THEMATIC AREAS/ PROGRAMMES

Keeping the above mission statement in mind, TMKS has undertaken the following thematic areas/ interventions:
• Child Protection and Promotion of Child Rights
• Livelihood and Food Security for the Ultra Poor
• Education & Empowerment
• Access to Justice
• Promoting Safe Migration and anti-trafficking issues
• Life Orientated Education, Skill and Vocational Training • Self-Help Group Development and People’s Institution Building
• Health & Nutrition including HIV/AIDS
• Water, Environmental Sanitation & Hygiene Promotion
• Human Rights, Justice and Governance
• Climate Change, Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation • Advocacy and Networking

MAJOR AREA OF FOCUS

Category: Women Empowerment:
• Awareness building of the women about their position and rights in the family and society.
• Increase women participation in decision-making process within family and community.
• Establish women access into local institutions for basic services, skill development and resource mobilization.
• Enhance women participation in economic activities in order to increase their contribution in household income.

CATEGORY: CHILD PROTECTION
• Promotion of Child Protection policy
• Create alternative child friendly income options for children at risk
• Ensure child friendly environment establishing Drop in Center for Street Children • Night Shelter Facilities and Nutritional support • Stop using children in hazardous jobs.
• Protect street children from physical, sexual and mental abuse.
• Stop corporal punishment of children at school and family levels.

Category: Education:
• Mainstreaming of non-formal education with govt. primary education.
• Check dropout of the children from poor families from primary education.
• Increase literacy and numeracy among the adolescents and women who are deprived from basic education.
• Promote life skills among children, adolescents and women.

Category: Human Rights and Governance:
• Establish social, political and economic rights of the women in the family and society as per CEADOW.
• Establish child rights for education, participation and expressing their opinions freely as per CRC.
• Stop using children in hazardous jobs.
• Protect street children from physical, sexual and mental abuse.
• Stop corporal punishment of children at school and family levels.
• Protect human rights of the slum dwellers and their access to basic services from the government.
• Stop indiscriminate eviction of slum dwellers from public land without the provision of rehabilitation.
• Establish fair land lease and tenure system in the slums.
Category: Community Based Disaster Management, Mitigation:
• Adaptation and Mitigation strategy to response to the climate change consequence
• Awareness building of the community people about man-made and natural disasters.
• Prepared the community people to face primary attach of anydisaster.
• Develop the Disaster Volunteer
• Preparation of Disaster Risk Map
• Establish local network of institutions with necessary skills and resources for responding immediately in a disastrous situation. • Provide emergency relief & rehabilitation support

Cross Cutting Issues:
• Poverty, equity and participation
• Gender, Violence against Women & Children
• Child Protection