Friday, June 9, 2017

PAF to forge partnership with local units

Kathmandu, June 6: Poverty Alleviation Fund (PAF) Tuesday said that it had decided to include the local units as its partnership in poverty alleviation.
Speaking at a press meet here, vice-chairman of the PAF Dr. Yam Bahadur Thapa said that the 67th meeting of the Fund held on May 30 decided to collaborate with the local government while implementing the poverty alleviation programmes in wards of and communities there.
He said that as the funds provided by the donors like the World Bank have been depleting, the PAF was planning to diversify the sources of income, and obtaining support from multilateral, bilateral and other international donor organisations.
The fund is developing itself so it could play an instrumental role in ending poverty and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

PAF’s progammes are including more than 4 million poor people of 800,000 households from 60 districts through 32,000 community organisations. 

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