The SSK project aims to empower Muslim and scheduled caste (SC) communities to have enhanced access to equal opportunities for education and better health services.

The project's purpose is to to attain improved social status among the Muslim and scheduled caste (SC) communities through equal opportunities in education, health and livelihood.

The SSK project works in 98 villages in the Ghazipur and Varanasi districts of Uttar Pradesh. PACS is supporting the project for four years.

SSK aims

• Promote community-led change through local change agents/citizen leaders.

• Recognise and re-enforce women's rights.

• Capacity building of SC women elected representatives.

• Promote citizen monitoring and social audit.

• Encourage decentralised planning for stronger local governance.

• Activate village education committee and village health and sanitation committee.

About SSK

Sahbhagi Shikshan Kendra (SSK) was founded in 1990 as a support organisation for the empowerment of socially and economically backward communities. The strategy of SSK is to work with CSOs, CBOs and other change making groups through training; experimentation; creation of new knowledge through research/documentation; and public advocacy for policy change.

As part of direct field interventions, SSK has five field centres covering four regions of Uttar Pradesh. Through field experimentation sites, SSK aims to build accountable and transparent institutions of local self governance through active participation of communities in planning and development - particularly women, youth, children and the marginalised.

Find out more:

• PACS in Uttar Pradesh

• PACS work on sustainable livelihoods

• PACS work on right to basic services

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