ISLAMABAD, Feb 26: The Devolution Trust for Community Empowerment (DTCE) organised a dialogue to highlight and deal with key governance challenges and cash in on foreign investment opportunities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Fata.

The objective of the ‘Governance Compass Dialogue’ was to identify individual and joint actions that can set the right direction for improved governance in Fata with inputs from the representatives of the government, donor community, and the civil society, says a press release issued here on Tuesday.

Conference delegates and participants consisted of senior representatives of the KP government and Fata, international donors representing UNDP, USAID, ADB, GIZ and the Asia Foundation, civil society organisations and implementing partners. The conference provided the stakeholders a common platform to discuss pressing issues that have lessened governance impacts, and generate ideas and suggestions for the way forward to set the governance compass aright.

The issues and remedial measures were discussed in four panel sessions. The sessions discussed the governance demand and supply side gaps as well as opportunities for donor programmes integration for greater results, government-civil society implementation and coordination issues, as well as how various donor projects can be made more sustainable by embedding them with government plans. Daniyal Aziz, chairman DTCE and former chairman NRB, Nadeem-ul Haq, deputy chairman Planning Commission, Hameed Ullah Jan Afridi, Senator from Fata, Omar Ayub, former federal minister of state for finance, Sardar Wazir Ahmed Jogezai, former deputy speaker National Assembly, Richard Albright, coordinator for economic and development assistance, US Embassy, and Karamatullah Khan Chagharmati, speaker provincial assembly, were among others who attended the dialogue.