MULTAN:A delegation of United Nations Resident Coordination Office (UNRCO) called on Additional Chief Secretary South Punjab Capt (R) Saqib Zafar at his office here on Sunday.
The UNRCO delegation led by Head of United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Office in Pakistan, Shah Nasir Khan and Provincial Coordinator UNRCO Punjab, Maryum Iqbal and Laila Rubab Jaskani.
On the occasion, the Secretary Planning and Development South Punjab Syed Shoaib Iqbal was also present in the meeting.
Shah Nasir Khan while giving briefing to ACS South Punjab, said that on the request of the Government of Punjab, the UNRCO has planed to provide dialogue facility between the government and key development partners including country heads of the UN agencies and development partnership.
The delegation apprised that the purpose of plan was to bring together the government officials of Federal, Punjab and South Punjab and development partners for a discussion on administrative, development, and governance challenges being faced in South Punjab and to chalk out that how development partners can provide technical and financial support for improving the development indicators of South Punjab.
He said the objective of the session was to discuss major challenges of South Punjab and a way forward required for addressing those challenges.
Various aspects of the event management such as security and participants related matters and it was told that development partners would visit the projects to get awareness about various challenges.
The Additional Chief Secretary South Punjab Saqib Zafar, assured the delegation provision of all administrative support for the success of the session.