Gitika Goswami represented Development Alternatives as part of the Adaptation Fund NGO Network, promoting gender-just climate finance at UNFCCC - COP25 in Madrid, Spain 9-10 December 2019.
Development Alternatives participated as a technical partner in the Livelihood India Summit 2019 organised by ACCESS Development Services on 12-13 December 2019 in Delhi. DA also curated a session on 'Systems Change for Entrepreneurship Driven Livelihood Security'.
Development Alternative presented their project on 'Delivery Model for Eco friendly Multi Hazard Resistant Construction Technologies and Habitat Solutions in Mountain Regions' at the Annual Group Monitoring for TIME LEARN on 26 - 27 December 2019.
Development Alternatives in partnership with EU-REI, GIZ, CSIR-IMMT and IFU Hamburg conducted a stakeholder consultation in Bhubaneswar on 17 December 2019, to discuss "Material Flows in the Construction Sector in Bhubaneswar"
A workshop was conducted at DA headquarters on 23 December 2019 to strategise the implementation of the solutions that were selected as winners of the Work 4 Progress Technology Challenge.
Micro Legal Literacy Camp was organised on the occasion of "The International Day of Persons with Disabilities" in Village Madwari, Jakhaura block in Lalitpur district, Uttar Pradesh on 3 December 2019.
Team visit to various clusters in the states of Karnataka and Nagaland under the SFURTI project of Indian Micro Enterprise Development Foundation (IMEDF) and Development Alternatives.
Under Bridge to Livelihoods Project, Disha Town Hall, a job fair was organised for women candidates at the National Career Service Centre, Karkardooma on 6 December 2019.
TARA Akshar+ field staff and Neo literates were honoured by District Administration, Lalitpur, Uttar Pradesh for supporting Government Campaigns.
Gitika Goswami was part of a panel discussion at the Sustainability Summit 2019 organised by Global Reporting Initiative in collaboration with Xavier School of Sustainability, Bhubaneswar on 22 November 2019
Development Alternatives organised a visit in Varanasi to showcase the functionality of the Taisei Soil System with its Japanese partners Taisei Kougyou and Original Engineering Consultants, from 15 to 17 November, 2019.
A stakeholder consultation on Material Flows in the Construction Sector was conducted in Ahmedabad on 13 November 2019, to gather feedback and inputs on the preliminary findings of the study conducted by Development Alternatives in the city.
DA presented the evidence created by its social innovation methodology for entreprenurship led job creation under W4P programme at the 12th International Women's Entrepreneurial Challenge Foundation Awards and Conference in Delhi on 12 November 2019
The Work 4 Progress programme participated in the 16th coalition meeting in Mirzapur, UP to discuss pathways for facilitating convergent action for entrepreneurship led job creation, on 26 November, 2019
A workshop on agricultural awareness was organised across ten villages of Jakhaura block, Lalitpur district in October 2019 by The Million Farmers School, run by Department of Agriculture, Government of Uttar Pradesh