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An extremely important aspect of poverty alleviation is creating a wider 'context of opportunity' for the rural poor. Bridging the gap between the demand for gainful employment and the skills required to enter the labour market is a vital part of widening opportunities. NRSP's Institute of Rural Management, is working towards Human Resource Development and conducts 'Training Needs Assessments' to determine the gender-and-employment-specific requirements of community members. The NRSP-IRM also trains NRSP staff members.

NRSP considers Human Resource Development (HRD) to be a vital constituent of the process for achieving sustainable socio-economic development. Hence the very catalytic dimension of NRSP is its Human Resource Development component implemented by the Institute of Rural Management.

NRSP - Institute of Rural Management

The NRSP - Institute of Rural Management is one of Pakistan's foremost training institutes in the non-profit sector, working with firm determination for the cause of poverty reduction through skill enhancement that instill a spirit of self-reliance as well as pave ways for securing gainful employment. This also enables the rural masses to achieve a sense of dignity. The building block of its foundational premise is its objective "To harness people's potential to help themselves".  Although an integral part of NRSP, it began its operations as a self-managed and autonomous institution in 1993. IRM combines a flexible organizational structure with integrated managerial control and provides technical support to NRSP and other partner organizations.

The NRSP-IRM training programmes are distributed across all sectors, including natural resource management, vocational and occupational training and community management training skills. In addition, the Institute holds seminars, workshops and exposure visits, all focused on aspects of social mobilization and community development. Another important aspect of the IRM training programme is that conducted for the staff of the RSPs, for members of Government Departments and for elected Government officials.

In 2002, IRM arranged to have some of the training programmes conducted by the Regional Offices. This was accomplished in part by training "master trainers" locally, to ensure that the programmes are consistent with existing IRM standards. Regional training is more cost-effective for NRSP and it makes the training programmes more accessible to rural men and women.

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