In 1983, CUTS, a
rights advocacy group, began out of a rural development
communication initiative, a wall newspaper entitled, Gram Gadar
(Village Revolution). It regularly reaches far-flung and remote
villages of the Rajasthan State and has been instrumental in
providing a forum for the vulnerable communities and
under-privileged classes to get justice. To facilitate
intervention process for 'community-based action programmes' at
the grassroots level, the Centre for Human Development (CHD) was
established in the year 1990 in the village Senti of Chittorgarh
district.
To
be an innovative centre for strategic interventions to raise the living
standards of people
Objectives
The
Centre aims to achieve its mission through two objectives:
Implementing
people-centred projects on health, environment and development
with thrust on women, weaker sections of the society and the disadvantaged
and empowering people to participate in their own governance and
understanding the development process more effectively; and
Developing
internal skills and capacities through training and publication
to implement health, environment and development projects, enhancing
external activities on civic and political education of people,
and building up strong networking between influencers and organisations.