Five domains. One mission.

Why these five

Water, land, livelihoods, skills, and infrastructure — in that order.

The dryland economy of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana is not a poverty problem with five separate causes. It is a single, cascading failure. When the watershed empties out, soil follows; when soil fails, livelihoods fail; when livelihoods fail, the next generation migrates out and never returns.

SEARCH organises its work around the same cascade in reverse. We start with natural resource management because watershed health is the foundation. Once water is in the ground we layer water and sanitation work at the household and school level so the daily-life burden lifts. Then we build rural livelihoods — self-help groups, farmer producer organisations, federations — so households have economic agency, not dependency. And finally, skill development for young people who need a real path to placement and dignity outside the village economy as well as inside it.

Each domain has its own programme team and its own measurable outcomes. None of them runs in isolation. A village SEARCH works in is a village where the watershed is on a recovery path, the school has a working sanitation block, the SHG federation runs its own audits, and the local skill centre places its trainees — all five, at once, year on year.