Goal 1
To improve accessibility of tribal and dalit children and youth to basic education and livelihood skills respectively

• Support early age education (formal and non-formal) and adult education based on local environment and culture
• Promote education based on human values, social cohesion and local culture
• To widen the range of knowledge and understanding of the social, economic and political system in order to create a critical awareness about the environment
• Increase employment generation skills and options among youths

Kol children demonstrating their skills at a function

Goal 2
To minimise gender inequality and undertake proactive women’s empowerment initiatives

• Effective redressal mechanism for exploitation of, and atrocities against, women
• Promotion and strengthening of grassroots level women's organisations and networks to take up inequality and empowerment related issues
• Increased participation of women in gram sabhas and panchayati raj institutions (PRIs)
• Increased access by women to easy credit for creation of productive assets and income generation opportunities
• Increased access by women to basic health support services
• To improve the health status of women and children of dalits, tribals and backward communities
• To ensure that people have access to better health, education and sanitation in villages.

Women demonstrating their collective strength during function held at ABSSS headquarters

Goal 3
To improve the socio-economic and political conditions of tribals and dalits and facilitate their increased control over natural resources and their optimal utilisation

• Land and water resource management and development
• Improve rain-water harvesting and percolation for improving agricultural productivity
• Promotion of agro-based support services
• Value addition to local natural resources and marketing options
• Improve scope for income generating activities

Water conservation is one of the major activities under NRM

Goal 4
To improve community participation in local planning and strengthen panchayati raj institutions for increased access to, and use of, developmental resources

• Capacity building of gram sabhas and PRIs
• Strengthening of gram sabha members for their active participation and decision-making in local governance process
• Promotion of community managed village development information centres
• Information dissemination on power of gram sabha and their role in mobilising resources for local area development

Distributing panchayat related material among the villagers

Goal 5
To strengthen civil society and improve its access to information and opportunities

• Strengthening of individuals, community based organisations (CBOs) and networks to act as catalyst and pressure groups
• Strengthening of local cadres and volunteers to identify and find solutions to address local problems effectively

As a result of strengthening civil society many leaders have emerged; one such leader speaking out

Goal 6
To promote and undertake necessary actions for protecting social justice and fundamental rights among tribal and dalits

• Situation assessment and documentation of ground realities to highlight violation and denial of social justice and fundamental rights
• Network with local civil society institutions and strengthen alliance  to identify issues in relation to human rights violations
• Interface and exchange of information between the target groups and the government machinery
• Public hearings between the affected families and concerned administration
• Issue-based campaign and lobbying at both macro and micro level for redressal
• Highlighting of issues by using local media and various other mediums
• Legal support and facilitation to affected families in the form of taking up both individual and common cases with judiciary

Women showing their documents during a meeting

Goal 7
To create a sustainable environment by influencing public policy at state level on pro-poor livelihood and human rights issues

• Promotion of a human rights resource centre to act as human rights violation watch-dog and support centre
• Awareness building and sensitisation among  tribals and dalits about their fundamental right to livelihood
• Issue-based advocacy and lobbying of issues with government bureaucrats and legislative members
• Policy advocacy to influence government policies on common issues
• Public interest litigations that appeal to the judiciary to give legal directions to concerned government machinery for action and policy change
• Workshops and seminars on pro-poor livelihood support and human rights related issues at regular intervals

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National Human Rights Commission Rapporteur Chaman Lal, well known journalist Bharat Dogra and Chariman of Bonded Labour Liberation Front Prof. Sheojit Singh during at an advocacy meeting