The DSG India has worked on various assignments and projects in states like Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Delhi, and other states. It has become a leading technical resource agency with extensive experience in community-based models and providing technical support to non-government organizations, CSR foundations, national and international development agencies, and government projects. The DSG has developed interconnected resources to effectively deliver its services for achieving community development goals in the social sector.

Research and Assessments

The DSG India has demonstrated expertise in sectors of community empowerment, education, child protection, mother-child health and nutrition, livelihoods, water, sanitation and hygiene. It has developed knowledge, skills and expertise in designing research and assessment frameworks, participatory research methodologies, quantitative and qualitative tools, data quality assurance mechanisms, and quality report writing. Our sectorial experience includes child protection, education, mother-child health and nutrition, water, sanitation, hygiene, climate change and livelihoods.  Key expertise areas of our research and assessment include:·                

• ·   Community Needs Assessment.
  ·   Community-Based Action Research
  ·   Content Development and Case Studies
  ·   Baseline Development for planning, monitoring and evaluations of social sector models and projects
  ·   Mid-term assessment
  ·   Impact Assessments
  ·   End term Evaluations
  ·   Community Level Institutional Sustainability Assessment and Planning.
  ·   Community and Stakeholders Capability Assessment.
  ·   Solid and Liquid Management assessment and planning systems
  ·   Water Security assessment and management 

 Grassroots Solutions

The DSG India brings experience in community-led processes to identify their needs, advocate for their issues effectively, influence social norms, behaviour, decisions and policies affecting them and leverage government schemes for participative development in areas of child protection, education, mother-child health & and nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene.  

1. ·    Community-Based Micro Planning Systems
   ·    Social and behavioural change communication aligned with sectorial government service provisions 
   ·    Children, adolescents, youths  and women empowerment
   ·    Supportive supervision
   ·    Formation, nurturing  and linkages of community-based institutions
   ·    Community-led Total Sanitation 
   ·    Solid and Liquid waste planning and Management  systems
   ·    Water Security and management
   ·    Community-driven campaigns for encouraging education, child protection, ending child marriage, appropriate behaviours and linkages with government schemes and stakeholders.    

 Capacity Building

The DSG India has structured its capacity-building packages based on ground realities, sector-specific needs and participatory tools to evolve and internalize learning. Our target groups for capacity building and training include community youth volunteers, child & and youth reporters, community-based organizations, civil society organizations, government officials and frontline functionaries to build their knowledge and skills for improving their performance and impacting communities. Our training interventions have a judicious mix of in-house orientation, field demonstrations, follow-up planning and supportive supervision. Our capacity building and training expertise include: 

1. ·     Participatory methodologies and tools
   ·     Community-based micro-planning system.
   ·    Gram Panchayat Development Planning 
   ·     Social and Behavioral Change Communication.
   ·   Community-led Total Sanitation
   ·    Water Security Management
   ·   Solid and Liquid Waste Assessment and Planning 
   ·   Community-level  youth volunteers, reporters/advocates
   ·   Women Self-Help Group formation, management, networking and linkages
   ·    Sustainability planning
   ·    Systematic Institutional Engagement and convergence planning

 Programme Designing and Strategic Planning

The innovative community practices, preparation of communication materials, implementation plans and reference manuals for scaling innovative community practices, preparation of communication materials, implementation plans and reference manuals for implementation scaling of the social sector projects.

1. ·    Objective-Oriented Project Implementation Planning.
   ·   Road Map for scaling based on innovative and proven strategies.
   ·    Designing Social Sector Impact driven projects.
   ·    Organizational Development
   ·   Social Planning, monitoring, evaluation and reporting systems