{"id":54802,"date":"2019-08-31T10:06:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T10:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=54802"},"modified":"2020-01-27T07:53:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T07:53:23","slug":"undp-smeda-collaborate-economic-uplift-of-ex-fata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/undp-smeda-collaborate-economic-uplift-of-ex-fata.html","title":{"rendered":"UNDP, SMEDA to collaborate for economic uplift of ex-FATA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peshawar: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Pakistan\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pkr-410-mn-grant-approved-for-480-smes-in-kp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority<\/a> (SMEDA) has signed a letter of agreement for the formation of the \u2018Economic Cooperation and Development Forum\u2019 in the merged districts, according to the news sources.<\/p>\n<p>The objective of this forum is to encourage collaboration between various institutions to come up with new ways to bring investment in the tribal districts from private businesses and financial institutions. The purpose is to assist private investors by acting as a platform to explore sustainable growth avenues for the tribal districts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ndc-approves-development-projects-balochistan-ex-fata.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NDC approves development projects for Balochistan, ex-FATA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SMEDA has been roped in to evaluate the business development plans of 4,350 entrepreneurs from the merged tribes. The entrepreneurs will receive in-kind grants for establishing new startups, re-establishment of businesses, and expansion of existing businesses in Khyber and North &amp; South Waziristan areas.<\/p>\n<p>The forum will comprise of 40 economic development and private sector investment experts, public representatives, business community members, banks, micro-financers, policy-makers, think-tanks and academia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-accords-top-priority-to-socio-economic-uplift-of-ex-fata-pm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Govt accords top priority to socio-economic uplift of ex-FATA: PM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>These efforts for sustainable economic growth is part of the USAID-funded FATA Economic Revitalization Programme (FERP) for the newly merged districts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peshawar: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Pakistan\u2019s Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (SMEDA) has signed a letter of agreement for the formation of the \u2018Economic Cooperation and Development Forum\u2019 in the merged districts, according to the news sources. The objective of this forum is to encourage collaboration between various institutions to come up with new ways to bring investment in the tribal districts from private businesses and financial institutions. The purpose is to assist private investors by acting as a platform to explore sustainable growth avenues for the tribal districts. Read:\u00a0NDC approves development projects for Balochistan, ex-FATA SMEDA has been roped in to evaluate the business development plans of 4,350 entrepreneurs from the merged tribes. The entrepreneurs will receive in-kind grants for establishing new startups, re-establishment of businesses, and expansion of existing businesses in Khyber and North &amp; South Waziristan areas. The forum will comprise of 40 economic development and private sector investment experts, public representatives, business community members, banks, micro-financers, policy-makers, think-tanks and academia. Read:\u00a0Govt accords top priority to socio-economic uplift of ex-FATA: PM These efforts for sustainable economic growth is part of the USAID-funded FATA Economic Revitalization Programme (FERP) for the newly merged districts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":36941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15012,15016],"tags":[12788],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-54802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allied-industries","8":"category-new-developments","9":"tag-details-on-undp-smeda-to-collaborate-for-economic-uplift-of-ex-fata","10":"cat-15012-id","11":"cat-15016-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UNDP, SMEDA to collaborate for economic uplift of ex-FATA - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Peshawar: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Pakistan\u2019s Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (SMEDA) has signed a letter of\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/undp-smeda-collaborate-economic-uplift-of-ex-fata.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UNDP, SMEDA to collaborate for economic uplift of ex-FATA - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Peshawar: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Pakistan\u2019s Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (SMEDA) has signed a letter of\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/undp-smeda-collaborate-economic-uplift-of-ex-fata.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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