3. Interactive Communication and Stakeholder Relation
Mainstreaming and up scaling participation of the rural dwellers in development processes. For effective participation of the people in development that has an impact on them, the people must be actively involved and able to make decisions that affect them, from the project concept to its completion.

This project is aimed to carry along the rural people who are the primary stakeholders into the development processes. This is an on-going strategy that calls for extensive consultation with the primary and secondary stakeholders when designing people- center development projects in the communities. The ultimate aim is to encourage institutional reforms, to build capacity and enhance awareness through exchange of knowledge and ideas. The primary goal is to enhance full participation and develop an attitude of shared responsibility, which involves the primary stakeholders.

SEN is strongly committed to community driven development (CDD) approach to development and poverty reduction, this aims to create safeguards to empower and provide voice to groups traditionally excluded from the decision -making process such as the socially and geographically isolated and marginalized groups (women, elderly, youths, handicapped, ethnic minorities etc). CDD's starting point to empowering communities is to give them more resources and authority to use these flexibly, not on an emergency basis or short-lived donor institutional structure which can be provided by local governments.

Experience indicates that given the chance, communities have considerable capacity to plan and implement programs.