US State Dept, UN ink $3.5m grant to Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: A ceremony was held on Thursday to mark the signing of a three-year agreement, providing a grant of $3.5 million signed by the United States Department of State and UN Women (the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women) Headquarters to support UN Pakistan’s initiative: Prevention and protection of women from violence through access to justice, services and safe public spaces.



Addressing the participants, Secretary of Balochistan’s Women Development Department Hashim Nadeem Khan said that there was a need to maintain individuality of all provinces.

In February, a Pakistani woman was named as a member of the United Nations body dedicated to the economic empowerment of women. Fiza Farhan was elected as a member of the first ever High-Level Panel of the UN Secretary-General on Women’s Economic Empowerment, according to a communiqué.



Fiza is CEO of Buksh Foundation and director of Buksh Energy. She was also part of the ’30 under 30’ list by Forbes magazine for Social Entrepreneurs in 2015.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 21^st, 2016.