PHASE believes that poor health, low educational levels and poverty are all aspects of the same problem, and create a cycle preventing people from taking control of their own futures; PHASE aims to address these aspects simultaneously, through integrated Community Development Programme (CDP) which empower individuals and communities on all levels.

PHASE has special emphasis and expertise on working in extremely remote areas – areas in the high Himalayas, with scant resources, a harsh climate, difficult terrain, and little or no access to basic services. These are areas often missed by development NGOs as being too difficult and expensive to manage successful projects in. PHASE’s philosophy is to work in areas of greatest need, which is extremely challenging but is also an area in which we have had extensive success. Our target communities have experienced rapid change in short periods of time – for example, areas with no functioning health system and no access to or trust in modern medicine are provided with high standard of primary healthcare and preventative education. Beneficiaries learn to use and trust the system extremely rapidly and within months a PHASE health post can see between 30 and 60 patients a day.