Completed Projects
UNICEF-RSPN 'Awareness-Raising Amongst Urban Communities of Karachi for Polio Vaccination of Children' Project
On June 2011, RSPN signed an agreement with UNICEF Sindh for the implementation of the project “Awareness Raising Amongst Urban Communities of Karachi for Polio Vaccination of Children”.
Under this project RSPN hired and trained 395 women and men campaigners for the dissemination of key messages as part of UNICEF's polio eradication campaign of June 2011... Read more
PBF-RSPN Sehat Project
Active over the duration of February to June 2011, Sehat is a Pakistan British Foundation (PBF) funded project and was implemented by RSPN in three flood affected districts of Sindh in partnership with TRDP for district Dadu and SRSO for district Shahdadkot and Shikarpur.
Under the Sehat project RSPN and its RPs established 14 Union Council (UC) level Health Networks and 184 village level Village Health Committees (VHCs) to oversee the work of Community Resource Persons (CRPs)... Read more
Harnessing Threads of Change
Rural women artisans in Pakistan are the custodians of some of the most exquisite textile embroidery skills in the world, but are often left without the monetary returns to reflect the high level of their craft when producing items for the domestic and international markets
The Commonwealth Secretariat, in collaboration with the Rural Support Programmes Network's (RSPN) Enterprise Facilitation Unit in Pakistan, piloted an initiative aimed at opening direct market access opportunities for rural women artisans... Read more
Poverty Scorecard Rollout - Benazir Income Support Program
The Government of Pakistan launched the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) in February 2009, as the main social safety net programme to cushion the negative effects of the food crisis and inflation on the poor.
The Government is introducing a Targeting Process that is objective and conforms to international best practices. The survey instrument to be used for this census is the World Bank/Government of Pakistan’s Poverty Score Card.... Read more
DFID-RSPN Komak Project Flood Relief and Rehabilitation
The British Government through the Department for International Development (DFID) has approved an emergency relief and early recovery project to meet the needs of flood affected communities across 20 districts of Punjab and Sindh. The Komak Project will be managed by the Rural Support Programmes Network .... Read more
USAID-RSPN Emergency Relief Assistance Projects
In August 2010, following the devastating floods in Pakistan, the Rural Support Programmes Network (RSPN) entered into Partnership with USAID to provide emergency relief items to 34,631 households affected by floods in 18 of the worst affected districts across 4 provinces in Pakistan.... Read more
UNICEF-RSPN Mother and Child Health Care Initiative
In 2009, Rural Support Programmes Network (RSPN) entered into Partnership with UNICEF to develop a community based model for introducing integrated health interventions in remote rural communities in twelve districts of Pakistan. The objective of the project was “To help reduce IMR & MMR in target .... Read more
GoP-RSPN Crop Maximisation Project – II
The Special Programme for Food Security and Productivity Enhancement of Small Farmers (Crop Maximisation Project-II or CMP-II) is a five-year, Rs 8 billion project of the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock (now the Ministry of Food and Agriculture). CMP-II aims at fostering Farmers Associations that federate... Read more
