PESHAWAR
\nSmall and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (SMEDA) in collaboration with Centre for Governance & Public Accountability (CGPA) is holding a \u2018dialogue on access to finance for conducive business environment\u2019 here in Peshawar on upcoming Thursday (October 20, 2022), said a press release issued here on Tuesday.
\nThe dialogue is being organized under \u2018mobilizing economic reforms to keep critical space in KP\u2019 project.
\nThe objective of the project is to identify key challenges to the economic development in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as a whole and Peshawar city in particular and seek to identify key barriers for starting, formalizing and growing business through a series of public and private dialogues (PPDs), focus group discussion s (FGDs) comprises of representatives from business community, startup entrepreneurs, academia, public sector and civil society.
\nThe final outcome of the dialogues will be key policy recommendations, which will be presented to the concerned authorities in federal and provincial governments.
\nFirst round of the dialogue has already been completed in which the private sector along with key government departments engaged in facilitation of business and industry have participated.
\nIn the second round, government officials responsible for the policy formulation are being invited to share the table with the business community and discuss, develop the best possible recommendations in order to improve access to finance. Startups and women owned SMEs will be focused in particular during this dialogue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PESHAWAR Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (SMEDA) in collaboration with Centre for Governance & Public Accountability (CGPA) is holding a \u2018dialogue on access to finance for conducive business environment\u2019 here in Peshawar on upcoming Thursday (October 20, 2022), said a press release issued here on Tuesday. The dialogue is being organized under \u2018mobilizing economic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-290228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"\n