Identity

Institute of Development, Education, Action and Studies (IDEAS) is a ‘Capacity Building and Resource Centre’, enabled by action-research, facilitating advocacy engagements and campaigns.

Mission

IDEAS enables the empowerment of Dalits, indigenous peoples, women, minorities, and other marginalized groups, animates, and supports people’s organizations and movements, and intervenes in their dignity, rights, and livelihood issues and in state policies and programmes, promoting right-based perspectives in partnership with secular and democratic organizations.

Vision

Building a Just and Humane Society characterized by respect for human rights, inclusiveness, secularism, gender equality and ecological integrity.

Stakeholders

Dalits, with a special focus on Arunthathiyars, Indigenous peoples, Women, Minorities, Children, and other marginalized people.

Thrust Areas

• Capacity building on social analysis and social action
• Building grassroots people’s organizations.
• Promoting human rights education
• Engaging in grassroots advocacy
• Engaging in action-research
• Publication, documentation services, and library facilities
• Networking with Dalit, Adivasi, Women, Minorities and various people’s movements, human rights, civil and democratic organizations, and government bodies.
• Preparing resource materials – print, audio-video, and posters, and dissemination.