Local Support Organizations – LSOs 187

Village Organizations – VOs 2,702

Women Village Organizations 694

Community Organizations  – COs 44,750

Women Community Organizations 14,395

Organized Households (Hhs) 1,059,903

Women Hhs 325,312

 

At the heart of SRSP’s Programme is hundreds of community institutions of men and women with which SRSP works. SRSP builds the capacity of these organizations to plan, organize, raise and manage resources, implement projects, resolve conflicts, develop networks and influence policy through trainings, exposure visits , learning events and conferences.

Type	No of Schemes	Beneficiaries
Drinking Water Supply Schemes	4,400	649,137
Sanitation	2,464 /td>	386,684
Roads & Bridges	1,382	828,750
Irrigation Channels	1,169	148,468
Schools/Health Centers	1,441	337,059
Others (DRR/IAUP/Soil Cons.)	756	132,540

Large parts of the areas where SRSP works have little access to public services because of the long geographical distances, thin spread of population and difficulties of setting up systems to address needs by public service delivery providers in such areas. SRSP has a huge portfolio is this sector which include works on irrigation water, drinking water, roads, bridges, hydro electricity generation. Thousands of families benefit from these projects.

SRSP is a leading producer of renewable energy in the province producing over 30 megawats of electricity through the community run small projects and social enterprise run larger projects. The larger project generate between 500 kv to 2 megawats of electricity. It has two international awards including the Green Oscar Ashden Award at London.

SRSP works towards revitalizing rural economy, increase in income, poverty reduction and community empowerment through interventions in economic activities of the communities.

SRSP is an important institution in the field of human resource development in the development sector in the province. It provides leadership and vocational skills trainings to communities. It has a state of the art training center based in Hayatabad in Peshawar where trainings are undertaken. It also organizes trainings for women in the field because of the mobility problems they face. The training center has a comfortable hostel attached to it.

The literacy rate of KP is lower than the national averages and that of FATA is even less than that of KP. SRSP’s education programme is designed to respond to basic issues in the service delivery of education in remote rural areas of KP and FATA. Its main objective is to ensure quality education for all- girls and boys’.

The provision of rural financial services in an area where the spread of population is thin, state of infrastructure is poor, the livelihood nature is a subsistence oriented one and the cost of delivery is very high, is very challenging. SRSP has also initiated a system of community investment funds which combines micro finance and social protection to the system of community banks which has been very popular among the highly conservative women.