Current Projects

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  • Facilitating Community Led Wash

    The project, being implemented with support from Oxfam India, intends to facilitate community led action to solve the issues related water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). The project is being implemented in 20 flood prone villages in the middle-Rapti basin in the North-Eastern Uttar Pradesh


  • Rain-fed Agriculture Systems

    Increasing crop productivity and reducing the risk of rain fed rice based cropping system was at the crux of project objectives as envisaged for CRS supported 4 year IRRAS Project starting from January, 2012 in selected villages of Sitamarhi. IRRAS is termed as ‘Improved Rice Based Rain fed Agriculture Systems.


  • WASH in Health Set Ups

    It was due to its previous experiences of accomplishing WASH related tasks in GDS operational area that prompted to accept the offer extended by WaterAid India to promote WASH practices in Baghauli block of S. K. Nagar district. The project covers 11499 households including 2951 SC households (25.7%) and 6867 OBC (59.7%) spread over 81 villages


  • Livelihoods through Water

    GDS entered into an agreement with Jamshetji Tata Trust Mumbai for the implementation of the three and half year duration project starting from September 2011 to February, 2015, further extended up to September, 2015. The project design has the commitment to raise resources from community


About Organisation

Grameen Development Services (GDS) was founded in 1993 and registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860. GDS works with its head office at Lucknow (U.P.) and strives for the economic and social empowerment of the socio-economically disadvantaged sections of the society.


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