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Starting and Ending Years in Investment Schedule: 2009-2018

Justification: Access to high quality services that are socially acceptable and appropriate for ensuring sustainability in the GAP Region faces some delays because of limited availability of funds as well as rather dispersed pattern of settlement in the region. It becomes necessary to combine services for optimum utilization of available resources. Given these, the GAP Regional Development Administration is engaged in “Integrated Participatory Rural Development Project” (IPRP) seeking participation by target population and joining forces with relevant stakeholders.

The project entails planning and implementation of participatory rural development (PRD) projects with local partners in pilot areas identified in respective provinces of the GAP Region.

Goal: Improving socio-economic and living conditions of rural population with limited availability of cultivable land in the region in line with principles of sustainability and participation. Relevant approaches are:

-Sustainability                     -Participation    

-Value Chain Analysis        -Clustering

Objective: Improving incomes, living standards and means of subsistence of the rural poor in the GAP Region:

• Intensifying quality basic education, vocational training, agricultural extension, health, etc. services as requirements of modern life along with their infrastructure in identified pilot areas to improve access to these services by communities in dispersed settlements while saving resources.
• Improving income levels of rural communities through identifying and boosting rural industries and other income generating activities.
• Enhancing cooperation and integration among rural communities living in dispersed settlements.

Activities Conducted:  

• Firstly, sub-regions were identified in 9 provinces with the “Strategic Plan for the Id6entification of Sub-regions”.
• In the period 2011-2015 “Sub-regional Rural Development Plans” were prepared to implement multi-sector development projects in 28 administrative districts and 178 sub-projects were supported under these plans until the end of 2015.
• In 2016 protocols of cooperation for 46 projects were signed and their implementation took start.
• In 2017 protocols of cooperation for 42 were signed by relevant organizations and implementation started.

Table: Pilot Districts