India • Entrepreneurship; Innovation; Sustainable Development
- Sector: Entrepreneurship; Innovation; Sustainable Development
- Headquarters Country: India
- Founding Year: 1983
- Operating Regions: South Asia,india
- Founders: Ashok khosla
- Problem Identified: DA’s vision is to help create a world where every citizen can live a secure, healthy and fulfilling life in harmony with nature.
- Solution Offered: to facilitate multi-stakeholder action for empowering people and communities; to effectively promote and support the large-scale creation of green jobs; and to design and demonstrate low carbon pathways for development.
- Social Impact: impacts created in last 35 years include 900+ projects with revenues and grants of over $200 million; 500,000 houses built by rural enterprises using various TARA eco-technologies; more than two million persons have new livelihoods or improved living conditions resulting from TARA interventions; 48,000 environment conservation initiatives through our network of 1.25 million school students; several hundred thousand beneficiaries of environmental improvements designed or promoted by DA; more than seven million households assisted directly or through network partners; some 2 million poor enabled to claim their rights and entitlements; and 200,000+ women made literate and numerate.
- Awards: DA Group is recognized as a national-level research institution by the Ministry of Science and Technology and a major partner with several ministries and industrial associations nationally and numerous bilateral, foundation and corporate partners worldwide.
- Website: https://www.devalt.org/
- Score: 8 Pastoralist support addressing pastoral development
