The Abbottabad district, located in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), Pakistan, covers an area of 1,967 square kilometers (179,654 ha). According to the latest estimates, the district is home to 928,000 people, with a density of 470 persons per square mile. The same estimates put the urban component at 18.6%, and the rural one at 81.4%. Predominantly mountainous and rugged, the district’s mean maximum and minimum temperatures work out to 23`C and 11`C respectively.  Falling in the active monsoon zone, the district is heavily dependent on rain and experiences high levels of humidity. It is bordered by the Mansehra district in the North, the Muzaffarabad and Rawalpindi districts in the East, the Haripur and Rawalpindi districts in the South and the Haripur district in West.

The ACS is a pioneering district level policy initiative to harness and improve the capacities of the people and institutions in Abbottabad  in the pursuit of integrated sustainable development, enhancing the livelihoods and quality of life through the optimum use of natural resources while continually improving their productivity within a decentralized system of development planning and implementation. The ACS aims to:

• Institutionalize effective mechanisms (policy, legal, fiscal etc.) to foster decentralization of the development planning processes;
• Develop capacities to effectively address the environment and development issues;
• Facilitate resource mobilization by linking the sustainable development needs of the district with available funding  windows as well as by identifying innovative funding mechanisms; and
• Empower local people through their involvement in planning, implementation and monitoring of development initiatives through a process of networking amongst key actors in Abbottabad

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