Global Shield and parametric insurance.
Sam Rizk retweeted
Can competence alone make a good leader?
In #UNDPinPakistan’s latest issue of Development Advocate Pakistan, Leading Development in a Polarized World, Hussain Dawood and Dr. Asghar Zaidi of @ksblpakistan argue that leadership in polarized times must be grounded in integrity, stewardship and responsibility.
Read how character builds trust and strengthens institutions: go.undp.org/xGH
#Leadership
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Strengthening the rule of law in Pakistan 🇵🇰
Through a new partnership with EU and @UNODC, we will help improve access to justice, especially for women and vulnerable communities in Balochistan & Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
🔗go.undp.org/xTd
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🌍 Exports are a means, not an end. People are.
At @PIDEpk, Dr. @SamuelRizk, Resident Representative #UNDPinPakistan, chaired the Mahbub ul Haq Memorial Lecture, featuring a keynote by Professor @DavidDaokuiLi of @Tsinghua_Uni.
Reflecting on URAAN Pakistan’s US$100 billion export ambition, he emphasised that growth must create opportunities for women, young people and small businesses.
#HumanDevelopment #SustainableExports
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Today, 🇪🇺 @EUPakistan, #UNDPinPakistan & @UNODCPakistan signed an agreement to implement a four-year, EUR 10 million EU-funded Rule of Law programme, strengthening access to justice ⚖️in Balochistan & Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, particularly for women & vulnerable communities. #RuleOfLaw
🔗Read more here: go.undp.org/xTd
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👩💼 A seat at the table isn't the same as a say in the decision.
In our new Development Advocate Pakistan, @van_ntn, Deputy Resident Representative #UNDPinPakistan, makes the case that women's representation must turn into real influence over the decisions that shape our societies.
That means creating pathways to leadership, not just adding seats, and giving women a voice in the new centres of power: technology, climate finance and digital governance.
📖 go.undp.org/xpU
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🌍 Crises overlap. Trust is eroding. Problems cross every boundary.
In our new Development Advocate Pakistan, Dr. @SamuelRizk, Resident Representative #UNDPinPakistan, calls on leaders to work across institutional boundaries, rebuild trust and bring diverse actors together around shared priorities.
In an era of uncertainty, he writes, leadership has to look beyond single programmes and organizations to build institutions, partnerships and systems that endure.
📖 Read the full editorial: go.undp.org/xpZ
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🌍 The world is becoming more connected. And more divided.
From climate shocks and economic uncertainty to technological disruption and declining trust, today's development challenges no longer stay in one place or one sector.
When crises cross borders and institutions, what does it take to lead? Our new Development Advocate Pakistan, Leading Development in a Polarized World, looks at how leaders can bridge divides, strengthen institutions and make decision-making more inclusive.
📖 go.undp.org/xcV
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📢 The latest issue of #UNDPinPakistan’s Development Advocate Pakistan (#DAP) is out now!
🌍 Crises no longer arrive one at a time. Climate shocks, economic uncertainty, technological disruption and falling trust now hit together, across borders and sectors.
So what does leadership look like when problems are more connected but people are more divided? This issue, Leading Development in a Polarized World, brings together more than 20 voices from government, business, academia, civil society and sport to answer that question.
📖 Read the full issue: go.undp.org/xcV
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“Young people are too often at the receiving end of our wisdom, without a voice in shaping their own futures.”
At @PPAFofficial’s panel on "Pathways to Youth Economic Empowerment through Skills Development, Entrepreneurship and Start-up Support", @Van_ntn, Deputy Resident Representative #UNDPinPakistan, called for stronger pathways connecting skills with finance, entrepreneurship and decent work, greater investment in national systems, and deliberate action to remove barriers to young women’s economic participation.
#GenderEquality #DecentWork
