3.THIN is taking the challenge to develop and improve skills and technologies based on local resources and management systems relatively unknown to “formal health-research” that will provide a wide range of products and services applicable across the communities in a multitude of environments and circumstances. Local incentives and community research and development aimed to give immediate solutions are being stimulated and supported by THIN and partners. THIN organization has programmes designed in partnership participation of local people supporting empowerment and economic development programmes using healthcare delivery strategies as a positive receptacle for them.

4.A structure THIN has adopted includes social, economic and behavioural studies to complement basic and strategic research. Through exploration in the knowledge base found in linguistics and cognitive science ensures enlisting of knowledge from a range of individuals. To identify the most appropriate form of technology for each programme, under the local circumstances, to find out what ways to deliver these programmes, and to integrate their delivery within the infrastructure, THIN is undertaking extensive health system research (EHSR) – trying different ways and trying again, trying to make most of people, other resources, and technology, and keeping an open eye throughout. This entrails gradually strengthening the capacity of the healthcare delivery systems to meet the peoples needs by progressively introducing and expanding through it’s specific programmes based on appropriate technology and mobilizing people to apply this technology and mobilizing people to apply this technology is much as they can.
THIN is training health workers and practitioners in close relationship with the jobs they do. Much of this endeavor means working together with people in other sectors on a selective basis, whenever and wherever it is needed, including at the grassroots level.
For example, the involvement of people in ensuring that the source of safe drinking water or medicines has to be exploited so that they know how to conserve them as sources of health - not of diseases, how to dispose of other wastes without giving rise to nuisance or diseases.

5.THIN is targeting communities and individuals as vehicles of change in the war against diseases, hunger, poverty and uncontrolled destruction of the environment and biodiversity including other natural resources through a formulation of participation and finding ways of utilizing indigenous and cultural institutions, knowledge, physical resources and technology for local level and national development. THIN is contributing to meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) of the United Nations.

6.Our strategy has been planned on four pillars.
•Reducing vulnerability
•Improving access to resources
•Responding to new technologies
•Making markets work for the poor and marginalized through value addition and technology. Many times the poor have the volume market but they do not know how to put a compound or therapeutic agent into a flee-collar or livestock dip, or, encapsulate for oral therapy. They do not have the registration expertise or the marketing connections as we do.

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