'Poverty graduation programme to help poor become self-reliant'.

ISLAMABAD -- Experts at an international conference held on Wednesday said small interventions and innovative solutions could help poverty stricken people improve their socio-economic condition.

The conference titled 'Beyond Action, Towards Transformation' was organised on Wednesday by the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF).

The third international conference focused on research works and developing further dimensions over poverty alleviation, and also assessed how PPAF's interventions for the poor have led to transforming lives and communities in the country.

Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety Dr Sania Nishtar said the deliberations at the conference would help the government in determining the impact of the poverty graduation programme across the country.

She said the programme would help provide the vulnerable segments of society with livelihoods and social protection to become self-reliant.

'The government in the battle for greater social and economic equality is constantly striving towards this goal and aims to enhance the process of transformation of livelihood of the vulnerable segments of the society,' she said adding, 'Under the ambit of Ehsaas Programme the government plans to empower millions of people across Pakistan by laying greater emphasis on asset transfer.'

The speakers highlighted that poverty graduation means moving over from one level to another at the poverty score card.

The poverty scorecard for Pakistan has been developed by the World Bank as a tool to measure change in poverty in an effective way and to...

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