Our plans want to favor the balance between short-terms actions, directed to heal the most serious deficiencies in the daily conditions of life of the local population, and medium-long terms actions intended to improve local living conditions that are socially desiderable, feasible and economically not against the environment.

In this vision, the promotion of the participation of the local population to the development activities represents one of the central elements of the strategy followed by the equipe of AMKA. Such participative approach is oriented towards rural communities and base organizations and is used to involve other social actors and local institutions as well (local government, agencies, other NGO and private sector) in a collaborative outline of management of the development plans.

Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA)
	it is a group of methodologies and approaches that are proposed to put into effect an upsetting of roles, behaviors, relations and processes of learning in the participations of development, beginning from a knowledge self-criticism of the professionals in this field, than one is reflected on the way to operate of the agency and on the institutional level.
	These methodologies have demonstrated effective means in order to make to emerge the truths and the priorities of the various groups to the inside of the communities.

Among the most evident examples, women's participation in development initiatives is considered fundamental to obtain good results. Unfortunately, it is often affected by their limited decision-making power. To address this issue, AMKA promotes the women empowerment and the mainstreaming of gender concerns by addressing the specific needs of women, focussing on promoting the formation of women's groups and associations and mainstreaming gender equity

With the same aim, AMKA adopts a precise working method to approach the problems analysis and the research of the solutions:

Project Cycle Management (PCM)
	The Project Cycle Management previews the structuring in different phases of the preparation and the realization of the plans, defining for every phase the role of the interested actors and the decisions that they must assumed.
	The PCM, leaving from the analysis of the negative experiences of prepared and realized plans in past, proposes a change of approach, than focus on the needs of the beneficiaries, with the direct, aware and consolidated involvement of the actors.
	the PCM is the method chosen by the EuropeAid Office of the European Commission from the beginnings of the ' 90 to decide and evaluate international cooperation plans to finance