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People’s Institute for Development and Training is an action research and teaching–learning institute.

It’s acronym PIDT means “oppressed” in most North Indian languages. PIDT seeks to catalyze development of humane, sustainable and egalitarian societies. PIDT works to ameliorate social conditions of oppression and deprivation by increasing the apacities of people and the opportunities available to them so that they may design different futures for themselves. PIDT uses participatory lanning and full engagement strategies, triggering mechanisms of esistance inherent in people’s struggle for freedom, ensuring that they etain ownership of the development process, and kindling a desire for ontinuous growth and transformation.

PIDT draws strength from approximately 100 full time professional and field staff, 350 part time cadre members, and about 1500 site-based community volunteers who work with considerable autonomy under the guidance of the senior management team and Board members to reach an underprivileged population of around 500,000 people.