Community celebrates pond revival, water stewardship, and ecosystem restoration

Showcasing livelihood-centric technologies to strengthen women-led entrepreneurship across Uttar Pradesh.

Empowering SHG women through enterprise exposure, training opportunities, and market awareness

Introducing multilayer farming to enhance income, diversity, and climate resilience.

Training farmers in climate-resilient practices for sustainable hill agriculture

Multi-stakeholder dialogue on equity, climate, capital, and future workforce.

Abstract: The AWESuM Awards 2025 honours women leading change — building sustainable businesses, generating livelihoods, and creating impact across India’s diverse communities.

Multi-Stakeholder dialogue on gender equality, equity, climate, capital, and future forward enterprises.

A modern turmeric processing cluster was inaugurated to strengthen farmer-led value addition.

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.