Key Strategies

Engaging with people to help them become informed citizens who partners in development or social change initiatives with other stakeholders would involve the following core strategies:

Knowledge or capacity building initiatives

• → Collect Information from Government and non-government sources and simplify it at the local level (in local language wherever applicable) for mass dissemination.
• → Develop Informative Educative Materials (posters, pamphlets, brochures and other learning materials) for mass dissemination on issues relevant to the beneficiaries (health, skill, education, government schemes for programme beneficiaries).
• → Organize capacity building/skill development workshops/trainings to augment the skill/capacities of different stakeholders and help them effectively deliver results in governance and human development initiatives. Areas of capacity building would include but would not be limited to skill development, entrepreneurship development (end to end solutions), data management (collecting, collating and sharing), knowledge management and human development intervention management etc.

Research and data management initiatives

Undertaking qualitative as well as quantitative people centered research studies for evidence-based decision making is at the core of the research and data management initiatives. It would involve:
¹¹The nature of the trust is defined as "Human Development Research & Advocacy Trust"

• → Making effective use of technology in research practices for time efficient studies minimizing errors at all stages of research- data collection, data processing, data analysis, visually effective presentation, and data dissemination.
• → Conducting baseline surveys/ feasibility studies, detailed project reports, techno economic reports, survey and site selection, planning, designing, testing and/or furnishing process, knowhow, supervision and execution of all aspects of works pertaining to providing services for the project/programme within a Results Based Management or Logical Framework.
• → Data collections (quantitative, qualitative, textual, non-textual) from primary and secondary sources for analysis; dissemination and advocacy in the fields of human development, agricultural, manufacturing and service industries and other osical and community based areas by employing methods inclusing interviews, focus gorups, field observations, photography, videography, sample surveys and census enumeration.

Programme Implementation

• → Action research approach with effective use of technology in programme planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of social development programmes. This will help policy makers, implementers, development institutions and people’s representatives effectively drive governance and human development initiatives.
• → Optimal engagement of local people and other local resources in the field of human development in agriculture, manufacturing and service industries and concerning communities and society in general.
• → Support and augment human developemnt initiatives of the government like Atmanirbhar Bharat, Ayushman Bharat, Poshan Abhiyan, Swachha Bharat Mission, Anaemia Mukta Bharat, Beti Bachao Beti Padhao, Smart Cities Mission, Standup India and Startup India etc.
• → To support all initiaties like the Digital India Mission, and contribute in building digital awareness and capacities of people and transforming India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy through use of information technology.