1. Community mobilization in the realms of
   • Women empowerment,
   • Governance
   • Micro finance,
   • Livelihood
   • Education
   • Health and
   • Technology 
2. Social research using participative methods
3. Training and capacity building
4. Rehabilitation
5. Social marketing of micro-finance and micro-insurance products
6. Advocacy

CDHI works in the areas of:

• Community based primary and early child education,
• Micro-finance and micro-enterprise. CDHI has already facilitated a strong owners managed federation of women self-help groups with viable bank linkages,
• Livelihoods and entitlements,
• Governance-stronger partnership with the decentralized institutions and local development agencies,
• Rehabilitation of surrendered militants including their counselling and  education for life skills development,
• Decentralized participative planning
• Gender and institutional development as cross cutting spheres
• Soil testing
• Counselling for the HIV/AIDS      

  Partners and stakeholders

• Scheduled Castes
• Scheduled tribes including dwindling tribes
• Unorganized labours including those rendered unemployed because of tea garden closures 
• Women and 
•  Agencies of governance and development