Our Projects
about prayatn
PRAYATN was founded in 1992 to enable people to respond to and change their situation of inequality and injustice. We focus on education and awareness, community involvement and collective action as the driving force of social and economic change. Our work is guided by the philosophy that a community should be viewed as a potential resource, that can be honed with the skills and knowledge that will help them to come out of the situation of deprivation.
Prayatn’s vision is a just society in which men and women are equal. We believe that each and every person – irrespective of their sex, age, caste, class and religion – should have a life of freedom and dignity in which they enjoy all their human rights and have the opportunity to fully develop their potentials.
Our mission is to empower socio-economically vulnerable sections of the society so that they are able to address all their developmental issues in self-reliant and sustainable manner.
- To facilitate the process of empowerment with special focus on the marginalized and disadvantaged sections of society including women, children, tribal communities, etc.;
- To facilitate participation of local community in programme planning, implementation and monitoring and evaluation;
- To mobilize social institutions and evolve people’s organizations to address problems and issues affecting the socio-politico-economic fabric of society;
- To foster leadership capacities at the grass roots level which promote appropriate initiatives in the community;
- To develop a system to disseminate information to create awareness and evolve a forum for policy interventions.
Prayatn has worked in charity mode, development mode as well as rights-based mode in past. Through our experience, we learnt that in the country full of diversity, single approach may not be able to provide solutions to complex socio-economic issues. The organization, therefore, started experimenting with mix of approaches that gradually took shape of Model Development Approach. In this, we try to analyze the problem and understand root causes and then develop and demonstrate solution for resolving complex social issues by addressing all the dimensions of the problem simultaneously. To ensure that the model is duly developed, documented and disseminated, we lay high emphasis upon defining the processes of working, planning, implementation and monitoring elaborately in written form, abiding by them in strict manner and reviewing them from time to time. We believe that if process of working is not right, the true change that we aim to achieve will not materialize. Our innovative system of Stakeholder-wise Milestone based planning, implementation and monitoring, under which quarterly milestones of changes for each type of stakeholders are defined in advance and pursued, has proved to be very effective in achieving the desired change in each of the stakeholders in the long run; and hence, ensuring desired impact in the situation.
- Development and Strengthening of Community based Institutions
- Capacity building of different Stakeholders including beneficiaries and duty bearers
- Convergence with programmes of government and other civil society organizations
- Research, Documentation and Dissemination of Experience based learning.
- Direct Support to the Community
Execution: Prayatn undertakes execution of community-based projects on various thematic areas with an objective to create impact in the lives of marginalized communities and also to develop theme-based models which can be replicated elsewhere with necessary modifications
Resource: The organization engages in research, documentation and publication within the organization. Outside the organization, it undertakes research, documentation and evaluation works for various national and international agencies depending upon their requirement.
Support: The organization also engages in providing expert services focusing on training and capacity building on various thematic issues. The organization has been engaged in providing training to various groups ranging from community members to the decision makers and also to government officials.
Prayatn has presence at grassroots level in 5 states – Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Jharkhand. Across these states we are covering about 14 districts as listed below:
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