March 2023
EVENTS
6th Research Advisory Board Meeting
Development Alternatives (DA) organised its 6th Research Advisory Board (RAB) meeting on 17th March 2023 at Development Alternatives Headquarters (DAHQ). Seven Board members from different research areas were present and gave suggestions on future work in terms of DA’s core areas. Read More... #ResearchPlanningGet in touch with: Kuldip Thoriya
Nudging Policy through Research...
Over the month of March, the Policy and Planning Domain team at Development Alternatives participated in various webinars, conferences, and other similar events that enhanced the visibility of the domain's work and grew prospects of forming strong networks. Read More... #policyresearchGet in touch with: Karminder Malhotra
Community awareness on Arsenic contamination
With support from the SEED Division, the Department of Science & Technology, Development Alternatives has taken up an initiative to provide Arsenic free drinking water to 5 villages of Khagaria district, Bihar, in association with communities of respective districts. Read More... #ArsenicFreeWaterGet in touch with: Aayush Saigal
Session with Institute of Rural Management Anand on Social Innovation and Inclusive Entrepreneurship
A session on "Social Innovation for Systems Change" was organised at IRMA, focusing on the W4P programme, as well as entrepreneurship, to the attending students. Views on "Inclusive Entrepreneurship" were shared by Ms. Kanika Verma, Associate Vice President, Development Alternatives.
Read More... #SocialInnovation
Get in touch with: Dabormaïan Jude
Session on Social Innovation for Systems Change with Ashoka Fellows
A session on "Social Innovation for Systems Transformation" was organised by RangDe and Ashoka Social Innovation for Livelihoods. Associate Vice President of Development Alternatives Ms. Kanika Verma provided insights on DA's activities and created frameworks for effective evaluation. Read More... #RangDeGet in touch with: Muskan Chawla
SIDBI Swavalamban Mela
In New Delhi, Swavalamban Mela took place from March 22–27, 2023. Master artisans Parbati Patra and Ushrarani Midya of the 500-women-only Matcraft cluster displayed yoga mats, handbags, and table runners fashioned from babui grass Medinipur district as part of the participation of three IMEDF-SFURTI clusters. Read More... #SIDBI
Get in touch with: Rashika Sharma
Filmmakers of Badli
A three-month filmmaking workshop was organised at Chaudhary Dheerpal Government College, Badli for college going girls by Kshitij Sheetak of The Real Image Company. A total of 70 students are being trained in photography, videography and content creation. Read More... #FilmMaking
Get in touch with: Chand Bardewa
Inauguration of Skill Development Centre
To create changemakers for future, Trainers, Centre Managers, and counsellors from Jaipur and Noida participated in a three-day residential course. The goals were to define and practise 21st-century learning, dynamic facilitation and characterise learning needs as well as ways of engaging young learners.
Read More... #skillsdevelopment
Get in touch with: Ekta Kashyap
udyaME Power+ Campaign
A two day campaign udayMe Power+, in partnership with Transforming Rural India Foundation took place in three blocks of Basti, Bahraich and Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh. The campaign showcased awareness and mobilisation followed by street play on the journey of entrepreneurs associated with Work4Progress programme. Read More... #udayMEGet in touch with: Supriya Shukla
PUBLICATIONS
Insights into Rural Entrepreneurship
This report was developed from a survey on rural entrepreneurship conducted in partnership with DIU (Development Intelligence Unit). The survey covered a total of 2041 rural enterprises over a period of one month. It spanned over 20 states spread across all 6 zones of the country that covered respondents ranging across gender and youth between the age 16-29 years. The study focuses on the aspects of rural entrepreneurship in India, ranging from aspirations, job opportunities, and entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Compendium on Bridging the Digital Divide for Livelihood and Empowerment
This document is an outcome of a project funded by Ford Foundation, titled "Bridging the Digital Divide, Incubating Technology Innovations and Content Development of Livelihood Options, Building Capacities of Community Based Organisations". Bridging the Digital Divide for Livelihood and Empowerment The case story compendium is a compilation of stories from these five intervention districts. The compendium highlights the socio-economic upliftment of individuals who have been benefited during the course of the project.
This manual has been prepared as part of a project on ‘Delivery Model for Eco-friendly Multi Hazard Resistant Construction Technologies and Habitat Solutions in Mountain States', which has been implemented in Uttarkashi (Uttarakhand) under the TIME LEARN (Technology Innovation in Mountain Ecosystem Livelihood Enhancement through Action Research and Networking) programme of the Department of Science and Technology. This manual has been prepared as a guide for the use of entrepreneurs and government departments for installation of decentralized community operated water treatment systems in mountain regions.
PERSPECTIVES
Greater Gender Inclusion and Attention to Contextual Effects of Climate Change Is the Way Forward!
Women's close association with sustainable livelihoods, especially among the underprivileged sections of society, is well known. In the Blog, Prof Ravinder Kaur, IIT Delhi argues that gender balance on environmental committees is important as it leads to more sustainable decision-making, and factoring in contextual harms of climate change is absolutely necessary to equip women everywhere to fight the harmful effects of climate change. Read more...
VIDEO
Micro Movements of Change - Women Enabling Safe Mobility for Women
Under the Work4Progress India programme, a safe mobility model of women-led e-rickshaws was prototyped to provide safe transportation facilities and enable access to basic facilities for improved women's workforce participation and through that, empower women to unleash their entrepreneurial energies. Development Alternatives (DA) along with "la caixa" Foundation replicate the impact of the prototype at a larger scale and accelerate the adoption of this model by creating an ancillary infrastructure and financing ecosystem. Through the power of #SAMUDYAM or #InclusiveEntrepreneurship, DA enables entrepreneurs to access entrepreneurship opportunities and create everyday micromovements of change.
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