What We Do

PRADAN has significant and wide-ranging experience in promoting livelihoods with the rural poor, through an approach that blends the socio-behavioural with the technical and managerial dimensions. PRADAN’S livelihood programmes can be broadly classified into the following sectoral activities:     Promotion of SHG's: PRADAN is one of the pioneers in the promotion of Self-Help Groups in India, having formed its first SHG in Alwar, Rajasthan, in 1987... read more>>   Forest Based Livelihood: PRADAN works mostly with adivasis and poor people who live near forests for whom forests and trees have, traditionally, been an important source of livelihood.... read more>>   Natural Resource Management: PRADAN devotes a significant part of its intervention efforts on developing land and water resources.  The aim is to enhance productivity, incomes and sustainable livelihoods... read more>>                 Livestock Development: PRADAN works with rural families in the promotion of dairy and goat rearing activities in the project areas of Jharkhand, Orissa, and Rajasthan... read more >>   Micro Enterprise Promotion: With continually diminishing outputs and declining farm sizes, it has become more urgent for the rural population to diversify their avenues of income... read more >>     These programs seek to increase the livelihood options of poor people and advance the frontiers of their choices.

 

What We Do

• Promotion of SHGs
• Forest-Based Livelihood
• Natural Resource Management
• Livestock Development
• Microenterprise Promotion