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Internship Report
AKRSP, Baltistan
Submitted by;
Muhammad Sikandar Hasan
Supervised by;
Maam Perkha Khan
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Acknowledgements
I am thankful to Allah The Almighty for He gave me the will and ability to cope
with the hardships of life, and for His benevolences which he bestowed on me. Secondly
my gratefulness is to the Regional Program Manager Agha Khan Rural Support Program
Mr. Nazir Ahmed for letting me this great opportunity to work under his kind guidance. I
am thankful to all the Managers, who inculcated us the structural, organizational setup
and working of their respective sections. My special thanks to Mr. Syed Muhammad
Muttahri, Manager employability for his kind supervision and guidance throughout the
Program. My special gratitude to Ms. Perkha Khan , my internship supervisor at QASMA
for her guidance.
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Executive summary
The AKRSP (Aga Khan Rural Support Program) was established in 1982 under
AKF (Aga Khan Foundation), nobody thought that this NGO will be the most efficient
and would do the best towards the prosperity of the then downtrodden society of GBC
(Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral).It works to promoting the human development and reducing
poverty as well as gender inequalities in GBC through an effective strategy of,
1) Social development
2) Resources development
3) Market development.
With the help of different programmes and different policies of AKRSP, the people of
GBs per capita income has increased and achieved a significant progress in formation
and building of local support organizations. My personal experience of working in
AKRSP was wonderful. I got to know how an organization works and its structure.
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Abbreviations
AKRSP :- Agha Khan Rural Support Program
AKF :- Agha Khan Foundation
GBC :- Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral
LSO :- Local Support Program
VOs :- Village Organization
WOs :- Women Organization
ID:- Institution Development
ED:- Engineering Department
M&E:- Monitoring and Evaluation
GAD:- Gender and Development
PPAF:- Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund
ICIMOD:- International centre for Integrated Mountain Development
JICA:- Japan International Cooperation Agency
EC:- European Commission
NGO:- Non Government Organization
HRM:- Human Resource Management
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Table Of Contents
1) Introduction and Background
2) Village organizations (VOs)
3) Emergence of Women Organization (WOs)
4) Human Resource Management
5)
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Introduction and Background:
Baltistan lies in North of Pakistan in the mountains of Karakoram and The Great
Himalayas, comprising of two Districts, Skardu and Ghanche. This area is blessed of
natural resources by the Nature. Although Baltistan gained its independence on 14 th of
August 1948 but was governed by feudalistic Raja-geer system till 1970. Then the then
Prime Minister of Pakistan Z.A. Bhutto overthrew the feudalistic Raja-geeri system and
put it under the Federal Government. But the lack of attention by the Federal Govt. and
due to the declining of Raja-geeri system a vacuum was produced for the socio-economic
and socio-political well-being of the people. Keeping in view the socio-economic
scenario of the region after the feudalistic culture, the AKRSP (Agha Khan Rural support
Program) was established in 1985 in Baltistan to lapse the vacuum in the socio-economic
and socio-political scenario. In order to achieve its objective, AKRSP has promoted
diversified, sustainable and equitable economic development through the provisions of
economic resources and opportunities. AKRSPs role has been that of a catalyst for rural
development supporting the progress of village level institutional structures, which
provided a forum for local communities to organize and initialize activities for their
social and economic uplift
The Aga Khan Rural Support Program (AKRSP) has been working in the Baltistan with
an explicit focus on developing institutional capacities at the grassroots level. Mandated
to improve the living standard of local communities, the AKRSP has helped catalyzed a
participatory development process through organizing over 80% of rural households into
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4,000 village-based institutions. Recognizing its effectiveness and relevance, the AKRSP
model has now been widely replicated within as well as outside Pakistan.
From the perspective of promoting tolerance and pluralism, AKRSPs role can be
understood along the following dimensions:
Village-Organizations (VO): A Forum for Dialogue and Conflict Management
Village Organizations (VOs), with a membership of about two thirds of rural house holds
in the program area have become an integral part of the regional developmental process.
