The Global Climate Risk Index 1993-2012 had ranked Pakistan as the 12th most affected by extreme weather events. Currently, Pakistan ranks 7th in the 10 countries that are most affected by climate change globally. The improvement of human habitats has been a key concern for the Aga Khan Development Network. For over two decades, the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH) has been the pioneer of humanitarian initiatives, addressing the increasing threat posed by natural disasters and climate change across Pakistan, with a particular focus on communities living in disaster-prone regions. AKAH has designed disaster risk reduction and climate change adaption plans, and formed community-led organisations in over 750 rural and urban settlements, to enable residents of these high-risk areas to cope with disasters in terms of preparedness and response at grassroots level.