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Partners in Development

  1. PPAF
  2. UK DfID RWSSP
  3. CIDA-PAGE
  4. CIDA-Sanitation and Literacy Project
  5. BADP-II
  6. USAID- ESRA
  7. PPAF Drought Mitigation Project
  8. UNICEF
  9. USAID-SIDP
  10. IUCN
  11. Plan Pakistan
  12. UK-LFL
  13. SDC-CBRM (Phase I and II)

 

SRSP Mission

Dialogue with Rural Communities

Developing and build Social Capital by mobilizing Communities

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Sarhad Rural Support Program

Sarhad Rural Support Program SRSP is a non profit/non government organization working in North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. It was established in 1989 as the first replication of "livelihood centered" Rural Support Programme (RSP) approach to rural development which had been successfully demonstrated in the northern mountain regions of Pakistan. At the heart of RSP approach is the idea that communities have an ability for self help which has enabled them to survive in harsh environments. A catalyst organization is needed to provide them with technical and material support and social guidance to bring out the latent abilities in the communities. The USAID provided SRSP initial seed money and its board of directors included eminent people from the civil society and civil services. Shoaib Sultan Khan the founder of the RSP movement was inspirational in establishing it. The withdrawal by USAID because of Pressler amendment created numerous teething problems for the organization. But support from Novib and Government of NWFP’s decision to assist it by making it a partner in the two large area development projects (MVSP and Barani one) helped in establishing it on a firm footing. After 2000 SRSP has been supported by the World Bank funded Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund. It has also worked  with USAID, DFID, CIDA, SDC. It is a partner with the government of NWFP in the Asian Development Bank funded Barani Two Project and The DFID funded Rural Water Supply and Sanitation (RWSSP), Learning for Life a British NGO extends support to it in education. During the Earthquake of 2005 SRSP emerged as a major player and almost thirty international bilateral donors and NGO’s worked with it. SRSP’s competencies are in the field of Community development, Participatory Infrastructure, Social Sector, Gender and Development, Education, Human Resource Development, Micro Finance, Insurance, Micro enterprise development and Natural Resource Management.

Objectives

SRSP Objectives

  • Building social capital by mobilizing communities for poverty reduction, livelihoods and sustainable development
  • Enhancing individual capacities for leadership; and organisational capacity for internal and external management
  • Building resource base of the poor and remove infrastructure constraints utilizing potential existing in communities
  • Expanding the frontiers of finance by providing access to credit to the poorer segments of the population 
  • Enabling communities to link up with providers of social services

Programme

Mainstream/ Holistic Programme

6 Regions 13 districts supported by Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund

Non-mainstream/ Non Holistic Programme

All 24 Districts UK/DFID BADP, PM LS

Competencies

Competencies of SRSP

 

 

 

 

Community Mobilization Community Mobilization

Number of Community Organizations = 7,866
Men Community Organizations = 5,578
Women Community Organizations = 2,308
Membership =  229,945

 

Social Sector Services

  1. Education for all focusing on female childrenCommunity Based Schools
  2. 71 community based schools enrolling over 3,692 children mostly girls
  3. 78 Adult literacy centers (over 2,000 females) established in Dir, Kohat, Abbottabad and Peshawar.
  4. Provided access to 16,600 poor and vulnerable children through UK-Learning for Life, USAID-ESRA, CARE Intl. in earth quake affected areas.
  5. Established 3 schools as public private partnership under IDRF, Canada
  6. Capacity building of 274 Parents Teachers Association
  7. Capacity building 70 Village Education Committees
  8. Capacity building 930 school teachers
  9. Formulating District Education Plans with District Governments including District Dir under USAID-ESRA Project and Shangla under ILO project.
  10. Training modules developed, education strategy refined and reviewed
  11. Education Management Information Systems Developed and Implemented.
  12. Inputs provided to further refine Education Department Management Information System in District Dir.
  13. Provincial Education Policy Forum constituted including all the key actors and Provincial Education Department.
  14. President Primary Health Care Initiative
  15. Lady Health Workers and Traditional Birth Attendants Trained , Participatory Health and Hygiene and Sanitation Training and H & H awareness,

Gender and Development

  1. Women treated as equal partners in development and SRSP meeting women Gender And Development in SRSPpractical and strategic gender needs.
  2. SRSP taking an active role in Gender networking at Provincial and Federal Level.
  3. Gender Monitoring Officers for gender mainstreaming at regional level.
  4. Head Office and Regional Gender Groups meeting regularly for gender mainstreaming at all three levels.
  5. Women Specific Projects:
      1. Fuel Efficient Stoves
      2. Mushroom Project
      3. Women Employment Concern
      4. Poverty targeting/Women Entrepreneurs
      5. RSPN-Common Wealth Initiative
      6. Honey Bee Keeping Project
  6. Women Leadership Programme
  7. Review of Gender Policy
  8. Gender Voices regularly published with articles on Gender and Development.

Human Resource Development

Members Trained (Male)= 36,003
Members Trained (Female)= 30,095
Total Members Trained= 66,098

Community, Staff, National & International Trainings
Leadership and Management skill trainings
Enterprise, food preservation, NRM, welding, masonry, Embroidery 

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