After the completion of the infrastructural projects, they survived as autonomous
institutions able to offer their members other benefits, particularly from the savings and
credit scheme under the program. Through organizing the majority of communities into
village-level institutions, AKRSP has, in fact, provided a viable platform for local people
to articulate their diverse views and needs. By design, these institutions are broad-based
and ensure inclusion of voices from different quarters of their constituencies. As result of
this broad-based participation, an atmosphere of trust and confidence has been created
that is often missing in non-participatory approaches. Ultimately, this institutional
mechanism allows people to voice their concerns and jointly find out ways in which these
concerns can be addressed. Furthermore, not only did these institutions ensure the
inclusion of diverse groups from their constituencies, but they also play an important role
in resolving conflicts arising out of the very development interventions. Through
promoting dialogue and negotiations amongst the local people, these institutions have
been able to resolve conflicts related to common resources and accomplish many
development projects.
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Experience suggests that AKRSP fostered grass-roots institutions are effective in
managing diverse interests and conflicts at the village or inter-village level, a natural
outcome of the scope and mandate of the village-based institutions. In this connection, it
was also noticed that AKRSP has largely been unable to recognize and engage other
players in the civil society institutions such as rights groups and other forums that could
play an effective role in managing new challenges..
Furthermore, AKRSP has also started to implement new concepts such as Multi-
stakeholder Forum that could serve as an institutionalized system of dialogue for issues
and challenges that affect higher levels of aggregations such as valleys, districts and even
regions.
Emergence of Women Organizations (WOs):
Women in the program area though very active in the local economy, but they were not
directly involved in the developmental activities. Thanks to AKRSP women
Organizations have become a form or womens participation were heir leadership skills
and economic productivity have been able to develop. Like their VO counterparts,
women organizations also undertake savings and credit activities.
Human Resource Management:
AKRSP has made a major contribution in human resource development through its
training programs. Villagers are trained in specific fields so that they can continue to
provide services within their communities. However to realize the intended role of VOs
as full partners in development will require a greater depth of management training for
their members. Future projects that involve cooperation among VOs will need a cadre of
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managers to assume leadership roles in multi-community settings. And proposed new
developments in village banking will require accountants and managers.
AKRSP and Equitable Development
As noted in the previous sections that inequitable development is a major driver of
conflicts in Baltistan. AKRSPs development model pays explicit attention to the
importance of equity to put in place a long lasting and desirable development process.
Various evaluations have confirmed that AKRSP has largely been able to incorporate the
interests of different groups e.g. gender, sects, and regions. However, evidence suggests
that the development in Baltistan has not fully benefited everyone.
This inequitable development is not necessarily an outcome of AKRSP or AKDN
interventions but there are other factors such as differential government investment that
have also contributed toward this skewed development outcome and differential
articulation of demand for social sector services such as education, health and sanitation.
The specific objectives relating to AKRSP are:
To expand the knowledge of the resource systems of Baltistan through a joint research
project in order to enhance the capabilities of project staff to respond to the challenges of
integrated resource management in high-altitude areas.
to improve AKRSP documentation and extension systems with respect to forestry and
pasture to improve AKRSPs links with national and international research institutions.
Sections of the Organization:
The AKRSP comprises of following sections.
Institutional Development (ID) section
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Engineering Department (ED)
Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) section
Gender and Development (GAD) section
Finance section
Enterprise section
Institutional Development Section;
The major tasks of the section include;
Formation of village Organization (VO).
To conduct first meting with the VO to initiate a project.
To enhance public-private partnership.
For this ID section conducts workshops, multi-stage forums. This section has worked
with the collaboration of different Public sector Departments, i.e. Agriculture,
LG&RD, Forestry, and Fisheries.
Economic development/ Resources Development:
Initially the section was named Resource Development Section, but, was transformed
into economic development section in 2003. The key functions of this section are;
To conduct the second round of meeting with the VO, and, to prepare the
feasibility report.
To conduct surveys.
Basically the ED section is related with the all kinds of Infrastructural development.
Monitoring and evaluation Section:
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The M&E section is an important section of AKRSP. The major tasks of this section
include;
To provide facilitations to all the sections of the Organization. This could be in
the form of written documentation, trainings and orientations.
Compilation of NFRs and survey reports at regional level and send them to the
core office.
To develop proposals for the LSOs and for the Organization herself.
To review the proposals constituted by the LSOs and VOs etc.
To monitor the ongoing projects in terms of record keeping.
