RURAL SUPPORT PROGRAMMES APPROACH

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SANITATION AND DEVELOPMENT SACOSAN III

Shoaib Sultan Khan


November 2008
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Why Poverty ?

• The public sector makes huge investments but does
  not create a grassroots mechanism for delivery of
  services
• As a result, Government services do not reach
  the people especially the poor
• Commonly the public sector does not effectively
  involve poor communities when planning or
  delivering development

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RSP Mission

• To harness peoples potential to undertake
  development activities by investing in grassroots
  institutions of the poor for Poverty Reduction.
• .. using social mobilisation as a tool .

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Why RSPs

• Autonomous and sustainable support
  organisations (RSPs) critical to undertake
  social mobilisation of the poor
• Social mobilisation requires an institutional
  mechanism which has the credibility of the
  Government and flexibility of an NGO
• Participatory, grassroots organisations of the
  poor are a proven, powerful tool for poverty
  alleviation and social protection
• Poverty targeting is KEY to identify the poorest
• Grassroots social mobilisation organisations can
  make public service delivery more efficient and
  accountable

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RSPs in Pakistan-93/126 districts and 2/13 FATA
Agencies/Areas
AKRSP
SRSP
FATA
RSP Network
GBTI
NRSP
PRSP
BRSP
SRSO
TRDP
SGA
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Social Mobilisation Process

• Series of Dialogues to assess peoples
  willingness to form Community Organisations (COs)
  to undertake development work
• Poverty ranking of all HH in village to ensure
  inclusion of poor in COs
• CO forms and selects activists, start regular
  meetings and savings programme

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The Process.. contd.

• CO prepares Micro-Investment Plan
• Accordingly the RSP provides technical,
  financial support and ..
• Facilitates linkages with line agencies other
  service providers (eg Banks, NGOs, etc)

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Three-Tiered Social Mobilisation
LSO
VO
CO
CO
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Membership 2.3 million (30 women) 2 million
hholds
Rs 1.9 billion Saved (Rs 418 million womens)
Health Workers Trained 15,002 (12,660 TBAs)

• Skills Training
• Vocational Technical
• -leadership management
• 1 million
• (363,375 women)

Micro Health Insurance 962,331 (221,890 women)
131319 COs (42348 WCOs ie 32)
Education Community Schools 1674 with 53,858
students
Credit Disbursed cumulative Rs 35 billion (Rs 10
bill women)
Community Infrastructure Schemes 77,174 Rs 8.9
billion cost (2.6 million h.holds benefiting)
Credit Beneficiaries 2 million ( 0.5 million
women)
As of June 2008
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• Sanitation Development
• Capacity Building of Community
• Mobilizers
• Key to Sanitation

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Open Defecation Free Status (Before After)

• Baseline household survey conducted by RSPs show
  that on an average 51 households in the villages
  did not have latrine facility in their houses and
  were defecating in the open
• After mobilizing community to completely
  eliminate open defecation, within a period of
  average 2-3 months, all households without
  latrines in the village constructed latrines and
  achieved the status of open defecation free
  environment

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Open Defecation Free Villages(2007-8)

• 1,102 villages triggered with total 82,050
  households (approximate population 738,362)
• 330 villages with Open Defecation Free status
  with 42,615 households (approximate population
  289,078)
• Remaining 772 villages where triggering is in
  process with 39,433 households and approximate
  449,284 population)

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Nation Wide Scale Up of CLTS

• RSPs have an outreach to 131,319 community
  organizations in 93 districts with direct 2
  million beneficiary households
• A total of 20 million population to be reached in
  the coming years through a framework of community
  organizations

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• Indicative One Union Council Plan
• Activities, Investments and Outputs
• S. No. Activity Unit Invest- Total Output
• ment/Unit Invest-
• (Pak Rs.) ment
• 5 yrs
• Small grants for 54 extremely poor 5,000 1,350,00
  0 54 extremely poor hhs have the extremely
  poor households/year productive assets and
  income
• households (hhs) generation has begun
• Small loan from VO- 175 chronically
  poor 15,000 2,625,000 350 chronically poor hhs
  have
• managed Community hhs (revolving to productive
  assets and income
• Investment Fund (CIF) over 350 hhs) generation
  has begun
• for chronically poor
• households
• Vocational training 824 hhs members
  25,000 20,600,000 824 members from poorest
• scholarships for family from poorest hh
  categories trained and 70
• members from poorest categories of
  hhs gainfully employed

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• Indicative One Union Council Plan
• Activities, Investments and Outputs
• S. No. Activity Unit Invest- Total Output
• ment/Unit Invest-
• (Pak Rs.) ment
• 5 yrs
• Improving village 20 schemes 1,300,000 26,000,00
  0 Sanitation improved in villages
• sanitation, including 5 years per scheme as
  well as providing short term jobs
• solid waste management
• Social protection 1767 hhs in the poorest 250
  per hhs/ 2,208,750 1767 hhs from poorest
  categories have
• Provision of micro health poverty
  bands/year hospitalization, accident and life
  cover.
• insurance to the poorest
• categories of hhs
• Public-private partnership Teacher training
  school - 19,997,500 All teachers and SMC members
  trained,
• in education management committee physical
  environment of schools
• training, improving improved and
  scholarships provided to

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• Indicative One Union Council Plan
• Activities, Investments and Outputs
• S. No. Activity Unit Invest- Total Output
• ment/Unit Invest-
• (Pak Rs.) ment
• 5 yrs
• Training of service 2 in each sector - 750,000 30
  service providers in agriculture,
• providers in agriculture, per year
  for livestock and health trained
• livestock and health years (total of 30)
• 11. RSP/RSPN management 4.3 - 5,000,000 RSP/RSP
  N support is provided.
• cost
• Total investment required (Pak Rs.) 116,156,250 U
  S 1 million
• Total investment required per capita year (Pak
  Rs.) 986 US 12

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