Since 2000, accompanying communities as they claim rights and work in partnership with public systems to deliver them.
Started as a youth collective in 1989, registered in 2000. These figures show scale; what they stand for is communities, grassroots anchors and public institutions acting together.
Money received, and how long we’ve been keeping account of it - not outcomes, but the record-keeping that makes the figures above checkable.
Geographical Reach So Far
Footprint as recorded in the 2016–17 Impact Report: 773 villages across 23 blocks of seven districts - Bahraich, Shrawasti, Balrampur, Sonbhadra, Amethi, Kushinagar, Maharajganj - with an Indo-Nepal child protection network across the border districts. The wider figures above are cumulative since registration in 2000 and are drawn from successive annual reports.
One Record, Read However You Need to Read It.
The full run of audited fiscal years, and the cumulative social investment received by the end of each one.
Source: the same audited fiscal-year ledger published in full on the Transparency page. Figures are receipts, not project-card commitments, so an ongoing project’s full grant appears only as it is actually received.
What Each Entitlement Pays the Household That Holds It.
The counts above are people. These are the statutory rates behind them - what one pension, one job card, one ration card is worth to a family, every year.
An old-age pension pays ₹1,000 every month, for the rest of the pensioner’s life.
A job card carries a guarantee of paid work at ₹300 a day in Uttar Pradesh. The state’s own data puts the average household actually drawing on it at 37 days a year.
A ration card entitles every member to 5 kg of grain a month - for a family of five, 300 kg a year, at no cost.
Awards and Recognition, and Who Received Them.
Every entry below names the year, the conferring body and who received it. Four of these went to community leaders rather than to the organisation. DEHAT’s work was reported 300 times in print in 2016–17 and 386 times in 2019–20.
Manjunath Shanmugam National Integrity Award
Given for integrity, commitment and work against corruption, in memory of the Indian Oil officer killed while acting against fuel adulteration.
India NGO Award - NGO of the Year
One of four organisations in the country recognised by The Resource Alliance for standards of resource mobilisation, accountability and transparency.
Global NGO Awards - International Shortlist
Shortlisted among five organisations worldwide, drawn from the national winners of the Resource Alliance (UK) NGO Awards.
SONY CID Social Bravery Award
Awarded to Dr Jitendra Chaturvedi for work with communities who held no effective access to their constitutional rights before the intervention.
Dasra Girl Power Award - Finalist
Recognised for the girl child education initiative working across health, education and life skills.
Social Enterprise of the Year, Manch Summit
For a replicable System of Crop Intensification model among smallholder and women farmers.
Swayam Awards for Empowering Women
Twelve adolescents from across Uttar Pradesh honoured on 2 December 2015 by the Chief Minister, for work in girl child education, child rights forums and Mahila Adhikar Manch.
Rani Lakshmi Bai Veerta Puraskar
Uttar Pradesh’s gallantry award for women, conferred on 8 March 2016 on Rekha, then Prime Minister of DEHAT’s Child Parliament, by the Chief Minister.
#100 Women Achievers of India
Bhanumati honoured on 22 January 2016 by the President of India for leading the forest rights movement that won revenue-village status for eight forest villages after 147 years.
Certificate of Merit, World CSR Congress
Conferred on 18 February 2016 in the Social Cause category at a congress with participants from 123 countries.