NRSP

Mission/Vision:

NRSP works to release the potential abilities, skills and knowledge of rural men and women, to enable them to articulate their aspirations and to effectively marshal the resources they need to meet their identified needs. The purpose is poverty alleviation - enabling people to break the cycle of poverty, which begins with lack of opportunity, extends to the well-known miseries of economic and nutritional poverty and leads new generations to endure the same conditions. The process is social mobilization - bringing people together on new terms for a common purpose. The conceptual tools are 'social guidance' (recruiting local men and women who will take on a leadership role), advocacy, capacity building and awareness raising. The programmatic tools are training, support to institutions, micro-credit, infrastructure development, natural resource management and 'productive linkages'.

NRSP works to release the potential abilities, skills and knowledge of rural men and women, to enable them to articulate their aspirations and to effectively marshal the resources they need to meet their identified needs. The purpose is poverty alleviation - enabling people to break the cycle of poverty, which begins with lack of opportunity, extends to the well-known miseries of economic and nutritional poverty and leads new generations to endure the same conditions. The process is social mobilization - bringing people together on new terms for a common purpose. The conceptual tools are 'social guidance' (recruiting local men and women who will take on a leadership role), advocacy, capacity building and awareness raising. The programmatic tools are training, support to institutions, micro-credit, infrastructure development, natural resource management and 'productive linkages'.

What they do:  

To mobilize people's willingness through the provision of social guidance, NRSP takes the following steps: 

  • Relying on local perceptions, a poverty profile is prepared to assess the intensity of poverty prevailing in the community that seeks social guidance.
  • The willing community is introduced to the philosophy of NRSP, based on which the community organizes itself into a socially viable group called the community organization (CO). In view of the information provided by the poverty profile, an attempt is made to encourage the poor to join the CO.
  • During initial interactions with the community, genuine activists, who have an ambition to support their communities in their quest to overcome poverty, are identified. The role of these activists in harnessing the willingness of the communities is of paramount significance.
  • Following the identification of an activist, a micro plan for each member is developed to see what he or she is willing to do on his/her own. Along with catering to the individual needs, group level and village level needs are also identified. A thorough analysis of each is conducted in view of available resources and constraints to assign priorities to the identified needs.
  • The next step after the cost-benefit analysis is the arrangement of the desired resources to address the priority needs. These resources are pooled by the community, provided by the support organization or managed through other stakeholders like private and public sector service delivery departments, NGOs and donors.

Where they work:

Initially NRSP commenced its operation in eight districts of Pakistan, which included Attock, Chakwal, Khushab, Rawalpindi, Badin-Mirpurkhas, Rawalakot and Turbat. Currently NRSP is working in the Islamabad Capital Territory and in 54 districts of all four provinces of Pakistan and Azad Jammu & Kashmir.

How to get in touch:

Dr. Rashid Bajwa, CEO

Email: info@nrsp.org.pk