Sustainable Tribal Empowerment Project’s (STEP) main programmatic objective is to improve the quality of life of the poorest and most disadvantaged members of the tribal society in Northern Andhra Pradesh, through community empowerment. STEP’s operational strategy involves multi-stakeholder partnerships to bridge existing gaps between service delivery and community accessibility. 

Recognising the capability of tribal communities to take initiatives for their development STEP extends handholding through sensitisation. To accelerate action-oriented learning at the community level CARE-STEP developed an advocacy-communication-social mobilisation kit covering the thematic areas of health, education, environment, livelihood, government entitlements and local self-governance.