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15 06, 2018

Literacy rate to be achieved by formal, non-formal education systems – Razina Alam

2018-06-30T20:00:45+00:00

Former Senator Razina Alam Khan and Chairperson National Commission for Human Development (NCHD), Razina Alam Khan has said that to accomplish the target of 90 percent literacy rate set for the vision 2025, the government should run existing formal education system side by side with non-formal education across the country. She said this while chairing the third [...]

15 03, 2018

Japan announces $3.2 million grant for modernizing NIH Polio Lab

2018-03-20T21:39:23+00:00

The Japanese government on Friday announced $3.2 million grant for the procurement of equipment for the polio eradication laboratory at the National Institute, Islamabad. The notes were officially signed by the representatives of the Government of Japan, Japan’s International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the World Health Organisation. The grant will be provided for modernising the NIH [...]

15 03, 2018

Non-Formal Education Policy 2017 launched

2018-03-20T21:16:37+00:00

The Sindh Non-Formal Education (NFE) Policy was formally launched by Minister for Education and Literacy Jam Mahtab Hussain Dahar at a ceremony held recently in Karachi. The event was attended by School Education and Literacy Department (SELD) Secretary, Dr. Iqbal Durrani, USAID Deputy Mission Director John Smith-Sreen and representatives of other development agencies like JICA [...]

15 03, 2018

Japan provides USD 3.5 million for Educating children in Pakistan

2018-03-20T21:14:13+00:00

The Government of Japan will provide a grant of 393 million JPY (approximately USD 3.5 million) to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for supporting its initiative to provide Quality Alternative Education to out-of-school children and adolescents in Pakistan. Notes to this effect were signed and exchanged here today between H.E. Mr. Takashi Kurai, Ambassador [...]

15 03, 2016

Japan renews commitment to bring Pakistan closer to becoming polio-free

2017-04-26T12:34:50+00:00

The Government of Japan, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) signed an agreement of 360,000,000 Japanese Yen (US$ 2,981,554) worth grant  to support interruption of the wild polio virus in Pakistan. The grant will help procurement of 16,078,990 doses of the Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV); sufficient to vaccinate 14,356,241 children under the age of five in ten mop-up [...]

15 04, 2012

World TB Day being observed in Pakistan with cautious optimism

2017-04-26T12:35:17+00:00

World Tuberculosis Day falling on Saturday the 24th March is being commemorated all over the world including Pakistan with commitment and renewed enthusiasm to save lives from a preventable and curable disease. Elaborate programs have been organized on this occasion. The WHO Representative in Pakistan Dr Guido Sabatinelli has called for all out efforts to [...]