ISLAMABAD: As many as 13 developed countries and aid agencies while lauding the agenda of change and transparency being introduced in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, have announced long term partnership with the provincial government that entails prompt financial assistance for improving social sectors including health, education, energy, agriculture, local government, forestry, potable water and social justice.
This announcement was made by donors at a conference cum cunsultative meeting at Khyber Pakhtunkhwa house Islamabad that was chaired by the KP Chief Minister Pervez Khattak wherein Strategic Development Partnership Framework (SDPF), evolved by the provincial government in consultation with the donors was threadbare elaborated.
It is the first important development and achievement of the provincial government after the provincial autonomy given to the provinces under 18th amendment to develop direct contacts with the world community and make agreements for financial and technical assistance to reform social sectors.
The Speaker KP Assembly Asad Qaiser, Provincial Senior Ministers Sirajul Haq, Sikandar Khan Sherpao, Shahram Khan Tarakai, Assembly members and leaders of the coalition government, Chief Secretary Shahzad Arbad, ACS Khalid Pervez and all other Administrative Secretaries were also present on this occasion while the representatives of the donors included AusAid, DFID, Embassy of Germany, GIZ, Embassy of Japan, JICA, Norway, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, USAID, Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC), European Union and CIDA.
On this occasion the representatives of donors agencies in thier speeches reposed full confidence in the reforms agenda and partnership framework (SDPF) of the KP government saying that the donors fully understood this framework and would whole heartedly cooperate with the KP government because it was formulated with mutual consultation of two months prolong period.
They said the donors could not well cooperate with the past regimes due to some reservations including ambiguity in their policies and ill planning.
They specially euologised the dynamic leadership of the Chief Minister Pervez Khattak and his team.
