To fight the distress migration and provide a means of alternative source of livelihood for food security, AID has worked upon the following strategy to bring about changes in the project region:

• Enrichment of human capital with increase in knowledge base on rights, entitlements & life skills.

• Augmentation of social capital with strong and sustainable migrant and village forums and continuously demanding their rights and entitlements.

• Accomplishment of food and employment guarantee and increase in utilisation of food security and government programmes.

• Creation of life supporting community &household livelihoods assets& strengthening of livelihoods.

• Policy influencing/reform on poverty-migrant-development and sharing/disseminating lessons.

The innovative approach of the project is to critically analyse and understand the migration phenomenon from the point of view of “push” factors, as part of the empowerment process. The vulnerability context of participants at individual, family and household levels (rights and livelihood), poor regional and human development (regional perspective), policy and institutional system analysis is underway through participatory process in the initial phase. This is an evolving and revolving process, which is a continuous part of the project cycle. The migrants will be enabled to evolve their own analysis of poverty-out-migration, gender and underdevelopment. The conclusions from the process will form the project and it will be structured accordingly.
In the next phase, the participants and their associates will be engaged to identify their own framework and process of poverty, distress migration and vulnerability reduction. As part of it, key methods and approaches for tackling the poverty, distress migration, gender and area underdevelopment and possible solutions are to be developed at household, group, village and regional levels. The plan of actions to be evolved by the participants for breaking the vicious cycle will guide project actions. In other words, a reflective process approach with continuous drawing of lessons through the participants and refining the strategies and actions are core features of the project. This is a deeply embedded, self-empowering, self-directed and self-sustainable approach to deal with the problems of out-migration linking poverty, gender and development from the “push” factor point of view.