Overview
- An International Labour Organization assessment finds about 3.3 million jobs were disrupted by Pakistan’s 2025 floods.
- The employment review, part of a joint damage assessment supported by the UN, ADB, EU and World Bank with UNDP coordination, surveyed 14 hard-hit districts in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
- Nine districts in Punjab saw the largest losses, with rural areas accounting for roughly 78 percent and agriculture hit hardest, leaving self-employed workers, daily wage earners, and small farmers most exposed.
- The ILO says provincial cash support covered immediate resettlement but not longer-term recovery, and it recommends cash-for-work programmes, skills training, and subsidized credit to restart farm and non-farm activity.
- Officials pledged an employment-focused recovery, and the ILO urged reviving the 2022 World of Work Crisis Response Strategy to make future disaster responses faster and more protective of jobs.