LAHORE    -  National Institute of Public Policy (NIPP) will organize a two-day first annual public policy conference at the National School of Public Policy (NSPP) here on Monday (today). 

NSPP sources said on Sunday that the researchers would present re­search papers titled social policy financing. NSPP Rector Dr Ijaz Mu­nir said the conference was being organized to give recommendations in the formulation of government social policy. He said the purpose of conference was to float sugges­tions on minimizing the wastage of resources after a critical review of government initiatives and to help policymakers in increasing the effi­ciency of public sector expenditure. There would be consultation on the action plan to improve programmes like security, health insurance, he added. Dr Ijaz said that discussion on effective social security and fi­nancial assistance mechanism for children, disabled persons and old persons would also be the subject of the conference. He said that ef­fectiveness of the state-funded Se­hat Sahulat Insurance Programme would also be evaluated.