Project ACCESS (Action for Child Care and Education Strategies and Services) had very small and modest
beginnings as part of the M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation's Programme Area 400 (Reaching the Unreached).
Named as a Project from the beginning, ACCESSwas never intended to be the starting point for an organisation or institution, but was seen as something that could be wound up when its usefulness was over. It was visualised as just the structure needed to support an exploratory approach, tentative searchings for new directions, with a firm commitment merely to a flexible and evolving methodology.