July 2018
EVENTS
Dr Ashok Khosla at the "Ideal Village" conference, Stanford University, California
The Science for Society invited Dr Ashok Khosla, Chairman, DA to share his vision for self-sustaining malls, which would provide rural women with a source of income, and also allow them to access banking services as well.
Read More...
#livelihood
DA at la Caixa Work 4 Progress Annual Conference, Spain
DA has partnered with la Caixa Banking Foundation to implement the Work 4 Progress programme at India level. The programme aims to promote employment for youth and women in developing countries. Read More...
#work4progress
Get in touch with: Chitrangna Dewan
DA launches the TAP-RISE Platform to build the competencies of DST Core Group members
The DA Group and Vigyan Ashram, Pune, have collaborated to setup a platform to build the competencies of DST Core Group members and source managerial and financial capacities to operate Hubs. Read More...
#enterprisedevelopment
Get in touch with: Shrashtant Patara
DA at PEP 23rd Meeting, UN Headquarters,
Kenya
DA shared its experience of Microfinance in India and also led the working group discussions on Local Green Enterprises at the Poverty Environment Partnership (PEP) meeting. Read More...
#sustainability
Get in touch with: Anshul Bhamra
EcoKiln Technology promoted through Information Sessions at Malawi
The DA Group conducted Information sessions to create an ecosystem that enables viable business scenario for the Eco Kiln Technology, which environmentally-friendly.
Read More...
#resourceefficiency
Get in touch with: Dr. Soumen Maity
DA at the Multi Stakeholder Platform of 2030 Water Resources
DA shared its perspectives on challenges of water security in Bundelkhand (Central India) and about its integrated sustainable water management interventions in the area.
Read More...
#SDGs
Get in touch with: Shobhit Pratap Singh
Graduation Ceremony of TARA Akshar+
Neo-literates
More than 1650 TARA Akshar+ neo-literates were felicitated with certificates for completion of the 56 days of literacy and numeracy teaching cycle. Read More...
#literacy
Get in touch with: Divya Mehrotra
Gender Sensitisation Workshops in villages of
Haryana
Gender Sensitisation workshops were organised under the Honda project, which aims to transform the lives of girls by nurturing them to become change agents. Read More...
#SDGs
Get in touch with: Jyoti Shresth
Webinar on the Role of Big Businesses in Mainstreaming Green Economy in India
The webinar emphasised on the initiatives of big businesses to support transition of Indian economy to go green, fair and inclusive. Read More...
#GEVoices
Get in touch with: Shruti Issar
PUBLICATIONS
The book underlines a development paradigm in which the eco-system health, social equity and human empowerment are oals of importance equal to that of economic prosperity. It emphasises that for development to be sustainable, we have to build people's capacities to earn decent livelihoods, reflecting their own aspirations and knowledge of their resource endowment.
The Jobs We Create monograph comprises extensive research on the entrepreneurship ecosystem in rural India and its impact on India's job crisis. It captures the work undertaken by the Work 4 Progress team on what constitutes an essential first step in a process of systemic innovation - to understand the inter-connectedness between problems.
Globally, climate change is manifested through rise in temperature levels, recurring droughts and floods, melting glaciers, sea-level rise etc. Thus climate adaptive practices are the need of the hour. This report describes case studies on community based conservation and climate change adaptation from seven community based flood management states of India.
PERSPECTIVES
India made the CSR provision mandatory through its Companies Act, 2013. Over the last 4 years, many large and innovative projects with strategic vision have been designed. Several companies can now easily aid and enable India’s achievement of its specific SDG targets by ensuring that their CSR mandates are synced to these. Manisha Mishra, shares how the DA Group is working on making sure that such mapping between the CSR policy and the other development related missions, schemes and goals is done at the project design stage, so that potential for further continuous development could be unleashed.
DA IN NEWS
Dr Ashok Khosla was invited as a speaker at the third annual "Ideal Village" conference, organised by Science for Society (S4S) and held at the Stanford University, California (CA), on 26th June 2018.
1650 + women felicitated for completion of TA+ teaching cycle | DainikJagran | 9th July, 2018
Eminent print media agencies captured the graduation ceremonies of TARA Akshar+ (TA+) Programme, held in Bhadohi and Hardoi districts of Uttar Pradesh and Haridwar district of Uttarakhand.
DA's article on CSR and SDGs published by the Impakter| 13th July, 2018
The article 'SDGs and CSR Convergence', by Pulari Kurian, Senior Manager, DA has been published on Impakter, which is a platform focused on delivering high quality impact driven articles, papers and interviews.
VIDEOS
Interview of Dr Ashok Khosla, Chairman, DA by INDTUSA
Watch this exciting interview of Dr Ashok Khosla conducted by INDTVUSA and hosted by Stanford Ventures, LLC, at the Stanford University, California. Ashok Khosla, shares the journey of his life – his childhood, his inclination to become a scientist, his stint at helping the UN set up the UN Environment Program in Nairobi and his journey back to India in 1983 to set up the DA Group.
TARA Akshar+ Programme on 90.3 FM Lalit Lokwani Alapur, Uttar Pradesh
90.3 FM Lalit Lokwani Alapur (Uttar Pradesh) – community radio station broadcasted 2 radio episodes on TARA Akshar+ (TA+). Listen to this interesting episode, wherein the listener gets an opportunity to learn about the TA+ programme and can hear straight from the horse’s mouth, the intricacies and effectiveness of the programme in bringing a 'literal' revolution in the lives of rural women.
The urban housing shortage in India is currently estimated at 18.78 million, more than 95% of which pertains to low-income groups. The housing sector is a resource intensive sector, leading to a large environmental burden on the natural resources. This video highlights the need for more sustainable options in order to meet the housing demand, as well as conserve our natural resources.
B-32, Tara Crescent, Qutub Institutional Area, New Delhi 110 016, India
Tel:91 (11) 2654-4100, 2656-4444, Fax. 91 (11) 2685-1158
www.devalt.org