Harsha Trust is a not for profit organization that works with the tribal and the poor in remote locations of Orissa, aiming to bring in human development in challenging conditions. As an organization it endeavours to bring professionals into the development arena believing that quality human resources are critical to the process of ensuring sustainable changes in one of the poverty stricken parts of the country. In selecting its project location, the organization has deliberately chosen to work in difficult-to-access regions where the system has been unable to deliver towards development needs of the population.

Intervening with backward communities on basic needs of food sufficiency and livelihoods, Harsha Trust has tried to bring hope among the people who have been cut off from the developmental processes. The organization has over the past 7 years tried to demonstrate models of sustainable livelihood that arrest migration and give people a chance to develop within their circumstances. Using concrete examples the organization has tried to interface with larger stakeholders-viz. government, banks, donors to influence wider scale replication of successful interventions using the resources meant for the people. Having met with a fair degree of success in its ability to influence the system to allocate resources for these vulnerable communities; Harsha Trust is striving to drive this agenda forward to maximize the access of the poorest to their human development entitlements.