{"id":75617,"date":"2021-04-17T09:49:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T04:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=75617"},"modified":"2021-04-16T16:52:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T11:52:42","slug":"sdg-projects-to-generate-employment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sdg-projects-to-generate-employment.html","title":{"rendered":"SDG projects to generate employment, support economic growth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs organized a two-day virtual &#8216;SDG Investment Fair 2021&#8217; in which Pakistan introduced eight selected projects with high potential to appeal foreign direct investment (FDI) as well as cover Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), according to news sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/boi-rolls-out-new-investment-promotion-strategy-to-boost-fdi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BoI rolls out new Investment Promotion Strategy to boost FDI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan was represented by Board of Investment (BOI) Secretary, Fareena Mazhar who told the forum about the facilities and services BOI is providing to the investors. Both national and international investors are entertained by BOI to open liaison offices as well as obtaining work visa in the country. BOI currently has USD 14 billion worth of SDG aligned projects in multiple sectors including transport and communication, energy including renewable energy, water supply and sanitation, education, health care and information technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The projects presented in two-day fair were selected from a variety of sectors such as infrastructure, hydro power, medical devices development centre, silicon solar PV panels fabrication, production of agriculture drones and smart farms, university technology parks and IT incubation centres across Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-sets-aside-pkr-650-bn-for-development-projects-under-psdp-2020-21.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Govt sets aside PKR 650 bn for development projects under PSDP 2020-21<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The secretary also explained about the flexibility in processes and how ease of doing in Pakistan has been enhanced. She further mentioned that the process of registering a company in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/idwp-approves-development-projects-for-islamabad.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pakistan<\/a> now only takes 1 day and the country is offering e-visa facility to more than 174 countries in the world. She added that with the launch of Pakistan Single Window (PSW), trade and goods in transit will be facilitated in terms of information, transparency and e-payment system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs organized a two-day virtual &#8216;SDG Investment Fair 2021&#8217; in which Pakistan introduced eight selected projects with high potential to appeal foreign direct investment (FDI) as well as cover Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), according to news sources. Read: BoI rolls out new Investment Promotion Strategy to boost FDI Pakistan was represented by Board of Investment (BOI) Secretary, Fareena Mazhar who told the forum about the facilities and services BOI is providing to the investors. Both national and international investors are entertained by BOI to open liaison offices as well as obtaining work visa in the country. BOI currently has USD 14 billion worth of SDG aligned projects in multiple sectors including transport and communication, energy including renewable energy, water supply and sanitation, education, health care and information technology. The projects presented in two-day fair were selected from a variety of sectors such as infrastructure, hydro power, medical devices development centre, silicon solar PV panels fabrication, production of agriculture drones and smart farms, university technology parks and IT incubation centres across Pakistan. Read: Govt sets aside PKR 650 bn for development projects under PSDP 2020-21 The secretary also explained about the flexibility&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":75623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15017,15153],"tags":[45729,45730],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-75617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-notices-announcements","8":"category-trade","9":"tag-sdg-projects","10":"tag-united-nations-department-of-economic-and-social-affairs","11":"cat-15017-id","12":"cat-15153-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SDG projects to generate employment - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs organized a two-day virtual &#039;SDG Investment Fair 2021&#039; 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