Poverty Alleviation In Pakistan

57 PART IV RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMMEDIATE FOLLOW-UP ACTION Institution 1. Establishment of an Inter—Ministerial Steering Committee (IMSC), chaired by the Prime Minister, For the implementation of the PPCD. The IMSC would be supported by a Research and Evaluation Unit. 2. Reorganization and strengthening of the Ministry of Rural Development. 3. Establishment of the National Poverty Alleviation Trust Fund. 4. Establishment of the Participatory Development Training Facility. 5. Establishment of a Special Window in (he Women’s Bank for Poor Women. 6. Establishment of Industrial Support Centres for Small- Scale Rural Industrialization in the Informal Sector. 7. Establishment of Centres for Protection of Child Labourers in each of the major cities of Pakistan. Immediate Training of Trainers Train 25 Trainers in Participatory Development. The training exercise could be conducted by the AKRSP with special training modules designed to serve the strategic objective of the PPCD. New Experiments Multiplying and Expanding existing innovative experiments in participatory poverty alleviation, and initiating new experiments in at least 8 locations in the four provinces. NOTES 1. Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1, Section 5, D. Roos (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1980. Cited in A.K. Sen: Hunger and Public Action. 2. Jean Dreze and A.K. Sen: Hunger and Publication, Calrendon Paperbacks, Oxford, 1989. 3. Majid Rehnama: Global Poverty: A Pauperizing Myth. Inter Culture, Volume 24, No. 2, Spring 1991, Motreal. 4. Ayub Qutub: National Human Settlement Policy Study, PEPAC/Government of Pakistan, 1983. 5. Ibid. 6. Akmal Hussain: Impact of Agricultural Growth on Changes in the Agrarian Structure of Pakistan, with special reference to the Punjab Province, D. Phil Thesis, University of Sussex, 1980. 7. Akmal Hussain: Strategic Issues in Pakistan’s Economic Policy, (Chapter5), Progressive Publishers, Lahore. 1988. 58 8. Ayub Qutub: Spatial Impact of Macro Economic and Sectoral Policies, NHS, PEPAC/Government of Pakistan. 9. Ayub Qutub: op.cit. 10. Akmal Hussain: Economic Growth, Poverty and the Child, Chapter 2, in Strategic Issues…op.cit. 11. Ibid. 12. Cited in: A. Ecelawn: Undernourishment as Poverty in Pakistan, AERC, February 1991 (Mimeo). 13. World Bank, Women in Pakistan: An Economic and Social Strategy, 1990. 14. cited in Bina Agarwal: Agricultural Modernization and Third World Women, ILO Mimeo, 1981. 15. Ibid. 16. Ibid. 17. Cited in Agarwal, op.cit. 18. Cited in Agarwal, op.cit. 19. Cited in Agarwal, op.cit. 20. Cited in Agarwal, op.cit. 21. Ibid. 22. Akmal Hussain: women in Participatory Development, CIDA, May 1990. 23. Ibid. 24. Ibid. 25. World Bank, op.cit. 26. Ibid. 27. Ibid. 28. National Conservation Strategy, Government of Pakistan, Principal Author, Ayub Qutub, 1992. 29. Ibid. 30. A. Ercelawn, M. Mahmood and K. Nadvi: The Social Costs of Economic Restructuring in Pakistan. Mimeo, October 1991. 31. Aly Ercelawn: Undernourishment as Poverty in Pakistan, AERC, (Mimeo), 19991. 32. Ibid. 33. Ibid. 34. Ibid. 35. K. Griffin: Alternative Strategies for Economic Development, Macmillan Press, London, 1988. 36. Bernard Le Compte: Project Aid, Limitations and Alternatives, OECD Development Centre, Paris, 1986. 37. Robert Chambers: Rural Development, Putting the Last, First, Longman and Harrow, 1983. 38. Government of NWFP and Swiss Development Corporation: Report of the Project Preparation Mission, January 1990. 59 39. Naqvi, Mahdi, Hamid and Aminullah: Evaluation of Training and Visit System of Agricultural Extension in Mardan Scrap Area. Pakistan Academy of Rural Development, Peshawar 1988. 40. P. Wignaraja: Women Poverty and Resources, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1990. 41. Sundeep Bagchee: Poverty Alleviation Programme in the Seventh Plan: An Appraisal. Economic and Political Weekly Vol. XIII, No. 4, January 1987. 42. Credit to the Poorest. The Grameen Bank and the Small Farmer Development Programme (IFAD) Rome, March 1987, (Mimeo). 43. Jana Everett and Mira Sawara: Bank Credit to Women in the Informal Sector. *Shreematahi Nathibhai Damoder Thakersey Women’s University, Research Unit of Women’s Studies, Bombay, 1983. 44. P. Wignaraja, op.cit.