Various definitions and figures used to determine poverty in India have resulted in varying estimates of poverty, but its essence remains the same — deprivation. Poverty ensures that people are deprived of opportunities, choices, resources, knowledge and protection. Poverty goes beyond a mere lack of income. It also means being excluded from decision-making based on ethnicity, community, gender, status, even age, which goes against the constitutional rights promised to every citizen of India. Persistent poverty and inequality is not just a violation of basic human rights, but it also undermines the economic growth of a nation by wasting human resources and hindering social development. CSD believes that sustained economic and social development for all is critical to improve living standards, especially for those at the lower end of income distribution. CSD’s long-term goal is to assist in integrating the needs of social development with those of economic development, especially with respect to the needs of the underprivileged and impoverished sections of society. To achieve that end, CSD works in collaboration with a wide range of non-governmental agencies, research institutions, governmental departments and international aid agencies.
PROJECTS
2013 Evaluation of the Scheme ‘Market Development of Tribal Development/Produce
Sponsoring Organisation Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India
2012 Preparation of Backwardness Index and Ranking of all the CD Blocks in the Country
Sponsoring Organisation `Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of India
2011 Social Impacts of Right to Work: An Assessment of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
Sponsoring Organisation United Nations Development Programme, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India
2011 Homestead-lessness and State Intervention in Bihar
Sponsoring Organisation Rural Development Institute, Hyderabad
2010 Assessment of Social Impacts of Implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India
Sponsoring Organisation Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India
2010 Social Impact Assessment of Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policies and Packages in India
Sponsoring Organisation Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India
2010 Promotion of Homestead Plot Initiatives
Sponsoring Organisation Rural Development Institute, Hyderabad
2008 Poverty Eradication: A Structural-Political Perspective
Sponsoring Organisation Council for Social Development
2007 Socio-economic Conditions of Slum Dwellers in Resettlement Colony: A Case Study
Sponsoring Organisation Council for Social Development
2007 A Longitudinal Study of Slum Dwellers in Delhi
Sponsoring Organisation Council for Social Development
2007 Perspective Plan (Karauli)
Sponsoring Organisation Government of Rajasthan
2006 District Poverty Initiatives Programme (DPIP) Barana, Rajasthan
Sponsoring Organisation Government of Rajasthan and World Bank
2006 Interrogating Patterns of Development: A Study in Three Districts of Western Odisha
Sponsoring Organisation Council for Social Development
2004 District Poverty Initiative Project (DPIP)
Sponsoring Organisation International Development Association, World Bank, Government of Rajasthan
2004 Globalisation and the Poor: Sustaining Rural Livelihood in India (Trilateral Project in Collaboration with the Jawaharlal University, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada)
Sponsoring Organisation Shastri Applied Research Project, Canada
2004 District Poverty Initiative Project (DPIP)
Sponsoring Organisation International Development Association, World Bank, Government of Rajasthan
2004 Designing the Operational Modalities of a Monitoring and Evaluation Mechanism for Sikkim
Sponsoring Organisation State Planning Commission, Government of Sikkim
2004 Project on Statistical Studies Relating to Informal Economy in India
Sponsoring Organisation United Nations Development Programme