Development Action and Research (HDF-cDAR) is a not-for-profit organization striving to excel as think and action tank with humanitarian spirit. It originated from Human Development Foundation Trust founded by a group of young professionals, with a view to address the socio-economic problems emanating in the state and the country as a whole.

HDF-cDAR has relentlessly persevered to bring together academicians, development thinkers and practitioners’ in-order to forge participatory development. Through initiatives such as promotion of critical mass, encouragement of shared leadership and fostering responsive governance system, HDF cDAR has successfully steered people’s growing assertion to own governance. HDF cDAR has undertaken programmatic interventions with overarching focus on education, health, livelihood and governance. Its activities are supplemented by research, evidence based advocacy and action programmes to set up model institutions and demonstration projects involving traditional and emerging knowledge and technologies.