MYRADA is a Non Governmental Organisation managing rural development programmes in 3 States of South India and providing on-going support including deputations of staff to programmes in 6 other States. It also promotes the Self Help Affinity strategy in Cambodia, Myanmar and Bangladesh

The Mission Statement 

• To foster a process of ongoing change in favour of the rural poor in a way in which this process can be sustained by them through building and managing appropriate and innovative local level institutions based on their rights and rooted in values of justice, equity and mutual support.

• To recreate a self-sustaining livelihood base and an environmentally clean habitat and the institutions to sustain them, based on a balanced perspective of the relationship between the health of the environment and the legitimate needs of the poor.

• To promote institutions, strategies and skills through which poor families are able to exercise their rights to develop their livelihood strategies leading to food security and to secure the rights of women and children ,minorities and marginalised sectors.

• To promote good governance and convergence in the PRIs that foster effective, appropriate and timely primary health care and education and which address the issues related to natural resources, sanitation and HIV/AIDS/STIs in a holistic and sustainable manner.

• To influence public policies in favour of the poor.

• To strengthen networks and linkages between and among formal and informal institutions that can foster and sustain the impact of development initiatives.

The brief mission statement that guided Myrada since 1987 is: "Building poor people’s institutions". This arose from the belief that the poor have a right to craft their own institutions which must be respected.

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