Balochistan Rural Support Programme (Brsp)

"balochistan rural support programme (brsp) is an autonomous not-for-profit organization working in the rural areas of balochistan. brsp's history goes back to the project "pak-german self-help initiative" that was initiated in 1983 in collaboration with the government of germany and pakistan. the project was implemented by the local government department of balochistan with the collaboration of gtz (german agency for technical co-operation) advisory group. in the mid-90s, brsp existed in 13 districts of balochistan, with 250 staff members. the programme, however, had to be scaled down substantially in the subsequent years as gtz withdrew its support. after a long interval of inactivity, brsp restarted its operations in 2001 with financial support from ppaf. in 1991 brsp was registered under the companies ordinance as a non-profit organization dedicated to rural development in the province. the overall mission of brsp is to facilitate the establishment and improvement of sustainable