BalaVikasa initiated the Women Integrated Development (WID) Program in 40 remote villages in the year 1994. WID Program has now evolved as a strong network spreading across 1500 villages reaching out to nearly 2,00,000 women. Bala Vikasa is convinced that the upward mobility of these women can be best achieved only by building their capacities and enabling them to reflect, plan and execute their own development programs.

In keeping with its motto of `helping people to help themselves’ the unique feature of Bala Vikasa WID Program is that it is managed entirely by the women themselves at all levels. To facilitate the process, Bala Vikasa gives paramount importance to enhancing women’s intellectual capacity, inculcating values, bringing about attitudinal changes, encouraging economic empowerment, boosting leadership qualities and developing group building processes. Due to these capacity building initiatives, Bala Vikasa women have gained immense self-confidence and are able to freely interact, express their views, plan and execute activities all by themselves. In the last two decades, the numerous innovative activities for the women’s integrated development, have resulted in the transformation and development of not only the women, but their families and the communities at large. A clear reflection of women’s empowerment. 

Bala Vikasa also empowers the partner institutions that join hands, to reach out to a greater number of women in disadvantaged situations.