Three JalTARA filters are now used by 300 families in Sonbharda, UP. A project supported by LIC HFL has directly benefited the most remote communities of this dry and arid region. These filters have given a ray of hope to the communities and now these filters are run and maintained through LOCO model.

Development Alternatives (DA) Group, a pioneer in sustainable development, has undertaken several initiatives to reduce resource scarcity, resource disparity, and environmental degradation. DA has been at the forefront in advocating the opportunities tied to ‘waste as wealth’ and its sustainable management.

Development Alternatives participated in the ‘CSO-Media Regional Networking, Write-Shop and Study Tour’ conducted by the IUCN recently in Nepal. It was a platform to discuss regional cooperation to promote sustainable energy transition in the Ganges River Basin.

CSIRO is coordinating an 'India–Australia Industry and Research Collaboration' to achieve a zero plastic waste economy. The researchers involved in this programme visited India recently to learn the on-ground waste management situation.

Development Alternatives, along with Esquare Inc. organised a seminar where industry experts and professionals came together to have a discourse on CSR landscape in India, the Companies Act of 2013, and to showcase the potential of CSR in India.

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.