"It is time to begin thinking about how PAF III would look like," a PAF statement quoted World Bank´s Country Manager for Nepal, Taseen Sayed, as saying during a brief interaction with PAF senior officials on Tuesday. [break]
She also stressed the need to establish better coordination and linkages with the public sector in the next phase.
The PAF II is coming to an end in September 2014. The World Bank has provided grant amounting $215 million for PAF since 2004.
The World Bank Nepal Office chief also said that World Bank was ready to offer technical support in providing identity card to the poor and establishing an oversight agency for poverty.
Established in 2004, PAF is the largest community development program, targeting poor women, Dalits, janjatis and other marginalized groups.
Currently implemented in 40 districts, the program so far has supported 19,000 community organizations to implement different income generation, community infrastructure and capacity development schemes.
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