Pakistan rural support program

Microfinance and Enterprise Development. Physical Infrastructure and Technology Development. Social Sector Services. Human Resource Development. Environment and Natural Resource Management. Information Technology. Social and Human Protection. Gender and Development. Health Management Sohail G. A network of Rural Support Programmes now exists all over the country with the mandate to design and implement strategies for alleviation of rural poverty.

In South Asia and other parts of the world programmes based on this model have been set up to promote grassroots development through involvement of local communities.

Petersburg, Russia on 20 January , was given to the development projects that were judged to have the greatest potential for benefiting the poor in developing countries. For more information, please see the Global Development Network website. It also received Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy, or "Green Oscar", for its programme of mini-hydels, or micro-hydroelectric plants, in the Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral. The Ashden Award cited the AKRSP for the sustainable and eco-friendly solution: "Unlike dams, which invariably damage the local eco-system, the micro-hydel technology used by AKRSP involves simply digging a narrow channel to divert water along a hillside and into a pipe, creating enough pressure to turn a turbine and so produce 20 kw of power.

Over micro-hydel units supplying electricity to 50 percent of the population of Chitral have been built. The projects are implemented, maintained and managed by the communities themselves. Last Date on which website was updated: 15 December Press Centre: Pakistan.

Read more. Government keen to develop synergies with SRSP's development programmes. February 10, The Minister of Planning and Development and Finance Mr Taimur Khan Jhagra paid a five hours visit to community organisations, community investment funds, infrastructure projects and value chains in Nowshera and Peshawar Districts.

He said the government was keen to learn from SRSP's development experience and develop synergies among development programmes.

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