{"id":62274,"date":"2020-03-05T11:42:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T06:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=62274"},"modified":"2020-03-05T11:44:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T06:44:51","slug":"wb-invest-punjabs-health-and-education-sectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wb-invest-punjabs-health-and-education-sectors.html","title":{"rendered":"WB to invest in Punjab&#8217;s health and education sectors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The World Bank (WB) has allocated USD 200 million in a bid to support the health and education sectors in Punjab, a news source reported. The international agency has further earmarked USD 85 million in credit and grant packages to facilitate host communities and refugees \u2013 in addition to announcing USD 15 million to improve the delivery of services, strengthen institutions, and boost enterprise development in Balochistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-depts-asked-develop-health-education-sectors-tribal-districts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Govt depts asked to develop health, education sectors of tribal districts (opens in a new tab)\">Govt depts asked to develop health, education sectors of tribal districts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The WB sanctioned USD 200 million for the \u2018Punjab Human Capital Investment Project\u2019 under which the provincial government aims to improve health services and children\u2019s education. To this effect, WB Country Director for Pakistan Illango Patchamuthu said that the project would help in the social protection of the vulnerable families in select districts and produce a healthy workforce for the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/education-city-planned-newly-merged-tribal-districts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Education city planned for newly merged tribal districts (opens in a new tab)\">Education city planned for newly merged tribal districts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Task Team Leader for the said project Yoonyoung Cho said that the women in poor households face various financial and non-financial hurdles to access health care services and bear the burden of childcare and household chores. The initiative is expected to improve the uptake and quality of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-follow-uk-nhs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"health services (opens in a new tab)\">health services<\/a>, such as immunisation and maternal care, as well as provide young parents with skills training and early education skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The World Bank (WB) has allocated USD 200 million in a bid to support the health and education sectors in Punjab, a news source reported. The international agency has further earmarked USD 85 million in credit and grant packages to facilitate host communities and refugees \u2013 in addition to announcing USD 15 million to improve the delivery of services, strengthen institutions, and boost enterprise development in Balochistan. Read: Govt depts asked to develop health, education sectors of tribal districts The WB sanctioned USD 200 million for the \u2018Punjab Human Capital Investment Project\u2019 under which the provincial government aims to improve health services and children\u2019s education. To this effect, WB Country Director for Pakistan Illango Patchamuthu said that the project would help in the social protection of the vulnerable families in select districts and produce a healthy workforce for the future. Read: Education city planned for newly merged tribal districts Task Team Leader for the said project Yoonyoung Cho said that the women in poor households face various financial and non-financial hurdles to access health care services and bear the burden of childcare and household chores. The initiative is expected to improve the uptake and quality of health services, such&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":62276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15020],"tags":[21891,21892,21890],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-62274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-developments","8":"tag-health-and-education-sectors","9":"tag-punjab-human-capital-investment-project","10":"tag-world-bank-wb","11":"cat-15020-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WB to invest in Punjab&#039;s health and education sectors - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The World Bank (WB) has allocated USD 200 million in a bid to support the health and education sectors in Punjab\" \/>\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\/wb-invest-punjabs-health-and-education-sectors.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WB to invest in Punjab&#039;s health and education sectors - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The World Bank (WB) has allocated USD 200 million in a bid to support the health and education sectors in Punjab\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wb-invest-punjabs-health-and-education-sectors.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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