Center for Development Orientation and Training (CDOT) is a not for profit organisation, established in the year 2000. It works in the domain of community health, women empowerment, skill development, livelihood, financial inclusion, water and sanitation and other areas of development. CDOT is a registered society in the year 2000. We have a corporate office at Spaze it park, sector 49, Gurugram, Haryana. The head office is in Patna, Bihar. Currently, CDOT operates in 10 states of India. Over the years, the organisation rendered its services directly to 6.6 million beneficiaries across the country through financial inclusion intervention. 

CDOT runs Women centric Community Health Project in the rural of Bihar and Jharkhand to support and provide home based care, tele-consultation services to 1. 2 lakhs direct households through 900 rural women as Community Health Facilitators in 11 districts of Bihar and Jharkhand. 

CDOT has been instrumental in creating awareness on Digital and Financial Literacy to women across India. It has trained many rural women as Business Correspondents to operate independently. CDOT has established a wide network of 500 successful Women Business Correspondents in six states of India. They operate independently by doing a monthly transaction of 30-40 lakhs and earning a decent livelihood for themselves and family.  

Our Mission: Mission Kutumbh 10.5/27

“To engage with 10.5 million families through sustainable and innovative interventions”

Our Vision:

“We envision an empowered, prosperous and healthy society”

Our Goals: 

• To improve the quality of life of the rural poor women and their families through increased access to health, nutrition, education, services and productive assets. 
• To establish a cost-effective and accessible alternative credit delivery system at the door step for working women in the rural areas. 
• To enhance the capacity of rural poor women in undertaking activities, contributing towards actualization of the above said objectives through collectively owned and managed institution building.
• To introduce innovative strategies for program execution for achieving optimum results. 
• To provide supportive role & functions in Govt. run development programs. This includes providing training in need assessment, orientation in development perspectives, training to develop financial and management skills and evolving systems to supervise and monitor the program on a regular basis. 
• To build strategic alliances with Govt. agencies for directly implementing the Govt. programs or to leverage resources from other donor agencies to supplement ongoing Govt. programs by additional interventions needed either to enrich the program or to plug gaps in the program. 
• To develop a resource center catering the needs of voluntary agencies, development workers, government / semi-government agencies, private companies and freelance professionals engaged in development activities. 
• To produce relevant reading and training materials, organize seminars and workshops, and to undertake training assignments through this center. 
• To promote capacity building of voluntary agencies, assisting them in obtaining technical expertise and training inputs. 

• In collaboration with Bihar Skill Development Mission (BSDM), CDOT has been implementingthe Kushal Yuva Program and running 9 centers in 4 districts -Sheohar, Patna, Nalanda, and Gayaof Bihar under seven Nischay programs of the Government. Through this program, we havetrained 13491 students (Girls-8770 and Boys-4721) and placed 1316 students in different sectorsof employment
• CDOT has created a huge impact in the life of the poor and marginalized. In the FinancialInclusion domain, we reached out to 6.1 million clienteles and have been working with Publicsector banks, Private bank and Regional Rural Banks. In the financial year 2022-23, CDOT hashelped 2.1 lakh women in opening their personal account through our BC channel
• CDOT created an ecosystem of Community Health through its 900 CHFs (Community HealthFacilitator) in eight districts of Bihar and Jharkhand, i.e. Patna, Bhojpur, Nalanda, Nawda, Gayain Bihar and Hazaribagh, Bokaro and Dhanbad in Jharkhand, with the donor support. Our CHFshave given home-based care and training to around 4.5 lakh people. In the project, we hadaimed to administer 1 lakh doses of Covid-19 vaccinations. Out of which we have administered82316 doses in Bihar and 52199 doses in Jharkhand. In the vaccination camp, we havevaccinated 51504 males, 48377 female as well as 34634 children in the project. Most of ourCHFs have sold all the stock of the sanitary pads that they had bought and tele-consultationservices have started at over 300 CHF centers in Bihar. The vision is to build a culture of healththrough the establishment of a sustainable community support system
• CDOT is a leading service provider in finance, healthcare, and technological solutions. We havemoved towards a “Paperless Culture” and for that, we are developing a software for all ourwork to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the work
• CDOT through banks and financial institutions ventured out into the sector of demand-basedloans, for instance health loans, sanitation loans, housing loans, education loans, etc., which arenot easily available to the rural marginalized community. We have partnered with otherinstitutions like LIC housing and Loanwiser to create a platform where people can get whateverloans they want through an app
• CDOT was the first aggregator of the PFRDA in Bihar. CDOT covered 40000 people for NPSLite/Swavalamban scheme for the FY 2012-13. CDOT is currently operating as POP (Point ofPresence) for Pension schemes
• CDOT partnered to construct 5000 safe sanitation systems in 100 villages of two blocks Chandiand Nagarnaausa in Nalanda District, Bihar. The project aimed for a behavioral change towardssanitation practices among communities in unserved villages
• WeGO Award 2021 for the Women Agents Project in collaboration with OpportunityInternational

Though we have created a niche through empowering rural women as community health service providers and a positive change agent in the rural health system. There is a need to replicate this model for an extensive and comprehensive intervention in terms of awareness creation, training, safety nets availability and affordability and building an eco-system of community health practices.