Good news for Sindh and Balochistan Students
The representatives from 10 development agencies’ at the United
nations Global Children Fund (UNICEF) have endorsed the Education sector plans
for Sindh and Baluchistan and asked them to have 100 million US dollar from the
Global Partnership for Education (GPE) so that the nation can achieve their Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs).
Among the people who were present in the signing ceremony were Education Minister Balochistan, Sardar Raza Muhammad Barrech,
Secretary Education Baluchistan Ghulam Ali Baluch and the Additional Chief
Secretary Sindh Fazlullah Pechuho. Among the
agencies and the organization who signed the document of endorsement included European
Union, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Canadian
International Development Agency (CIDA), Australian Government's Department for
Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Japan International Cooperation Agency
(JICA), German Aid Agency (GIZ), United Kingdom's Department for International
Aid (DFID) World Bank, UNESCO and UNICEF.
Out of the total 100 million of grant that is to be
given will be divided as 66 million US dollar to Sindh Province and $34 million
to the Baluchistan province. The supervising agency for the provinces s World
Bank where as the European Union and UNICEF will be the coordinating agencies
for the grant in Sindh and Baluchistan.
The education minister of Baluchistan, Sardar Raza
Muhammad said on the occasion that this is a great moment for the people of the
largest province of the Pakistan that the government partners have arrived on
the same age and have documented themselves towards a common goal of education
without which the nation cannot get rid of all the problems we are facing these
days.
He added that the education system of the nation has sever challenges and
there was the need of this sheer strategically development along with its
proper implementation. He thanked the global partners to help and support them
for deceiving thei MDGs by 2015.
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