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  MoAD‚ PAF join hands to help poor

  February 01, 2013-News
  KATHMANDU: The Ministry of Agriculture Development (MoAD) and Poverty Alleviation Fund (PAF) have joined hands to provide better agriculture services to the rural poor.

• Newly appointed PAF Vice Chairperson assume Office

  January 10, 2013-Press Releases
  The newly appointed PAF Vice Chairperson Mr. Yuba Raj Pandey assumed office from today. Mr Pandey, 55, was appointed for the post by a cabinet decision on Tuesday.

• Poverty In Nepal: Fragmented Approach, Unmet Solutions

  September 04, 2012-News
  Poverty In Nepal: Fragmented Approach, Unmet Solutions

• Nepal: Helping Rural Families Get on a Sustainable Path Out of Poverty

  August 29, 2012-News
  Beginning with the poorest six districts in 2004, the Nepal Poverty Alleviation Fund (PAF) is now operating in 59 of the 75 districts in the country. The project has helped a total of 650,021 beneficiaries, of which approximately 74 percent are women, and 55 percent come from communities that traditionally have been marginalized or excluded by reasons of geography, caste, and ethnicity.

• MOLTM, PAF sign deal

  April 30, 2012-News
  Kathmandu/TNP: With a view to making the people aware about the process and risks of foreign employment, the Ministry of Labor and Transport Management (MoLTM), and Poverty Alleviation Fund (PAF) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Sunday.

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  Programme launched for poor people with artistic skills

  April 30, 2012-Press Releases
  KATHMANDU, APR 25 - The Poverty Alleviation Fund (PAF) has launched a new poverty alleviation programme targeted at poor people with traditional artistic skills. The scheme is being implemented in nine districts and will last four years.

• Road Construction Creates jobs for villagers

  April 16, 2012-Press Clippings
  Road Construction Creates jobs for villagers

• We are working on redefining poverty: PAF Vice Chairperson

  April 16, 2012-Press Releases
  We are working on redefining poverty: PAF Vice Chairperson

• Road construction creates jobs for villagers

  April 15, 2012-Press Clippings
  People of Kusunde in Kochibang VDC are united to construct the Dhobaghat-Kochigbang road. Villagers, including women, leave their houses early in the morning with tools such as spade and open a track until the evening. They are paid Rs 300 each day on an average.

• Poor to get ID card

  March 21, 2012-Press Clippings
  The government will identify the poor and distribute identity cards to them from the next fiscal year. A joint meeting of the two high level panel on poverty-- Poverty Alleviation Fund (PAF) and Central Bureau of Statistics-- on Tuesday decided to complete the ground work for identifying the poor within the current fiscal year and begin to distribute the identity cards to the poor from the next fiscal year, PAF said in a press statement.

• We are seeking to establish an umbrella organization for poverty alleviation: PAF VC

  March 05, 2012-Press Clippings
  We are seeking to establish an umbrella organization for poverty alleviation: PAF VC

• Restructuring in PAF necessary, Says the editorial in Karobar Daily

  February 29, 2012-Press Clippings
  Restructuring in PAF necessary, Says the editorial in Karobar Daily

• An Oversight agency a must for poverty alleviation - Joshi

  February 21, 2012-Press Releases
  An Oversight agency a must for poverty alleviation

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  BIMSTEC Member countries pledged increased cooperation for poverty alleviation

  January 18, 2012-Press Releases
  The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) second ministerial level meeting on poverty alleviation concluded here today. The high level meeting was attended by ministers and senior officials of the seven BIMSTEC countries namely Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Thailand, Myanmar, Nepal and Sri Lanka

• Newly appointed PAF Vice Chairperson assumed Office

  January 18, 2012-Press Releases
  The newly appointed PAF Vice Chairperson Mr. Janak Raj Joshi assumed office from today. Mr Joshi, 52, was appointed in the post by a cabinet decision on January 12, 2012.

• BIMSTEC endorses PPA, pledges to boost trade, investment

  January 17, 2012-Press Clippings
  The second ministerial meeting of Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) on Poverty Alleviation concluded on Monday, endorsing a Poverty Plan of Action (PPA), a regional strategy paper that categorically mentions numerous strategies that the seven member states of the bloc would adopt for reducing poverty.

• BIMSTEC to adopt poverty reduction action plan

  January 14, 2012-Press Clippings
  The second ministerial meeting of Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) on Poverty Alleviation concluded on Monday, endorsing a Poverty Plan of Action (PPA), a regional strategy paper that categorically mentions numerous strategies that the seven member states of the bloc would adopt for reducing poverty.

• PAF awarded “Best” organization for settling audit arrears

  December 13, 2011-Press Releases
  Poverty Alleviation Fund (PAF) has been awarded the “Best” organizations for the fiscal year 2010/11 for settling the audit arrears. The Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers (PMO) acknowledged PAF for settling 84.18 per cent of the total audit arrears till the end of fiscal year 2010/11 i.e. 2067/68 B.S.