This is the web site of an Indian NGO set up by a group of engineering graduates from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (as it then was) in 1988 with the aim "To help eradicate poverty through the empowerment of the poor and the productive, sustainable and equitable use of available human and natural resources.” It is an interesting hybrid in that it tends to use quite traditional science based research to 'serve the public interest', an interest defined by its collaboration with a host of community organisations. Thus it could be seen more as community-led agenda setting than participatory led research. It is also noted for its attention to historically based methods of managing natural resources, in particular water, and its readiness to engage with such methods if they are deemed fit for contemporary purpose. I have categorised it as a form of partnership working but it is also clearly a form of engagement, albeit one driven by developmental outcomes more than academic prowess.