DEHAT India

What DEHAT India does

DEHAT India, legally the Development Association for Human Advancement, is a non-profit society registered in 2000 under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, and headquartered in Bahraich, Uttar Pradesh. It works with communities and public systems to realise children's rights — survival, development, protection, and participation — across some of India's most under-served districts. The organisation is registered under 12AB(1)(b), holds FCRA registration (136260010), and 80G(5) tax exemption status, enabling it to receive domestic tax-deductible and international contributions.

DEHAT's operating model is built on a four-pillar programmatic architecture — School of Leadership, Rights & Entitlements, Human Protection, and Climate Justice — layered over a three-tiered Continuum of Care: Individual & Peer Platforms (Child Parliaments, Adolescent Groups), Community-Based Institutions (Gram Sabhas, VLCPCs), and Public Systems (Health, Education, Child Protection). Service delivery is direct, via field workers and village-level institutions with no intermediaries. There is no proprietary technology platform; distribution is community-led and trust-based, leveraging grassroots dialogue, storytelling, testimonials, and compliance credentials rather than paid digital marketing or funnels. The operating stack combines a website (dehatindia.org) for donor and volunteer conversion with grassroots engagement, donor outreach, and earned media.

DEHAT's business model is donation-funded. The organisation raises from individual donors (a ₹1,000 monthly contribution is cited as keeping one girl in school for a year), corporate partners, and institutional donors; FCRA status extends the addressable pool to international contributors. Cumulative reported scale is 200,000+ children and adolescents reached and 10,000+ small and marginal women farmers supported since inception. The organisational headcount is small (17 employees), reflecting a lean field-and-community model; revenue figures are not publicly disclosed. The 'customers' in the conventional commercial sense are absent — instead, DEHAT serves beneficiary segments (children/adolescents, rural families, women farmers) and partners with public institutions (health, education, child protection) as a second-order stakeholder.

Name

DEHAT India

Legal name

Development Association for Human Advancement

Website

https://dehatindia.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

DEHAT India is a Bahraich, Uttar Pradesh–based non-profit founded in 2000 that works with communities and public systems to realise children's rights, operating four programmes (School of Leadership, Rights & Entitlements, Human Protection, Climate Justice) and reaching 200,000+ children and 10,000+ women farmers via grassroots institutions and donor-funded donations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Nonprofit Child Rights and Community Development Services

NAICS

Child and Youth Services (624110), Human Rights Organizations (813311)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Child Protection & Child Rights (BPAGABAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Public Health Financing, Budgeting & Grants Management (HLAJAMAC), Minority, Indigenous & Disability Rights (BPADAGAH)

Keywords

• Child rights advocacy
• Community development programmes
• Nonprofit charitable services
• Climate-resilient farming
• Women farmer empowerment

Headquarters

HQ city

Bahraich

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and Charitable Contributions: DEHAT India raises funds from individual donors, corporate partners, and institutional donors. The organisation offers 80G tax exemption to donors and is FCRA compliant for international contributions. A monthly contribution of ₹1,000 is cited as keeping one girl in school for a year.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

DEHAT India is a nonprofit society that designs and delivers four interlocking rights-based programmes — School of Leadership, Rights & Entitlements, Human Protection, and Climate Justice — for children, adolescents, women farmers, and rural communities in under-served districts of Uttar Pradesh, India. Programmes are delivered directly through a three-tier Continuum of Care (Child Parliaments and Adolescent Groups at the individual/peer level; Gram Sabhas and VLCPCs at the community-institution level; and partnerships with public Health, Education, and Child Protection systems). The organisation is funded by donations (with 80G tax exemption), corporate partnerships, and institutional grants enabled by FCRA registration.

