ParivartanMahila Swalamban Samiti (PMSS) Samiti was started in February 1993, to bring women together to meet as a groups and to discuss issues related to their problems. To begin with, CSR started these Samitis in Jaunpur which gradually started to eight more districts of Uttar Pradesh. CSR recognizes and emphasizes the triple role- reproductive, productive and community management, plated by women and believed that women’s subordination and subjugation can be removed only through the organized effort of strengthening women’s organization at the grassroot levels.

Centre for Social Research (CSR) has selected villages in two different districts of Uttar Pradesh Etawah and Jaunpur. These districts are economically and socially backward. They are dominated by traditional agriculture as the main source of livelihood, except a few strips were cash crops are produced. Parivartan grew into a full pledgedc development section of CSR with rural unit active in Jaunpur, Etawah and four urban units in Kanpur, Mirzapur, Varanasi, and Delhi with three folded programme the unorganized, consisisting the organized and empowering the consciencetised.

The first phase of the study began in 1982 in four villages of Ghana, Madhaipur, Seura and and Maisil with an aim to break the viscous circle of underdeveloped and poverty through community building, income generation activities and improving the status of women.
The second phase began in 1986 were the prominent activities were goat rearing, rope making, snack and cerals making, reducing mechanism were introduced for women’s collective efforts for income generation. During these phases, it was sponsored by International Labour Organisation (ILO).

Following the second phase, in fifteen villages, a rural women’s empowerment. A Step towards Self Reliance” commenced for employment generation and supportive activites like health care, childcare and crèche, saving credit facilities etc. The employment generating activities included rope making, small animal rearing, snacks and cerals making and besides the emphasis on drudgery reducing technologies like smoleless stoves, handpumps bicycles etc. The target group for employment generating activities were women of women headed households and other poor women.

Parivartan Jaunpur started off in one blocks covering forty five villages and then spread to two blocks covering forty five villages. This programme underwent three phases, and it was supported Oxfam America.