Utthan has a strong presence in four districts, Bhavnagar, Amreli, Panchmahal and Dahod. It is now in the process of up-scaling its learning and impact through facilitating establishment and building of people’s learning centers in the coastal areas, regional center for safe drinking water and sanitation, gender and youth resource centers in the tribal area that will not only increase outreach of the community groups, but also increase access from wider area. Utthan outreaches at a larger scale through the following:

Is a Resource and Learning Centre on Coastal areas for providing information and learning opportunities to communities on different aspects of environmental status and its changes, the factors underlying the environmental changes, the challenges to livelihood of coastal people, the different policies and programmes of Government etc.

Through its Coastal Area Development Program and Tribal Area Development Program, Utthan covers 154 villages of four districts, and reaches out to a population of 2,35,000 directly and 3,35,000 indirectly. These are the marginalized and poor people comprising of oppressed castes (dalits & other backward castes), adivasis (tribals) and religious minorities (Muslims, Christians, etc.) and the vulnerable like the aged and children. Other marginalized groups, many times synonymous with the groups mentioned above, are the landless, migrants and small/marginal farmers. Women from all of these categories, including the most vulnerable, out of thesegroups namely widows, single women and deserted women are the primary focus.