Origin:

CDC's work in cities dates back to its activities with urban poor communities in the Jaipur and Nagpur in 1995 and subsequent engagement with waste workers, slum dwellers, women and vendors on areas of education, health, microfinance, self-help groups, RTI and public participation. By 2001our work had expanded to city, state and national interventions on MSW, livelihood and rights of vendors and waste workers, women and youth through action organisation, capacity building, research and advocacy. Currently, CDC has direct operations in Jaipur, Nagpur, Mohali, Ludhiana, Patiala, Jalandhar, Baddi, Shimla, Bhilai, Daman, Surat, Thane, Aurangabad etc and engages in state, national and global action through its training, advocacy, research and networking activities.

Objectives:

CDC's main focus area is urban poor communities and urban community development programs on addressing human rights violations in cities and enabling vulnerable groups in the city to access these rights. We work to build linkages between the direct experiences of communities and the larger contexts of the cities, states and countries. We strengthen the capacities of communities to understand and involve in main stream development process and respond effectively to the local development issues, and encouraging new formations - such as Self-help Groups, community groups, vendors cooperatives and microfinance - to engage in development. Our endeavour to engage holistically on social issues accounts for the broad range of our activities that span from action organisation in communities to national and international solidarity action.

As illimitable as the ocean, our vision is through compassionate & rationales efforts help build an altruistic, explicit, gregarious, indoctrinated & equitable community. Though, developmental process for the community has been going on for more than 60 years, yet the demand grows. Our thought - that communication, a scientific approach acts as catalytic revolutionizing the process in an essential employing communication for the same to improve the quality of life of the masses & different fragments of the society CDC has expanded its activities to various parts of India , thereby facilitating positive social change.

Our elusive & illimitable goal is improvement in quality of life by following a concrete concerted explicit approach with dedication & determination for the community.