Our carbon program on restoration of degraded mangroves in Southeast Asia is both a climate change mitigation and adaptation project that aims to establish and maintain a sustainably managed mangrove ecosystem for carbon sequestration, natural disaster risk reduction, and poverty reduction by enabling sustainable livelihoods in the coastal communities.

Integrating community forest management with reviving degraded land and indigenous species through afforestation, conservation & assisted natural regeneration. Our social forestry programs lay powerful impetus for creating carbon sinks while creating alternate livelihood opportunities for the forest communities. Focusing strongly on monitoring land-use changes, this program continues to restore large tracts of land in key geographies of South Asia, such as the highly vulnerable Himalayan range.

Over the years, our clean cooking program has observed many successful technologies in different geographies, enabling better living conditions for the families of the communities and ensuring that natural resources are sustainably utilized. Our projects have leveraged innovative technologies to create successful rural entrepreneur-based programs and have successfully addressed a myriad of gender issues.

Our rural energy access program strengthens the development initiatives in rural and remote regions, prioritizing innovation to suit local conditions in different geographies.
Our energy projects include lighting for education, solar lighting for flood-affected areas, passive heating for homes in remote regions, novel approaches for access to energy in un-electrified regions and supporting innovations with a potential to reach scale.

Using a multidisciplinary approach, our water access and management programs encompass varied themes of water solutions for agriculture. Adapting to new agricultural techniques to conserve water, establishing the water budget in a region to assess the utilization pattern, and providing access to drinking water to vulnerable communities. All these programs incorporate gender issues and women are, to a great extent, the stewards of this natural resource.

Along with our partners, we have brought together like-minded organizations under an umbrella carbon offset program designed for start-ups in the waste management sector. The program aims to address the asymmetries of participation especially, for small-scale project partners in key community-oriented areas and sectors in multiple cities across India.

The project provides access to clean and affordable energy for cooking along with a basic lighting add-on, through the dissemination of the integrated energy-efficient cookstoves to economically backward rural areas. The uniqueness of this hybrid system is that it is a two-way energy system developed to address the concerns of indoor air pollution and basic lighting requirements in rural areas.