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SUMMARY:
For the past three years, the Sankalp Forum has nurtured a community of innovation, connection and understanding amongst the various players in the social enterprise sector. Year on year, social enterprises, investors, and stake holders come together to share ideas, with the aim of bringing about social change. This year is no different as 31 extraordinary enterprises showcase their business plans to prospective investors and funders looking for market based solutions to the challenges of poverty. Five major sectors have been selected as focal points for the Summit (April 12-13, Taj Lands End, Mumbai): Agriculture, Food and Rural Business, Clean Energy and Clean Technology, Education, Health Water and Sanitation, and Technology for Development. The forum has expanded to cover South East Asia as well as India. Six exceptional South East Asian companies will also be participating in the Sankalp Summit this year. An Intellecap Initiatve: Intellecap is a social-sector advisory firm serving corporates, non-profits, development agencies, and governments working in developing markets. It facilitates investments, provides consulting services, and builds knowledge and information focused on scalable and sustainable development initiatives, both in India and globally. www.intellecap.com

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Agriculture, Food & Rural Business Those at the BoP living in rural areas face challenges substantially different from those faced in an urban setting. Creating a livelihood for oneself is subject to weather, access to technology, and ones own health to farm the fields. The questions that our finalists are looking to solve through their innovations are: how do we support local farmers in an effective, and at the same time, an environmentally friendly way? How do we use technology to increase agricultural outputs to increase incomes? Is there a way to farm sustainably with an increasing population demanding more at faster rate? The following social enterprises are facing these challenges head on and aiming to create sustainable business from the ground up. Bhushan Agro aims to contribute towards rural transformation and 2nd Green revolution of India by improving yield/revenue of agricultural lands in Sagar, Madhya Pradesh.The Company is involved in agriculture using modern scientific methods resulting in improved agricultural yield and productivity. There are plans to set up food processing units to produce value added items. The business model is to lease agricultural land from farmers at Rs. 8000-10,000 per acre per year and carry farming using modern scientific methods, equipment, systematic crop rotation, and water harvesting techniques. The projected result is an improved yield and 3 crops per year instead of the 2 currently possible in that region. The revenue from agricultural activities per acre per year is approximately Rs. 100,000 150,000. Driptech is a water technologies company operating from Silicon Valley, with offices in Pune and Beijing. Driptech produces affordable, high-quality irrigation systems designed for small-plot farmers. The company distributes its products through local governments, corporate partners, and NGOs in India and China. Drip irrigation increases crop yields 20-50% and requires less labor and less money spent on diesel or electricity for pumping water. With its proprietary manufacturing technology, Driptech is able to produce and price drip irrigation systems at least 50% lower than the nearest competition. Driptech is growing rapidly to address the needs of the 600 million subsistence farmers who lack appropriate irrigation.

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Kautilya PhytoExtracts Pvt Ltd work closely with the farmers of Jamui, Baniapur, Banka, Munger, Gopaljung (Bihar) and Mal, Kalinpong, Jal Dhaka (North Bengal), taking orders from aromatic oils and medicinal plant companies and cultivating the required crops. Kautilya supports local farmers, with a focus on delivering the largest amount of profit to the farmers themselves. Safe Harvest is a supplier of fresh, locally grown, high quality organic produce to wholesalers and consumers. Safe Harvest farms its product indoors, producing crops year round. Their proposal is to scale indoor farming so that a wide variety of produce is harvested in quantity enough to sustain even the largest of cities without significantly relying on resources beyond the city limits. The enterprise aims to do so in a sustainable manner using no herbicides, pesticides or petroleum based fertilizers and eliminating agricultural runoff by recycling black water. Vinfinet Technologies mission is: Shape the future of farming in emerging economies using sustainable technologies and make agriculture a safe and profitable occupation. The principle objective of 'KISAN RAJA' is to provide an easy to use and economically viable motor communication and controlling system that enables a user to remotely operate a pump set through a mobile phone or landline, changing the way the farmer interacts with motors.

