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Radical transparency is a W.A.V.E. core value. Here is every number, every outcome, and every milestone — good and in progress.

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Key Metrics

2025 Impact Dashboard

Updated annually after independent third-party audit. Last updated: March 2026.

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60T
Plastic Waste Averted
+41% from last year
Progress to 200T target30%
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1.2M
Lives Directly Impacted
+35% from last year
Progress to 5M target24%
420K
Students in EcoSchool Program
240K
Active Volunteers Nationwide
Global Alignment

UN Sustainable Development Goals We Address

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No Poverty
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Clean Energy
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Sustainable Cities
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Responsible Production
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Climate Action
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Life Below Water
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Life on Land
Transparency

Annual Impact Reports

Every year, every rupee, every outcome — independently audited and publicly available.

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2025 Annual Report
The Scale Report: Building Institutions for Change
Covers energy deployments, plastic R&D commercialisation, policy wins across 36 bills, and expansion to 642+ cities. 84 pages, independently audited.
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2024 Annual Report
From Pilots to Policy: Proving the Model at Scale
Our watershed moment — from 200 cities to 500+, from 3 ministry partnerships to 40+. Includes third-party impact validation from GIZ.
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2023 Annual Report
The People's Footprint: Community-Led Environmental Action
Deep-dive into community mobilisation: 240K+ volunteers, 1,800+ schools, and the social infrastructure behind sustainable change.
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2022 Annual Report
Science First: The Research That Drives Every Rupee
Our first impact report. 52 pages detailing the evidence base behind all W.A.V.E. programs, authored with IIT Bombay researchers.
Download PDF (2.5MB)
Voices from the Field

Impact in Their Own Words

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W.A.V.E.'s solar micro-grid gave our village reliable power for the first time in 60 years. My children can now study after dark. This is what real development looks like.
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Savitri Devi
Beneficiary, Jharkhand Pilot Project
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The policy mapping framework W.A.V.E. provided was more comprehensive than anything our ministry had produced internally. We adopted it wholesale for our environmental compliance review.
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Shri R.K. Sharma
Joint Secretary, Ministry of Environment
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As an international partner, we've worked with dozens of NGOs across South Asia. W.A.V.E. stands out for their insistence on evidence and their ability to operate at government scale.
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Maria Hoffmann
Country Director, GIZ India

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