MYRADA is a Non Governmental Organisation managing rural development programmes in 3 States of South India and providing on-going support including deputations of staff to programmes in 6 other States. It also promotes the Self Help Affinity strategy in Cambodia, Myanmar and Bangladesh.

Objectives:

• To foster a process of on-going change in favour of the poor and vulnerable in a way which can be sustained by them through building and managing appropriate and innovative local level institutions based on their rights and rooted in values of justice, equity and mutual support.
• To recreate a self-sustaining and environmentally clean habitat and the institutions to sustain it based on a balanced perspective of the relationship between natural resources and the legitimate needs of people.
• To promote institutions, strategies and skills through which poor and vulnerable families are able to exercise their rights to develop their livelihood strategies and to secure the rights of women and children.
• To promote community based responses for effective, appropriate and timely primary health care, nutrition and vocational skills education in a holistic and sustainable manner.
• To influence public policies in favour of the poor and vulnerable.
• To strengthen networks and linkages between and among formal and informal institutions that can foster and sustain the impact of development initiatives.