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Clean Energy/ Clean Technology With an increased dependence on energy and an increased creation of waste, how do we as a community tread lightly? Creating and consulting businesses to do more with less is a large task, as many individuals as well as businesses believe that green business models are more expensive than traditional ones. How do we encourage consumers and businesses to choose green? The Clean Energy/Clean Technology finalists at Sankalp this year are succeeding in advising and creating businesses that result in both a profit and a small ecological footprint. Ampere Bikes designs and manufactures a wide range of reliable, cost effective and quality Electric Vehicles (EV) for providing economical, comfortable, stylish and well performing electric mobility solutions for all categories of people and businesses in Asia and beyond. Amperes vision is to enhance and empower the lives of people through affordable mobility solutions, worldwide. The most popular bike is equipped with a 25 W motor battery. Once the battery is charged for 6-8 hours, it can carry one rider a distance of 45 km. The battery doesnt require any maintenance. Ecoreco was incorporated in September 2007 to manage end of life electrical & electronic waste in an organized manner employing necessary technology & methodology to derive commercial objective and also to protect ecology & environment. EcoReco provides the full spectrum of activities covered under ewaste management right from collection of e-waste from the door step of the generators, transporting, sorting them into working / non-working equipment/ components, secured data destruction, dismantling of end of life equipment, size reduction, sorting in to different commodities like glass, plastic, iron / steel, aluminum, copper and other fractions, remarketing of reusable equipment, components and various recovered commodities as well as disposal of hazardous substances as per the prescribed rules. Ecorecos facility carries out the above activities near Mumbai. GreenTech Aqua uses Pneumatic Saturation & Condensation Process and System (PSC). This technology utilizes waste heat present in exhaust gas of fossil fuel fired power plants or other sources of waste heat as the main source of energy to desalinate seawater. GreenTech Aquas technology will generate high quality water in large quantities (greater than 7 mld per 210MW

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power plant) from a sustainable source like seawater or brackish ground water. The water generated is of high purity and can be used for industrial as well as potable purposes. GIBSS Green India Building Systems and Services (GIBSS) is a multi-channeled diversified business that provides best value products along with operational, maintenance and energy solutions to help buildings reduce costs and raise productivity. GIBSS assists building owners in making responsible decisions, reducing the overall building life cycle expenses and helping the building occupants live more efficiently. They cite the benefits of a green building as, better health and productivity, low life cycle cost, reduced liability, enhanced building marketability, cost effective design, better environment. NextGen help businesses measure, manage, mitigate and communicate carbon emissions, save energy, develop a low carbon strategy and help them harness other green benefits. They developed an in-house biogas technology for decentralized organic waste to energy application, focusing on reliability, hygiene and aesthetic values. This technology is currently being deployed across IT parks, university campuses, housing complexes and hotel chains to substitute LPG and at rural telecom tower sites for powering them.

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Education Despite one of the largest youth populations in the world, a significant gap exists in the educational programs, systems and training centers to provide upto-date technical, vocational, and literacy and language skills to Indias evergrowing employable population. By 2025, 25% of the worlds workforce will be Indian. The necessity, of skilling these future laborers, is imminent. How then do we teach young Indians the skills they need to get a job and not waste their potential? Sankalp finalists in the education category are looking for ways to leverage knowledge and skills to the hands of Indias youth. Classle: Classle was started with a mission to solve the issue of quality instruction faced by students pursuing higher education. Classle.net is a resource hub for learners to search, create, share and discuss in their chosen disciplines. An engaged community is accomplished by the participation of a dedicated team of educators, professionals, academicians and career counsellors. Classle.net is a learner-centric community and is a free-for-use platform. Classle expands the availability of knowledge and learning material and allows for the student/learner to be an active contributor. In the process, it empowers the learner and enlists them as an important member of the learning eco-system. Edusports: Edusports is India's first & leading sports enterprise working with K 12 schools for providing world-class sporting experience to millions of school going children. Edusports through its pioneering SOAR(TM) platform offers learning through physical activity and sports to the school children. Edusports programmes help create physically educated children by involving the participation of all stakeholders (schools, parents & policymakers). Edusports programmes are designed around the core principles of inclusiveness (every child must play); age-appropriateness (right skills at the right age); and all programmes are designed specifically to work in Indian context. EZvidya: EZvidya is an educational services organization that services the development of modern academic curriculums, training initiatives and strategic engagement with schools. Their products aim to improve teacher effectiveness and accelerate childrens learning. They also consult schools on best practices

