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Bad politics costs Chitral multi-million infrastructure project

By Gul Hamaad Farooqi CHITRAL: The Livelihood Advancement and Community Infrastructure Project (LACIP) of Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF)  for Chitral has been terminated due to political interferences. After the winding up in Chitral, now the districts of Shangla and Buner would get benefits from the multi-sector poverty alleviation project. Sources confirmed to this scribe that PPAF…

LAHORE: The Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) and KfW, German Development Bank, have signed to work together for the second phase of the ‘Livelihood Support and Promotion of Small Community Infrastructure Programme’ (LACIP-II).

A statement issued Thursday said the event took place at the end of an appraisal mission to PPAF headed by Jens Clausen, Head of Division, Governance and Peace, KfW Frankfurt. It followed bilateral government consultations on development cooperation between Pakistan and Germany held in September 2015, a new commitment of 10 million euro has been granted for LACIP-II.

The project would be executed in three years and would contribute to greater political participation of villagers in decision making in tehsil and village councils by supporting the implementation of decentralisation reform in selected districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

This project was expected to benefit 325,000 persons and would be an extension to LACIP-I which was being implemented in eight districts of KP for infrastructure development, livelihood support and disaster preparedness and mitigation interventions for the benefit of 600,000 persons.

Clausen commended PPAf’s work and expressed his confidence that LACIP-II would support PPAF’s explicit pro-poor, community-based development efforts, and help the newly established local government entities in the project’s districts. Clausen said the government of Germany was continuing its development journey with Pakistan through PPAF in the form of the LACIP’s second phase.

KARACHI: Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund has provided an endowment of Rs2 million to the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) Trust Fund, a statement said on Thursday.

The endowment will be used to establish a scholarship fund for the benefit of eligible students enrolled at NUST, it said.

The scholarship to be known as Italian Development Corporation / PPAF Scholarship Endowment Fund will be managed by the NUST Trust Fund.

The NTF Endowment Scholarship Fund would serve as a dedicated fund for the benefit of those deserving students enrolled at NUST in its undergraduate programme of minimum four years duration and /or postgraduate Program who are unable to afford the fees / costs of the program from their own resources.

The financial assistance will be in the form of fees waivers or scholarships on a semester or annual basis, it added.