Dalmia Bharat Foundation, DBF, was set up in 2009 and is registered under the Indian Trust Act 1882. It also fulfils the legal requirements of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs for undertaking corporate social responsibility projects. We at DBF firmly believe in the limitless potential of the human being and focus on community-driven, beneficiary centric development programmes. It is our conviction that progress and sustainable development depend greatly on partnerships and shared values. Our programmes combine in-depth long-term plans and strategies along with medium and short-term initiatives and campaigns. Owing to the great differences across our locations, we adopt a flexible, multi-intervention approach that allows programmes and people to grow together and sustain each other. In our work, our focus areas have been derived from the felt needs of the community and issues material to with whom we partner. We are currently covering 1,300 villages, across 20 districts in 13 states, with a population of more than 13 lakhs. Our Livelihood projects helped more than 20,000 people with skills to have better incomes and we have 13 skills training across the Country to skill the unemployed for gainful employment. Along with that we have built capacities of more than 40,000 people for more sustainable livelihoods. Our Climate Action (Water & Energy) initiatives are enabling water harvesting and saving of more than 2895 crore litres per year. And our access to clean energy initiatives, we have helped in providing clean and sustainable energy options for cooking and lighting in more than 2,00,000 households. Through this, we are also mitigating 68,000 tons of CO2 every year. Our social infrastructure programmes have helped in improving the quality of life of the beneficiaries through initiatives in education, health and sanitation, rural infrastructure and many other awareness and educational campaigns.

Our partnerships have also grown year-on-year and to mention a few we are currently working with NABARD, 2030WRG (hosted by World Bank), GIZ, HP India, Schneider, BOSCH, NSFDC, NBFDC, NSDC, State Skills Mission of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Odisha, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh and Government line departments. The Foundation also designs, strategies, plans and implements all CSR projects of the Dalmia Bharat Group Companies. DBF regularly monitors and evaluates the projects with an independent vertical undertaking the same. External Professional organisations are engaged regularly to assess the Impacts of the projects and calculate the Social Return on Investment (SRoI) for each of the projects. DBF complies with the Ministry of Corporate guidelines for organisations to undertake Corporate Social Responsibility projects. Our programmes are aligned with United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals and we measure how our projects contribute to the 2030 Goal of UN SDGs.

• Strategic Corporate way of effective implementation of community-driven projects Partnership with stakeholders from all sectors including success in implementing multi-partnership projects
• Professional and skilled team with years of experience in their work Providing end – to – end solutions for CSR projects
• Strategy, planning, implementation, monitoring, reporting and communication

Founded by Indian conglomerate the Dalmia Bharat Group for implementation of development projects across the Country including the CSR initiatives of the Group. PAN India presence across 13 states, 20 Districts covering 1300 villages reaching out to over 13 lakh population Direct implementation of projects with the support of 150 + Professionals from diverse background Partnerships & Collaboration Implementing over 20+ partnerships of NABARD in the domain of watershed, tribal development, promotion of farmer producer organisation, skilling and rural infrastructure projects. Empanelled with the State skill development mission of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Odisha, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh.Partnering with Schneider Electric Foundation, Bosch and 2030 Water Resources Group and GIZ. Well established collaboration with the Government line department will aid in effective convergence under relevant schemes and projects. Two of our partnership projects were recognised by the partner agency at state level. Project Monitoring & Evaluation Projects curated by adopting the theory of change and impact driven approach, with conscious vision on the project’s contribution to UN SDGs Technology supported management of projects and monitoring Social Return on Investment is calculated for each project External Professional agencies engaged in assessing the impacts of the projects. Compliance & Accountability DBF complies with the Ministry Corporate Affairs regulation for implementing CSR projects Timely submission of annual returns and availability of the documents in our website for public access.