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

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.