Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN), a reputed national level Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), working in eight states of western, central and eastern India, is promoting goat-rearing through women self-help groups in four of its programme states: Rajasthan, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha. PRADAN’s goat rearing interventions in Odisha are concentrated in the Kandhamal - Balliguda block - and Keonjhar districts. In PRADAN’s programme areas, goat rearing is predominantly a livelihood activity for relatively poorer households. In these regions, goat rearing is characterized by high morbidity and mortality due to inadequate access to health care services, poor breed selection, unscientific husbandry and rearing practices resulting in low incomes. Through an innovative community-centric model implemented in the tribal dominated Balliguda block of district Kandhamal in Odisha, PRADAN has demonstrated an institutional framework with Self Help Groups (SHGs) as the foundation to facilitate access to preventive health, vaccination services, and knowledge sharing on improved rearing and husbandry practices.