IMPACT
The varied life circumstances, priorities, concerns and needs of adolescents and young people are addressed by SANKALP’S national-level innovative umbrella programme, Integrated Management and Promotion of Adolescent Concerns in Totality (IMPACT); which provide participatory, rights-based, culturally sensitive and innovative set of integrated actions. IMPACT encourages the healthy development of young people through quality education, professional and vocational trainings, income-generating opportunities as well as appropriate health services. The Organization is promoting access to reproductive health education, information and care for adolescents as a human right, based on gender equity and equality. The main goal is to empower adolescents; who face risk more complex than their previous generations; with life skills to enhance their ability to take responsibility for making healthier choices, resisting negative pressures and avoiding risk behaviours.

EMPOWER
SANKALP’S another innovation is the holistic and comprehensive programme - Education Mobilisation Participation and Opportunities for Women’s Empowerment and Rights (EMPOWER), meant primarily for women’s development and empowerment. The main components of the programme activities include; i) protection of women’s human rights and prevention of violence against women; ii) fostering equal access of girls; particularly those who are socially and geographically marginalized; in primary, secondary, and technical/vocational education; iii) providing information, education and care to adolescent girls to exercise their choices and decisions in reproductive health; iv) supporting community-centered and demand-driven reproductive and child health to the deprived and marginalized women; v) advancing gender equity and equality; vi) promoting the participation of women, both as agents and beneficiaries of development process as well as in the decision-making; and vii) encouraging economic empowerment of women through sustainable skill/ capacity-building, training, self-help groups and income-generating activities.

CARE
One of SANKALP’S creations is Creativity for AIDS Reduction Education (CARE), which seeks to harness the creativity of the in-school adolescents and use art as a powerful education medium to develop a cultural response to HIV/AIDS prevention in the school system in a participatory manner. CARE involves original production/work, interactive workshops/thematic exhibitions and artistic competitions in various performing, visual and literary art forms. Such programmes extend to intra-school /inter-school/State-level/zonal-level/national-level.

One of the prime plank of CARE is Theater Education for AIDS Control and Health (TEACH), which uses the intensity of theatre as the most effective medium among all art forms to propagate the themes and messages of AIDS prevention and control strategies among the young people in a culturally acceptable, fully understood and highly valued (culturally integrated) manner.

WOMEN ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
A national-level project was initiated on “Women Environment and Development” in 1998 to promote integrated and sustainable development of women; with the objective of inter-linking women’s participation, with environmentally sustainable growth; investing in women’s education; raising women’s skills; and promoting awareness of environment and social development. The initiative was launched by the Former First Lady of India, Mrs. Usha Narayanan. The programme has been participated by a galaxy of experts, academicians, activists and policy-makers.

NATIONAL CHILDREN SCIENTISTS’ AWARD PROGRAMME
Launched a National Children Scientists’ Award Programme in 2000, the first initiative of its kind in the country to integrate the concept and practice of science, technology and society (STS) in the school educational content and process at the national-level. The objective of the award programme is to explore the social and humanistic dimensions of science and technology by looking into the interactions and interrelationships between science, technology and society. The awardees are selected on basis of evaluation of original and innovative research-based projects prepared by them in broad subject areas.

Hon’ble President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam took an intensive interactive session on Science & Technology Education on July 2nd, 2004, with the national children scientists (awardees) for the year 2003-04. The award programme has been participated by eminent scientists and technologists of the country.

YOUNG ENVIRONMENTALISTS’ AWARD PROGRAMME
Launched Young Environmentalists’ Award Programme for the secondary and senior secondary students, who participate in the award programme by submitting innovative and original research-based projects on environmental conservation, protection and management. The projects get evaluated and selected by leading environmentalists. The award programme was unfurled by the Hon’ble Mr. Justice J.S. Verma, Former Chief Justice of India and the Chairperson, National Human Rights Commission in May 2001.

CREATIONS IN PERFORMING ARTS
SANKALP has enriched the cultural landscape of the country, with new creations in Indian performing arts, particularly in Indian classical dances. These creations have opened up creative capacities and imaginative perspective to work on new concepts, objectives, themes, identities, values, meanings and practices in Indian classical dances; within India’s vast and varied cultural traditions and ethos. The creations, as catalysts of creativity; advance the production, dissemination, diffusion and enhancement of the diversity of cultural expressions; most vibrantly manifested in Indian classical dances. The creations are a resurgence, reassertion and revitalization of India’s traditional cultural ethos - SANKALP’S humble tribute to India’s cultural pluralism in its most pristine forms.