SRSP Humanitarian Response to Complex Emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA

1. SRSP'sHumanitarian Response
to Complex Emergency in Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa and FATA
Lending a Hand
SARHAO RURAL SUPrQRT
l'tlOGRAMME
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2. Thlsreport provides an insight into SRSP's relief
and humanitarian work carried out in Kh)1ber
Pakhtunkhwa and FATAIn partnership with
local communitres, national and International
organisations to address the development
challenges of lntemal displacement as a result of
the militaryoperation 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.SRSPwas
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 2010floods have all
called foran 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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