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and have teamed with large corporations in their corporate social responsibility programmes. ROSE Computer Academy: ROSE Computer Academy was launched in 2007 with a vision to spread computer literacy all over in India, with a particular focus in rural areas. Their aim is to impart quality computer education at an affordable rate to the youth in rural areas in order to prepare them for either starting their own enterprise or to get a job. ROSE Computer Academy has trained more than 5000 rural youth in computer education out of whom more than 1500 have got jobs in private and public sector companies. Priyadarshini Taxi Service: Priyadarshini is a social enterprise that aims to create an income generating capacity in women through a vocational training program in taxi driving. The training provided to the participating women is free of charge. It as an exhaustive, 3 months training, where the woman is expected to drive at least for two hours daily, on the roads of Mumbai. Priyadarshini Taxi service is an all women enterprise where the drivers as well as, all employees, directors & even shareholders are women.

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Health, Water and Sanitation Providing affordable and accessible healthcare to a population of over one billion people is a formidable task. In India today, 80% of provided healthcare is within the private sector, meaning the majority of Indians today are paying for healthcare out of pocket. The concept of the non-touch doctor is growing rapidly, and many people are willing to pay to use technological advances in solving their health-related problems. In addition, preventative measures are being taken by social enterprises that are using improved sanitation as a method of reducing hygiene-related disease. Eram Scientific aims to develop innovative and utility solutions by combining cross platform technologies and domains. Eram Scientific created Delight, the automatic public Toilet Unit which is intended to improve the sanitation facilities in urban geographies especially in developing nations. The unit has a unique structure that facilitates the display of advertisement boards on its outer surface. This can act as a source for additional income. This can also be a source of income for the people who are given charge of operating a unit. Their focus is on combining platform technologies to solve social problems. India Home Healthcare provides healthcare to Indians in Chennai and Banglore at their bedside. They give personalized care after an initial assessment, involving immediate family members with the Care Planning. The teams provide specialized care to newborns and new mothers, the elderly, orthopedic patients, cardiac patients, and stroke and neurological related illnesses. MediAngels is an online Hospital that connects its users to specialized doctors from across the globe. The MediAngels panel is the most super specialized panel ever developed with a mission to streamline the healthcare delivery supply chain with the innovative use of technology, MediAngels is the first venture of its kind globally. They have ePharmacy and eRecords functions as well. Patients can upload their reports so that doctors have a full outline of their current ailment for an eConsult. They are linked to twenty-one thousand accredited laboratories across India. For simple questions they can use the eQuery function. The site also provides a knowledge center that is similar to a laymen terms medical dictionary. NationWide are an Indian chain of family physician and paediatric clinics that aim to make primary healthcare affordable and accessible for every Indian.

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Founded in 2010 by a team of UK-trained doctors and management experts, NationWide envisages bringing the best international practices in Primary Healthcare to India and spearheading a paradigm shift in Indias healthcare delivery system. Through a network of clinics, they provide personalised GP and paediatric services to our health plan subscribers as well as walk-in-patients. Waste Ventures operations are oriented around three main activities - Build, Disseminate, Foster. In order to create a new sector of waste management in developing countries it is necessary to go beyond simply creating waste picker corporations, but also enable others to follow a the regulatory environment for waste management. The aim is to incubate and ensure financing for sustainable waste picker corporations (WPC) and Publish & share best-case practices, technology and materials to allow any organization to employ their blueprint, as well as, create and promote an environment of best-case practices in solid waste management.

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Technology For Development Our daily lives are increasingly becoming dependent on technology. The digitization of education, healthcare and financial services is spreading rapidly; the reason being, that technology simplifies our lives. The finalists chosen for the Technology for Development sector are using affordable technology to provide social gains for marginalized populations and to connect the bottom of the pyramid to other economic classes. Avaz: Avaz is an Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) Device created by Invention Labs, India. It enables people with cerebral palsy to communicate by converting their muscle movements into speech. Avazs unique feature is the availability in multiple Indian languages, so essential in a country like India that has multiple regional languages. Avaz is portable, highly customizable and has been strategically priced right for the Indian market through appropriate use of technology. The cost is just 1/6th of similar devices available internationally. B2R Technologies: B2R (Business 2 Rural) Technologies as a rural BPO organization, envisions delivery of business value together with social value, by way of setting up clusters of rural BPO service delivery centres to provide business support services to clients. Their aim is to tap into the potential of rural India, to create livelihood opportunities in local context and to create best-inclass service delivery capabilities for global clients. B2R wants to facilitate and contribute to the integrated development of other capabilities in the villages by investing 33% of the profits (PAT) generated by B2R back into the community within these villages. Eko India Financial Services: The Eko model works on the fundamental premise of giving everyone a bank account. Eko is building a low cost financial services infrastructure to increase the reach of financial institutions to the un-banked and to democratize financial services for the un-banked in urban as well as rural areas: powered by innovation and technology. The endeavour is to build a rapidly scalable model by addressing the challenges of the existing models and by using mobile technology to help bring down significantly the network cost. Inventure: Inventure is a micro-investment platform that allows everyday individuals to invest in small businesses from under-served communities across the globe. Inventure unleashes the potential of developing entrepreneurs to lift