To handle the consultants and internees conducting evaluation tasks.
Gender and Development:
Gender discrimination is the one of the hot social issues in the countries like Pakistan.
To minimize the gender discrimination this section was established. The important tasks
of this section are;
Formation of WOs.
To arrange Gender sensitization workshops, seminars and pamphlets.
To stabilize women economically by giving technical and formal education.
To create economic resources of the women within the parameters of their socio-
cultural settings.
To create awareness about health and hygiene.
Capacity building of women in the society.
Finance Section:
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Finance section is the key section in every public and private organization. The key
duties of the finance section include;
To ensure the management of all the financial matters of the organization.
To keep check on the expenditures of the organization.
Enterprise section:
The major tasks of this section are:
To create market for the local products, especially for those products which are
produced with the collaboration of AKRSP.
To form organizations of farmers, miners and businessmen, for their capacity
building and financial betterment.
Beside these major sections there are sub-sections;
Agriculture sub-section:
The main profession of the people of Baltistan is traditional farming. That is why this
section is an important section. The major tasks of the section are;
To introduce new variety of seeds to the farmers.
To provide them training through workshops and by documentation.
To introduce modern scientific approaches of farming to enhance the production
in place of the ancient traditional ways of farming i.e. to install dehydration plants
and to provide apricot drying kits.
To develop barren land by the scientific method of land terracing.
To construct water channels through community mobilization.
To establish forest and fruit nurseries, in order to enhance forestry.
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Animal Husbandry:
This sub-section works under the ID section. The major tasks include;
To enhance the production of milk and to convert the traditional diary-farming on
the lines of modern scientific methods.
To provide bulls of good breed.
To provide medical facilities for cattle to the communities.
To train community person to nurse the cattle.
Partners/Donors of AKRSP;
AKRSP works in close partnership with Government, other civil society organizations
and businesses. Its work is generously support by
o Government of Pakistan
o Aga Khan foundation (AKF)
o CIDA (Government of Canada)
o
European Commission (EC)
o NORAD (Government of Norway)
o DFID (Government of UK)
o Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF)
o International centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
o Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
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LIST OF AKRSP DONORS IN 2008-09
n
o
Donor Agency program Prog.Are
a
Start
date
End
date
currenc
y
Funding
committed1 CIDA-IDPR Institutional
development for
poverty
reduction(IDPR)
Program
Area
20 oct
04
31-
dec-
09
CADS 9,000,000
2 DFID
through(AKF)
Civil society
program
Program
Area
1-
march-
09
20
June
10
USD 50,000
3 Aga Khan
Foundation
Food security
project
Program
Area
1
Oct
08
31
March
11
USD 100,000
4 PPAF-CPI phase
7
Infrastructure
project
Program
Area
Jan 07 Mar
09
PKR 35,664,200
5 PPAF-CPI phase
8
Infrastructure
project
Program
Area
Jan 09 Jun 09 PKR 18,646,536
6 PPAF-CPI phase
5
Infrastructure
project
Program
Area
Jul 05 Jun 09 PKR 39,120,000
7 PPAF-CPI phase
6
Infrastructure
project
Program
Area
Jan 07 Mar
09
PKR 63,838,000
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8 PPAF-CPI phase
8
Infrastructure
project
Program
Area
Jul 07 Jun 10 PKR 169,149,000
9 PPAF-CPI
phase9
Micro hydel dev
prog
Program
Area
Aug
07
Jun 10 PKR 87,800,000
1
0
PPAF-CPI phase
10
Micro hydel dev
prog
Program
Area
Nov
08
Jun 10 PKR 64,494,000
1
1
PPAF water
management
Second generation
intervention for
SRD
Program
Area
Nov
08
Dec
09
PKR 7,693,000
1
2
EV-K2CNR
Committed
(Italy)
Sustainable
development
initiatives
Baltistan Jun 06 Dec
09
EURO 130,000
1
3
International
centre for
Integrated
Mountain
Development
(ICIMOD)
Improvement of
herder live hood
Chitral Jul 07 Dec
09
USD 14,299
Graphical coordination frame-work of AKRSP
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AKRSP
LSO
COMMUNITY
VO/WO
DONORS
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Area Office Astore
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AKRSP ORGANISATIONAL CHART
Personal Experience:
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Board OF
Directors
Area Office
Ghanche
Regional
Program Office
Gilgit
Regional
Program Office
Chitral
Regional
Program Office
Baltistan
Core Office
Area Office
Ghizer
Area Office
Booni
General
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It was the first time I joined an organization and worked practically. I have got a lot of
personal experience through the summer internship in AKRSP. It was a wonderful
experience for me and a chance to know how actually an organization works, especially
an NGO. This internship was of six weeks, time was little and a lot of work was to do.