Product overview

DEHAT India offers a suite of four interlocking, rights-based community programmes — School of Leadership, Rights & Entitlements, Human Protection, and Climate Justice — supported by a layered Continuum of Care architecture. The Continuum spans three tiers: (1) Individual & Peer Platforms (Child Parliaments, Adolescent Groups) where children build agency; (2) Community-Based Institutions (Gram Sabhas, VLCPCs) that drive local accountability; and (3) Public Systems (Health, Education, Child Protection) that deliver services inclusively. The four programmes are designed to be mutually reinforcing, each rooted in children's rights and answerable to the community, using a convergence model that moves from grassroots behaviour change through demand generation and system strengthening to service delivery.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• School of Leadership A leadership development programme through which children and adolescents evolve as leaders, claiming rights and shaping their communities via peer spaces such as Child Parliaments and Adolescent Groups. Designed for children and adolescents in under-served districts of Uttar Pradesh, India.
• Rights & Entitlements A bridging programme that connects communities and public systems (Health, Education, Child Protection) to ensure that rights and entitlements actually reach the last child, in time and with dignity. Targeted at families and communities in under-served districts seeking access to public services.
• Human Protection A protection programme addressing child marriage, trafficking, and abuse with dignity and care, using community-based institutions such as Gram Sabhas and VLCPCs to drive local accountability. For children, adolescents, and vulnerable families in under-served districts.
• Climate Justice A climate programme focused on strengthening sustainable farming and resilient rural livelihoods for small and marginal women farmers, supporting community adaptation and resilience. Targeted at women farmers in under-served districts of Uttar Pradesh.
• Child Parliaments & Adolescent Groups Individual and peer-level platforms where children and adolescents find their voice, building agency from the ground up as part of the continuum of care. For children and adolescents participating in village-level child rights and leadership work.
• Gram Sabhas & VLCPCs Village-level collectives that drive local accountability and translate community demand into decisions, forming the community-based institution layer of the continuum of care. For village communities in under-served districts.

Quantifiable outcome

• 200,000+ children and adolescents reached
• +2 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

No

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Core technology

AI maturity

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Public Institutions (Health, Education, Child Protection Systems)coreOthersDEHAT India partners with public institutions across health, education, and child protection to strengthen inclusive and accountable service delivery. This is a central pillar of the organisation's Theory of Change — moving from community demand generation to institutional responsiveness. The specific government departments, ministries, or agencies involved are not named in the source material.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Smile Foundation: Smile Foundation operates child-focused education, health, and livelihood programmes for underprivileged communities across India, with comparable FCRA/80G compliance and a community-mobilization operating model.
• Bal Raksha Bharat (Save the Children India): Bal Raksha Bharat implements child rights, child protection, education, and health programmes across India with a community mobilization model, making it the closest large-scale peer to DEHAT India's rights-based, convergence approach.
• Akshaya Patra Foundation: Akshaya Patra runs the world's largest school meal programme addressing child nutrition and education access — comparable to DEHAT India on the child welfare and nutrition-mission front, though with a service-delivery rather than rights-advocacy orientation.
• Plan India (Plan International): Plan India works on child rights, gender equality, and youth empowerment through community-led programming in under-served districts — closely mirroring DEHAT India's adolescent group, child parliament, and entitlements approach.
• CRY (Child Rights and You): CRY is one of India's largest child rights NGOs, working across child survival, development, protection and participation through community mobilization and partner NGOs — directly overlapping DEHAT India's four-pillar framework and beneficiary focus on under-served districts.
• PRADAN: PRADAN works with rural poor communities, especially women, on sustainable livelihoods and climate-resilient agriculture in under-served districts — directly comparable to DEHAT India's Climate Justice pillar and women-farmer beneficiary segment.
• Childline India Foundation: Childline India runs the national 1098 child helpline and child protection network, sharing DEHAT India's focus on child marriage, trafficking, and abuse response through community-level accountability mechanisms.

Broad incumbents

• Pratham Education Foundation: Pratham is one of India's largest education NGOs with deep district-level presence and government partnerships, sharing DEHAT India's system-strengthening orientation but focusing primarily on learning outcomes rather than the broader child-rights agenda.
• CARE India: CARE India operates large-scale maternal-child health, nutrition, and women's empowerment programmes across multiple states, sharing DEHAT India's convergence model but at significantly greater scale and with broader geographic reach.

Regional players

• SNEHA (Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action): SNEHA runs community-mobilization health and child welfare programmes in urban informal settlements of Mumbai — comparable methodology and convergence approach to DEHAT India, but operating in a different geographic and urban-poor context.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/dehat-india

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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