There is another lesson in Pakistan's model – and that is related to the War on Terror. In Afghanistan, the RSPN model has been implemented through the government-funded National Solidarity Programme (NSP). The NSP has reached out to 24,000 villages, mobilising nearly 70 per cent of rural communities, and enrolling over 100,000 women into local community development councils. According to an independent evaluation of the NSP by Harvard, MIT and the New School, the programme has generated a “significant improvement in villagers’ economic well being” and “their attitudes towards the government”, “reducing the number of people willing to join the insurgents”, and so creating an “improved security situation in the long run.”