Saksham India Trust was founded in May 2006 to implement development projects, provide development information and training for individuals and development organisations.

Vision: With a firm belief on social justice, the Trust looks forward for a world where everyone has a right to build future free from poverty and deprivation.

Mission: Committed to working with the poor, with special focus on women, dalits and adivasis), using their own skills and knowledge to develop sustainable solutions to poverty.

Values

1. The Trust is committed to support the most vulnerable members of society to achieve their full potential.
2. Empowerment of the communities the trust works with is central to its approach. The trust seeks to build on local knowledge by working in partnership with local communities.
3. The trust aims to be efficient and accountable in supporting the delivery of high quality programmes.
4. The trust is committed to learning from its own experiences and facilitates the learning of others.

Saksham India Trust aims at achieving certain objectives. The Trust aims to support long-term community-led initiatives, which provide secure and sustainable quality of life for the poor. In order to achieve this, the Trust underlines key strategic areas of engagement:

1. Promote people's access to income, food security, health, housing, water, education, information, communication and other basic amenities of life
2. Provide support and training to build individual and organisational capacity
3. Establish a development Resource Centre
4. Promote and protect people’s rights
5. Encourage linkages between civil society, government and the private sector in order to achieve people’s aspirations
6. Facilitate networking amongst partner and non-partner NGOs
7. Improve natural resource management whilst conserving biological diversity
8. Work on HIV/AIDS, disability, policy advocacy, women-tribal-dalit and land rights, displacement–rehabilitation-resettlement, sustainable livelihood, enterprise development, and other rights based issues