SARHAO RURAL SUPrQRT

l'tlOGRAMME

Lending a Hand

SRSP'sHumanitarian Response
to Complex Emergency in Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa and FATA


ABOUT SARHAO RURAL SUPPORT

PROGRAMME (SRSP)

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 THIS PUBLICATION

Thls report provides an insight into SRSP's relief

and humanitarian work carried out in Kh) ber
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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.

Ttie tltl phaiograpl1 shows I.hr

pristine valli!)'Sof Swot and theo
scorchlngplolns ofMflrdan, where
the p(!ople of Swat tnoved ro Jn
woke of the conflict fn 2009. n a(so
dep1cu the cl'kl/lenesond response
to the ffoods tlley [aced when 1hey
moved bock to tMse volleys.
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s re11gth and rn1i
people from Kh Yb er Pakh ~ ierxe of h
worst of the nat tunkhwa and FAt t ousands of
ural and manmade d'. A who survived
. th
1sasters! e

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was seen ln Svvabl .::::t

On'! of t'1e y,otfd's I
fnflu:x(J.JJala
ard.m. of dlsplac.'d
,.,, people
' .ily2009)