KARACHI: Development policy makers and practitioners stressed the importance of fostering people’s own organisations and providing them with suitable resources to act as the social pillar to complement and supplement the government’s political and administrative pillars.
All national and provincial local development policies and budgets must mainstream the social pillar for effective poverty reduction at the household level. They were addressing the participants of the National Convention of Local Support Organisations (LSOs) organised here on Tuesday by the Rural Support Programmes Network (RSPN) with the support of European Union Delegation to Pakistan. Sindh’s Minister for Planning and Development Mir Hazar Khan Bajarani was the chief guest at the convention.
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