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Introduction


SRSO is a Rural Support Programme at the level of Sindh Province was set up by the Government of Sindh as a non profit organization and registered under the Corporate Law Authority (CLA) under the nomenclature of Sindh Rural Support Organization (SRSO). SRSO is funded by government of Sindh to work in the designated districts of Sindh. This policy has been endorsed by government to achieve the goals of poverty reduction through community empowerment, skills enhancement, capacity building and development of community supported infrastructure projects, and the provision of support for income generation, enterprise development and micro credit.

The primary task of SRSO is to work as a Catalyst to empower and capacity build communities. People and the government are supported in forging partnership and inculcating the sense of ownership among the people. SRSO is presently entrusted with the responsibility of fostering a countrywide network of community organizations at the grassroots level in 9 districts of Sindh and works in the following sub-sectors while applying the participatory development approach.

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SRSOs Approach

 The people need social guidance to harness their potential. Such guidance 
     is essentially needed for the following purposes.

 
To get organized for pooling of their resources , cutting down overheads,
     achieving economy of scale, etc.

 
To identify genuine leaders /activists/cadres from amongst themselves or
     the community. It is only these cadres and not outsiders that can bring
     out the willingness and harness the people’s potential.

 
To identify and prioritize what the people are willing to undertake in terms 
     of opportunities and needs and not demands which have to be provided by
     outside agencies (the assumption in social mobilization is that guided or
     blue print approach is not effective).

 
To assess the feasibility of the identified portfolio opportunities and needs
     in terms of peoples capacity, willingness, requirement of resources and
     availability of resources from within and outside.

 
To arrange, secure and facilitate the flow of required resources to the
     community; and  To 
linkages between them and other development
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SRSO`s Vision

The Vision of SRSO is to foster a framework of grassroots institutions in villages located in 253 Union Councils of 9 Districts in Sindh,to harness the potential lying withen the communities to help themselves. Go to Top

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Objectives of SRSO

To alleviate poverty in all UCs of nine districts of upper Sindh and go to
   scale.

To address and support GOPs policy of poverty alleviation.

To compliment and Supplement GOS’s, efforts to translate poverty
   reduction strategies into action.
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SRSO`s Background

The social mobilization movement began in Pakistan in December 1982 originating in the Northern Areas. The pioneer of this movement was the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP). It gradually spread to the rest of the country under the guise of provincial Rural Support Programmes (RSPs) established by the Government of Pakistan and collaborative donor funding.

The latest RSP to be set up was the Sindh Rural Support Organization (SRSO) by the Government of Sindh in July 2003. SRSO was established by the provision of an endowment of Rs. 500 million by the Government of Sindh, that was raised to Rs. 1.0 billion in subsequent years.

The Sindh Rural Support Organization has thus a history of only 2 years. It was formed in July 2003 under the Companies Ordinance 1984 and started its activities initiated by NRSP in District Sukkur. NRSP had planned to cover only three Union Councils of District Sukkur. SRSO has since then expanded its programme to 23 Union Councils in five districts namely Sukkur,Khairpur, Shikarpur, Jacobabad and Ghotki.

In alignment with its mandate, SRSO has been contributing to Social Mobilization,Community Organization, Microfinance, Enterprise Development, Physical Infrastructure & Technological Interventions and Human Resource Development. These inputs are being implemented with major focus on poverty alleviation and enhancing livelihood opportunities.

There are four units in SRSO undertaking these tasks with coordinated approaches for holistic development i.e. Social Mobilization , Human Resource Development , Physical Infrastructure. Go to Top

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