Malakand Rural Development Project: A hope for Rural Development in NWFP, Pakistan A Case Study of Swat District

This research analyses the different approaches to developmental and poverty alleviation in Pakistan and specifically in NWFP. These approaches include the public sector agencies, non governmental organizations and rural support programs. The main interest is to find out what were the causes or shortcomings in public sector organisations and NGOs that they couldn’t achieved their targets of development and poverty alleviation. A new experiment was replicated from the Northern areas project of Agha Khan Rural Support Program (AKRSP) with the name Malakand Rural Development Project (MRDP) in four districts of the NWFP with the assistance from Asian Development Bank. And this experiment turned out useful for these areas. This research paper is focusing only in the education sector of the program of MRDP.