ACTIVE is a voluntary Service Organization with twin aims of Education and Self-reliance. It is not only a Non-political, Non-governmental, Secular and Service Organization, but also a Non-profitable Voluntary Organization striving for the upliftment of Tribals, Harijans and Down-trodden, irrespective of Race, Caste, Creed, Community or Religion.

ACTIVE's journey in the development sector began in 1987 with the interventions in tribal livelihoods in remote, interior and poor endowed hamlets in the revenue district of Khammam, Andhra Pradesh. Since then, it made incremental leaps at each turn and today is specialized into a socio-technical institute that renders technical and managerial inputs to grass root NGOs and people's institutions to plan, implement, monitor and evaluate environmentally sustainable and economically feasible land-based programmes. Through interventions for the development of land, water and forest resources, it is making a positive difference in the livelihood systems of the rural and tribal poor.