Sindh schemes: Departments told to indicate SDGs goals and targets

Sindh government has directed that all administrative departments should ensure indication of goals and targets of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and actions proposed in Climate Change Policy Framework against each scheme.

This was suggested in the budget circular of the provincial government for the next financial year. According to guidelines for the news fiscal, the amount for the projects to be financed through foreign assistance should separately be mentioned in rupees, indicating the expenditure on import of goods and services.

This is necessary because under certain aid agreements, the Government of Pakistan/Sindh is required to first incur the expenditure in local currency and thereafter the amount is reimbursed by the development partner/foreign donors.

The counter-part funds required for foreign projects assistance must be ensured to be kept in each year's ADP as per commitments made with international development partners.

All administrative departments/concerned agencies will formulate their programs after full deliberations with all concerned stakeholders and executing agencies so that request for re-appropriation, immediately after the commencement of the fiscal year, can be avoided. As a policy, the Planning and Development Department Board would not entertain any request for re-appropriation during the period from July to December, 2020.

The deputy commissioners will have to identify new schemes for the respective districts depending on the priority and need of those proposed schemes and incorporate in its development portfolio.

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