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Development Alternatives

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
Economic and Social:
  • Agriculture
  • Biodiversity
  • Climate Change
  • Development
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • Financing for Development
  • Habitat
  • Micro-Credit
  • Science and Technology
  • Social Development
  • United Nations Funding
  • Water
  • Women
  • Youth

    • Financing for Development:
  • Addressing systemic issues
  • Mobilizing international resources for development

    • Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
  • Education and training of women
  • Information and communication technologies
  • Research
  • Women and poverty
  • Women and the environment

    • Social Development:
  • Employment
  • Information and Communications Technologies
  • Poverty
  • Social policy
  • Technical cooperation
  • Youth

    • Sustainable Development:
  • Agriculture
  • Biodiversity
  • Capacity-building
  • Climate change
  • Disaster management and vulnerability
  • Education
  • Energy
  • Forests
  • Gender equality
  • Human settlements
  • Information for decision-making and participation
  • Integrated decision-making
  • Partnerships
  • Poverty
  • Rural Development
  • Sanitation
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Trade and environment
  • Waste (solid)
  • Waste Management

    • NEPAD:
  • Agriculture and Food Security
  • Climate Change and Natural Resource Management
    • Geographic scope: International
    Country of activity:
  • Nepal
  • Sri Lanka
  • Malawi
  • Bangladesh
  • India
    • Millennium Development Goals:
  • Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
  • Ensure environmental sustainability
  • Develop global partnership for development
    • Mission statement:
    Year established:
    Year of registration: 1982
    Number and type of members: Society for Development Alternatives (DA) is a premier social enterprise working in the field of sustainable development. Established in 1982, and headquartered in New Delhi, it has built a global presence in the fields of green economic development, social equity and environmental management. It has also built a strong reputation as an innovator of technologies and delivery systems for sustainable livelihoods in the developing world. The DA Group focuses on empowering communities through strengthening people’s institutions and facilitating their access to basic needs; enabling economic opportunities through skill development for green jobs and enterprise creation; and promoting low carbon pathways for development through natural resource management models and clean technology solutions. The DA Group works at local, national and global levels. Its partners and clients include village communities and civil society organisations, local and state governments, agencies and ministries of the Government in India, multilateral agencies and private sector institutions across India, south and south-east Asia and Africa.
    Affiliation with NGO networks: Bundelkhand Knowledge Platform (BKP), basin-SA, Climate Action Network South Asia (CANSA), International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Green Economic Coalition (GEC), Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP), Indian Resource Panel (InRP),
    Funding structure:
  • Donations and grants from domestic sources
  • Foreign and international grants
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