The situation of women and children has remained unchanged despite of several developmental initiatives and interventions. SPANDAN facilitate process of empowerment and resilience building by working on the factors/ causes which make the developmental processes unreachable and inaccessible to the children and women of the society.
Social development can no longer move in isolation. It is essential for all the communities irrespective of class, caste, gender and age stratification to play pro-active roles for their natural resource base. The communities need to take accountabilities for conservation and active engagement with their ecosystems.