P and D dept holds workshops on speedy ex-Fata uplift.

PESHAWAR -- A series of workshops organised by the planning and development department to finalise the sector plans for the second year of the Accelerated Implementation Programme (AIP-2020-21) for the merged tribal districts concluded here on Friday.

A statement issued here said the objective of the exercise was to orient and engage officers on the PAMFRAME methodology, which was recently adopted by the government to foster development reforms in merged areas.

'This new approach to the entire sector programming focuses on the identification of inputs, outputs and outcomes by indicating rational linkages between them,' it said.

The statement said the PAM (Programming Approaches/Analytics and Measures) had been devised and applied as a planning tool to all development sectors of the AIP resulting in the elaboration of sector frameworks, so it was called the PAMFRAMES.

Says activity meant to orient officers on new reforms methodology

'That is how the P and D department has developed an approach in consultation with the implementing departments for all their sectors based on which investments can be planned and progress can be measured through interventions and indicators that are logically-planned, result-oriented, systematically-organised and context-specific,' it said.

The statement said the department after weeks of internal deliberations on the PAMFRAME design led by additional chief secretary Shakeel Qadir Khan and chief economist Nauman Afzal Afridi had launched the application of the new programming...