PESHAWAR, Dec 9: Islamabad is initiating a move to seek support from the development partners and donor agencies for the decentralized services to ensure improved delivery of services under the decentralized governance, official sources told Dawn.

In this respect, the Planning Division, Islamabad, was making arrangements to organize ‘Pakistan Human Development Forum’ from Jan 21 to 23 to persuade the country’s development partners and donor agencies to extend support to the social sector in the decentralized environment.

The nation’s evolving human development programme would be shared with the development partners at the three-day event during which the overall poverty alleviation strategy — both at the federal and provincial level — would come under discussion, the sources said.

Presentations would be made by the federal and provincial cabinet level functionaries, covering wide range of issues and dimensions of the poverty reduction strategy, during the course of three-day meetings.

Pakistan’s poverty reduction and human development strategies covering education, health and reproductive health, mainstream gender, human development perception and issues related to financing social sector would form basis for discussion with the representatives of donor agencies and development partners to seek support for social services.

The event, said the sources, was aimed at discussing the key dimension of delivery of social services in the context of decentralized governance system.

Alternative approaches to ensure improved services delivery through partnership with the non-governmental organizations and private sector would also be discussed at the PHDF.