Community celebration event marked milestones in decentralised rural waste management.

Awareness drives promote waste segregation and healthier rural living practices

Awareness rallies and clean-up drives strengthened community-led urban sanitation practices.

Catalysing India's cement decarbonisation through LC3 innovation and multi-stakeholder collaboration.

Folk music inspired climate resilience, women's leadership, and community participation across Bundelkhand.

On 18 June 2026, Development Alternatives convened a District Entrepreneurship Coalition and Aarya Manch in Jhansi, bringing together over 40 stakeholders from financial institutions, government departments, women-led enterprises, the e-rickshaw sector, and development organisations.

Cadres across 22 Udyamita Suvidha Kendras in 11 districts of Uttar Pradesh are currently undergoing training to deepen their competencies in entrepreneurship pipeline development, enterprise support services, and ecosystem facilitation. The training strengthens a community-owned model in which women facilitators embedded within Cluster Level Federations deliver contextualised business planning, credit linkages, and market exposure to rural entrepreneurs.

Community-embedded women enterprise-support cadres called Sukshma Udyam Sakhis are being trained and deployed across all 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh to support women-led non-farm enterprises at the grassroots level. This DAY-NRLM initiative, supported by Development Alternatives and operationalised through UPSRLM, aims to build a cadre of 13,000+ Sakhis to help achieve the state's goal of enabling 6.5 lakh women-led enterprises.

Pathways for Decarbonisation in the Built Environment of Bihar Through Sustainable Materials.

Inauguration ceremony and stakeholder meet to strengthen community development initiatives in Rudraprayag.

Scaling LC³ cement across South and Southeast Asia through regional coalition

Leaders convened to redefine ESG beyond compliance, toward collective action.

Workshop explores strategies to assess opportunities and barriers for development and uptake of LC3 in Gujarat

SAM-UDYAM convened its partner ecosystem for a two-day Reflection Workshop on 14–15 May 2026 at Development Alternatives HQ, New Delhi — bringing together 50 participants from Manviya Drishtikon Sewa Samiti (MDSS), Swami Vivekanand Shiksha Samiti (SVSS), Kiwaad, Lakshya, Gram Vaani, NASVI, and Haqdarshak to translate grassroots field realities into sharper ecosystem thinking for rural entrepreneurship.

22nd edition of Green Cementech 2026 held on 14 & 15 May 2026 at HICC, Hyderabad.

Entrepreneurship workshop empowered youth, women, and startups through practical business learning.

Development Alternatives was one of the anchor partners at Climate Asia’s Annual Conference 2026, convening leaders across finance, institutions, technology, governance, and communities to accelerate India’s climate transition

Stakeholders align on pathways to decarbonise India’s construction sector

The workshop brought together key stakeholders from government agencies, cement industry and research institutions to deliberate upon LC3 potential in Odisha

Workshop explores pathways to decarbonise India’s brick industry sustainably