Village Development Foundation
Development approach & working Strategy of Organization:
Village Development Foundation
(VDF) stresses on process oriented development approach rather than
that of task-oriented for making the Programme people oriented, socially
accepted and leading towards sustainability
through local resource mobilization. To achieve the said strategy, VDF
adopts non-directive, bottom-up and people’s participatory development
approach & working strategy in program implementation. VDF always
undertakes need-based Programme for implementation.
Presently VDF adopts target group and community development approach in implementing its programs. In target group approach, VDF first organizes the beneficiaries’ i.e. distressed and powerless people into homogeneous groups through rapport building, motivation, animation, and education. Secondly, it facilitates inactivation of group dynamism through empowerment and human resource development. Finally, VDF facilitates in the initiation of economic activities to alleviate poverty through active involvement and participation along with promoting women’s economic rights and control over resources.
Nature of Beneficiaries of Organization:
Distressed, poor, hardcore poor and powerless people especially women of
lower income group families viz. landless, day laborers, marginal
farmers, destitute, widow, Hardcore poor including urban slums are the
direct beneficiaries. Beneficiaries are organized into partner groups
for their socio-economic development through empowerment and local
resources mobilization especially manpower, water & soil.