Steps always recognizes that in Bangladesh, profound social change cannot be achieved in an isolation from the cultural, social and structural factors impacting on gender relations. Therefore, Steps focuses on a strategy that reaches out to all directions. Steps is aligning all the way down to individual activists working at the roots of communities, through local level NGOs and networks. On the other hand, it also reaches up to inform and influence national level policy makers. Steps builds networks with social activists, like-minded civil society organizations and people, government bodies at local, national and regional level to raise collective voice against patriarchy and any types of discrimination. Side by side, Steps has networking with different collective platform at local, national and regional level Through this process, Steps became a contributor and stakeholder of women’s development and women’s rights movement in Bangladesh.

Steps follows the approach of implementing program through the collective platform of local networks namely Gender and Development Alliance. Steps likes to work collectively and thus it tries to build alliance with different local and national networks, platforms, forum etc. while working on common issues. Following are some examples of Steps’ association with collective networks/forums at national and local level: