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Pak-Afghan Dialogue Initiative In February 2010
SPADO initiated Pakistan Afghanistan cross-border dialogue involving
representatives of civil society, media, NGO, academia and religious
scholars and government officials from across the border over issues
and prospective solutions of the Pukhtun communities across the
Pakistan Afghan border region. The purpose of the dialogues was to
devise community level action plans and prepare policy
recommendations for improving the status of peace, education and
income-generation in these areas. These action plans and
recommendations for policy makers were developed through a research
process that included discussions, interviews, dialogues and
meetings with sector experts over a period of six months. In January
- February the action plans and the policy recommendations were
presented to the government officials, donor agencies, international
development organizations and representatives of diplomatic missions
in two national conferences held back to back in Kabul and Islamabad
respectively. The representatives from national government and
national and international development donor agencies and diplomatic
missions pledged to take into consideration the recommendations put
forward by the communities from both sides of the border. |
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