BRSP PARTNERS/DONORS

1) Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund

2) Rural Support Programmes Network

Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock
3)
Federal Ministry of Special Initiative
4)
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization-UNFAO
5) United Nations International Children's Fund-UNICEF
6) United States Agency for International Development-US Aid
7) Water and Sanitation Programme, World Bank

8) Ministry of Local Government, Balochistan

Ministry of Social Welfare, Balochistan
9)
National Disaster Management Authority
10)
Provincial Disaster Management Authority, Balochistan
11) United Nations World Food Programme
12) Department For International Development, UK

BALOCHISTAN RURAL SUPPORT PROGRAM

Licensed under Section 42 of the Company Ordinance, 1984.

Registration No. 0023763
A BRIEF HISTORY
A BRIEF HISTORY

In 1983, Pak-German Self-Help project that

focused on rural development in Balochistan
was initiated with funds provided by the
Government of Germany and Government of
Pakistan. The project was implemented by the
Local Government Department of Balochistan
with the collaboration of GTZ (German Agency
for Technical Co-operation) advisory group.
The Pak-German Self-Help Project was
transformed into a company limited by
guarantee named as Balochistan Rural Support
Programme under the new organizational and
administrative structures. In 1991, BRSP was
registered under the Companies Ordinance as
a non-profit organization dedicated to rural
development in the province.
 INTRODUCTION

Balochistan Rural Support Programme (BRSP) is an autonomous not-

for-profit organization working in the rural areas of Balochistan. BRSP's
history goes back to the project “Pak-German self help initiative” that
was initiated in 1983 in collaboration with Government of Germany and
Pakistan. The project was implemented by the Local Government
Department of Balochistan with the collaboration of GTZ (German
Agency for Technical Co-operation) advisory group. In the mid 90s,
BRSP existed in 13 districts of Balochistan, with 250 staff members. The
programme, however, had to be scaled down substantially in the
subsequent years as GTZ withdrew its support. After a long interval of
inactivity, BRSP restarted its operations in 2001 with financial support
from PPAF. In 1991 BRSP was registered under the Companies
Ordinance as a non-profit organization dedicated to rural development
in the province. The overall mission of BRSP is to facilitate the
establishment and improvement of sustainable livelihoods of the rural
poor in Balochistan. This is accomplished through the mobilization of
poor communities to help them plan and implement their own
development agenda. The rural development programs of BRSP have
helped communities to form community organizations for women's
empowerment, natural resource management, physical infrastructure
development, human resource development, enterprise promotion,
and credit and savings projects. In order to harness this potential, BRSP
programs organize communities into multi-sector Community
Organizations (COs), which are then used as a platform for planning
and implementing various developmental activities by the community
members themselves.

BRSP considers social mobilization as a primary mean for supporting

rural men and women in their efforts to alleviate poverty. The essence
of the process of social mobilisation is encouraging men and women to
form a group, typically consisting of 20-25 members, known as a
Community Organization (CO). Community Organization is an
important forum for empowering people to take an active role in the
management and execution of local development initiatives. Once the
community is mobilized then they are able to identify their needs and
find the resources necessary to meet those needs. A properly
functioning CO has both social and economic 'value', thus a position to
contribute to alleviating poverty and socially, brings people together to
work for the common good. The CO also generates funds for their own
initiatives and establishes linkages with Government Departments and
private sector.
 MISSION

To harness potential of the rural poor so that

they help themselves and get out of poverty
and improve their standard of living.

OBJECTIVES
To improve the living condition and
quality of life of the disadvantaged
rural population through social
mobilization and grassroots
institutional development;

To nurture and foster human

resources at community level and
enable them to plan, implement and
manage development initiatives for
sustainable development;

To organize and facilitate services in

sectors i.e. health, education, rural
enterprise, physical infrastructure,
agriculture, livestock, water &
sanitation and women empowerment
PROGRAMME PHILOSOPHY in rural areas;

BRSP understands that poor people have a great deal of potential and the
willingness to work for their own development. BRSP's role in poverty-
alleviation and community development is primarily to encourage self help
and, in the long term, to guide the COs into becoming mature and self-
reliant institutions. This is the route to community empowerment, which
must arise organically from the COs themselves. The BRSP programme is
holistic: multi-sectoral interventions achieve synergies which in turn
ensure sustainable outcomes. BRSP acknowledges that unless the concept
of 'gender' is understood and mainstreamed into every aspect of the
organisation and the programme, the kind of development, poverty
alleviation and community empowerment that it wishes to attain will not be
possible. This must be done in culturally appropriate ways: the skill lies in
finding the ways to do this while upholding the principle of equality.
 SCOPE OF INTERVENTIONS/
PROGRAM COMPONENTS

