Kuwait- SCPD seeks memberships in int'l donor organizations

(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) KUWAIT Dec 6 (KUNA) -- Secretary-General of the Supreme Council for Planning and Development (SCPD) Dr. Khaled Mahdi said the council is seeking to obtain membership of the supreme steering committees of international donor organizations.Mahdi said in a press statement on Sunday that it had recently participated in Busan conference in Seoul South Korea to discuss the strategic partnership of the public and private sectors in the sustainable development process and to review the role of the international partnership in promoting development in the world and how to involve the private sector in the process.He added that there is a challenge related to how to have a unified strategy in dealing with public and private sectors in terms of sustainable development pointing out that the SCPD is considering the establishment of a Public Policy Center to achieve homogeneity of local regional and international policies.Moreover he said the conference considered how to make use of the Korean experience in the process of sustainable development pointing to the need for policies that emphasize the development of social responsibility programs and platform through partnership between the public and private sectors.The Supreme Council for Planning and Development (SCPD) is responsible for formulating the vision for the state and control development plans as well as the preparation of a strategy for development proposals in Kuwait and the preparation of general plans for economic and social development. (end) km.afh.haq