Lachhaman Singh, aged 60, struggled to make ends meet farming his small landholding in Jodajam village, eastern India, and was slipping beneath the poverty line. However, supported by PACS and its par... Read More
Janani Suraksha Yojna (JSY) is a safe motherhood intervention to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality by promoting institutional delivery of babies; but women may have to fight for their entitlement... Read More
When women from the village of Parsa Malik, in the Maharajganj district of Uttar Pradesh in northern India, found that 28 names had been deleted from the below-poverty-line list, depriving these peopl... Read More
Living in a tiny mud-and-thatch hut with her family and goats in the village of Bhatpurva, in Uttar Pradesh, Kamrunissa earned meagre and irregular wages as a farm labourer. Her disabled husband had m... Read More
Mahadevkhurd village in Siddarthnagar district of Uttar Pradesh was beset with many problems till a women’s self-help group decided to take matters in their own hands. Supported by PACS partner Purv... Read More
Staff from some of the 225 Civil Society Organisation (CSO) partners that have been supported by PACS were asked the question, "What has been the biggest contribution of PACS in helping communities?" ... Read More
Leaders of some of the 23,206 Community Based Organisations that have been formed and supported under the PACS programme were asked the question, "How has PACS helped you to bring about change?" This ... Read More
Leaders of some of the 23,206 Community Based Organisations that have been formed and supported under the PACS programme were asked the question, "What change has happened in your community as a resul... Read More
This video of interviews with some of the CBO leaders and CSO staff that we have supported shows that we have succeeded in our aim to leave behind a legacy of empowered communities who know their righ... Read More
Are you afraid of the dark? If so, you wouldn’t have liked living in the tiny hamlet of Piprahi in the Panna district of Madyha Pradesh. Cut off and excluded, the dalit villagers had been waiting to... Read More