What We Do
ISWA aims to secure nutrition, income, and environmental
resilience for farming families who are on the frontlines of climate change.
Let's Support Rural Communities in Shaping Their Own Development Pathways !
Rooted Action
We believe change must emerge from the ground, guided by local voices, shaped by lived realities.
Resilience Before Scale
We focus on building strong, adaptable models before expanding, ensuring long-term impact.
Work-Led Dignity
Every livelihood we support must offer not just income, but dignity, stability, and self- worth.
Climate-Conscious Practice
Every intervention we design respects the ecosystem and prepares communities for a changing climate.
Soil to Market Thinking
We see value chains end-to-end, ensuring that rural producers are not just suppliers, but value-holders.
What We Do?
Through this holistic approach, ISWA aims to secure nutrition, income, and environmental resilience for farming families.
1. Agriculture and Climate Change -
Climate change is no longer a distant threat, it is already disrupting rural livelihoods in India. In South Gujarat, where ISWA currently operates, farming communities are experiencing rising temperatures, erratic rainfall, prolonged dry spells, and sudden floods. For smallholder and marginal farmers, who depend almost entirely on agriculture for income and food security, these changes are creating growing uncertainty.
At ISWA, we recognize that safeguarding rural livelihoods requires climate-adaptive agriculture that is resource-efficient, inclusive, and locally rooted. We are committed to building resilient farming systems that ensure both income stability and environmental sustainability for the most vulnerable households.
2. Enterprise and Skill Development -
In the face of shrinking landholdings and climate-related livelihood risks, promoting non-farm income opportunities has become essential for rural and tribal communities. Recognizing this need, ISWA focuses on enabling a broader ecosystem of enterprise development by building capacities of grassroots organizations, frontline workers, and rural communities themselves.
Rather than providing direct vocational training, ISWA plays a catalytic and capacity-building role, supporting ecosystem actors to deliver quality enterprise development services in underserved areas. Our interventions are designed to nurture rural entrepreneurship, strengthen community institutions, and facilitate access to markets, finance, and mentorship.
3. Livelihood Enhancement
At ISWA, livelihood enhancement goes beyond improving agriculture or promoting enterprises. It
is about ensuring that every household, especially the most vulnerable, has a reliable, dignified,
and resilient source of income. Many rural families, particularly landless households, single
women, and tribal communities, depend on subsistence-level activities or wage labor with little
stability or growth potential.
ISWA’s approach to livelihood enhancement focuses on enabling these groups to build a secure
base of income, using multi-source strategies, customized handholding, and community-level
support systems.
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What Our Clients Say
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Let's Build Resilient, Self-reliant Rural Economies
With deep community trust and a scalable vision, ISWA continues to build resilient, self-reliant rural economies—one village at a time.