• Empathy with the poor in fostering social justice & equity

• Recognition of the potentiality of the community without any bias on caste, creed, sex or religion

• Gender sensitivity

• Transparency, Accountability and Time bound

• Ecological sensitivity

• Honesty & Integrity

• People centered and Sustainable

• Comprehensive Planning

• Right-based: Adopting human rights perception in all aspects

• Participatory: Implementing participatory process in all steps

• Networking and alliance building

• Gender Justice

• Affective documentation

• Advocacy & Lobbying

• Collective appraisal and analysis of the problems and issues to find the structural causes

• Participatory and comprehensive planning process

• Revitalizing / generating alternative knowledge systems and skills

• Mobilisation of the local resources and reducing the external dependency

• Collective efforts through peoples organisations at different levels

• Building staff capacities and perspectives through centralized training programmes & exposure

• Information and communication by documenting and sharing with the community

• Networking and alliance building for effective governance

• Dissemination of information

• Planning & implementation.

• Involvement of stakeholders at all levels

• Review, Monitoring and Follow up, Feed back and evaluation

• Community mobilization

• Motivation and Awareness building.

• Rapport building

• Convergence, Linkages with line depts., CBOs and like minded NGOs

• Capacity building of staff and CBOs

• Reporting and Documentation