TARU works in five Core Sectors.

• Disaster Management and Climate Change, where our cutting edge work on risk assessment, mitigation planning and reconstruction protects and resurrects lives, property, critical infrastructure and business in among the most vulnerable locations on the planet

• Rural Water Supply and Sanitation (RWSS), a rapidly evolving Sector where we are playing a key role in shaping and refining the Sector’s unfolding reform agenda and facilitating its institutionalization

• Urban Development, where amidst unprepared institutions, rapid growth, stretched infrastructure and proliferating low income settlements, we work towards ensuring pro-poor urban governance and planning in the firm belief that a vibrant, viable City is one that responds to its poor

• Natural Resource Management (NRM) and Rural Livelihood, where our work concentrates on examining, designing and supporting sustainable livelihood opportunities in a country marked by unevenly distributed, accessed and severely contested resources and a largely unimagined space for creating and actualizing sustainable livelihood options

• Energy, where our rare and unique engagement focuses on three issues commonly identified as among the most challenging to State-level reform- stakeholder communication, agricultural power subsidy reform and power theft.