Facilitates Local Action & Global Networking
Two decades together with community, UDYAMA (www.udyama.org) facilitates an enabling environment towards resilient development in India. Little evidence based initiatives have been reflected at ground and engaging partner NGOs , multiple stakeholders and carved out good gain knowledge on Resilience & Adaptation Process and more intend to do. Learning-Linking-Leveraging Resources to Livelihoods are the core areas that has scaled and replicated in urban, coastal, rural, tribal hinter lands. Founded in 1997 UDYAMA primarily aims towards strengthening and building capacities of local communities towards rejuvenating human, ecological, social, economical capital & well-being improvement with a view to changing the culture of cultivating solutions towards Resilience in blending with time honored improved technology transformation with well articulated development communication incorporating inclusion, innovations to address next development challenges with a broader objective :
- To link to the broader view of Poverty & poverty alleviation that goes beyond just income
- Highlight the crucial role of ‘local context’ and how this influences the asset base, No Action is Small, Small Is Big
- Give space to local perspectives, Local Action - categorize the strategies that make up their livelihoods.
- Build on what exists - integrated perspective that unites the concepts of economic development with inclusion process
- Facilitate Risk informed Development & Catalyze Agents of Change, Cultivating commitments for insulating solutions community resilience.


Activity Verticals that connect collaborate, converge with constituents :
- Landscape Based ecological advancement towards larger food system
- Community Climate adaptation to responsive development in harmony with Nature-Water-Culture, Crafts-Life Style ,Habitation & Settlements
- Inclusion of Women & Children towards WASH & innovation in Education
- Application of Digital Learning & ICT access , knowledge transformation
- Life Cycle based Skill Development for sustainable communities
- Ecosystem based Model building on wise water use & watersheds
- Nature based adaptation connecting to Nutrition Fortification
- Cross Sector Integration resolution for people & planet
- Promoting Groups/collectives ,Farmers Field Schools, entrepreneurship
- Mainstreaming Resilient Process integrating with Green Energy
- Low Carbon Development Strategies & School for Carbon minus
- Gearing Greening , local biodiversity conservation, waste recycle, reuse,
- Advocacy on reducing urban poverty & city resilience
- Minimizing Distress Migration at source/destination
- Practicing Do No Harm , Peace, Community Harmony & Justice
- Citizen Action on climate Justice , Fair Climate Initiatives
- Preventing degradation, Desertification & Ecological Sustainability
- Mainstreaming DRR ,Minimizing loss of lives, infrastructures
- Undertake a circular and science-based approach to reinvent and innovate Adaptation Process
- Climate Change Modeling , Institution building engaging multiple stake holders
- Enabling environment for PLWHIV/PDWs for elimination social stigma discrimination
- Result Based Management Training , Study, Research & capacity building, connecting to networking,
- Prepare for, plan to withstand and recover from stresses, shocks & drudgery
- Take in hand root causes of degradations & disasters , impacts and vulnerabilities with lasting solutions
- Adaptive Action Research , entrepreneurships and Innovation focused on the challenges and opportunities.
Our Value System:
UDYAMA attempts consistently to build back better & capital building that can rejuvenate the resource base for a sustained process to live with dignity & address Next Development Challenges for a lasting solution towards resilient development & ecological Sustainability.
Key Achievements
- 3500 nos-Micro-models on water project, Dug well, Percolation tanks, Community ponds, Water harvesting, Water recharge, Landscape development, Water conservation.
- 25-CBOs-federating-together livelihoods scale-up
- 2000 nos- distressed-migrant self-engaged
- 200 nos-women-collectives engaged
- 20000 hectares-adopted resilient-farming-
- 500-hectares-pulses -under NFSM
- 1000-hectares-local biodiversity-protection,
- 2500-Home-solar-lighting-system for women,
- 3000-fuel-efficient-cooking-stoves under LEDS
- 45-schoolspracticing sanitation, nutrition hygiene
- 200-women-groups in backyard nutrition
- 15-Citizen-Action, Climate Justice/Resilience
- 25-onion shades leveraged from Government
- 480-nos of treadle-pumps for cropping
- 09-Biogas plant & solar-drier distributed
- 01-nos of solar-energy-centre catering 28 HHs
- 200-nos ultra-poor linked to 5 FPOs
- 10-nos-ICT-KIOSKsweather information climate risks
Key Strategies:
UDYAMA strives for four strategic directions to maximize livelihood diversification, risk reduction:
- Private-Public -Partnership with various like-minded institutions/organizations for specific themes
- Institution Building & Process Development through social and economic empowerment
- Facilitating to enabling environment for risk reduction and livelihood promotion
- Program diversity with value based assurance and insurance.
Affiliations & Alliances:
With our steady and sustained effort on resilient development process, UDYAMA has bagged UNECOSOC status, Accredited to UN-Global Compact, UN-CONGO, UNISDRR, 10YFP-UNEP,CTCN UN STP, UNSBC,UNSFS, UNFCCC, GEF, UNCCD,CIVICUS, ESP, WOCAT, UNURBAN GATE-WAY, Global Citynet ,GWP ,UN FAO,IFAD, stakeholders ’forum, NIOS, GoI-NPO , TISS-CSR HUB, IICA, FICCI, CII, WCC,, weAdapt, CANSA,GNDRR, ACCCRN, WSSCC, End EWP, SAMHITA, SWA, CAF, CDRN, AADRRN, GACC, CLEAN ,SPHERE-India. Water-Allies. International Awardees for Environment from Kyobo Foundation, Seoul & e-NGO award & Best NGO for water harvesting by UNESCO.