Pakistan – Afghanistan Cross Border Trade Meeting
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(Insert group photo with Secretary Health). Workshop Report 23 – 25 May 2016 Islamabad
Acronyms 3 Acknowledgement 4 Executive Summary 5 Key recommendations 6 Government and regulatory agencies 6 Industry, export and trading sectors 6 General recommendations 7 Next steps 7 Conclusions 8 Background 10 Objectives 11 Participants 12 Day 1 - Opening speeches 13 Day 1 - Presentations and discussion 16 Day 1 - Breakout session 22 Key recommendations of Working Groups 22 Day 2 - Presentations and discussion 23 Panel Remarks, Mr. Naeem Butt, Chairman, All Pakistan Flour Mills Association (PFMA), Pakistan 28 Certification Distribution and Group Photo 30 About the Organizers 31 Annex 1. Agenda 32 Annex 2. Participants List for cross border meeting 36 AcronymsACCI Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries AFTA Afghanistan Flour Traders’ Association ANSA Afghanistan National Standard Authority CAR Central Asia region DFID UK Department for International Development DoF Department of Food FAO Food and Agriculture Organization GAIN Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition GOP Government of Pakistan GPF GAIN Premix Facility HR Human Resources IDA Iron deficiency anemia IMR Infant Mortality Rate ISO International Organization for Standardization KPK Khyber Pakhtunkhwa LSFF Large Scale Food Fortification MAIL Afghanistan Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock M&E Monitoring and Evaluation MI Micronutrient Initiative MMR Maternal Mortality Rate MNSHRC Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination MoPH Ministry of Public Health NFA National Fortification Alliance NGO Non-governmental organization PCSIR Pakistan Council for Scientific and Industrial Research PFMA Pakistan Flour Millers Association PND Public Nutrition Department PSQCA Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority PVMA Pakistan Vanaspati Manufacturer Association QA/QC Quality assurance and quality control SDG Sustainable Development Goals SUN Scaling up Nutrition TDRO Trade Dispute Resolution Organization (Pakistan) UNICEF United Nations Children's Fund USAID United States Agency for International Development USDA United Stated Department of Agriculture WHO World Health Organization WTO World Trade Organization
Acting Senior Program Manager Pakistan Regional Food Fortification Project
The meeting included presentations and discussions, as well as deliberations by a working group of exporters and traders of wheat flour and edible oil/ghee from both countries. The more than 80 participants (Annex 2) included:
The meeting was inaugurated by the Honorable Muhammad Ayub Sheikh, Secretary of Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination (MNHS & RC) and Mr. S.A. Nasir Yousofi, Deputy Head of Mission, Afghanistan Embassy. Guest speakers included Mr. Mohammad Aslam Shaheen, National SUN Business Network, and Dr. Baseer Khan Achakzai, Secretary of the National Fortification Alliance. For security reasons, USAID/Pakistan was not able to participate in the opening and deliberations of the meeting. Day 1 began with key speeches from Pakistani and Afghan officials, followed by updates on food fortification at national and regional level from Pakistani and Afghan representatives. Five regional Pakistan health and food departments and one research and development department presented their findings. The day concluded with breakout sessions for regulatory agencies and the industry and trade sector. Day 2 saw presentations on fortification standards and regulations and on trade policies, as well as procedures and agreements between Pakistan and Afghanistan. A high ranking official from Pakistan’s Ministry of Commerce spoke about their experience in relation to trade disputes. A joint inter-country traders’ panel enabled producers, exporters and traders to exchange experiences about exporting to Afghanistan, to discuss the problems they encountered and to identify what is needed for more effective trade between the two countries. Day 3 was organized primarily for Afghan participants, who visited a Pakistan Flour Millers Association (PFMA) mill in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) and an oil/ghee factory in Noshera and Peshawar. The major outcomes from the meeting are captured in the Recommendations and Conclusions section of this report. A section on next steps logically derived from the meeting recommendations has been prepared and added by the authors of the report. Directory: wp-content -> uploads -> 2016 2016 -> 2017 afoCo Landmark Scholarship Program 2016 -> Instructions for the Preparation of Camera-Ready Contributions to the Conference Proceedings 2016 -> Step student Scholarships for Year 10-13 2016 -> The united church of canada 2016 -> Idan raichel biography – May 2016 Brief Producer, keyboardist, Lyricist, composer and Performer Idan Raichel 2016 -> An introduction to centre’s interventions expanding access to justice 2016 -> Sanchar Shakti 2016 -> Unit analysis should help here. We want number of bananas 2016 -> The Autobiography of Elder Joseph Bates 2016 -> The Great Heat and the Rhode Island Deep Water Bay Scallop (Argopecten irradians) Fishery 1875-1905 Download 274.69 Kb. Share with your friends:
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