The Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund and KfW, the German Development Bank, signed off on minutes of the next phase of the 'Livelihood Support and Promotion of Small Community Infrastructure Program' (LACIP II) to be funded by KfW. The event took place at the end of an appraisal mission to PPAF headed by Jens Clausen, Head of Division, Governance & Peace, KfW Frankfurt.
Following bilateral government consultations on development cooperation between Pakistan and Germany held in September 2015, a new commitment of euro 10,000,000 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 KP.
This project is expected to benefit 325,000 persons and would be an extension to LACIP I which is 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 the work done by PPAF 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.
Qazi Azmat Isa, CEO of PPAF, said. "We at PPAF are very excited for this opportunity to take forward our integrated programme into regions that are shown to have the lowest food security and human development indicators. Our experience with KfW under the LACIP-I project has resulted in good outcomes and shared successes which need to be replicated in other parts of KPK and Pakistan overall."-PR
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