Government Partnerships
For over 15 years, Development Consortium has worked not around government — but with it. We have sat in district health offices, co-designed cascade models with state education departments, and embedded our teams inside public facilities to build the kind of trust that turns a pilot into a policy. Our government partnerships are not a programme delivery mechanism. They are the foundation on which lasting, population-level change is built.
In 2024–25, DC's government partnerships spanned 16 states—in health, nutrition, education, neonatal care, immunisation, and teacher development. Every programme we run touches a government system. Every outcome we report is an outcome that government helped make possible.
A track record built over 15 years
DC's relationship with government is one of the oldest and most defining features of our work. It did not begin with a large grant or a high-profile launch. It began with showing up — consistently, accountably, and with evidence — in the offices, facilities, and communities where government officials were trying to solve the same problems we were.
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That consistency is what has earned us the partnerships we hold today.
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Since 2017, DC and STiR Education have worked alongside Delhi's Directorate of Education and SCERT to build a teacher development system that now reaches 1,082 government schools and has trained 79,500 teachers — not as a standalone project, but as a cascade model embedded into the government's own institutional structures, from SCERT down to every classroom.
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In Maharashtra, DC's partnership with the State Health Department on Project Suvita has helped reach over 4 million caregivers and pregnant women with vaccination reminders across all 36 districts of the state — using community ambassadors, SMS technology, and local health infrastructure to ensure no child is left unvaccinated.
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In Rajasthan, DC's work on Project Ansh began with a single question to state and district health officials: what would it take to embed Kangaroo Mother Care into every public neonatal ward in the state's highest-need districts? In its first year, that question has become an answer: 23,000+ newborns reached, and an estimated 789 neonatal deaths averted.
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Across 14 states, DC's partnership with State Food and Civil Supplies Departments has embedded iron-fortified wheat flour into the Public Distribution System, ICDS, and PM-POSHAN — reaching 6.77 million people every month with a nutritional intervention that is now part of the fabric of how the government feeds its most vulnerable citizens.​ This is DC's government partnership track record. Not a list of projects — a history of systems built together.
How DC works with government
DC's approach to government partnership is grounded in three principles that have shaped every collaboration we have entered:
We work inside the system, not alongside it. DC does not build parallel structures that compete with or bypass government. We work within existing public systems — health departments, school directorates, food supply chains, ART centres — to strengthen them from the inside. This means our interventions are designed from the start to be owned, sustained, and scaled by government, not by us. When DC's funding ends, the system should be stronger, not dependent.
We bring evidence, not assumption. Every DC programme that enters a government partnership comes with a clear evidence base, a rigorous M&E framework, and a commitment to share data transparently — including findings that are difficult or unexpected. Government partners can trust that DC's reported outcomes reflect what actually happened on the ground. We do not optimise for optics. We optimise for learning.
We invest in relationships, not transactions. DC's strongest government partnerships have been built over years and survived changes in administration, policy, and funding. That durability comes from something simpler than strategy: we show up when it is inconvenient, we follow through on what we commit to, and we treat every government official — from a District Collector to an ASHA worker — as a partner in the same mission. That orientation is not a communications posture. It is how our teams are trained to work.
Health & Nutrition
State Food & Civil Supplies Departments — 14 States
Government Partner | Fortify Health (Wheat Flour Fortification)
DC partners with State Food and Civil Supplies Departments across Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Haryana, Punjab, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, and West Bengal to integrate fortified wheat flour into the Public Distribution System (PDS), ICDS, and PM-POSHAN - taking a preventive, food-systems approach to tackling iron-deficiency anemia at population scale.
UNICEF India
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Multilateral Partner | New in 2024–25
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DC is proud to welcome UNICEF as a new partner in 2024–25.
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State & District Health Officials, Rajasthan
Government Partner | Ansh (Kangaroo Mother Care)
Working closely with Rajasthan's state and district health officials, DC has embedded Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) protocols into public healthcare facilities across high-need districts. In its first year, this collaboration reached 23,000+ newborns and helped avert an estimated 789 neonatal deaths - at a cost of approximately ₹2,08,000 per death averted.
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Maharashtra State Health Department
Government Partner | Suvita (Immunization Awareness)
DC's collaboration with the Maharashtra State Health Department drives data-informed communication for routine immunization and maternal health across all 36 districts of the state. By combining automated SMS reminders with 10,000+ community ambassadors, this partnership has helped reach over 4 million caregivers and pregnant women — ensuring no child is left unvaccinated.
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How DC works with government
Directorate of Education (DoE), Delhi Government
Government Partner | STiR Education / Teacher Development
DC works as a knowledge, implementation, and technical partner to Delhi's Directorate of Education. Through the Teacher Development Coordinator (TDC) programme, we have supported over 79,500 teachers across 1,082 government schools since 2017, building reflective, motivated educators who are transforming classrooms for 24.5 lakh students.
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Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD)
Government Partner | Teacher Development
DC collaborates with MCD to strengthen teacher capacity in primary schools across Delhi, ensuring that social-emotional learning and peer-driven professional development reach the youngest learners in the city
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State Council of Educational Research & Training (SCERT), Delhi
Government Partner | Teacher Development & System Strengthening
SCERT is the institutional anchor for DC's teacher development work in Delhi. This partnership ensures that our cascade model, from SCERT to DIETs to schools, is embedded into the government education system and sustainable beyond individual project timelines.
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HCL Foundation
“Development Consortium has consistently executed projects with precision and a strong community-first approach.”
