Impact
Impact
We track outcomes carefully and keep current annual results clearly separated from historical assessment findings.
A Long-Term Commitment to Dalit and Adivasi Communities
NASA's impact is rooted in more than four decades of work alongside Dalit and Adivasi communities and other vulnerable rural populations. The organization's approach combines practical rural-development programs with local leadership development, access to essential resources, and long-term community ownership.
Impact Through a Rights-Based Approach
NASA's impact is not limited to service delivery. Its rights-based rural-development approach helps communities build awareness, access eligible entitlements, strengthen local leadership, and develop institutions that continue beyond individual projects.
Awareness
Communities gain practical knowledge about rights, responsibilities, and available resources.
Access
Eligible families are better equipped to access government schemes and essential services.
Leadership
Local leaders strengthen community participation and accountability.
Ownership
Beneficiary-led institutions continue beyond individual projects.
2025–26
Current Annual Highlights: April 2025 to March 2026
Livelihood and credit results reflect outcomes of community-managed cooperatives that emerged from NASA's empowerment initiatives. These entities are independently managed by beneficiaries; NASA does not operate, control, or administer their funds.
Cumulative Reach
Estimated Cumulative Reach Through 2026
Estimated cumulative reach across more than four decades of work with rural communities — based on figures independently documented in the 2009–2019 assessment and extended through ongoing program activity to 2026.
Figures are estimates based on documented results from the independent longitudinal impact assessment of NASA's interventions during 2009–2019, extended at a conservative annual growth rate through 2026. Current-year results are reported separately above.
2009–2019
Independent Longitudinal Impact Assessment: Interventions During 2009–2019
An independent assessment examined NASA's work using a mixed-method approach across 556 respondents. The study considered relevance, impact, sustainability, well-being, material living conditions, and community ownership.
Read the full independent assessment, including methodology, findings, and beneficiary case studies.
The independent longitudinal assessment examined NASA's interventions among Dalits, Adivasis, and other marginalized communities during 2009–2019.