VANI - Voluntary Action Network India
India
National NGO Platforms
Voluntary Action Network India (VANI) is a national network of Indian Voluntary Development Organisations (VDOs). Currently VANI has 624 members with an outreach to around 10,000 VDOs across India. The membership of VANI ranges from grass roots to the national organizations. The members work on a range of priority development issues of the government including education, health, nutrition, integrated child development, livelihood, skill development, environment, natural resource management, climate change, water and sanitation, emergency response and preparedness, agriculture, poverty and so on, in some of the most remote areas of the country.
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Thu 9 Jul 2026
From evidence to influence civil society claims its place in South-South and triangular cooperationInfluence
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Wed 30 Sep 2026
#WeAreForus - What are national civil society platforms Bringing to BRICS? A conversation with VANI.
Welcome to a new episode of A Space for Us, the Forus podcast with National Civil Society platforms & regional coalitions who are part of our network and their allies. In this episode, we’re looking at the key conversations and ideas that emerged from the Civil BRICS Forum 2026 in New Delhi, where civil society leaders and policymakers came together to discuss how development can become more inclusive, resilient and locally led. We’re joined by Harsh Jaitli, CEO of VANI in India who brought important perspectives to these conversations. We’ll hear from Harsh about what stood out at the Forum, what civil society is calling for, and what it will take to turn commitments around localisation, participation and people-centred development into practice. Learn more about VANI: https://vaniindia.org/ Listen to more episodes: https://www.forus-international.org/en/a-space-for-us Host: Bibbi Abruzzini, Forus.
Sat 22 Feb 2025
EN - Finance in Common Summit – Perspectives from the Voluntary Action Network India (VANI)
In this episode, we speak with VANI (Voluntary Action Network India), a Forus member, to discuss the role of civil society in shaping a more inclusive and accountable financial system. As a national network of Indian CSOs, VANI has been at the forefront of advocating for an enabling environment for civil society, ensuring that development policies are people-centered and rights-based. This episode was produced with support from Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the European Union. For the upcoming Finance in Common Summit hear from Harsh Jaitli about the key challenges and opportunities in strengthening the relationship between public development banks and civil society organisations.
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Wed 6 Aug 2025
Co-ordinating Action for Civic SpaceToolkit for implementing the DAC Recommendation on Enabling Civil Society in Development Co-operation and Humanitarian Assistance
Tue 5 Jul 2022
Enabling Stories - How civil society can build new narratives in a world transformed by Digitalization and the Covid-19 PandemicThe aim of this report is to examine two key factors which have been rapidly transforming civic space across the world in recent years, often negatively impacting the rights and freedoms of activists and civil society practitioners and their operating environments. These factors are, firstly, the COVID 19 global health pandemic and secondly, the accelerating global process of digitalization.
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