Women's empowerment is the input to progress in rural communities and has proved a highly valuable for change in development sectors. Through nurturing women's self-help groups, PARDS encourages women to become more active in the social and political spheres and to advocate for gender equity in their community. women's empowerment motivate all PARDS areas of operation, the focus on marginalized women into proper stakeholders in their communities has not only advanced their status but has also resulted in more stable households, healthier families, greater political influence, and more prosperity overall. As well the tangible benefits of women's empowerment projects, the greatest accomplishment in this sector is the women's newfound self-respect, belief in their potential, and confidence in their capacity to change their lives. PARDS is focused on the institutional building i.e self-help group formation and activation for individual, community and village development and sharing a common socio-economic background. The group enables its members to gain their identity as individuals, while realising – and utilising – the enormous control of mutual aid. These self-help groups work for the women in a number of ways: they provide guidance; they give support and assistance to women; and they identify and promote home-based enterprises among its members. The SHG members take loans from the SHGs and set out to begin an enterprise of their own. As a result of PARDS Intervention efforts increased number of rural families – especially women – are engaging in independent livelihood and accesses to their rights and entitlements. These activities hand round as opportunities for spread out and increased their Incomes and approached for the accesses of Women rights and Gender mainstreaming process..
PARDS made extensive community mobilization and skill building for women, young women for the success of MEDP. These programme which helped women, young women in developing the entrepreneurial abilities. PARDS give particular attention to women because even as they comprise half of the country’s population, Training in enhancement of their skill is also among the prime objective with the support of District Rural development authority Government of Jharkhand under NRLM objective.

PARDS interventions are principally focused with Tribal’s, women headed family and underprivileged rural people Over the years, declining forests and the implementation of protection-oriented public policies have made serious inroads to these livelihood activities, resulting in reduced incomes for the underprivileged rural communities. The majority of the rural poor continue to be dependent on land and water resources for their insufficient livelihoods. The various observable fact including inadequate skill, farming, non farming technology, deforestation, drought, soil erosion and non availability of the market information have resulted in decreased incomes for these families. Invariable poverty persists. PARDS intervention comprise of enhancing productivity in agriculture; diversifying into new crops; setting up irrigation systems; and instituting entirely new ways of managing the natural resource base. Paddy is the important food grain of our state of Jharkhand /India In Jharkhand state, paddy/ for increasing rice production was cultivated. PARDS introduced SRI (System of Rice Intensification) method for paddy cultivation .This leads to higher growth of roots and more fractures. There should be less water in the field during the use of weedier. It produces paddy 10 to 15 percent more in normal yield than normal method. Can also cultivate hybrid rice or varieties of common paddy by SRI method . The rural people benefited by using the SRI method such as Higher yield - both cereal and feed/Duration of ready period (up to 10 days)/Use of organic fertilizers/Less water requirement/Percentage of low husk cereals/Increase in the weight of the grain without changing the size of the grain.
Enhancing productivity and diversification are the core strategies of PARDS agriculture programmes. Specific activities are increasing the productivity of the main cereal crops to improve food security, and diversification into cash crops such as pulses, oil seeds, and vegetables. The PARDS project teams based in the villages and hilly terrains are working to encourage farmers to take up vegetable cultivation on their small-scale homesteads and near dug wells. These activities provide to the poor families for a dependable source of income. PARDS strategy has to work directly with the underprivileged rural poor to build their Skill, potential for prospective Livelihood. These Interventions introduced and develop new livelihood opportunities.
PARDS put forward the pathways through which household agricultural activity have influences on child nutrition. 235 numbers of family were trained and made aware on the Issue of food and nutrition security, Nutrition Gardening and production of bio compost and pesticides.