SRSP's Humanitarian Response to Complex Emergency in Khyber

Pakhtunkhwa and FATA

Lending a Hand

SARHAO RURAL SUPrQRT l'tlOGRAMME

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Thls report provides an insight into SRSP's relief and humanitarian work carried out in Kh)1ber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA In partnership with local communitres, national and International organisations to address the development challenges of lntemal displacement as a result of the military operation in 2009, the devastation o+ lhe 2010 floods and the continued human displacement in this region.

ABOUT THIS PUBLICATION

Sarhad Rural Support Programme (SRSP) ls one of the largest non-governmental organisations providing development and humanltanan support In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA. SRSP was created in 1989 as a developmem organisation, and has since also moved into emergency relief as a natural response to a series of humanitarian and environmental crises. The 2005 earthquake, 2009 counter-insurgency Intervention In the Swat Valley and the devastating 2010 floods have all called for an immedlate humanitarian response, whrch an established local organisation like SRSP was In a privileged position to provide.

SRSP's development and humanitarian programmes are underpinned by Its principles of neutrality, Impartiality and Independence, and cnformed by the needs and priorities of local communities.

ABOUT SARHAO RURAL SUPPORT PROGRAMME (SRSP)

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