PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: Speakers at a seminar on Tuesday urged the provincial government to appoint the two remaining information commissioners so the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Information Commission can become functional. The government was also urged to remove anomalies in the K-P Right…
PRESS RELEASE A two-day training workshop on ‘Social Accountability Tools’ organized by Centre for Governance and Pubic Accountability (CGPA) in Swabi concluded on Thursday. The participants represented all major civil societies and media organisations of the district. The training was designed…
PRESS RELEASE The budgetary allocation for repair, operations and maintenance of the equipment and health infrastructure in the three districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa totally neglected. According to search study on ‘Budget Analysis of Health department’, conducted by Centre for Governance…
PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR – Centre for Governance and Public Accountability (CGPA) has demanded increase in budget allocation for repair, operation and maintenance in district health budgets across the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The CGPA recent publication titled ‘Budget Analysis of Health Departments: Mardan,…
PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: On paper, the soon-to-be-enacted Right to Public Services law is bound to improve the quality of governance in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P). But experts and officials of the provincial law department said the present draft needs to incorporate the names…
PRESS RELEASE The Centre for Governance and Public Accountability (CGPA) appreciated the KP government’s good governance reforms agenda, and anticipated that Right to Services Law together with Right to Information Law could bring much needed improvement in the social service delivery.…
PRESS RELEASE ISLAMABAD: Although a robust Right to Information (RTI) law has been enforced in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), the provincial bureaucracy is still refusing to provide the requested information as only 18 percent requests sent to the government departments were…
PRESS RELEASE Muhammad Zahoor: Nothing can be more supportive to democracy than informed citizenry whose right to access information is legally protected. Citizens who don’t know about functions of governments can’t make informed decisions in electing their representatives. That is why right…
PRESS RELEASE PESHAWAR: Though Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) recently introduced the right to information (RTI) legislation in a step towards greater transparency, the neighbouring tribal belt still has a long way to go before any such law is put in place. Civil…
PRESS RELEASE Centre for Governance and Public Accountability (CGPA) demanded the abolishment of Article 247 of Constitution of Pakistan, as the Article awards non-representative and undemocratic status to Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), and Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (PATA). The…