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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2025-07-19
Forus members call for radical reforms at HLPF 2025
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2025-02-22
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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Events
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2025-08-06
Co-ordinating Action for Civic SpaceToolkit for implementing the DAC Recommendation on Enabling Civil Society in Development Co-operation and Humanitarian Assistance
2022-07-05
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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2023-03-13
Using AI to ‘decolonise’ language