Activities within the grant and expected impact:
The project focuses on underserved areas in Mumbai, to:

	Support personal transformation of 1,000 youth or 30 groups of youth each year from marginalised sections of society through the fellowship
	Launch 30 community development action projects with 15 sustained action interventions
	Provide information communication technology (ICT) support to the fellowship programme
	Facilitate expansion in at least three smaller urban centres in Maharashtra, reaching out to 18 groups through six collaborating institutions

Youth and local development would be through 30 research fellowships each year. Each research project will develop its own outline of impact. However, the impact will be evaluated on:

Youth development: social and economic profile of the youth, enhancement of their communication skills, team work, management capacities, confidence and development perspective. This would be assessed at the time of entry into the programme and at the time of closure. PUKAR would also develop a database of youth on their lives and livelihoods even after their completing the programme.

Local development: While each research project is expected to articulate its community level impact, about 60 per cent are expected to be strongly rooted community research in marginalised communities / areas in the city. The impact of these will be measured on the understanding of 2,500 citizens in community on local development issues and of possible interventions for resolving the problems. Thirty groups would launch specific social action projects based on the research undertaken. Creative methods, with emphasis on quantitative tools, for assessing these changes will be developed by the research groups.