Partner: Coca-Cola India Foundation and Mewat Development Agency
Project Title: Jaldhara (Jal: Water; Dhara: Stream) to preserve, protect and enhance freshwater sources
Implementing Center: Natural Resource Management

Partner: Jindal Global Law School
Project Title: Good rural governance and citizen participation Implementing Center: Policy, Governance and Advocacy Center

Partner: The Energy and Resources Institute
Project Title: Lighting a Billion Lives in four select villages of Mewat Implementing Center: Natural Resource Management

Other Valued Partners

• University of Baltimore School of Law, USA
• St. Catherine University, Minnesota, US
• University of Iowa, US
• Haryana Institute of Rural Development (HIRD)
• International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
• Global Compact Network India
• Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment (ATREE)
• The Center for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA)
• Dharma Vana Arboretum (DVA)
• Development Alternatives (DA)
• Dr. Shroff's Charitable Eye Hospital
• William L. Brown Center (WLBC)
• International Crops Research Institute for the Semi- Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
• Trees for Life (TFL)

Awards & Recognitions

• IRRAD's 'Good Governance Now' model has merited a global recognition as one of three finalists for a 2010 Global Development Network Award under the category of Japanese Award for Most Innovative Development Project 2010
  
  
• IRRAD's model project "Improving Sustainable Livelihood Security Using Proven Solutions to Land Degradation in Semi-arid Regions of India" was recently selected as one of the 30 most innovative projects, out of 300 from around the world, at the 2010 Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change in The Hague, Netherlands, organized by the Dutch, Norwegian and Ethiopian governments, FAO (UN), and the World Bank
  
  
• Distinguished Water NGO "Revival of Rural Water Resources 2009-10" by Water Digest and UNESCO
  
  
• Finalist for Excellence in Information Integrity Award 2009
  
  
• ‘Best Water NGO 2008-09 for Revival of Rural Water Resources’ by Water Digest and UNESCO


• ‘Best Water NGO 2007-2008 in Water Harvesting’, Award by Water Digest and UNESCO
  
  
• Premium organization for undertaking water resource management in Mewat, by Mewat Development Agency, 2008
  
  
• Pinnacle NRI Award 2007, by NRI Institute
  
  
• Member-2007, CII National Committee on Industry NGO partnerships


• Golden Peacock Award Finalist, by Institute of Directors, 2006
  
  
• Samaj Gaurav Samman, National Award 2006, by Manav Dharm Mission
  
  
• Awarded a Consultative Status with United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), ongoing since 2005
  
  
• Member of Clinton Global Initiative, ongoing since 2005
  
  
• Fellows of Jamshetji Tata National Virtual Academy for Rural Prosperity since 2005
  
  
• Implementing member of UNDP and the Government of India’s Endogenous Tourism Program since 2005
  
  
• Member of Credibility Alliance, ongoing since 2005
  
  
• Bharat Samman Award 2005, NRI Institute


• Member of IndianNGO.com, ongoing since 2005
  
  
• Recognition for implementing the ‘better life options program’ for adolescent girls in India, by Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA), 2005
  
  
• Member of ICRISAT Hybrid Parent Research Consortia on Pearl Millet, Sorghum and Pigeon Pea ongoing since 2004


• Designated organization of the Institute of Rural Management (IRMA), Anand since 2004


• Founder member of India Development Coalition of America (IDCA), 2003