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.

IIS probationers trained on NGO roles and visited Sidipur intervention

This article explores the tension between directing value and creating value in systems change, as discussed in a Climate KIC Deep Dive on systems innovation.

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.