Effecting change from within
In Pakistan, Practical Action has been working with a partner, the Rural Development Policy Institute (RDPI ), with a formerly pastoralist society in the Thal desert region in Punjab between the Chenab and Sindh/Indus rivers. Until 50 years ago, the area’s population lived in scattered hamlets of six to ten households comprising one extended family, owning large herds of camels (up to 600 animals)