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themselves and their communities out of poverty by connecting individuals directly with these entrepreneurs. Inventure envisions a world where business owners, regardless of their location or background, will have access to the financial, social and intellectual capital necessary to expand their businesses and drive local growth. Milaap: Milaap is an online lending platform that enables people to lend to India's working poor. Combining the internet and human intent to create sustainable social change, Milaap aims to catalyze the next generation of microfinance through online microlending and fulfill varied unmet needs of the poor that go beyond just credit. Milaap's field partners monitor the progress of the borrowers throughout the loan cycle to ensure effective use of both, the loan amount and the market links provided.

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South East Asia Over the past ten years, Asia has seen rapid economic growth. With a growing middle class, more energy is being used and better services and social infrastructure is being demanded. (Avantage) In addition, Asia has the largest carbon dioxide consumption in the world, surpassing North Americas consumption in the early 90s. (UNEP) Social enterprises in South East Asia are responding to these new requirements from their environments and population. The Sankalp finalists were chosen for their innovative ideas, commitment to providing employment, and to improving the environment. Bali Recycling, Indonesia: Bali Recycling operates an integrated waste management system that focuses on reducing, reusing & recycling while also producing up-cycled products from certain waste components. Bali Recycling extracts or produces valuable byproducts from the solid waste thereby reducing the total waste. Another operational role is to collect and process hazardous materials for businesses and households; they are the first operator in Bali to provide these services. Bombastic Plastix, Indonesia: Bombastic makes products by directly reutilizing HDPE plastic shopping bags. Bombastic makes durable leather-like material from discarded plastic shopping bags for the manufacturing of consumer products. They utilize a short cycle (Supercycling) process transforming a raw material into a finished material. The Supercycling process is unique and nobody else in the market implements such an environmentally friendly process to recycle plastic. Their goal is to move into affordable agricultural textiles produced from rubbish. Hapinoy, Philippines: The Hapinoy Store Program focuses on the sari-sari stores in the Philippines (sari-sari is the Filipino word for many or various kinds), small neighbourhood convenience stores or retail-based outlets that sell mostly basic commodities. The program starts with the infusion of capital (through the resources of the microfinance institution program partner) and conversion of an existing sari-sari store in a specific town to a Lead Store or in Hapinoy terms, a Community Store. Hapinoys ability to reach the last mile through its distribution network significantly impacts the lives of multiple stakeholders, including sari-sari storeowners, small producers and their consumers.

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Kokoboard, Thailand: Kokoboard started with the idea of using agricultural waste to make Particle Boards with the desire to stop deforestation and extend the life of living green forest for future generations. Driven by environmental and social missions, the enterprise aims to save trees and keep the forest for future generations through innovative technology while at the same time alleviate poverty in the rural farmer community. Marine Gifts, Vietnam: Marine Gifts provides vocational & life skills training for women living in and around Marine Protected Areas in Vietnam. They provide vocational skill training to women to produce crafts, provide services and tap into the tourism industry. Marine Gifts also works on raising awareness about marine conservation and livelihood development of local communities. They support community based tourism and handicraft business development in the Marine Protected Areas. Sunlabob, Laos: Sunlabob has successfully developed and pilot-tested several innovative solutions for providing affordable off-grid lighting and clean drinking water using renewable energy to many poor rural households in Laos. Sunlabob provides renewable electricity for lighting and other applications, reducing reliance on kerosene and/or diesel generators. They also provide renewable electricity and integrated equipment, such as water irrigation pumps, for income generating productive use and provide safe drinking water through locally established micro-enterprises, reducing exposure to water borne diseases.

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