Sarhad Rural Support Programme
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| Abbreviation | SRSP |
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| Motto | Addressing poverty through social capital |
| Founded | 1989 |
| Focus | Social Mobilization, Poverty Alleviation, Community Physical Infrastructure, Renewable Energy, Microcredit, Social Sector Services, Human Resource Development, Humanitarian Aid |
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Area served
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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa & FATA, Pakistan |
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Key people
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| Mission | To build social capital by mobilizing communities for poverty reduction, improve livelihoods and achieve sustainable development in KP |
| Website | Official website |
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Formerly called
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Sarhad Rural Support Cooperation |
The Sarhad Rural Support Programme (SRSP) is the largest non-governmental organization working to alleviate poverty in North West Pakistan. It was established in 1989 with the aim of reducing poverty and ensuring sustainable means of livelihood in what is now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. SRSP is part of the Rural Support Programmes (RSP's) initiated by United Nations Environment Programme Global 500 Award winner Shoaib Sultan Khan. It is now the largest regional RSP, with extensive outreach into communities. In recent years because of its vast outreach, SRSP has had to play a prominent role in disasters that have hit Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. As a result, humanitarian work along with development has become a core competency of the organization.
SRSP began it operations in 1989. It was established by members of the civil society, members of the government in their individual capacities, and members of the academia, media and training institutions. SRSP was created to replicate the Rural Support Programmes approach from the north to rural development in the province now called Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
SRSP's framework is based on the Rural Support Programmes (RSP's) approach to community empowerment, and economic and livelihood development. At the heart of this approach is the belief that marginalized communities and disadvantaged people have within them the capacity for self-help. Pakistan’s Rural Support Program (RSP) movement pioneered bottom-up, community-driven development using a flexible, autonomous, politically neutral approach, which has been replicated successfully across PakistanPakistan as well as in India and Bangladesh.
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