In all of SPREAD's work, we focus on building the capacity of the communities, to allow them to fight for their own rights. Activities of SPREAD include:
- Helping the poor to access the government schemes to which they are entitled, such as the Public Distribution System (subsidized food), Mahatma Ghandi National Rural Employment Guarantee (100 days annual employment) and pensions for the aged, widowed and disabled.
- Facilitating the formation of people's organizations and providing training to enable them to lead groups of people in mass mobilizations and individual struggles.
- Guiding villages through a defined land process (i.e. meetings, committees, information collection and analysis) that results in an understanding and solution of the village's land problems.
- Organizing meetings to bring together important parties from government, civil society and the community to discuss issues of importance.
