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Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP)
Proportion of the area of the contribution comprising Key Biodiversity Areas: 7.9%
AKRSP, a pioneering rural development, works across all 10 districts of Gilgit-Baltistan, two in Chitral (KPK), and, since 2024, in Sindh, enhancing rural livelihoods across Pakistan. AKRSP works across several thematic areas including agriculture, food security, and climate resilience. AKRSP has achieved significant milestones, including the construction and rehabilitation of more than 4,000 small infrastructure projects such as bridges, roads, irrigation channels, and hydropower units. The organisation has also planted 51 million fruit and forest trees and developed hundreds of acres of marginal lands, contributing to environmental sustainability. The organisation has supported local farmers in establishing more than 500 passive solar greenhouses, 50 solar-powered lift irrigation, drip and sprinkler irrigation schemes. AKRSP is promoting community-based micro-hydel projects by constructing a total capacity of 33MW to provide clean energy to communities in remote areas. The organisation is also promoting regenerative agriculture and green businesses/Nature-based Solutions.
Potential conservation benefits in saving biodiversity
Potential reduction of species extinction risk resulting from threat abatement actions
The chart below represents the relative disaggregation of the selected contribution's total potential opportunity for reducing global species extinction risk through taking actions to abate different threats to species within its boundaries. The percentages refer to the amount of the total opportunity that could potentially be achieved through abating that particular threat.