The Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Regional Office in New Delhi was established in 2002 in New Delhi. Working with governmental and non-governmental local project partners we support India’s democratic governance through informed national and international dialogue processes with a view to enhance the diversity of green thinking.

Our overall approach is to:

• generate opportunities of sharing, analysing and learning among formations of civil society
• engaging in independent and critical analysis of societal trends and issues
• enable dialogue with selected stakeholders, across varied perspectives, sectors and institutions

The mandate of our work in India includes to:

• support enhanced commitment to democratic processes and social innovation, ecological solutions and sustainable development
• support, facilitate and contribute to civil society engagement, participation, and intervention
• provide a forum for open debate and promote dialogue between politics, business, academia, and society
• support and promote respect for the rule of law and democratic participation
• ensure that the debates of opinion shapers, decision makers and the general populace reflect comprehensively different perspectives and new assessments of ground realities
• place gender as a cross-cutting issue in all measures and programmes.