Community celebration event marked milestones in decentralised rural waste management.

Awareness drives promote waste segregation and healthier rural living practices

Awareness rallies and clean-up drives strengthened community-led urban sanitation practices.

Catalysing India's cement decarbonisation through LC3 innovation and multi-stakeholder collaboration.

Folk music inspired climate resilience, women's leadership, and community participation across Bundelkhand.

On 18 June 2026, Development Alternatives convened a District Entrepreneurship Coalition and Aarya Manch in Jhansi, bringing together over 40 stakeholders from financial institutions, government departments, women-led enterprises, the e-rickshaw sector, and development organisations.

Cadres across 22 Udyamita Suvidha Kendras in 11 districts of Uttar Pradesh are currently undergoing training to deepen their competencies in entrepreneurship pipeline development, enterprise support services, and ecosystem facilitation. The training strengthens a community-owned model in which women facilitators embedded within Cluster Level Federations deliver contextualised business planning, credit linkages, and market exposure to rural entrepreneurs.

Community-embedded women enterprise-support cadres called Sukshma Udyam Sakhis are being trained and deployed across all 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh to support women-led non-farm enterprises at the grassroots level. This DAY-NRLM initiative, supported by Development Alternatives and operationalised through UPSRLM, aims to build a cadre of 13,000+ Sakhis to help achieve the state's goal of enabling 6.5 lakh women-led enterprises.

Pathways for Decarbonisation in the Built Environment of Bihar Through Sustainable Materials.

Inauguration ceremony and stakeholder meet to strengthen community development initiatives in Rudraprayag.