• Water Resources Management
  

•  Drinking Water

• Well-Siting

• Hydro-geological Surveys              

• Water Yield Testing

• Bore wells, tube wells, and hand pumps

• Minor Irrigation- Drip irrigation, lift irrigation

• River barrier (Dykes) and Diversion channels

• Small dams and other water conservation structures

• Gravity Flow Systems

• Horizontal Roughing Filter – Slow Sand Filter

• Rooftop Rain Water Harvesting

• Promotion of Indigenous technology

• Revival of traditional water management and harvesting structures
  

• Sanitation
  

• Low cost bamboo leach pit latrines

• Low cost latrines
  

• Land Husbandry
  

• Sloping Agricultural Land Technology (SALT)

• Dry land farming technology in arid to semi-arid regions

• Wasteland development

• Land reclamation
  

•  Sustainable Agriculture
  

• Integrated (non-chemical) Pest Management

• Vermi-composting and organic manure           

• Horticulture and herbal medicinal plants

• Promotion of mixed-cropping practices

• Alternatives for shifting cultivation
  

•  Forestry
  

•  Joint Forest Management and Community forest management

• Pasture land development programmes

• Promotion of social and agro-forestry
  

• Fisheries
  

• Aquaculture – freshwater and marine

• Fisher folk development

• Disaster Preparedness in cyclone affected areas
  

• Animal husbandry
  

• Livestock nutrition and health

• Rearing and management of livestock

• Barefoot Veterinary Technicians’ Training
  

• Renewable Energy
  

• Biogas plants

• Training of biogas masons
  

•  Watershed management

 •         Social dimension

• Pro-poor approach

• Participatory approach

• Equal stake holding by all partners in program

• Gender equity

• Interdependency

• Sensitivity towards traditional culture, value system  and wisdom of community

• Formation of Self - Help Groups

 •         Technical dimension

• Identification of region-specific needs , issues and problems

• Participatory technical planning

• Capacity building of community in relevant managerial and technical aspects of the program

• Strict socio-technical and financial monitoring to ensuring quality execution of the program through community and NGO

• Mid-term corrections and impact assessment of the program

• Handing over charge to the community

     •          Economic dimension

• Promotion of professional skills in traditional trades

• Skill refinement and developing new skills in rural enterprises (handicrafts, small scale industries, and animal husbandry)

• Facilitation in creating infrastructure

•  Provision of loan grants for SHGs and individuals of target community

• Assisting in creating linkages with marketing organizations
  

• Geographical Information Systems
  
  

• Capacity building and training programs

           AFPRO specialists train up grassroots NGOs and local communities on a variety of skills. These take the following shapes:

• Programs Conducted/Sponsored by AFPRO

• Cadre-Building Programs at different AFPRO Units

• Programs facilitated by specialist trainers from AFPRO