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DFID
has worked with the
Government of Pakistan to improve its economic management. Our £55
million Direct Budget Support for the Poverty Reduction Strategy has
been linked to the first ever successful implementation of an IMF
Poverty Reduction Growth Facility in Pakistan. DFID is also
supporting the development of a Medium Term Budget Framework, which
has the potential to improve development results and enhance the
effectiveness of public expenditure.
One important
achievement in the last year has been the agreement of £65 million
of budget support for specific sectors, allocated to seven key
national health and population programmes. This has already secured
additional funding from the Government of Pakistan to programmes
like the National AIDS Control Programme and the Lady Health Workers
programme which aims to meet the health care and family planning
needs of over 100 million Pakistanis by 2005.
Linked to this work,
DFID is collaborating with USAID in the health sector on project
identification, design, monitoring and evaluation. This should help
the Government of Pakistan improve its public health provision for
the poor and reduce the population growth rate.
In Pakistan, DFID values
its close working relationship with the World Bank and the Asian
Development Bank in support of the Government of Pakistan’s
development work. We have collaborated closely with both Banks to
assess the impact of the Government’s challenging and innovative
programme of devolution, to bring government closer to the people
and to discover how donors and government can work together to
improve the delivery of local services to the poor.
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