THE RURAL SUPPORT PROGRAMMES OF PAKISTAN

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ERADICATING POVERTY THROUGH ENTERPRISE
THE RURAL SUPPORT PROGRAMMES OF PAKISTAN
Shoaib Sultan Khan November 2007
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AKRSP
RSPs in Pakistan-93 districts
SRSP
LPRP
RSPN 2000
GBTI
NRSP
PRSP
BRSP
SRSO
SGA
TRDP
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Membership 1,908,017 (32 women)
Rs 1,646.823 Million Saved
TBAs Trained 14,114
Activist trained 861,547
Teachers Trained 2,235
100678 COs
Credit Disbursed Rs 22.631 Billion
Comm. Schools 1,672 with 43,116 students
Credit Beneficiaries 1.653 Million
PPI Beneficiaries 1,926,728
Productive Physical Infrastructure (PPI)
schemes 73,054
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We Train Bread Winners Men/Women
Entrepreneurship and Vocational Skills Training
Programme

• NRSP Institute of Rural Management

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VTP Process

• Need identification . community
• Need assessment .. community and field
  staff
• Training utilization plan with selected trainees
  
• TOP/Resolution .. Community (50 of
  tuition fee is Paid by the Community
  nominee)
• Training designed as per need in collaboration
  with private private sector institutions
  ( of days less but of hours more)
• Planning for conduction of actual training
• Make necessary logistical and administrative
  arrangements
• Actual conduction of training - 20
  theoretical 80 practicals
• Ongoing monitoring of training process
• Weekly assessments based on viva
• Successful completion based on weekly assessments

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Summary
Total Trades 75 Training Centers 30 (both
private and Public) Certification Skill
development council National Training
Board TEVTA
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Vocational Training Programme Participants
Poverty Profile
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Gender Wise Participation
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Orientation to Enterprise Activist Program
(EAP)
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EAP Purpose

• To create an indigenous business development
  support system (BDSP, forum, committees,
  linkages) for sustainable local entrepreneurship
  and livelihood development

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Enterprise Development Inputs
Opportunity Identification Product
Development/Redesign Diversification Value
Addition
Resource Mobilization Credit Machinery Labor
Raw MaterialSkill Infrastructure Utilities
SalePersonal SellingCollection of Cash
Business Cycle
DistributionSelection of OutletsTransportPhysic
al Placement
ProductionQuality ControlInventory Management
Packing Packaging
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The Problem
B L O C K
Technical Training
Designing
Raw Material
Finance
Markets Outlets
New Opportunities
Packing Packaging
Community
Technology
Distribution
Transport
Diversification
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Community Needs Access
Community
Resources
Designing
Raw Material
Technical Training
New Opportunities
Finance
Diversification
Outlets
Packing Packaging
Transport
Technology
Distribution
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EAP Objectives

• 1
• To create, support and mentor local Business
  Development Service Providers (BDSP) as
  activists, advisors and promoters of economic
  change at community level

2 To develop/support entrepreneurs, producers and
ultra-poor through a comprehensive enterprise
training and support program institutionalized at
village level
The Laboratory
The Primary Program
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Basic PhilosophyUnique Combination Possible
Enterprise Development
Social Activism

Enterprise Activist
They Hear a Different Drumbeat
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EAP A Cascade Model1 District over 2 years
6m
6f
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Enterprise Activists
72m
72f
144
Entrepreneur
720-1440
360-720m
360-720f
Producers
Total targeted in 2 years 876-1596
Cascade Model
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EAP Capacity Building Framework
Nurturing the Program
Anchoring the Program
Institutionalizing the Program

• To facilitate institutionalization, train
  Activists in
• Enterprise Development, Designing, Managing
  Exposure Visits, Marketing
• To train Entrepreneurs in
• Enterprise Development, Bookkeeping, Skills, etc

12-15 Local Social Activists selected as
Potential Enterprise Activists
Effective Business Development Service Providers
(BDSP)
.transformed into .

• Registration of a Local Forum
• Establishment of Resource Centre
• Development of Livelihood Committees at Village
  and UC levels

• Orientation
• Selection
• ToT (1)
• Center Assessment
• ToT (2)

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Selection of Enterprise Activists

• Objectives
• Selection of suitable candidate with HeartMind
• Willing to help community for their development
• Methodology
• Activist Tool was developed
• Test conducted in regional offices
• Activists interviewed and short listed for EAP

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Exposure Visit(Enterprise Activists)

• Objectives
• Exposure to, and linkages with, wholesale markets
• Forward-Backward Linkages for a range of
  businesses
• Exposure to, and Participation in, National
  Exhibitions and Melas
• Identification of Technical Training Institutions
  and Resource Persons

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Some Achievements

• Forums established, recognized and owned by the
  community local CBOs on board and supportive
• Cascade model in place, allowing biggest impact
  at the bottom the focus remains on producers
  and the poorest, while entrepreneurs rev up the
  economic engine within the community
• A vast range of business have been covered so
  that community may develop a large number of
  backward-forward linkages
• The entire business cycle is supported
• EAs handle issues such as womens participation,
  dealing with local influences, managing costs for
  eventual sustainability

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thank you