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Pakistan contributes Rs 5b wheat to WFP for TDPs
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed the government’s announcement of releasing 124,000 metric tons of wheat worth Rs 4.97 billion for the temporarily displaced persons (TDPs) from Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) as well as returnees.
Finance Minister Ishaq Dar had approved the immediate release of the wheat urgently required to continue providing relief and livelihoods assistance to these groups.
Having made previously available 519,000 mt of wheat worth Rs 20 billion to WFP between 2013 and 2015, Pakistan ranks the first as host government donor to WFP worldwide and the second largest donor to WFP in the country, after the US, says a press release issued by the WFP. The in-kind support by the government of Pakistan in 2016 is further enhanced by international donors, USAID, Germany and Japan, whose contributions are partially covering the associated costs of milling, fortification, transportation, distribution and monitoring. In March 2015, the government initiated the implementation of its return and rehabilitation strategy, as a result of which some 730,000 previously displaced individuals returned to their areas of origin in FATA. The numbers of TDPs are thus progressively declining while 1.1 million in displacement will be returning in 2016, according to a plan by FATA Secretariat.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/national/03-Feb-2016/pakistan-contributes-rs-5b-wheat-to-wfp-for-tdps
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed the government’s announcement of releasing 124,000 metric tons of wheat worth Rs 4.97 billion for the temporarily displaced persons (TDPs) from Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) as well as returnees.
Finance Minister Ishaq Dar had approved the immediate release of the wheat urgently required to continue providing relief and livelihoods assistance to these groups.
Having made previously available 519,000 mt of wheat worth Rs 20 billion to WFP between 2013 and 2015, Pakistan ranks the first as host government donor to WFP worldwide and the second largest donor to WFP in the country, after the US, says a press release issued by the WFP. The in-kind support by the government of Pakistan in 2016 is further enhanced by international donors, USAID, Germany and Japan, whose contributions are partially covering the associated costs of milling, fortification, transportation, distribution and monitoring. In March 2015, the government initiated the implementation of its return and rehabilitation strategy, as a result of which some 730,000 previously displaced individuals returned to their areas of origin in FATA. The numbers of TDPs are thus progressively declining while 1.1 million in displacement will be returning in 2016, according to a plan by FATA Secretariat.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/national/03-Feb-2016/pakistan-contributes-rs-5b-wheat-to-wfp-for-tdps
