Dr. Sania Nishtar for establishing mechanism for innovative measures to alleviate poverty

TASHKENT, January 28: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Poverty Alleviation and Social Protection, Dr. SaniaNishtar Friday emphasized on the need to establish a permanent mechanism for regular exchange of experiences and information on the applied innovative measures aimed at poverty alleviation.
Dr. Sania was speaking at the apex level event with heads of ministries and agencies of member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) on Poverty Alleviation. JamshidKuchkarov, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economic Development and Poverty Reduction, Republic of Uzbekistan hosted the event in Tashkent.
The event was attended by heads and representatives of the ministries and agencies of the SCO member states on poverty alleviation, as well as representatives of SCO Secretariat. Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Sania thanked the SCO secretariat for encouraging all the members for cooperation in the field of poverty alleviation as it was outlined in the Action Plan for 2021-2025 for the implementation of the SCO Development Strategy until 2025.
“Prime Minister Imran Khan during his speech at the meeting of Head of States of SCO which was held in June 2019 in Bishkek articulated his eight-point agenda. This included a proposal to narrow the research-policy gap through the establishment of leading knowledge center for poverty reduction within the SCO framework”, Dr. Sania highlighted. Later, Dr. Sania reflected on Pakistan’s experience in poverty alleviation.
She said, “In Pakistan, poverty alleviation is a top priority of our government.
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