The Ministry of Social Welfare has started implementing National Plan of Action for Children with an allocation of Rs 2 million for 2007-08. Sources told Business Recorder here on Friday that the staff has been recruited to implement the plan.
The National Commission on Child Welfare Division plans to organise a series of consultations in collaboration with the provincial social welfare departments to mobilise the partners for effective implementation of the NPA, they said. The project is aimed at developing a mechanism for the implementation of the National Plan of Action for Children to activate the District Commissions for Child Welfare and Development (DCCWD) and to identify focal persons for implementing the plan at provincial and district levels, they said.
The project will highlight the concept of National Plan of Action and the mechanisms for its implementation at grass roots level. Moreover, the role of civil society will be encouraged to facilitate implementation of National Plan of Action. The Ministry of Social Welfare has allocated Rs 428.90 million under Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) 2007-08 for several on-going and new projects, they said.