{"id":12893,"date":"2021-11-18T09:31:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T09:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=12893"},"modified":"2021-11-18T09:31:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T09:31:22","slug":"usaid-will-contribute-7-million-to-adb-to-address-covid-19-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/usaid-will-contribute-7-million-to-adb-to-address-covid-19-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"USAID will contribute $7 million to ADB to address  COVID-19 in Pakistan.\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"m_7916985900404319903size-14\" lang=\"x-size-14\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12894\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/unnamed3-1-e1637227784848.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"406\" \/>ISLAMABAD, November 18, 2021 &#8211; The United States government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), will contribute $7 million to the Asian Development Bank\u2019s (ADB) ongoing project to address the secondary effects of COVID-19 in Pakistan.<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"m_7916985900404319903size-14\" lang=\"x-size-14\">USAID Mission Director Julie Koenen and ADB Country Director Yong Ye attended a signing ceremony yesterday in Islamabad.\u00a0 ADB will use USAID\u2019s $7 million contribution to provide cash grants to Pakistani families in need of financial assistance due to the pandemic. \u00a0The grants will be distributed through the Government of Pakistan\u2019s Ehsaas Emergency Cash program managed by the Benazir Income Support Fund Program.\u00a0 USAID\u2019s funds also will provide technical and administrative support to ensure effectiveness, accountability, and transparency for the program beneficiaries.<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"m_7916985900404319903size-14\" lang=\"x-size-14\">Speaking at the ceremony, USAID Mission Director Koenen said, \u201cFighting this pandemic will take significant resources and an urgent, collective effort among governments, civil society, the private sector, philanthropists, multilateral organizations, and other international partners.\u201d \u00a0She further added, \u201cThis contribution to ADB will support the Government of Pakistan\u2019s efforts to implement the Ehsaas Program through the provision of direct cash grants to underprivileged Pakistani families affected by closures and work stoppages during the COVID-19 pandemic.\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"m_7916985900404319903size-14\" lang=\"x-size-14\">The $7 million contribution to the ADB is part of an overall U.S. commitment to assist countries affected by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0 The United States has delivered more than $63 million in COVID-19 assistance through our partnership with the Pakistani government.\u00a0 Since the start of the pandemic, the United States has worked together with Pakistan to improve infection prevention and control, enhance patient care, expand laboratory testing, and support frontline healthcare workers.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, November 18, 2021 &#8211; The United States government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), will contribute $7 million to the Asian Development Bank\u2019s (ADB) ongoing project to address the secondary effects of COVID-19 in Pakistan. USAID Mission Director Julie Koenen and ADB Country Director Yong Ye attended a signing ceremony yesterday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[1908,307,48,520],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12895,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12893\/revisions\/12895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}