Author Archive:
Intellecap
Agribusiness in East Africa: Innovative Social Enterprises
Social entrepreneurs are improving rural employment, empowering communities, and tackling various constraints in the food value chain. The concept of social entrepreneurship, the idea of using business to solve major social and environmental problems, is …
A 5-point list of policy recommendations for robust social enterprise development in India
The Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation has for a while been deliberating with individuals and enterprises in the social enterprise (SE) sector for the need for a social entrepreneurship policy for India. It’s not uncommon …
The ‘replicability’ of business models across geographies: a response to Acumen and Bain’s Growing Prosperity report
Growing Prosperity: Developing Repeatable Models® to Scale the Adoption of Agricultural Innovations, the new report by Acumen and Bain & Company, produced with the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is intended to …
SOCAP 2014: have we lost our sense of wonder?
As a SOCAP debutante, I had heard accounts of the productive chaos that the four days of SOCAP are supposed to be. As I travelled the 19 hours from Mumbai to San Francisco, my thoughts …
Impact Bonds in India: Relevance with Opportunity or just Innovation for sake of it
There is a new financing paradigm for sectors that address societal challenges. Amongst many new innovations, one of the most promising are Social Impact Bond (SIB) that emerged from the UK and have the potential …
The ‘So-What’ of your Impact Story: Understanding the role played by impact funds in driving ‘impact’
It has been only 7 years since the term ‘Impact Investing’ was formally coined, but for a relatively young sector, the numbers aren’t too disappointing. Indian funds have invested in enterprises across a wide range …
