France promises 1 million Euros to aid FATA health sector

France committed on Tuesday one million Euros towards health components of FATA Development Programme.

An agreement, among the FATA Secretariat, French Development Agency (AFD) and German Cooperation for Development (GIZ), was signed at the Governor’s House where Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Masood Kausar, German Ambassador Dr Michael Koch and French envoy Daniel Jouanneau attended the ceremony, according to official communiqué.

Under the agreement, the AFD will contribute one million Euros towards the health component of FATA Development Programme in the Human Resource Management and Quality Improvement Initiatives in the FATA health sector. While the GIZ, under a previously signed agreement, has been spending 6.6 million Euros in the first phase of its development programme for FATA and the AFD component of the agreement will be in support of the GIZ initiated programme.