Vikas Samvad Samiti

VSS is research, documentation, capacity building, and support organization for building a team of a socially sensitive group of individuals, communi Read morecators, and organized groups with a child-centric perspective. It also works for building the capacities of voluntary organizations to work in a research-based model. Vikas Samvad works as rights-based research, capacity building, and advocacy organization. Primarily, it focuses on advocacy and capacity building of a wide network of organizations engaged on thematic issues, including inter alia, child rights (especially nutrition, health, protection, and inclusion), food security, poverty, and empowerment. Thus, Vikas Samvad can be seen to have been playing enabling and supportive roles for various people’s organizations by endowing them with the requisite advocacy support and building their capacities on process documentation, publication, planning, and coordination towards taking forward their constructive advocacy actions. We believe that everything has a connectedness, with anything else. To be specific, Vikas Samvad does not shy away from working on any issue, be it social, economic, or cultural. It does not bind itself to a limited sector. It rather chooses to build its own understanding of the given issue from a sector-side approach.  

VSS aims to establish an egalitarian and healthy society that is democratic in nature and free from all forms of poverty, while working to bring about people-centric policy changes and develop a people-centric perspective among core civil society institutions.

Vikas Samvad has been involved in policy-making processes with the Government of Madhya Pradesh, including engagement with the Committee of Department of Food and Civil Supplies for implementing various social welfare schemes under the National Food Security Act 2013.