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			Nalamdana's vision is to create positive social change through communication, for a healthier and better educated society. We believe access to complete and correct information is a basic right for all communities irrespective of social, economic or educational status. Our mission is to use creative, innovative, participatory behaviour change communication to enable target audiences to make better informed decisions about their health and for their families. How we gather information and how we know when our programs are sucessful... Nalamdana has worked with disadvantaged populations, urban and rural, since 1994. Every issue and project based intervention/communication program is undertaken using an established and proven pre project (baseline) study. Specific data and information gathered helps us design and execute our need based programs effectively. Success of each program is measured by comparing with the predetermined goals (short term and long term) and seeing if the identified measurable indicators have been achieved. Since Nalamdana is a communication group, often the Methodologies used are being evaluated, rather than sheer numbers covered. Evaluation is qualitative rather than quantitative, as long term behaviour change is our goal. Project Goals and Growth Nalamdana has pre set goals for each individual project depending on it's duration. We are working on various projects of differing lengths (1 year, 3 years, ongoing, etc.) For Example: The South India Girl Child Inititiative is a three year project started in 2006. We have a project plan, bench marks for every year and space to change/modify methods used (mid course correction is possible). Communication objectives are clearly defined and the issues we will work on are also listed. Annual sharing and planning happens with the other three NGOS funded under the same project. The method being used is World Education's non formal education techniques.