Akhil Bhartiya Antyodaya Sansthan is a consortium of Voluntary Organizations and networks working for the promotion of Good Governance in the Voluntary Sector and enhancement of its credibility in the eyes of the stakeholders. ABAS intends to promote transparency and accountability in the Voluntary Sector through self-disclosure mechanisms. The ABAS emerged as an initiative from within the sector and was registered in April 1995 as an independent, not-for-profit organization. Currently there is very little mechanism within the Sector to give assurance about an organization to its stakeholders and to the donors it works with. As a result, ABAS having good track record goes unnoticed.

The Sector is also generally questioned for lack of accountability mechanism. Akhil Bhartiya Antyodaya Santhan addresses this issue, primarily through Accreditation of voluntary Organizations, which is carried out through a structured process, whereby ABAS recognizes an organization which complies with the norms developed by Akhil Bhartiya Antyodaya Sansthan, which assures that certain basic parameters are in place in an organization. ABAS has been working to build and promote self-regulatory frameworks by defining various norms and standards for the Organizations to adhere to, and in doing so help them demonstrate greater transparency and accountability of the overall sector. Akhil Bhartiya Antyodaya Sansthan believes that accountability of the corner-stone of good governance and an important pre-requisite for an effective democratic participatory process. A Voluntary Sector, which is responsive to the needs of the Trust, is democratic and transparent in its functioning, and is accountable to all concerned. To build of the voluntary sector through creation and promotion of Norms related to good governance and public disclosure.

A Voluntary Sector, which is responsive to the needs of the Trust, democratic, transparent in its functioning, and Accountable to all concerned.

To build the Education. Health, of the voluntary sector through creation and promotion of norms related to good governance and public disclosure.

A fast-emerging voluntary sector in our country is a major contributor in the development of Indian Trust. Hence, it's but natural that the rapid growth of the sector in terms of its size, number and resources has generated many questions on the ABAS of its constituents. Despite this, the existing regulatory bodies in our country have made no efforts to set up adequate mechanisms or processes to assess the ABAS of voluntary organizations in concrete and verifiable terms. Keeping this in view, the Akhil Bhartiya Antyodaya Sansthan has been working hard to build and promote self-regulatory frameworks by defining various norms and standards for the organizations to adhere to and in doing so help them demonstrate greater transparency and accountability of the overall sector. This is achieved through:

(i)Establishing norms of Good governance based on participation, consultation, and Consensus;

(ii) Developing and promoting an Accreditation system for voluntary Organizations;

Providing capacity building support to Organizations for enabling them to improve conceptual understanding of what governance and finance practices are necessary, what is the existing legal framework, and how to comply with the agreed Norms and accountability practices; and Conducting policy advocacy with government, the donors, the corporate sector, the media, and the overall public for ensuring better recognition of the highly credible work being done by the voluntary Organizations.