GRISERV's Approach to Rural Development is to

	Insure Improved Quality of Life by promoting livelihood (Anna), literacy (Akshara), health (Arogya) and moral values (Aacharan).
	Improve the productivity of degraded natural resources through appropriate technologies using idle human resources.
	Blend the Development programmes with Research and appropriate technologies, as development without research becomes outdated and research without development becomes academic.
	Include Training as an important component of the multidisciplinary programme for capacity building and efficient transfer of technologies.
	Organise the village communities through formal and informal groups and local organisations, to ensure active participation of the target groups in programme implementation and promote socio-economic equality
	Identify the target families as the units of development and consider women as equal partners with men in the family.
	Women Empowerment, Environmental Protection and formation of People's Organisations should cut across all our programmes.
	Promote a multidisciplinary development programme, blending livelihood programmes with health, illiteracy and develop local leadership.
	Voluntary Organisation should act as a catalyst and bridge the gap between development organisations and farmers.
	Jana Utthan - Our new approach: Under this approach, the members of the local community come together to identify the needy poor and select suitable interventions for them to adopt for sustaining their livelihood. It is a learning process in development. While the earlier projects could offer limited services, programmes, Jana Utthan approach can provide greater flexibility and address the needs of the poor. This approach also calls for the introduction of various off-farm income generation activities to augment the on-farm income of the resource poor families.