The work done by is divided into six parts based on six weeks, which is given below.
1) First week
The first day I went to AKRSP everything was new for me like people and environment
of the organization. I was little bit confused but confident enough to face any new
challenge. First of all I met some other confused internees outside of the gate. When we
entered into office some staff was there to welcome us. They took all of the internees to a
conference hall and started taking our introduction and gave us two forms to fill. The
regional program manager gave us an over view and a short introduction about the
AKRSP. They serve us with tea and told us to come tomorrow so that they could assign
the departments of our choice. The first week of internship was of orientation. Our
supervisor used to take us to different departments like finance, marketing, HR, ID
(institution Development) and employability for visit and introduction to these
departments. The second day our supervisor Mr. Zaman took us to Finance department,
we met the manager Mr. Shahid. He told us about the working process of his department
and introduced his colleagues. There were total five staff members one assistant manager,
a casher and three other employees. They served us with tea during the session and had
our introduction too. After the session we asked different questions to the manager, he
answered the questions technically. They let us free at 2 o clock and we went to home.
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The third day we visited Marketing department, the manager was Mr. Syed Muttahri. He
was also Quaidian, did his MPA from QASMS. We had an excellent session with him
there was an assistant manager and two other employees. We were with tea and had an
informal session during which he recalled his era at QASMA and shared his golden
memories. After the session at 2 0 clock I went to home. The fourth day we visited HR
department and Admin, Mr. Ghulam Mehdi was the manager there were 4 staff in HR
department and five in admin. The manager gave us a multimedia presentation and
cleared every question asked by us. We visited the ID department at the fifth day. The
employees there gave us lectures about working of their particular department.
Procedures, policies and timings of work were also told to us during this week. The first
week was introductory, we got to know about AKRSP and its working system.
2) Second week
On the very first day of our second week we were assigned the department we are to join.
As per my choice I was sent to Marketing Department. The manager Mr. Syed Muttahri
welcomed me with his assistant Mr. Jaffer. They gave me the instruction and guide lines
to follow and told me about its working. The marketing department was working on
different projects like value chain of honey, buck wheat and apple.
On the second day they told me to work with apple value chain team. I started working
with apple value chain team from the third day of my second week. There was a separate
room for this team for discussion and meetings. They gave me a chair and table and
laptop was my own. They told me what apple value chain is all about how it works what
is its mechanism and procedures. Apple value chain is basically a chain which includes
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all the processes, persons and mechanisms used to deliver an apple (from seed to end
consumer).
3) Third week
In third week I was given task of getting a questionnaire filled from all the whole-sellers
and retailers of Apple within the Skardu city (headquarter of Baltistan). It was a tiring
task and was also my first practical experience of market. There was another internee
with me in this assignment. The manager gave us a time of one week to get 300
questionnaire filled. We started visiting the market from the third day as there were issues
of security. Fourth day we visited the markets near our homes and got 57 questionnaires
filled with a great trouble and struggle. On Friday just 20 questionnaires were get filled,
we were disappointed very much but we had a hope on our abilities. We sit together and
started thinking about the assignment. The main task was to make the retailers and
shopkeepers agree to give us information. Lot of retailers and whole-sellers were illiterate
and to make them understand that why we were getting the information about their
business, it was a very difficult and headache task. The questionnaire was actually about
the rates of different types of apple, from where whole-seller buy and to whom they sell.
They were requested to give their suggestions to improve apple market and difficulties
they face. We planned a lot for the next week as we are to submit the results on Thursday.
