The aim of the CASA project is to improve access to livelihood opportunities for socially excluded groups.

The project's purpose is to empower socially excluded communities - scheduled castes (SC), scheduled tribes (ST), Muslims, women and persons with disability (PWD) - in rural areas, through a rights based approach. PACS is supporting the project for three years.

CASA aims

• Access 100 days of employment under MGNREG for  SC, ST, Muslims, women and PWDs.

• Regular, non-discriminative and prescribed wage payment of eligible workers from socially excluded groups under MGNREG.

• Increased number of productive community assets and resources created under governmnet schemes for sustained livelihood, owned and controlled by socially excluded communities.

• Building institutional capacity of the village-level Panchayat, thus enabling an effective role for the Gram Sabha, through prioritising work and social audits.

About CASA

Church's Auxiliary for Social Action (CASA) was born out of the concern and commitment of the orthodox and protestant churches during the partition of India, to serve the multitude living under sub-human conditions.

CASA has been working since 1947 towards the empowerment of the poor and the marginalised. It has worked for more than six decades towards the eradication of poverty and injustice. CASA believes that poverty is not just economic, but is characterised by inadequate or insecure sources of livelihood in relation to food, literacy, poor health, infrastructure, social discrimination and exclusion from access and control over economic resources.

CASA addresses the structural poverty issues with Right Based Approaches (RBA) and strongly believes that RBA to empowerment and development have strong political content in terms of taking sides with people suffering from injustice, exclusion and denial of rights.

Issues of structural poverty (social, economic and political) are being addressed through a strategy of critical mass mobilisation by different processes such as networking, advocacy and collective action towards development and transformation.

Network partners

We encourage projects to collaborate with like-minded organisations to deliver the best results in the designated project area. These collaborations are called network projects. CASA is implementing the project with the two network partners:

• Betul Anusuchit Janjati Kalyan evam Vikas Sansthan

• Dalit Solidarity Peoples.

Find out more:

• PACS work in Madhya Pradesh

• PACS work in Betul

• PACS work on sustainable livelihoods.

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