Integrated Rural Community Development Society

IRCDS collaborates with Government Anganwadi centres, various institutions, NGOs, and communities to tackle nutritional deficiencies and improve parenting practices. Its initiatives include raising awareness, enhancing capacities, and creating spaces for ANC/Lactating mothers, young fathers, communities, and Government institutions to address concerns and seek solutions. Activities encompass capacity building for mothers and fathers, and Anganwadi workers, promoting nutritional outcomes, establishing nutri-gardens, and ensuring services for migrant brick kiln labourers and their children.

The programme focuses on empowering women by encouraging their active participation in decision-making processes within families, communities, and local governance. Efforts include organising women into self-help groups, providing capacity-building training on various topics, breaking social and gender norms, and collaborating with relevant authorities such as Women Police Stations and the District Administration.

This Programme aims to reduce poverty and inequality by promoting employment and sustainable livelihoods for impoverished households. Collaboration involves Women SHGs, Panchayat federations, Village Development Committees, Government Banking Institutions, Government Institutions, NGOs, and academic Institutions.

IRCDS is dedicated to promoting the inclusion of persons with disabilities in alignment with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Its focus areas encompass education, health, livelihood, social empowerment, and capacity building for individuals with disabilities and their families. Efforts include rehabilitation, organising village-level and district-level groups, and providing mentoring support.

This programme aims to establish a secure and supportive environment that fosters child-friendly spaces within families, communities, and institutions. It prioritizes children's rights, ensuring access to quality services without discrimination, and their active participation in empowered communities and functional child protection systems. Through CFAM, they collaborate with communities and Government institutions to address gaps by mobilizing, capacitating, and strengthening accountability mechanisms with evidence-based approaches.

IRCDS provides emergency assistance to at-risk communities during natural disasters and pandemics, including COVID-19. It concentrates on fulfilling fundamental needs such as clean water, food, and sanitation, with a focus on women, adolescent girls, children, persons with disabilities, and the elderly. Additionally, it works on disaster risk reduction through community preparedness, awareness campaigns, and engaging with Government institutions.

IRCDS is building youth leadership for climate change,climate resilience and carbon reduction in our communities. These initiatives contribute to achieve the Sustainable Developmental Goal 13 :“Climate Action”.

We helps young people to play an active and contributory role in awareness-building, climate literacy, encouraging sustainable lifestyles, developing and conserving biodiversity, supporting eco-friendly practices and facilitating mitigation interventions aimed at controlling and tackling the challenges of climate change and improving their quality of life. As part of this, we have established Oxy parks (micro forests). These trees produce more oxygen compared to other trees and can withstand drought. The maintenance of these micro-forests is being carried out by the Government Panchayat administration and respective local youth groups.