NRSP

Introduction

National Rural Support Programme (NRSP) is a non-profit company registered under section 42 of Company's Ordinance 1984. Salient features of NRSP:

 •  It is a home grown organization
 •  Government of Pakistan provided seed capital to establish NRSP
 •  NRSP's core operations are managed from the income of an endowment fund
 •  NRSP maintains its autonomy and independence
 •  NRSP has no preconceived package for delivery of its services or supplies
 •  NRSP is a development organization and has no political agenda

 Programme Objectives, Strategy and Approach

Objectives: To foster a countrywide network of grassroot level organizations to enable rural communities to plan,  implement and manage developmental activities and programmes for the  purpose  of ensuring  productive employment, alleviation of poverty and improvement in the  quality of life.

Strategy: Harnessing people's potential to help themselves.

Approach: NRSP provides social guidance to harness this potential.

 Key Assumptions

 •  People have tremendous potential and willingness to undertake many development activities by themselves
 •  There is at least one activist in each community who is willing to mobilize the community.

How NRSP Bahawalpur Works?

 •  Program is introduced in selected union councils
 •  Existing situation of poverty and peoples potential is analyzed to use as a benchmark of the union council
 • People are asked to define poverty and categorizes the households in appropriate categories
 • People are motivated to get organized
 • People are helped in identifying true and genuine activists to lead the community
 • Such activities are identified that people are willing to undertake by themselves
 • Communities are mobilized to undertake feasibility of their projects
 • Capacity building of the communities through provision of social guidance, technical assistance, saving/credit and linkages with other programmes.
 • Supports the community in arranging flow of required resources and monitoring of development  

Working Area of NRSP Bahawalpur

Currently NRSP is working in 12 districts with 44 field units

NRSP Bahawalpur Region Microfinance Annual Report 2009

Programme Update as of Dec09

                      Designed/Updated By I.T Section NRSP Bahawalpur                                                                                   

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