APRLP initiatives begin with livelihood planning at village-level. It involves conducting QPA or PSA (Participatory Situation Analysis), identification of resources and constraints, and wealth ranking by the community to rank the poor. Village plans will be prepared based on constraints faced and resources available across the households and community and community. District experiences are presented below:

Through the process of a situation analysis (QPA) in Salonepalli, Mahabubnagar, the current situation was understood and possible future opportunities identified. There are 850 women in the village, 235 of which are organized into 23 SHGs. The groups have a total corpus of Rs. 2 lakhs. Some group members are engaged in vegetable production and are selling their produce in Rythu Bazaar (Mahabubnagar). Problems they face include: the cost of transport and some of their members do not have identity cards to sell at the bazaar. The SHGs members have many entrepreneurial qualities and have already utilized group funds for productive purposes such as the purchase of vegetable seed and fertilizers, buffaloes and goats, the establishment of petty shops, investment in agriculture and horticulture, leaf plate making, backyard poultry, etc. Future interventions include: facilitating other women to learn from progressive members; providing identity cards to vegetable producers; access to subsidized seed; identifying opportunities for diversification (e.g. off-season activities); encouraging vermi-compost production as an alternative to chemical fertilisers, etc.