DHAN Vayalagam (Tank) Foundation (DV(T)F)

DV(T)F would be a forerunner in conservation and development of small-scale water bodies and tank-fed agriculture driven by value-based people institutions towards food security and poverty eradication

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"When water fails, functions of nature cease, you say;

Thus when rain fails, no men can walk in 'duty's ordered way." - Thirukkural : 20

Vayalagam Foundation works to restore life-giving water systems — renovating irrigation tanks (kanmois) and ooranies for sustainable communities.

Who are We ?

DHAN Vayalagam (Tank) Foundation (DVTF) was promoted as a water thematic by DHAN Foundation on October 2, 2006 and incorporated as a Trust under the Tamil Nadu Trust act. The core purpose of the DVTF is `Ensuring water security for generations’. Community-lead conservation of small scale water bodies like tanks, drinking water ponds (Ooranis), ahar-pynes, etc is the key focus of the institution which envisages building an organic partnership between demand and supply system. The acronym CAUSE represents the core components of the institution which refers Conservation and development, Agriculture development, Usufructs sharing through Panchayat linkage, SCRIPT (representing agriculture finance and community banking), and Encroachment eviction & entitlements facilitation.

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Our Mission

DVTF would be a forerunner in conservation and development of small-scale water bodies and tank-fed agriculture driven by value-based people institutions towards food security and poverty eradication.

Our Vision

Scaling up tank fed agriculture and watershed development through nested people institutions to ensure food security and poverty eradication with environmental sustainability.

Core Values

Grassroots Action, Enabling, Collaboration, Innovation, Excellence, Self-Regulation

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Genesis

DHAN Vayalagam (Tank) Foundation, is a professional grassroots action oriented development organization with sub sectoral focus on water initiated on October 2, 2006. It has been incorporated as a Trust under the Indian Trusts Act (1882). The Trust has been promoted as the second thematic organization by DHAN Foundation to ensure that the benefits of its Vayalagam Tankfed Agriculture Development Programme reach a large number of poor with quality.

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DVTF believes in the “Enabling Approach” and “Institution Building Approach”, which emphasize self-help, mutuality, community ownership, and control over resources and benefits. Interventions like water resource development are seen as means, not ends. The ultimate goal is to build people’s institutions, using these inputs as vehicles of change and enabling communities to sustain efforts and results over the long term, even across generations. These people’s organizations provide a platform for nurturing grassroots innovations, scaling down technologies, and contextualizing them to address poverty-related issues while ensuring the inclusion of the poor.

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