Showcasing livelihood-centric technologies to strengthen women-led entrepreneurship across Uttar Pradesh.

Introducing multilayer farming to enhance income, diversity, and climate resilience.

Training farmers in climate-resilient practices for sustainable hill agriculture

Multi-stakeholder dialogue on equity, climate, capital, and future workforce.

Abstract: The AWESuM Awards 2025 honours women leading change — building sustainable businesses, generating livelihoods, and creating impact across India’s diverse communities.

Multi-Stakeholder dialogue on gender equality, equity, climate, capital, and future forward enterprises.

A modern turmeric processing cluster was inaugurated to strengthen farmer-led value addition.

The ET Vision Conclave underscored rural entrepreneurship as a key driver of Viksit Bharat, spotlighting Development Alternatives’ bottom-up model that has enabled 37,000 enterprises and 80,000 livelihoods in Uttar Pradesh. Shrashtant Patara, CEO of Development Alternatives highlighted the power of local institutions, climate-smart market opportunities and the FIT (Finance, Institution, Technology) mantra to scale these gains statewide.

IIS probationers trained on NGO roles and visited Sidipur intervention

This article explores the tension between directing value and creating value in systems change, as discussed in a Climate KIC Deep Dive on systems innovation.

Development Alternatives joined GIT 2025 at IIM Kozhikode, where leaders and practitioners unpacked India’s path to Viksit Bharat through the lenses of work, women, and worldview. DA’s case study on digital empowerment in Lalitpur added a grounded perspective on how technology can expand opportunities for rural women.

The workshop brought brick entrepreneurs together to address labour welfare challenges, share best practices, and strengthen policy-driven social safeguards through the Social Code of Conduct.

PGP DM students experience Jhansi’s cultural, administrative, and developmental landscape

Development Alternatives (DA) convened a high-level roundtable, Reimagining Local Economies: A Systems Approach to Inclusive Entrepreneurship, on 5th November 2025 at New Delhi bringing together senior leaders from government, philanthropy, finance, technology, and the development sector.

Development Alternatives (DA) and its Work4Progress (W4P) partners hosted the 2025 Annual Innovation Conference on November 4 in New Delhi, bringing together global foundations, practitioners, and ecosystem partners to advance inclusive, green, and gender-responsive entrepreneurship in India.

Development Alternatives, in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar and with support from Indian Metal and Ferro Alloys (IMFA), hosted a one-day workshop on “Mainstreaming Low-Carbon Building Materials to Transform the Built Environment in Odisha.”

TARA spoke at a workshop by OSPCB on transforming Odisha’s brick sector from topsoil to fly ash for a low-carbon built environment.

Community-led Tool Bank empowers women, improves farming efficiency, and productivity.

At the Indian Association of Social Science Institutions (IASSI) Plenary Session (10–12 Oct 2025) at Doon University, Brig. Yogesh Kapoor, VSM (Retd.), from Development Alternatives, shared how the organisation empowers marginalised communities through innovations blending tradition and technology. The session, chaired by Prof. Sachin Chaturvedi, called for inclusive, context-sensitive development.

The Indian Micro Enterprises Development Foundation (IMEDF), a special-purpose vehicle of Development Alternatives, held a webinar on Enterprise Development and the Non-Farm Sector under its Capacity Building for Multiplication initiative. The session covered key aspects of entrepreneurship, social innovation, and the TFMC and Business Plan frameworks for sustainable enterprise development.