Reviivng Education in Earth Quake Affected Areas:

RSPN through the NRSP and SRSP implemented numerous projects in the education sector. RSPN and the RSPs worked with the governments of NWFP and AJ&K to set up temporary shelters for 228 fallen government schools, through a USAID project. RSPN and NRSP, through support from the Open Society Institute (OSI), set up 30 community-managed schools in AJ&K.

Support in Setting up RSPs:

RSPN has been instrumental in providing support for the setting up of Rural Support Programmes in Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan. As a Network it is able to provide new RSPs with expertise from the RSPs and its own expertise in various fields, in order to assist in setting up similar, new programmes with government and donors.

Earthquake Affected Areas Initiatives with RSPs:

RSPN has supported and facilitated its member RSPs to access relief and rehabilitation support since the October 8th 2005 earthquake in northern Pakistan. RSPN has accessed 10 donors’ projects for the RSPs and linked the RSPs to charity and philanthropists who flooded the affected areas in the weeks following the devastating earthquake. RSPN has been actively collaborating with Pakistan’s Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA) on its policy of providing compensation for housing reconstruction in the affected areas. This has been and remains a challenge. RSPN and the NRSP are currently implementing a training programme (JSDF/World bank funding) for communities in AJ&K in seismic resistant housing.