Seva Mandir seeks to institutionalise
the idea that development and governance is not
only to be left to the State and its formal bodies
like the legislature and the bureaucracy, but
that citizens and their associations should engage
separately and jointly with the State.
This is achieved through the following overlapping
strategic objectives:
To
create and strengthen institutions for development
(at the village, organization and
society levels)
To enhance people’s capabilities for self-development
(both at individual and community
level); and
To create sustainable improvements in the livelihoods
base;
These three objectives form the basis for Seva
Mandir's three program sectors. Each of these
programs, in achieving its respective goals, is
also designed to build values and social capacities
needed to achieve development and democracy for
the poor.
The
3 program sectors have the following activity
components:
To
create and strengthen institutions for development
(at the village, organization and
society levels) 
