KARACHI: Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) have signed an agreement for jointly taking forward the poverty graduation approach with the ultra-poor / vulnerable poor Afghan refugee population residing in Pishin and Swabi districts of Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, respectively, a statement said on Wednesday.
The initiative aims at making an effort to graduate the Afghan refugee population and their host families up the poverty scales and simultaneously providing them with sustainable livelihoods, it added.
The Poverty Graduation Pilot for Afghan refugee families will help develop the capacities, opportunities, assets and productivity of Afghan refugees and their host families to reduce their vulnerability to shocks, improve their livelihoods and strengthen their business operations.
UNHCR Representative in Pakistan Ruvendrini Menikdiwela and PPAF Chief Executive Officer Qazi Azmat Isa along with officials from the two organisations attended the signing ceremony, it said.
Sheikh argued that the government should have maintained stable petroleum prices
MARI has successfully drilled and tested the third appraisal well in the Ghazij formation in the Mari D&PL
Gold rates decreased by $17 to $2,395 per ounce in the international market
Company's revenue saw a 13.9% year-on-year increase, reaching Rs49.2 billion, up from Rs43.19 billion in the same...
A man counts US dollars in a money exchange shop in Dhaka. — AFP/FileLAHORE: The first thing that the government...
Power generation stood at 8,741 gigawatt-hours or 11,749 megawatts in March
