Sarhad Rural Support Programme

After the success of Livelihood centered "Rural Support Programme" (RSP) Approach to rural development in the northern mountain regions of Pakistan in the eigthies, enlightened individuals in the government of North West Frontier Province (NWFP) members of the civil society and academia had joined with an international donor agency to establish a non-government/non-profit organization called SRSC in 1989 to replicate the model in NWFP. Subsequently renamed Sarhad Rural Support Programme (SRSP) and registered under company's ordinance 1984, SRSP is the largest non-profit/non-government organization of NWFP. It has pro-actively promoted people-centered development by improving livelihoods of poor and vulnerable communities, while maintaining the special focus on women, playing a leading role in supporting poverty reduction in NWFP over the past two decades. SRSP has also been entrusted with the task of extending the working of RSP to FATA region.