S.No. Program Activities & Scope

1. Social mobilization and grassroots
institutional development Formation of community organization;
Formation of Local Support Organization;
Training of COs and LSOs activists
Experience sharing workshops for all community
activists;
Implementation of activities/projects and linkages
with other stakeholders;
2. Human Resource Community and professional capacity building
Development programs;
Community management skills trainings;
3. Rural savings & Micro Credit Micro investment plans at household, group and
community level to identify needs;
Vocational, technical, agricultural, livestock, poultry
and kitchen gardening and life skills training for
selected CO members;
4. Rural community Water supply schemes and dams;
physical infrastructure Karezat and Mini dams
Irrigation and water courses
Street pavement and drainage,
Link roads;
Renewable energy generation projects,
Introduction of new technologies
5. Livestock productivity Vaccination and De-worming of animals;
enhancement Treatment of diseased animals and provision of
preventive and curative veterinary services;
Capacity building and sensitization of communities on
livestock management;

6. Agriculture productivity Sensitization of communities;

enhancement Capacity building on agriculture; management i.e.
water management, land management, improved
agriculture methods, poultry management, kitchen
gardening, skills enhancement cutting and pruning etc.
7. Education Training of teachers, PTSMCs education field
Officers and mentors;
Training of students on life skills, health and
Hygiene education and child rights;
Establishment of quality schooling in rural and urban
areas of Balochistan;
Restoration of teaching learning process in
emergencies;
Development of Physical infrastructure for Schools;
Provision and development of reading and
schooling material;
Advocacy and social mobilization for
enrolment increase & retention;
Mainstreaming of dropouts into formal education;
S.No. Program Activities & Scope
8. Primary health care services Mobile health camps for health services;
Screening of children in communities;
Nutrition services to children and lactating and
pregnant women;
Community health session on health & hygiene,
family planning, cleanliness, breast feeding and
preventive cares from different diseases;
Reproductive health;
3. Policy advocacy and research Advocate as a as central platform and influences the
govt., donors, NOGs, and the private sector to pro-poor
policies;
Inform and communicate with the success of the BRSP
approach to the key policy makers and establish links at
all levels with governments, national and international
donors, International NGOs and other development
institutions;
Apply researches and share its findings and impacts
with the wider audience;

Presence and outreach in districts

Head office: Quetta
Regional office: Pishin
Regional office: Kalat
Regional office: Mastung
Regional office: Killa Saifullah
Regional office: Zhob
Regional office: Nushki
Regional office: Khuzdar
Regional office: Bhag, Bolan
 CURRENT PROJECTS

Partner/ Major
S.No. Project Location
Donor Activities
1. Prime Minister's Kalat, Pishin, MINFAL · Capacity building and sensitization of
Special Initiative for Killa Saifullah, communities on livestock
Livestock Zhob, management;
Mastung · Vaccination of animals;
· Treatment of diseased animals and
provision of preventive and curative
veterinary services;
2. Niarri taa hunar Tehseel AHAN · Skills enhancement of rural women;
(Skills of Brahvi Dasht, · Modernized embroidery techniques;
women) Mastung · Linkages with market;

3. PPAF-Drought Bolan PPAF Dams construction, irrigation

Mitigation Pilot structures, drinking water supply
Project-Bolan-I schemes, technology innovative
projects for irrigation and drinking
water

4. Water, sanitation and Khuzdar UNICEF · Installation of hand new pumps

hygiene flood · Construction of latrines
Emergency response · Provision of water supply schemes
· Provision of water & sanitation facilities
in BHUs;
· Facilitating health & hygiene sessions
for community;
5. Community Led Total Pishin RSPN · Training of elected representatives and
Sanitation (CLTS) civil society workers;
· Promote defecation safe Union
Councils as a model for further
replication;

6. School Water, Zhob UNICEF Provision of water environment and

Environment & sanitation facilities to girls and boys
sanitation (School primary schools;
WES) Hygiene education
Child club formation

7. Crop Maximization KHuzdar, · Formation of farmers associations

MINFAL · Federating farmers associations into
Project (CMP) Jafarabad,
Pishin, Killa village organizations
Saif ullah · Capacity building of FA office bearers
and VO office bearers
· Development of village development
Plans
· Mobilize and train women farmers;
 CURRENT PROJECTS

