Asset 1

Global Go To Think Tank Index (GGTTI) 2020 launched                    111,75 Think Tanks across the world ranked in different categories.                SDPI is ranked 90th among “Top Think Tanks Worldwide (non-US)”.           SDPI stands 11th among Top Think Tanks in South & South East Asia & the Pacific (excluding India).            SDPI notches 33rd position in “Best New Idea or Paradigm Developed by A Think Tank” category.                SDPI remains 42nd in “Best Quality Assurance and Integrity Policies and Procedure” category.              SDPI stands 49th in “Think Tank to Watch in 2020”.            SDPI gets 52nd position among “Best Independent Think Tanks”.                           SDPI becomes 63rd in “Best Advocacy Campaign” category.                   SDPI secures 60th position in “Best Institutional Collaboration Involving Two or More Think Tanks” category.                       SDPI obtains 64th position in “Best Use of Media (Print & Electronic)” category.               SDPI gains 66th position in “Top Environment Policy Tink Tanks” category.                SDPI achieves 76th position in “Think Tanks With Best External Relations/Public Engagement Program” category.                    SDPI notches 99th position in “Top Social Policy Think Tanks”.            SDPI wins 140th position among “Top Domestic Economic Policy Think Tanks”.               SDPI is placed among special non-ranked category of Think Tanks – “Best Policy and Institutional Response to COVID-19”.                                            Owing to COVID-19 outbreak, SDPI staff is working from home from 9am to 5pm five days a week. All our staff members are available on phone, email and/or any other digital/electronic modes of communication during our usual official hours. You can also find all our work related to COVID-19 in orange entries in our publications section below.    The Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) is pleased to announce its Twenty-third Sustainable Development Conference (SDC) from 14 – 17 December 2020 in Islamabad, Pakistan. The overarching theme of this year’s Conference is Sustainable Development in the Times of COVID-19. Read more…       FOOD SECIRITY DASHBOARD: On 4th Nov, SDPI has shared the first prototype of Food Security Dashboard with Dr Moeed Yousaf, the Special Assistant to Prime Minister on  National Security and Economic Outreach in the presence of stakeholders, including Ministry of National Food Security and Research. Provincial and district authorities attended the event in person or through zoom. The dashboard will help the government monitor and regulate the supply chain of essential food commodities.
Ensuring Citizen Participation and Oversight in Budget Making Process at district level in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa : District Peshawar

Apr 12

Time Not Specified

District Council Hall, Peshawar

Concept Note:

SDPI in collaboration with District Government, Peshawar is going to launch a Project, ‘Ensuring Citizen Participation and Oversight in Budget Making Process at district level in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK)’. The project is a joint initiative of USAID and SDPI. 

The project aims to facilitate the supply and demand side stakeholders in budget making and expenditure tracking vis-a-vis education, health, social welfare and public health engineering in two KPK districts, namely Haripur and Peshawar.

SDPI, under the Local Government Act (LGA) 2013, will help the city district government ensure the process of accountability and effective service delivery by building technical and administrative capacities of the newly-elected local government representatives. It would also utilize civil society potential to enhance their participation in budget making and expenditure tracking for better public service provision. SDPI plans to do so by 
  • Building the capacity of  government officials concerned in budget making process 
  • Conducting training of civil society and local government representatives on expenditure tracking
  • Establishing Citizen Forum in both districts
  • Holding quarterly consultation and annual meetings, and 
  • Organizing seminars on Experience Sharing and Policy Recommendation 
Citizen Forum will comprise local government representatives, government officials and civil society organizations. Through the forum, a debate on allocations and tracking expenses will be generated to create an interface of engagement with the local government representatives and civil society. Quarterly meetings of the forum would help ensure enhanced engagement of local government with civil society. The goals of this intervention are manifold. It will help improve the financial management by refining allocation, better spending practices by bringing efficiency and cost saving, putting forward the real needs to different levels of the government for the provision of additional resources, which is crucial to meet the growing aspirations of the people especially marginalized and excluded.
 
Guests:
Mr. Said Muzaffar, Minister for Finance KPK, 
Mr. Qasim Alishah, Deputy Nazim 
Mr. Abdussalam, Deputy Accountant General  
Share
Tweet