Project framework AID believes in a long term approach to sustainable development.  Within this long term plan the project also has short-term interventions to meet the immediate needs of the poor in the area. As a long term strategy, AID is in the process of experimenting with a combination of livelihood and rights-oriented approaches to sustainable development, human security and poverty reduction. Under the livelihood approach, we achieve our aims by building up the capacity and asset levels of the community in the following areas: Building up human capital and capacity of the men and women in the area using both indigenous and external knowledge and skills. Strengthening social capital currently existing in the form of village panchayat and creating additional social capital in the form of women and youth forums and building up horizontal and vertical networks for influencing governance and policies to make them pro-poor and pro-tribal. Expanding economic capital-access to micro credit, government subsidies, technology and market facilitation. Nurturing natural and environmental forest-capital and its resources, land, water resources and access for clean air and congenial living environment. Promoting additional physical resources road, transport, communications, social, irrigation and other basic infrastructure facilities of the region for effective utilisation of various resources available. Alongside this, to inject human values into the entire process of development, a rights oriented approach in the project would provide support to fulfil the following rights: Livelihood rights: Right to food, right to employment, right to subsistence and minimum wages and right to protection from economic exploitation by traders and middlemen while selling forest produces. Right to water, right to forest and its resources, right to a clean environment, right to protection from loss of livelihood resources like the forest and its products and right to access technology for increasing forest productivity. Right to information, right to knowledge and right to basic life skills, right against discrimination on the basis of ethnicity, sex, region and disability and right to equality, equity and equal opportunity and access to opportunity for all. Right to association, right to freedom, right to self-governance, self-determination, right to language, right to identity and right to participation in policies and decision making. Right to responsible governance, right to government services, right to protection from abuse of power. Right to protection from diseases and deaths, right to safe and secure environment.