HCDI and its implementing partners are working towards strengthening the village institutions such as the Gram Sabha and Gram Panchayat, to ensure a better life for the people of the villages that they govern. The activities taken up towards achieving this goal include the following:
- The village institutions are provided training in all aspects of leadership and management
- The village institutions are exposed to their more developed counterparts of other regions as an example of the governance that is more efficient and effective
- The advantages that the village obtains when the members of the institutions work unanimously and in tandem with one another are explained positively
- Male members are taught to appreciate the decision making capacity of women as women are most often kept away from such responsibilities
- Male members are taught to work with women to ensure better and more wholesome decisions that help in the development of the village
- Men are taught to treat women as equal members in the decision making process