Poverty means different things to different people. Poverty is not the result of only economic deprivation. The reason and causes of poverty are multi-faceted. WATCH believes that poverty is not only caused by economic issues but by social and cultural and educational status, level of participation in the political and development activites. WATCH strogly believes that unless poor themselves are ready for change and improvement, others cannot do much. WATCH has come to such conclusions after providing support or investment for income generation or protect from usuary to more than 10000 families. WATCH has realized that we cannot support to somebody who does not know where s/he is going. So in a simple term it is a simple exercise for visioning and action paln. This is a holistic exercise where participant asses their resources to make maximum utilization. People are getting too much dependent upon outside resources and developing begging mentality. WATCH believes without self-esteem and self-respect people cannot move ahead.

WATCH is trying to alleviate poverty of 350 rural poor from its working area for this year. It has developed a training program that is 5 days long and is called "From Poverty to Prosperity". WATCH first lets the people to assess themselves on their current situation and how those people feel about it. This is based on seven stages of questions and conversations that are held with the people in question to determine if they are satisfied with what they have or not, and if they are not satisfied WATCH proceeds to ask them what they think could be done or changed to improve their situation. They are also asked to assess what kind of resources they have to manage so that they could support themselves. And when they have made a plan of things that they think should be done to achieve what they want WATCH helps them carryout this plan, if and only they express need for support.

WATCH staff and federation members are initiating to have discussion, dialogue and based on the poverty to prosperity exercise with the selected poor. Similar exercise is done with the women's groups and federations.