Experts for expand horizon of social protection.

ISLAMABAD -- The experts on Thursday emphasized the practitioners to realize that social protection was the agent of social development therefore the horizon of social protection system must be expanded beyond the social assistance in the local context.

The experts made the remarks at the launch of a training course on 'Social Protection in Pakistan' for public sector officials to develop a better understanding of the social protection concepts, instruments, and systems-based approach.

The course was organized by Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) in collaboration with GIZ under a BMZ-financed programme, Oxford Policy Management (OPM), and Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg (HBRS), Germany.

Programme Director, Deutsche Gesellschaft fr Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ, Pakistan) Dr. Franz von Roenne said that GIZ was supporting the federal as well as the provincial governments through its reform program...