4) Fourth week
On the first day of fourth week we went to office at 8 o clock and then went to field with
zeal and zest first we went to the fruit market of the city and started with the whole-
sellers it was a tough and difficult task. We finished with the whole-sellers at 2 o clock
then started approaching the retailers every retailer was there with a new story and
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different situation but we carried on and did stop at 6 o clock evening. The number of
questionnaires we got filled reached to 189. On the next day we went to market early in
the morning. We divided the whole city into two regions northern region and southern
region. I got northern region and went to accomplish the task, in the northern region there
were approximately 20 retailers and 8 whole sellers. I started with whole-sellers which
got a lot of time and hard work. Then I moved to retailers and found that there were 25
retailers, which was good for me. I did with retailers easily as I had a lot of practice in
last 4 days. My other partner get 70 questioners filled, so we were near to our target. We
were left with only 8 questionnaires which was an easy task so we left the remaining task
to the next day. On Wednesday we went to a beautiful small town near Skardu, named as
Hussainabad. There were 10 retailers and only one whole-seller, which made our task
more easy, as we only need 8 questionnaires to get filled. We went to all the retailers and
the whole-seller and did our task efficiently. Then we visited apple orchards and farms
located in the small town. After spending a lot of time in the beautiful places we left to
Skardu at evening. We were happy and enjoying all the way as we had done our task. We
told our supervisor too about the task he praised us and told us to submit all the
questionnaires by the next morning. On Thursday we went to office early but the
supervisor was busy in a meeting with the foreign donors team. We spent all the day in
the office sitting in our respective places. Doing nothing was not an issue, but we were
expecting a great welcome and praise by our supervisor, all in vain. We left all the
questioners on the table of supervisor and went to home at 2 o clock. Friday was a
holiday, as a worst incident happened on the soil of Gilgit Baltistan. The organization
remained close for 5 days including weekend of last week.
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5) Fifth week
The organization opened on Wednesday but a lot of employees were absent. Our
supervisor called us to come to discuss on the task which we had done. He was happy to
see us on time as we were the only internees present. He asked us about the difficulties
we faced in getting the questionnaires filled and the techniques we used to tackle the
problems. We told him each and everything we learned and faced. He then started putting
all the information on excel sheet on his laptop and entertained us with a cup of special
tea. There were Eid holidays from Friday of the running week, our supervisor was happy
and satisfied from us so he told us to come after Eid holidays. The organization was
closed for almost 5 days due to Eid-ul-fiter.
6) Sixth week
After Eid holidays we visited different places where the projects of AKRSP were in
operation. The organization gave us 3 vehicles and a field supervisor for the visit. This
visit was compulsory for all the internees so they divide us in 3 groups having 4 members
in each group. The organization granted all the expenses except food. The SEED (Social
Economical and Environmental Development) projects were operating in these areas. Our
main focus was to see whether the projects were working in order and whether they were
effective for the community. We also took feedback from the residents of those areas.
The places we visited were:
Basha ( last man settlement in Himalayas)
Khapulo ( capital of Ghangchay district )
This visit was full of fun and knowledge. It was basically a tour of two days and one
night. First we went to Basha valley where we saw a huge development by SEED under
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the umbrella of AKRSP. It was the first time that I visited the last man settlements in
Himalayas. We visited the following projects in Basha carried out by SEED for the
development and welfare like:
Irrigation
Electricity
Green house
Farming ( buck wheat )
Plantation ( fruit trees )
Dairy and Poultry
Cable TV network.
We stayed there in Basha LSO guest house, which was the only cemented building in the
whole Basha. On the next morning we had our breakfast and started our journey towards
Khapolu, the capital of Ghangchay district. We reached there at 3 o clock, had our lunch
and went to its most unique places like:
Khapulo fort
900 years old mosque
Khapulo fort is 500 year old fort now a days run by Sarena Hotels chain. When we
reached there it was full with tourists from abroad and nation-wide. We took photographs
and have tea in a royal way with modern touch. Then we went to a mosque which was
900 years old and having Mughals architecture. We offer prayers and took photographs.
The most special thing about this mosque is that it is a double story mosque both stories
are used by different sects. Its the most attracting thing for todays muslim. We left for
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Skardu at evening and reached home late night. We did not go to the organization next
day but the day after next day was our last day at organization. At the last day we had an
informal session with our department members at the end they promise to give us the
internship letters soon and said good bye with best wishes.
