Identity & Authority: Development Alternatives – Signal Evidence & AI Readability

Development Alternatives

(https://devalt.org) 📸 Data Snapshot: May 26, 2026
Identity & Authority — The Lens

Inspect the JSON-LD. Is there an Organization or Person schema, and does it carry sameAs links to real external profiles (LinkedIn, socials)? Missing schema or no identity declaration signals an anonymous entity.

Identity & Authority Expert verifiability & Schema depth.
12 Impact Weight: 15 / 100
80% Reputation

The authority is well-established through a detailed Governing Council listing including named experts like Dr. Ashok Khosla and Lalit Mansingh. The structured Organization schema is complete with address, phone, and social media sameAs links. The only gap is a technical credibility hit caused by the server error on the sub-page, which contrasts with the organization’s technical research positioning.

The disconnect is low but present regarding the INR 40 cr+ raised and 77,600 livelihoods secured. While these numbers are specific, the methodology for what constitutes a secured livelihood or the audited breakdown of the 40 cr is not directly linked in the immediate text. As of the May 2026 audit, the 2023-2024 impact data is slightly aging (12-36 month bracket).

Identity & Authority is read from the structured data first: whether the site declares who it is in machine-readable schema, with verifiable identity links. Below is the schema captured per page, then the external proof links that support (or fail to support) that identity.

🔗 Identity & Technical Layer — schema JSON-LD: identity chains, entity gaps
Homepage schema
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@type": "Organization",
    "name": "Development Alternatives",
    "url": "https://devalt.org/",
    "logo": "https://devalt.org/frontend/assets/images/da-logo.png",
    "sameAs": [
        "https://www.facebook.com/DevaltOfficial/",
        "https://twitter.com/DAperspectives",
        "https://www.instagram.com/developmentalternatives/?hl=en",
        "https://www.youtube.com/user/DevaltDelhi",
        "https://in.linkedin.com/company/development-alternatives"
    ],
    "description": "Development Alternatives (DA), the world’s first social enterprise dedicated to sustainable development, is a research and action organisation striving to deliver socially equitable, environmentally sound and economically scalable development outcomes. DA’s green technology innovations for habitat, water, energy and waste management, which deliver basic needs and generate sustainable livelihoods, have reduced poverty and rejuvenated natural ecosystems in the most backward regions of India, creating some one million livelihoods and empowering over 6 million people.",
    "foundingDate": "1982",
    "address": {
        "@type": "PostalAddress",
        "streetAddress": "B-32, Tara Crescent, Qutub Institutional Area",
        "addressLocality": "New Delhi",
        "postalCode": "110016",
        "addressCountry": "IN"
    },
    "contactPoint": [
        {
            "@type": "ContactPoint",
            "telephone": "+91-11-26544100",
            "contactType": "customer service",
            "areaServed": "IN",
            "email": "info@devalt.org",
            "availableLanguage": "en"
        }
    ]
}
/story-detail/0/ — no schema detected (entity gap)
/about-us/
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@type": "Organization",
    "name": "Development Alternatives",
    "url": "https://devalt.org/",
    "logo": "https://devalt.org/frontend/assets/images/da-logo.png",
    "sameAs": [
        "https://www.facebook.com/DevaltOfficial/",
        "https://twitter.com/DAperspectives",
        "https://www.instagram.com/developmentalternatives/?hl=en",
        "https://www.youtube.com/user/DevaltDelhi",
        "https://in.linkedin.com/company/development-alternatives"
    ],
    "description": "Development Alternatives (DA), the world’s first social enterprise dedicated to sustainable development, is a research and action organisation striving to deliver socially equitable, environmentally sound and economically scalable development outcomes. DA’s green technology innovations for habitat, water, energy and waste management, which deliver basic needs and generate sustainable livelihoods, have reduced poverty and rejuvenated natural ecosystems in the most backward regions of India, creating some one million livelihoods and empowering over 6 million people.",
    "foundingDate": "1982",
    "address": {
        "@type": "PostalAddress",
        "streetAddress": "B-32, Tara Crescent, Qutub Institutional Area",
        "addressLocality": "New Delhi",
        "postalCode": "110016",
        "addressCountry": "IN"
    },
    "contactPoint": [
        {
            "@type": "ContactPoint",
            "telephone": "+91-11-26544100",
            "contactType": "customer service",
            "areaServed": "IN",
            "email": "info@devalt.org",
            "availableLanguage": "en"
        }
    ]
}
/themes/climate-resilience-and-ecosystem-restoration/
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@type": "Organization",
    "name": "Development Alternatives",
    "url": "https://devalt.org/",
    "logo": "https://devalt.org/frontend/assets/images/da-logo.png",
    "sameAs": [
        "https://www.facebook.com/DevaltOfficial/",
        "https://twitter.com/DAperspectives",
        "https://www.instagram.com/developmentalternatives/?hl=en",
        "https://www.youtube.com/user/DevaltDelhi",
        "https://in.linkedin.com/company/development-alternatives"
    ],
    "description": "Development Alternatives (DA), the world’s first social enterprise dedicated to sustainable development, is a research and action organisation striving to deliver socially equitable, environmentally sound and economically scalable development outcomes. DA’s green technology innovations for habitat, water, energy and waste management, which deliver basic needs and generate sustainable livelihoods, have reduced poverty and rejuvenated natural ecosystems in the most backward regions of India, creating some one million livelihoods and empowering over 6 million people.",
    "foundingDate": "1982",
    "address": {
        "@type": "PostalAddress",
        "streetAddress": "B-32, Tara Crescent, Qutub Institutional Area",
        "addressLocality": "New Delhi",
        "postalCode": "110016",
        "addressCountry": "IN"
    },
    "contactPoint": [
        {
            "@type": "ContactPoint",
            "telephone": "+91-11-26544100",
            "contactType": "customer service",
            "areaServed": "IN",
            "email": "info@devalt.org",
            "availableLanguage": "en"
        }
    ]
}
🛡️ Trust Signals — external proof links that back the declared identity
27Review mentions (all pages)
6External proof links (all pages)
PageReviewsProof links
/ (home) 22 2
/story-detail/0/ 0 0
/about-us/ 5 2
/themes/climate-resilience-and-ecosystem-restoration/ 0 2