Human Rights
A Bank of Their Own
Shunned by traditional financial systems, sex workers in Asia’s largest red-light district started their own bank. Now it is empowering other marginalized groups.
Tag: India
Technology
Technology on the Farm
Outgrow combines digital technologies and India’s ancient agricultural wisdom to support small-scale farmers.
Design Thinking
Making the Affordable Aspirational: Increasing the Adoption of Frugal Innovations at the Base of the Pyramid
Companies and nonprofits need to be more realistic and empathetic that consumers’ decisions are not purely driven by cost.
Design Thinking
A New Model for Saving Lives on Roads Around the World
An innovative approach to traffic safety cut fatalities in half on one of India’s most dangerous highways.
Water & Sanitation
Waterborne Democracy for Rural India
For more than four decades, Gram Vikas has been delivering equitable water and sanitation systems to deprived villages in rural India by training and encouraging them to take ownership of their solutions.
Podcast
Social Enterprise
Powering Needs, Empowering Lives
SELCO caters to India’s hundreds of millions of rural poor with solar-powered energy solutions carefully customized to their needs. Now the social enterprise is sharing its model with others around the world.
Collaboration
Building Blended Finance in India
While blended finance has the potential to accelerate development in India, there are bottlenecks holding back its potential.
Leadership
She Should Run
Indian nonprofit Femme First Foundation aims to increase women’s political representation in the country.
Government
Making the Government Adoption of Social Innovations Work
How small and medium NGOs and social enterprises can help the public sector successfully adopt and scale their innovations.
Environment
Systems Change for the Commons
Instead of quick technical fixes, protecting India's 200 million acres of community lands means building platforms to ensure that different stakeholders act systematically, intentionally, and inclusively, and begins with the local and building from the ground up.