Current Projects
Pakistan Domestic Biogas Programme
Government of Pakistan is currently facing an unprecedented energy crisis. Shortage of energy, including both electricity and gas, is considered to be a major road block to Pakistan’s rapid economic growth and poverty reduction. The prices of both continue to increase due to a sharp increase in their demand, adding to the worries of the crises-hit dwellers. The consumers are facing many difficulties because of gas load shedding. In rural areas LPG is the only alternative to firewood or coal but LPG prices have already jumped to Rs100 per kilogram that makes LPG unaffordab.... Read more
Prime Ministers Special Initiative for Livestock
The Government of Pakistan’s Medium term Development Framework (MTDF) outlines several shortcomings in the livestock sector. The Prime Minister’s Special Initiative for Livestock (PMSIL) aims to harness the potential of the livestock sector to enhance the proportion of agricultural value added... Read more
Mother & 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 communities through integrated community based health interventions” with the purpose to... Read more
Family Advancement for Life and Health (FALAH)
FALAH is a five year (2008-2012) USAID funded project, implemented by a consortium led by the Population Council, with the objective of promoting birth spacing among married couples as a new approach in achieving sustainable family planning in all cultural contexts. RSPN has engaged six RSPs for the social mobilisation, awareness raising and counselling work with a target of reaching out to 57,000 married couples in 10 districts. The RSPs work in tandem with the service delivery partners of the consortium including Green Star Marketing and the Government’s Family Planning Departments.
