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Vision, Mission and Strategy

Vision

Sashawat envisages the creation of a humane, gender sensitive and environmentally sound rural societies where people critically and actively participate in local self governance by embodying the values of humanism, egalitarianism, and equal participation.

Mission

The mission of Sashawat is to mobilise, organise, and strengthen people’s institutions and bodies of local self governance in such way that the rural communities become self sufficient politically, socially, and economically by utilising local as well as global resources and knowledge.    

Goals

The following are the strategic goals of Sashawat:

 

1. 

To strengthen PRIs and Urban Local Bodies as vibrant units of local self governance

 

 

2.

To mobilise and ensure participation of women and the underprivileged sections of the society into the local governance processes.

 

 

3.

To initiate organisation building processes among the poor and the deprived sections and develop their leadership and bargaining capacities for people centered development.

 

 

4.

To facilitate the processes whereby the poor have better access to the basic amenities such as health and education and ensure better practices in the areas of health and education for the masses.

 

 

5.

 To strengthen and augment entrepreneurial skills of the poor and uplift them from their present state of poverty and powerlessness.

 

 

6.

To work towards creating a society based on a correct and balanced understanding of gender, caste, and creed.

 

Strategy

The strategy of Sashawat has the following major components:

 

1.

To work directly in implementation functions at the grassroots level by placing development professional in rural areas who work together by locally developed community cadres.

 
 

2.

Primarily playing an enabling role at the field level through identifying, training, and building capacities of individuals and local organizations to play entrepreneurial and development roles.

 
 

3.

To work through a network of collaborating organisations that can play sustainable complementary roles.

 
 

4.

Consolidating and disseminating field based learning through action research and documentation.

  
 

5.

Mobilising and organising women around the issue of equal participation, leadership roles, entrepreneurial activities, and rights and entitlements.

 
 

6.

To sensitise and involve administration, government bodies, and other stakeholders in ongoing programs and projects.

  
 

7.

To ensure effective program performance by maintaining standard program guidelines, routine program monitoring and follow-up.