A national capacity building programme, Empowering Grassroots is aimed at handholding, training and enabling community based organisation to maximise their impact on the ground. Under ‘Empowering Grassroots’ initiative, VMCT is trained on vital issues relevant to the development sector in the country like scalability, sustainability, communication, resource mobilisation and governance by industry experts from reputed Indian and international organisations. Empowering Grassroots is not only an effort to strengthen the bottom of the socio-economic pyramid in India, but also an attempt to bring transparency and accountability in the workings of the development sector at the grassroots level. So far, VMCT has built the capacities of more than 5000 grassroots development organizations under the initiative