{"id":55846,"date":"2025-12-11T16:58:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T11:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baldiyattimes.com\/?p=55846"},"modified":"2025-12-11T16:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T11:58:13","slug":"meeting-with-afd-senior-management-and-regional-director-mission-on-strategy-review-and-policy-dialogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baldiyattimes.com\/?p=55846","title":{"rendered":"Meeting with AFD Senior Management and Regional Director Mission on Strategy Review and Policy Dialogue."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A high-level meeting was held today under the Chairmanship of Dr. Naeem Rauf, Chairman P&amp;D Board, with senior representatives of the Agence Fran\u00e7aise de D\u00e9veloppement (AFD).The delegation was led by Cyrille BELLIER, Head of Asia, Middle East, and Europe, accompanied by Mr. Yazid Bensa\u00efd, AFD\u2019s Regional Director for South Asia and Country Director for Sri Lanka, and Mr. Baptiste Deniau, Country Officer for Pakistan.Discussions focused on ongoing development cooperation in Punjab, particularly in the areas of urban development, water sector strengthening, institutional reforms, and sustainable infrastructure planning.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55847\" src=\"https:\/\/baldiyattimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FB_IMG_1765452527641.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55848\" src=\"https:\/\/baldiyattimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FB_IMG_1765452704159.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55849\" src=\"https:\/\/baldiyattimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FB_IMG_1765452707437.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55850\" src=\"https:\/\/baldiyattimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FB_IMG_1765452715541.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55851\" src=\"https:\/\/baldiyattimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FB_IMG_1765452718865.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55852\" src=\"https:\/\/baldiyattimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FB_IMG_1765452725938.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55853\" src=\"https:\/\/baldiyattimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FB_IMG_1765452729510.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1028\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chairman Dr. Naeem Rauf appreciated AFD\u2019s continued engagement and highlighted the Government of Punjab\u2019s commitment to evidence-based planning and long-term service delivery improvements. Both sides expressed keen interest in further enhancing collaboration through structured policy dialogue and coordinated development interventions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A high-level meeting was held today under the Chairmanship of Dr. Naeem Rauf, Chairman P&amp;D Board, with senior representatives of the Agence Fran\u00e7aise de D\u00e9veloppement (AFD).The delegation was led by Cyrille BELLIER, Head of Asia, Middle East, and Europe, accompanied by Mr. Yazid Bensa\u00efd, AFD\u2019s Regional Director for South Asia and Country Director for Sri &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-44"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baldiyattimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baldiyattimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baldiyattimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baldiyattimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baldiyattimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baldiyattimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55855,"href":"https:\/\/baldiyattimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55846\/revisions\/55855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baldiyattimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baldiyattimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baldiyattimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}