Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Poverty Alleviation and Social Protection, Dr Sania Nishtar has called for creation of a new framework for post-COVID-19 development.

She was speaking virtually at the 7th biennial high-level Development Cooperation Forum convened by Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Munir Akram in his capacity as the President of United Nations’  Economic and Social Council.

Dr Nishtar said it is a moral imperative for the international system to prioritize the creation of a new post-COVID-19 framework for development that could bring together stakeholders to forge the responses needed to better mitigate risks and recover from shocks.

She said we now have a one in a generation chance to work in solidarity and to build a fairer, healthier, and a more resilient world that ends poverty, inequality and the climate crisis.