The rural livelihood development projects implemented by the Assembly of Social Mobilization have a Multi-focal approach encompassing many components such as Entrepreneurship development, Development of traditional sectors like Fisheries & Agriculture, Tourism trade, Food security & Climate change.

The sector works in sync with state development programs in line with the Sustainable development goals and facilitate linkages to public services and schemes for the project beneficiaries. Each community livelihoods development project is attuned to local needs, through an initial participatory learning and Action (PLA), wherein the local needs are identified and the final design and outcomes of the initiatives are decided. Typically, a project is implemented in the same area for a period of 2-3years in order to achieve impact and sustainable outcomes. Each project aims to ultimately enable the beneficiaries to become change makers in their own communities.

We won’t see gains in reducing poverty and hunger unless we seriously invest in rural people. “Given the right kind of tools and resources, small-scale producers and rural entrepreneurs can transform struggling communities into thriving places.”

“We need a dramatic shift in thinking to help the region’s poor people break the cycle of hunger, poverty, and financial instability. To make this dream become reality we focus on short to long-term investments where people start to develop their own ventures to witness them grow gradually.

To make this more pragmatic, we sit with the communities and develop comprehensive but more flexible business plans that suit the local contexts and maximize the use of local resources and revolving finances that ensures growing trends of stable rural economies and household savings.

While influencing the way people think about investing in rural ventures, we strongly push for community ventures that have a cooperative mode where rural groups of women and youth could form themselves into societies of cooperatives that has an added value to the component.

We strongly feel that addressing the root causes of victimization and empowering the marginalized communities that includes rural women, disadvantaged girls, persons with disability, Victims of domestic violence, and drug menace is a pragmatic viable tool to ensure equality among the community where everyone feels that they have equal access to social protection and justice.

We also want to see that the most disadvantaged communities living in the cluttered corners of the region have access to protection and comfort during times of emergencies both natural and man-made.

We train and deploy our rapid response and psycho social teams in times of serious calamities and shocks where community lives are protected and their properties are safeguarded.

We wanted to witness that the communities living in the most affected remote areas of the region have access to safer drinking water, adequate infrastructure facilities for water & sanitation, water for Agricultural needs, and better health services in the rural communities.

We are deeply concerned about the mal-functioned facilities in the areas of maternal health and Nutrition where we wanted to establish working relationships between the community and service providers to ensure that state and non-state services reach the grassroots.

We believe in the fact that Rural Infrastructure development is the base for fighting rural poverty and underdevelopment, We strongly advocate that the rural poor are facilitated with better housing facilities that will form the platform for healthy families and socio-economic development of a community is often linked with the reliable resources for education, entertainment and access to safer mobility and community meeting places.

Keeping this fact in mind we will mobilize extensive resources to design and construct community feeder roads, market places, schools, entertainment parks, and bridges to maximize community stability and socio-economic development.

The work of Assembly of Social Mobilization is based on inter-dependence - the idea that nothing could exist on its own. This concept interdependence is demonstrated through the Assembly’s commitment to promote its core values of diversity, dignity and democracy. The utmost aim of the Assembly is to imagine, build, nurture, sustain and transform human relationships. This includes the ability and potential to; build new relationship through existing ones, design creative spaces to freely build new relationships, build capacities to sustain and create physical spaces and psychological spaces to deepen quality of human relationships especially in a Multi-cultural scenario.

Its success stories of impact originated from experimentation of innovative ideas and actions on the ground. In all their work, the organization adopts a bottom-up and participatory approach. It is about ensuring to bring grassroots communities to engage in active democratic dialogue processes to be featured and highlighted in the national level opinion and decision making. .

Assembly of Social Mobilization wants to connect people from different communities and Religions in to the gateway of Tolerance and understanding. To do this we create spaces for different people to a broader exposure of cultural identity where the spirit of cultural diversity is recognized and safeguarded. To achieve this the Assembly mobilizes platforms of Inter faith dialogues, Cultural pageants, Carnivals, and festivals to promote mutual respect and understanding among different walks and cultures.

Assembly of Social Mobilization’s policy desk that is managed by the Department of Strategic planning and fund raising, is the quality assurance gateway to all of the Assembly’s work and our steadfast hope is that our mission should be guided with the principles of best practices adhering to the accepted standards. To keep this momentum striving, the Assembly has had pooled its Human and physical resources to create, introduce and sustain workable Policies at the grassroots that can effectively support the working systems of the Assembly as well as to sustain the minimum standards of workable relationships with the communities we work with.

We have developed and put into practice the following policies with periodical staff orientation and training. They are Policies on Child Protection, Gender Mainstreaming, Staff Recruitment and deployment and the policy on Financing Terrorism and anti-social activities.

We work closely with the Government of Sri Lanka and its authorities to ensure that our work goes in parallel with the development agenda of the state and report to the departments of the state on our projects and outcomes in the grassroots.