Vasundhara has received support at different times from donors such as the Ford Foundation, Action-Aid, Biodiversity Support Programme, GEF-UNDP, Center for World Solidarity, MARRA FOUNDATION, Concern World Wide India and HIVOS. In additions, we have collaborated with different research organizations for collaborative research projects; these include Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Natural Resource Institute (NRI), Regional Community Forestry Training Center (RECOFTC), World Wide Fund-India, Centre for Ecological Sciences(CES) and the World Conservation Union(IUCN).

Vasundhara has been collaborating with the Government of Orissa (GoO), especially for directing policy reforms in the forestry sector. A member of the State Level steering Committee on JFM, and the specially constituted Working Groups to look at Policy changes and design Forest Department interventions. Vasundhara has been facilitating interface and dialogue amongst NGOs, activists and the GoO, and providing occasional inputs to the Planning Commission, GoI.

Vasundhara has been also been an active member of the National Network on JFM and its various sub-networks, including Ecological and Economic Research Network, Gender & Equity Sub-Group, Institutional and Training Sub Group. In addition, we have been active in international and regional networks on community forestry.

Vasundhara has played an extremely relevant role in the documentation of community forestry initiatives and in establishing the richness and legitimacy of their experience. This documentation has rendered visible internationally the self-initiated forest protection efforts in Orissa as important examples of sustainable resource management systems.

At the same time, the SC & ST Welfare Department ,Government Orissa, has involved Vasundhara as a Resource NGO in the implementation of Orissa Tribal Empowerment and Livelihood Programme. This programme is based on watershed development principle and is being implemented in 30 tribal blocks- empowerment of scheduled tribes, including on land issues as an important part. vasundhara has been associated in this programme for nearly a year and one of the major inputs has been to bring the issue of land tenure and access to tribals as the central focus of the programme.