TARA Akshar+ programme is organising a webinar series of six sessions; #UnlockingHerPotential, a literacy led empowerment of women. In the last webinar titled "Enabling her towards Financial Capability", ShabanaAzmi, Actor par excellence was the keynote speaker, and talked about empowerment of women through financial literacy.
Development Alternatives organised Job Fairs in Noida and Jaipur in the month of March 2021. These were organised under Skills to Livelihood Project supported by HDB Financial Services.
DA is working for Tank Rejuvenation and Biodiversity Conservation in Gautam Budh Nagar district, Uttar Pradesh, supported by HCL Foundation. Under this programme an awareness generation campaign was recently held.
A hybrid workshop on "Integrated Water Resources Assessment of Upper Berach Basin (Ahar River), Udaipur District" was conducted on 26 March 2021 at Vidya Bhawan Polytechnic, Udaipur. More than 25+ stakeholders participated in the discussion including Mayor of the city, representative from Embassy of Denmark, Line departments among others.
Development Alternatives organised a Training and Exposure Visit to a community-tourism cluster Chamba, Himachal Pradesh between 15–19 Feb 2021, in collaboration with Not On Map (NOM). This was under the project 'Livelihoods through Ecotourism'. The idea was to engage in cross-community interactions for creating and operationalising our community tourism model in Mandi.
STEP programme organised a 'Training Kits Distribution' event in Jwalapur, Haridwar on 03 March 2021, with the support of WPP India CSR Foundation, wherein 200+ students from class XI and XII participated at Government Girls Inter College. The kit contained a laptop bag, content workbooks, pen, an adolescent diary, a mask and a sanitiser.
Sandeep Khanwalkar, DA highlighted the importance of the tank ecosystem at the virtual conference organised by Everything About Water - "Water Security and Management under Climate Change" on 25 February 2021.
IMEDF participated in an interactive multi-stakeholder workshop organised by the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MoMSME) on 'Implementation of Cluster under SFURTI Scheme' on 9-10 March 2021.
DA conducted one week training and awareness drive for students in view of international water week under the PANI-WATER project supported by Department of Science and Technology.
A workshop was organised for stakeholder consultation and competition on leaders of change by Development Alternatives and Honda under the "Unnati… Aao Sawarein Apna Kal" project on 22 March 2021.
'The Centre of Excellence - Water for All and Always' was inaugurated on 16 March 2021 at TARAgram Orchha, Madhya Pradesh. This is an initiative by DA in support with Department of Science and Technology.
On the occasion of International Women's Day, 8 March, events were organised in four geographies: Bundelkhand, Eastern Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Haryana, where DA is co-working with its partners to enable young girls and women to realise their aspirations.
Channapatna Lacware Toy Cluster in Karnataka, part of IMEDF has been approved during the 36th Scheme Steering Committee meeting of the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Government of India under SFURTI (Scheme of Fund for Regeneration of Traditional Industries) initiative.
On 12 February 2021, as part of 'Suhana Safar' phase VI, a ToT session was conducted at DA HQ, Delhi to orient the trainers and activity coordinators about the objectives of phase six and training components to be delivered.
RSETI in partnership with IKEA Foundation conducted training from women from 16 Dec 2020 to 22 January 2021 on various disciplines like Bamboo Craft, Poultry Farming, Goat Rearing, Dairy Farming, Aggarbati & Dhoopbati Making, Tailoring and Stitching and Paper Bag Making.
Work4Progress along with other organisations conducted a virtual event to discuss convergence between inter-district organisations, government institutions and other stakeholders to increase support for enterpreneurship and create sustainable and equitable livelihood opportunities through entrepreneurship on 10 Feb 2021.