In 2003, CWS in partnership with VICALP as the coordinating agency initiated a Livelihood Program Network in Orissa which includes 10 NGOs in the state. The program addresses livelihood concerns of adivasi communities by promoting natural resource-based productive activity. The basic focus of the program is development of small plots of land and initiating agricultural activities on it. The program is worked around the concept of micro-land ownership by landless families through reclaiming fallow land and putting them into agricultural use by cultivating vegetable, millet and pulses. It focuses women’s participation and ownership and development of micro-watershed in the villages.