Draft Minutes of Meeting Time: 11:30 am to 12:30 pm Date: August 6, 2013Location: Office of KP Tourism Department, Peshawar.Participants: Tourism Department KP 1. Mr. Taseer Alizai, Additional Secretary Tourism, KP tourism Department 2. Mr. Hayat Ali Shah, Chief Planning Officer, KP tourism Department3. Syed Muhammad Ali, General Manager, TCKPFIRMS Project:1. Mr. Taimur Khan, BEE Specialist2. Mr. Aftab Rana, Tourism Development SpecialistThe purpose of the meeting was to update the Additional Secretary of KP Tourism Department about the progress of USAID FIRMS Projects work on KP tourism policy and PPP Framework and to discuss the schedule of final consultative workshop at Peshawar. A summary of the key points of the meeting is as under:-1. Mr. Taimur Khan, BEE Specialist and Mr. Aftab Rana Tourism Development Specialist briefed the Additional Secretary Tourism about the process followed for initiating work on the formulation of Tourism Policy for KP, a framework for the public-private partnership and revision of tourism related laws. They informed that in the first phase consultants prepared two position papers based on the review of literature, individual interviews with key stakeholders and feedback obtained in the round of focus group discussions (FGDs) with the key stakeholders of tourism sector. In the second phase, these position papers were presented in the four regional consultative workshops which were held at Peshawar, Abbottabad, Swat and Chitral to get policy recommendations from the key stakeholders from public and private sector. Now the first draft of tourism policy and PPP Framework is ready for the internal review by the tourism department. Once the internal review is complete both the documents will be presented in the final consultative workshop to get final feedback from the stakeholders before forwarding these documents to the government of KP for final approval by the cabinet. 2. Mr. Taseer Alizai, Additional Secretary Tourism Department expressed his satisfaction about the progress made so far and thanked for the technical support of USAID Firms project for this important task.

Decisions:Following decisions were made in the meeting to expedite the approval of KP Tourism policy and PPP Framework:-1. Hard copies of first draft of Tourism policy and PPP framework were handed over to the Additional Secretary Tourism. Firms project will also share the soft copies of both the documents with KP tourism Department.2. KP Tourism department will incorporate all the changes/comments in the track change mode and send them back to Firms project for final editing.3. KP tourism department will review both the documents and share their feedback with Firms Project by the 20th of August 2013.4. Effort will also be made to hold the final consultative workshop by the end of August, 2013.5. Two separated workshops will be held. One on tourism policy and the other on PPP Framework. Only the relevant stakeholders form the concerned departments and private sector will attend the respective workshops. Key stakeholders from the southern regions who could not been consulted in the earlier consultative process will be invited to the final workshop. 6. KP Tourism Department will help Firms Project to finalize the list of participants for both the workshops. The meeting ended with a vote of thanks.