Development Consortium

Development Consortium in India: A strong strategic partner for change

Since 2006, DC has been a force for positive change in India, empowering over 14 million people across 14 states & 11 million people online. Our dedicated team of 180 professionals leverage partnerships with esteemed organisations to deliver impactful health, education, and behavioural change projects. We aim to make a significant and positive impact by bridging the gap between knowledge and action. Through its projects and activities, DC supports 11 out of 17 SDG Goals.

Current Funding & Future Growth:

Our diverse funding portfolio includes Good Ventures Foundation, HCL Foundation, Packard Foundation, Charity Entrepreneurship, Center for Effective Altruism, and STIR Education UK, fuelling our growth and allowing us to invest in talent, technology, and sustainable solutions.

Key Projects and Impact

1. Love Matters & TeenBook: 14 million+ young people empowered with sexual and reproductive health education and other important life skills through online and offline interventions.

2. Suvita: Immunization uptake boosted for 36,000 pregnant women and 67,000 children in state of Maharashtra and 1.5 lakh+ babies enrolled for immunisation by their parents in Bihar.

3. Fortify Health: Scaled wheat flour fortification to combat anaemia and neural tube defects with an estimated monthly production volume of 11,447 metric tons of fortified flour, reaching approximately three million beneficiaries.

4. Sampushti: Tackling Anaemia, Achieving SDGs & supporting Anaemia Mukt Bharat Mission, 13% reduction in anaemia prevalence among 2,500 adolescents in the state of Uttar Pradesh.

5. Streeksha: Facilitating higher enrolment and completion of undergraduate and graduate studies by economically or socially disadvantaged young women in Rajasthan and Bihar.

6. STiR: Fostering intrinsic motivation for student and teacher learning and improvement across schools in Delhi, Karnataka and TamilNadu reaching 180,000 teachers and 4.7 million children in 31 districts across Delhi, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

7. Abhyuday: Enhancing Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) in Uttarakhand Government Schools.

Plans for the Future

1. Expand our reach: To enhance our reach and the effectiveness of our projects, we will actively seek out new partnerships with government agencies and corporate entities, just as we have done with the Uttarakhand government with Abhuday project and the HCL Foundation for Sampushti project.

2. Foster innovation: To address the evolving needs of our beneficiaries and stay relevant, we will incubate and support innovative projects. We will incubate and support innovative projects that address the most pressing development challenges in line with the priority of our donors and partners. We will provide these projects with access to our resources, expertise and networks and hope to develop new solutions and services, particularly on the subject of environment and climate change.

3. Empower communities: Build local capacity and ownership to ensure the long-term sustainability of our programs. We will also explore other sustainability models such as social enterprise and impact investing.

4. Take projects to scale: We will aim to strengthen some of our nascent projects by using evidence-based approaches and involving communities in the planning and implementation process. This will include gathering feedback from beneficiaries, monitoring outcomes, and adapting to changing circumstances and then take our projects to scale with funding support new and existing partners.