Partner/ Major
S.No. Project Location
Donor Activities
8. Community Kharan, UNICEF · Community based therapeutic care;
Management Acute Nushki, · Screening of children aged 6-59
Mal-Nutrition Khuzdar months;
· Treatment of out patient therapeutic
care;
· Treatment of moderate mal nourished
children;
· Provision of supplementary food to
pregnant and lactating women;
· Provision of Health & Hygiene
education to the community;

9. Emergency Health Khuzdar WHO · Organize mobile health units/camps;

response in the flood · Conduct Health & Hygiene Sessions;
affected areas · Chlorination of water

10. Family Advancement Khuzdar, USAID · Social Mobilization for FALAH project;
for Life & Health Jafarabad · Conducting awareness and
(FALAH) sensitization sessions;
· Adoptation of modern family planning
methods and referrals;
· Contribution in the development of
annual implementation plan;
 PROJECTS IMPLEMENTED

Since its inception in 1991, BRSP has implemented several

projects in sectors i.e. social mobilization and awareness
raising, livestock, agriculture, community physical
infrastructure, basic health and nutrition, education,
capacity building and human resource development in 18
districts of Balochistan primarily targeting to break the
poverty cycle of rural communities. The most effective tool
in implementing all these interventions is social
mobilization that focuses on grassroots institutional
development and strengthening.

Besides its regular rural development initiatives, BRSP

spearheaded the process of emergency response in 2007.
After the devastating flood in Balochistan, BRSP conducted
an assessment to appraise the losses in the affected
districts. Based on its assessment, BRSP mobilized
resources and implemented projects on health, education,
shelter, nutrition, protection, water and sanitation,
agriculture and distribution of food and non food items.
 FUTURE PLANS OF INTERVENTIONS

· Continuation of community Mobilization and

Capacity Building of Community Institutions to
Undertake Pro-Poor Sustainable Development;

· Development and rehabilitation of water supply

schemes and construction and provision of sanitation
service in four target districts;

· Provision of education services;

· Improved Natural Resources Management (NRM)

Enterprise development (small and medium level
enterprise development for Improved Livelihoods,
Employment Opportunities and Incomes for Men and
Women; off and on farm employment/income
generation;

· Development and Rehabilitation of Rural and

Community Physical Infrastructure;

· Promotion of health with special focus on reproductive

health;

· Gender mainstreaming at policies' and programs level;

· Promotion of rights based interventions;

· Promotion of peace and interfaith harmony;

· Youth development and empowerment;

 GOVERNANCE/ BOARD OF DIRECTORS

1. Sardar Naseer Tareen, 2. Mr. Shoaib Sultan Khan,

Chairman Director

3. Dr. Arifa Anwar, 4. Mr. Rashid Bajwa,

Director CEO NRSP, Director

5. Major ® Fazil Durrani, 6. Mr. Pervez Rana,

Chairman BPSC, Director Director

7. Mr. Kamal-ud-Din Ahmad, 8. Mr. Kamal Hassan Siddiqui,

Director Director

9. Dr. Shahida Jaffery, 10. Ms. Shandana Khan,

VC SBKW University, Director CEO RSPN, Director

11. Mr. Aziz Ahmad, 12. Malik Faiyaz,

Director Director

13. Ms. Shakar Bibi,

Director

B. Ex. Officio Directors

1. Mr. Nadir Gul Bareech, 2. Mr. Naseer Ahmed Baloch,
CEO, BRSP, Ex-Officio Director
Ex Officio Director

Networks Membership
a Rural Support Program Network
a Balochistan Gender Network (BGN)
a Balochistan Social Mobilization
and Development Network

a WES Network
a Human Resource Development
Network (HRDN)

a Child Protection & Empowerment

of Adolescents Network
 BRSP REGIONAL OFFICES

Mastung Pishin

Killi Methran Near Haji Khan Mullah Batezai

National Bank Mastung Road, Syedabad Pishin
Ph: 0843897255-56 Ph: 0826-440120-21

Khuzdar Killa Saifullah

Chamrok Chowk Near Eid gah, Westren

Zahidabad Khuzdar Bypass Killa Saifullah
Ph: 0848705986 Ph: 0823-610900

Kalat Zhob

Rais-tok Killi Shadezai Shakhan Masjid

Kalat Khuda-i-dad Road, Zhob
Ph: 0844-210525 Ph: 0822-412349

Bolan Noshki

Chalgari House F.C Road Qazi Abad

Main Road, Bhag Nushki
Boaln Ph: 0825-507199