Professional assistance for Development Action (PRADAN) 3 Community Shopping Centre; Niti Bagh; New Delhi -110049 New Delhi India +91-9434625437 arnabchakraborty[AT]pradan.net www.pradan.net Our intervention starts with formation of Self Help Groups of the women from target families; help them access mainstream bank finance for consumption as well as investment. The objectives of our intervention is primarily to increase food security to the whole year, provide access to additional income to improve quality of life; gain access to basic health and education services and improve women’s status in family and outside. PRADAN’s primary focus is to enable the disadvantaged especially the women to create pace and space for their well being to lead a life with dignity. To achieve this we engage ourselves in Grassroots action to enhance livelihood for these families. Livelihood enhancement acts as a means to achieve the primary focus. Improving the husbandry of natural resources and promoting or strengthening non-farm enterprises are the broad avenues which PRADAN follows to enhance livelihoods.

PRADAN’s work includes:

• Motivating and mobilizing community members

• Identifying, adapting and promoting technology

• Mobilizing financial resources from donors to build community assets

• Fostering functional mechanisms, including community organization and external linkages

• Developing skills and capability of members of the community

• Experimentation and

• Fostering mechanisms for sustained impact, growth and spread.
PRADAN received financial support from several Indian and foreign organisations. We gratefully acknowledge the support of all our donors. Among Indian agencies, we received assistance during the year from several DRDAs across the country, the GOI Ministry of Rural Development, the Central Silk Board of the Government of India, CAPART, NABARD, the Convergent Community Services programme administered by UNICEF, the UNDP, Forest Departments in Madhya Pradesh and Orissa administering WFP supported programmes, Government of Madhya Pradesh’s District Poverty Initiatives Project (DPIP), Sir Dorabji Tata Trust and Sir Ratan Tata Trust.

Our donors from overseas during the year included the Ford Foundation, ICCO of the Netherlands, the India Canada Cooperation Organisation, OXFAM (India) Trust, AusAid, the Embassy of Japan and Care India. We also gratefully acknowledge contributions to our Corpus Fund made in the past by the Ford Foundation, the Industrial Development Bank of India, the Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India, the Industrial Finance Corporation of India, ICCO of the Netherlands, Sir Dorabji Tata Trust and Sir Ratan Tata Trust. PRADAN has research partnerships with IMP-ACT and the IWMI-Tata programme