The mission of the Development Alternatives Group is to promote sustainable national development.
The corporate objectives are to innovate and disseminate the means for creating sustainable livelihoods on a large scale, and thus to mobilise widespread action to eradicate poverty and regenerate the environment.
The corporate strategy is to
-Innovation, through design, development and dissemination of
Appropriate technologies
Effective institutional systems
Environmental and resource management methods
-Sustainability, through commercially viable approaches
-Scalability, through partner organizations and networks
The activities of Development Alternatives cover a broad array of development issues. And these issues are complex, requiring sophisticated,
trans-disciplinary responses.
To be able to provide such responses successfully, the Group has built up a strong capacity to identify the priority issues confronting the nation and devise effective ways to solve them. It has therefore brought together a cadre of professional staff members with a wide range of skills and backgrounds but a common, solid commitment to excellence and team work.
To attract and retain staff of this quality, Development Alternatives has a three pronged approach: an outstanding work environment, exciting career development programmes, and attractive terms of employment.
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Development Alternatives works with partners in all sectors: government, international agencies, public and private sector institutions and grass root voluntary organisations. The responsibility for providing support to such partnerships lies with the respective functional units of the Development Alternatives Group
Environmental Systems Branch (ESB)
Sustainable development strategies State of environment reports Impact assessment studies Management plans & programmes for
- Basic needs, resources, rural economics
- Land use, command areas, watershed
- Wildlife, protected and pristine areas, wastelands
- Rehabilitation, disasters
- Technology assessment and forecasting
- Guidelines for environmental management of projects
Technology Systems Branch (TSB)
- Eco building advisory services
- Market & development assistance
- Machine & product design service
- Technology development & consultancy service
- Vertical shaft brick kiln (VSBK) services and a best practice service centre at Datia (Madhya Pradesh)
Institutional Systems Branch (ISB)
Connectivity Services
- install and maintain systems
- provide e-mail and file transfer
- maintain links with non-automated users
Information Services
- mount and provide access to databases
- provide access to conferences/ discussion groups
- route queries to appropriate information sources
Node Management
- mobilise and train users
- market information products and services
- monitoring
- financial management
Development Functions
- hub upgradation and maintenance
- database development and management
- scan internet information on the theme and customise it for Indian users
- internet gateway services development and management
Support Functions
- Geomatics support services
- Customised support to sustainable development support agencies
Information Dissemination
- Generating information systems
- Editing, publishing, writing (print media)
- Production of TV or video films, multimedia presentation, interactive CD-Rom, documentation & photography (audiovisual)
- Organising public meetings, seminars, conferences Training services, Publications
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Our objectives are ...
To design options & promote sustainable development through programmes of
Economic efficiency
Equity & social justice
Environmental harmony
Resource conservation
Self-reliance
The above has been materialised achieved through innovation and appropriate design of
Technologies
Institutions
Decision making systems
Knowledge structures
Societal paradigms
In essence the focus areas of the DA Group are truly in creating
Sustainable livelihoods & development
Sustainable technologies
Sustainable social environment
Sustainable livelihoods & development
The environment is dynamic, interdependent and if cared for, as resilient as it is vulnerable. The interactions between people and the environment are highly complex which calls for intervention through Environmental Management Systems. Planning & management of the development processes must, therefore be adaptive and based on a well informed assessment of each specific situation, so that the benefits do indeed reach the intended beneficiaries. Sustainable livelihood’s allow for a "rational" use of natural resources also ensuring improvement in quality of life through generating employment.
Sustainable Technologies
The design process integrates modern multi-disciplinary expertise & local traditional knowledge. The concept of sustainable technology ensures rising the levels of "Technicity", so as to provide continuity with existing methods while introducing new technological perceptions. At the same time it serves societal objectives such as employment generation & resource conservation.
Sustainable societal environment
Man since times immemorial has existed in societal systems governed by the ruling ideologies of that era. There is always need for change with passing time to ensure the over all development of an individual in society carving his own niche. This freedom or opportunity given to him/her generates a sustainable environment for the individual.
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