The program is focused to promote agriculture & horticulture based livelihood of the local community, training, capacity building, and vocational training to youths on different livelihood options. In addition to this the program is also focused to establish the community based micro finance groups or women SHGs engaged in micro enterprises for their livelihood enhancement. Many trainings and capacity building programs were organized in vegetable farming, bee keeping, dairy development, spices cultivation, mushroom farming, fruit processing, nursery development, poultry, marketing of the products and non farm activities such as re-cycling of waste material and development of products in rural and urban areas. IDS has been engaged in planning, implementation, monitoring and supervision of community based tourism activities in 12 districts of Uttarakhand for livelihood enhancement. The key activities being performed under the projects are identification of suitable villages for tourism development, IEC, formation and management of village tourism development committee, eco development committee, identification of their training need, designining and implementation of training in hospitability management, cooking, bird watching, interpretation, nature guiding, low cost dwelling units, business plan preparation, linkages with parytan swarojgar yojna and established linkages with marketing agencies.