National Rural Support Programme (NRSP) being the largest Rural Support Programme in terms of outreach and development work in the country was recommended by the Ministry of Climate Change-MoCC (the NDA Pakistan) to engage with Green Climate Fund (GCF). Idea was to engage NRSP as the first and leading national implementing partner of GCF and MoCC in the county for the planning and execution of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Initiatives. NRSP was issued NOC by MoCC to start the process of accreditation by the GCF in 2016 and it took 2 years to complete the process of accreditation of NRSP; which includes institutional assessment of NRSP carried out by Pwc and round of discussions with the GCF support teams. NRSP was formally accredited by GCF on December 12th, 2018 as the 1st ever National Direct Access Entity (DAE) in Pakistan. In all the above process Ministry of Climate Change was involved and consulted in each and every step; which was very productive.

For more details on NRSP, please visit the organizational website at www.nrsp.org.pk

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