Community Consultations for Poverty Strategies

RSPN has been instrumental in informing government poverty reduction policies by conducting community consultations on the first and second Pakistan Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) of the Pakistan government. RSPN undertook these consultations through its member Rural Support Programmes (RSPs) across the country in 49 districts and with 121 Community Organizations. The first community consultations for the PRSP-I held in 2002-3 clearly highlighted the need for social mobilization for communities to have a platform to plan development activities and to link up to government and other service providers. click here << Link the page to the PDF file that shall be provided File Name: including_poor_in_PRSP.PDF>> for full report on INCLUDING THE POOR IN PRSP PROCESS. The second PRSP consultation were held in 2006 in 21 districts with 54 Dialogues with communities. The report of the second consultations has been provided to the Pakistan government which will make it public. The two consultations have assisted greatly in voicing people’s concerns on government poverty initiatives