We strive for a prosperous dawn with the promise of empowered communities and self sustained habitats. The Centre for Advanced Research & Development (CARD) is a non-government agency established in the State of Madhya Pradesh, India and has been in operation since 1999. CARD has been established to conduct field-based research and to apply these solutions to empower rural communities through wate
rshed development, agriculture enhancement, women empowerment, and child development. CARD believes in a community-based, natural resource management approach to reduce poverty. The sustainability of this approach largely depends on the empowerment of the communities in order to share the costs and benefits at all levels as well as to claim their entitlements. CARD has formerly operated in the states of Uttaranchal, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Orissa and Jharkhand. However, the field implementation projects of CARD are limited to the states of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. With the core values of participation, empowerment, institution building, transparency, and team spirit, CARD’s areas of expertise are in capacity building, policy planning and advocacy, research studies, field facilitation, and monitoring and evaluation.
