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REACH India believes NGOs have the capacity to develop and implement innovative, context-specific strategies for parents and their children. Indeed, NGOs have been helpful in mobilising communities, devising alternative schooling solutions, and, in some cases, redefining formal school processes.

However, many NGOs lack the resources to expand successful programmes geographically while some others lack the capacity to mount sustainable, quality programmes. Additionally, the majority of NGOs have few opportunities to meaningfully share knowledge with another agency. The result: NGOs often have to reinvent the wheel each time, dramatically slowing their ability to attract and retain vulnerable children in educational programmes.

The REACH India project aims to cover vulnerable children, including girls, economically deprived children in rural and urban areas, street children, scheduled caste/scheduled tribe (SC/ST) children, working children, homeless children, children of commercial sex workers, disabled children, children with HIV/AIDS and children of parents with socially stigmatised diseases such as leprosy and HIV/AIDS.

We aim to do this by:

• Strengthening NGOs to scale up delivery of educational services to out-of-school children and improve the quality of education in schools.

• Building the capacity of smaller NGOs to do likewise.

• Promoting the adoption of best practices within the NGO and educational communities.