On the occasion of World Radio Day, Radio Bundelkhand (RB) hosted Bundelkhand University students, introducing them to the day-to-day activities of the community radio. Also, team DA attended the three-day Radio Festival (TRF) in Delhi.

The Conference, which was organised on 7 February, 2023 in New Delhi, deliberated on how to create a groundswell of demand–supply match and expand sub-scale pilots to respond to the rapidly growing population of rural youth.

Development Alternatives (DA) participated at 'A Week of Technologies for Low Carbon and Lean Construction' (TLC2) at IIT Madras, recently, to gain insights and knowledge on the latest advancements in sustainable construction practices.

To spread awareness among entrepreneurs about the use of innovative technologies in integrated fisheries and poultry farming to increase productivity, we, along with our partners, recently organised a mela in Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh.

Building upon its green economic transition work with the fly ash brick entrepreneurs, DA organised a training-cum-consultation session on financing for such enterprises along with partners in Darbhanga, Bihar.

Development Alternatives hosted a session at the Livelihoods India Summit 2022, New Delhi on 19 January, 2023, wherein it led the conversation on 'Youth Entrepreneurship: Driving Micromovements of Change'.

Ms Gitika Goswami, Asso VP, DA moderated a session on ‘Financial Innovations for Resilience’ jointly hosted by National Institute of Disaster Management and DA at the Resilience and Sustainability Summit: Vision 2047, held in New Delhi in January. 

DA and Indian Micro Enterprises Development Foundation (IMEDF) hosted a cohort from Yale School of Management who are building a comprehensive feedback mechanism for udyaME in understanding the needs of entrepreneurs and developing products in real time.

During the event on 'Empowering Grassroot Startups for Sustainable Development', Dr Ashok Khosla, Chairman, Development Alternatives highlighted that creating jobs requires social capital and this support needs to come from the ecosystem.

Development Alternatives (DA) joined the first formal convening of the Think20 under India's G20 Presidency in New Delhi. DA had earlier in January responded to the Call for Policy Brief Abstract with five submissions in collaboration with the global partners.