Integrated Rural Development Program (IRDP) Phase-IV

Approx. value of the contract: 9.2 million PKR
Country Pakistan	Location within Country (Districts) Mardan (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)
Name of Donor/ Funding Agency GTZ/LG&RDD	Duration of Project (months): 04 years
Start date (month/year): January 01, 1995	Completion date (month/year): December 31, 1998

 

No. of Project Staff   21 persons

Name of senior employees of your organization involved in project implementation Mr. Abid Ullah Jan (Advisor) Mumtaz Hussain (PM Community Development) Mr. Bashir Ahmad (Program Manager) Imran Ali Chishti (Monitoring Officer) Fazal Ullah (Finance Officer)

 

Project Objectives, Outcomes and list of major activities (Not more than 500 words)

Project Outcomes

VBOs carry out economically profitable, socially acceptable, & ecologically sustainable development activities on their own in a replicable manner.

Project Outputs/Results

The following are the headline amounts of the key outputs/services delivered:

• Institution building on 4 functional levels,
• Promotion of a rural finance system (GCC),
• Establishing effective communication system,
• Facilitating sustainable natural resource management and
• Facilitating linkage of VBOs with external development agencies

List of major activities (along with targets)

• Establishment of mobilization system on village and regional level
• Identification and construction of agriculture, forestry, fisheries, wildlife and other related schemes
• Linkages development of built and capacitated institutions with external agencies.
• Formation of village development fund to be invested in income generating schemes