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Mohammad Arees
Khan Mangi

Program Manager, Climate Action Center Karachi

Working at the intersection of climate policy, water governance, and the resilience of the Indus delta's communities. MPP (Distinction), University of Essex.

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Climate Adaptation & Resilience
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Water & Environmental Governance
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Community Systems & Rural Development
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Land, Agriculture & Ecology
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Cultural Stewardship & Place-Making

Projects & Initiatives

Programme Management
Climate Action Center Karachi

Pakistan's leading climate action organisation. As Program Manager, leading resilience programming, policy engagement, and the Karachi climate agenda aligned with the Indus River framing.

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Cultural Enterprise
Unwind at Gharo

An agritourism initiative on the Indus delta drawing on Sindhi heritage, ecology, and Sufi tradition. Eight experiential zones. Annual Gharo Festival.

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NGO Leadership
Dharti Foundation Pakistan

Co-founded education and community development organisation working in Sindh — building local advocacy capacity and connecting cultural knowledge with development frameworks.

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Selected work on the Indus

2026
The Dismantling of the Indus
Barrage engineering, dam politics, and the 1960 treaty — how a river system was unmade
Essay
2026
Climate Adaptation & Equity in Sindh's Riverine Communities
MPP Dissertation, University of Essex — Distinction
Dissertation
2025
Kacho Communities in a Warming Climate
Flood policy, equity, and the limits of disaster governance in Pakistan
Policy
2025
Prosopis juliflora and the Colonisation of the Delta
Ecological disruption as political history
Field
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"I work between the policy framework and the field reality — because the distance between them is where most of the damage happens."

My connection to Sindh is not academic. I manage land in Khairpur, have spent years in direct conversation with the communities of the Indus delta, and built things there — a cultural enterprise, a foundation, a school. That rootedness is inseparable from how I read a policy document or design a programme.

At the University of Essex I studied the systems that govern these places. My dissertation examined what climate frameworks look like from the receiving end — in the kacho communities who absorb the consequences of every upstream decision.

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Sindh landscape
Sindh, Pakistan

Observations from the field

May 2026
Notes from the Gharo Festival: culture as climate adaptation

What happens when you put artists, ecologists, and communities together on a delta farm for two days. Some notes on what I noticed.

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March 2026
What the 2023 R&R policy gets wrong about where people actually live

On the gap between resettlement frameworks and the spatial reality of kacho communities — and why that gap costs lives.

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January 2026
The barrage road at dusk — on Sindh and the infrastructure of forgetting

Driving along a colonial barrage at dusk, thinking about what it means to build memory into landscape — and what happens when that landscape is dismantled.

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Visit the delta.
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Private farm experiences, overnight stays, and the annual Gharo Festival — on the Indus delta, 90 minutes from Karachi. A different kind of getaway.

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Experience
Day visits
8 experiential zones, Sindhi lunch, guided farm walk
Overnight
Farm stays
Spend a night on the delta — evenings, fire, Khamooshi
Annual
Gharo Festival
Two-day cultural gathering — music, craft, community
Groups
Corporate & private
Offsite retreats, team events, private gatherings

Climate policy & resilience advisory
for organisations working in Pakistan

Short-term and project-based consultancy for INGOs, UN agencies, bilateral donors, and research institutions — policy analysis, programme design, field research, and Sindh context briefings.

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