SWOT Analysis:
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Strengths
Defined & Easy work process
Excellent Employee Relations
Open communication Channel
LSOs
Weaknesses
Low Employee Motivation
No cultural and religious diversity
Less government support
Opportunities
Education & Health
Ability to increase donations
Grass root access
Technology
Threats
Sectarian Factor
Weather and climate
Cultural threats
Strengths
The working mechanism of AKRSP is very strong because the policies and
procedures of performing tasks are defined clearly and employees dont face any
difficulty. As it is an international organization so it follows international
standards and having a unique vision. Which makes the employees more clear
about their goals.
AKRSP employees have excellent employee relations between the upper level
management, middle level management and lower level management. As there
are no barriers between any level of management. If a security guard has a
problem then he can directly go to the RPO to complain against his problem but
the supervisors handle all such problems at their end.
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LSOs are the Local Support Programs which can work like an organization if
supported with funds. These have access to the grass root level and to the donors
and work like facilitators. These are the main strength of AKRSP.
Weaknesses:
AKRSP employees are less motivated because employees working there are
having a very simple cultural background. The salary they receive is enough to
satisfy their needs and wants, which are limited. They do not go for luxuries
because of the culture that prevails there rather they are contented so they do not
work more.
In AKRSP there is no cultural and religious diversity as all the employees are
from the same cultural background. All the employees from RPO to security
guard are from Baltistan and called as Baltis, having same language and culture.
All the employees are the followers of same sect of Islam.
AKRSP is not receiving any support from government so they fulfill all their
financial needs through different donors from all over the world. AKRSP have
some permanent donors like European Commission and some donors vary from
project to project.
Opportunities:.
In the Baltistan reign AKRSP only works for economical and social
development. Which is no doubt an excellent welfare but there are some gray
areas which are to be focused such as Education and Health. As these areas can
let AKRSP to penetrate in the whole reign.
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AKRSP can increase its donations by marketing its work and human resource.
It has an excellent human resource as it has access to the grass root level and
got a high image in the minds of the people of the reign. As it helps in skill
development and making people independent.
Threats:
Since the organization works under the supervision of Prince Karim Agha Khan
about whom the people of Baltistan have controversial thoughts. As Prince Karim
Agha Khan is also the supreme leader of a sect of Islam, which is not practiced in
the Baltistan reign. It can cause a bad effect on AKRSP so it should take a lot of
care in this aspect.
Weather and climate of Baltistan is very extreme cold in winters, which lasts 8
months in year. In summer there is chance of floods due to melting of glaciers. So
its a great threat for AKRSP projects in Baltistan reign. In winters the work
process is very slow or no work condition. The projects are to be completed in
summer but there is another threat which is floods and land sliding which is a
normal process in the whole reign.
People of Baltistan are very firm believer of their values and culture they dont
accept change particularly the one bought by multinational firms like AKRSP.
There is a segment of people called nationalist are the main pressure groups
working against AKRSP. They are small in number but are more influential as
they are the native people.
11. Key findings
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After conducting the above study following are the key findings;
AKRSP is the most efficient social sector organization due its community
mobilizing working mechanism.
AKRSP has brought revolutionary changes in almost every sphere of the life of
the local community.
Communities have shown more trust in AKRSP rather than the Public sector
departments.
Due to the involvement of communal interest and participation in all stages of
development, AKRSP projects are more efficient and long-lasting then the
projects of Public sector departments.
AKRSP has enhanced the capacity building of the communities by enhancing
their Human Resource Management and Natural Resource Management. This
proved to be very vital.
The formation of LSOs is step to enhance the capacity building and socio-
economic enhancement of the local communities even in the absence of AKRSP.
This is an exemplary step towards self-reliance.
Conclusion:
AKRSP has made a substantial development impact in a very difficult
environment. It has not only tried to maintain an enclave approach but also has
progressively integrated its activities into the overall development process, with
government and other investors. This approach and the principle of insisting on
developing a self-help capacity within cooperating communities, predict well for the
sustainability of its benefits. AKRSPs flexibility and grass root emphasis greatly
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contributed to the program success. AKRSP has increased NGO participation as an
integral part of the rural developmental projects. Another major success of AKRSP is the
institution building through ownership in, the form of LSOs, as a starting point of
development. By involving the beneficiaries in every stag of their development, a
foundation and relationship has been built for the future.