VHAI believes that health and development are closely linked and therefore, community action and participation play a key role in achieving its goals.

VHAI works actively at the grassroots in rural as well as tribal India, through a number of interventions, training as well as capacity building programmes. There are some projects that are directly implemented at the field level but most are executed through partner organizations like State VHAs or credible voluntary agencies.

Since last year, in addition to the KHOJ and Parivartan projects, VHAI has initiated Project Arunoday, the Indian System of Medicine and HIV/AIDS awareness programmes.