Know What Works.
Prove What Changes.
Development Catalyst connects every rural household, government scheme, and field intervention into one longitudinal database — giving NGOs and governments the evidence they've always needed.
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The Problem
₹2.6 trillion spent annually.
No one knows what works.
India's rural development sector is massive — but evidence of impact is almost nonexistent.
Paper registers
Field workers fill notebooks. Data never reaches decision-makers or funders.
Siloed spreadsheets
Each NGO uses a different format. No cross-scheme or cross-village visibility.
Duplicate surveys
The same family surveyed four times a year by different programs — data never linked.
No longitudinal tracking
We can't answer: did this family's income improve after the intervention?
The Solution
One platform. Every family. All programs.
Development Catalyst is a mobile-first field data platform that makes impact visible, trackable, and provable.
Deep household profiles
Capture 40+ data points per household — identity, economics, amenities, durables, health, and financial relationships. Every family member individually profiled.
Scheme enrollment & tracking
Link households to every government scheme they're enrolled in. Track PM-KISAN, PMJDY, PMAY, NREGA and 30+ more. See coverage gaps instantly.
Longitudinal analytics
Re-survey households over time. Track income changes, scheme uptake, and development indicators. For the first time — measurable, attributable impact.
SHG management
Track Self-Help Groups, their members, loan cycles, meetings, and repayment — fully integrated with individual household finance data.
Secure & role-based
Field staff see only their assigned villages. Supervisors see their block. Admins see everything. Row-level security built in from day one.
How it works
Field-ready in 60 seconds
Sign up your organisation
Create your account, name your NGO or department, and add the districts you work in. Takes under 60 seconds.
Register your villages
Select state → district → block → village. Each village gets its own data silo — secure and separate.
Survey households
Field staff open the app (works offline), walk through a guided form, and capture full household profiles including GPS and photos.
Track scheme enrollments
Mark which families are enrolled in which schemes. See saturation rates and uncovered families instantly.
Measure impact over time
Re-survey the same households each quarter. The analytics layer shows exactly what changed — and what caused it.
Who it's for
Built for the development ecosystem
NGOs & Field Organisations
- ✓Digitise your field operations instantly
- ✓Generate funder reports from real data
- ✓Prove impact to FCRA and CSR donors
- ✓Free for first 3 villages
State & District Government
- ✓Real-time scheme saturation by village
- ✓Identify uncovered BPL households
- ✓Cross-scheme convergence analysis
- ✓Data for district collectors & DMs
Researchers & Impact Investors
- ✓Longitudinal household panel data
- ✓Attributable impact evidence
- ✓SDG alignment scoring
- ✓API access for analysis
The Vision
From 4 villages today
to 10,000 tomorrow
Development Catalyst is infrastructure for the development sector — a longitudinal database that makes impact provable at village, district, and national scale. For the first time: evidence that development investments work.
10K+
Target villages by 2027
1M+
Households to be profiled
500+
Schemes to be tracked
Ready to bring evidence to your development work?
Try the live demo — no signup required. Explore real household data from Nallur village, Dindigul.
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