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  13th Sankalp Global Summit
  Report 2021

  PUBLISHED: September, 2022

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  Transforming India into a Global Solar DRE Manufacturing Hub: A Study into Market Requirements and Readiness

  PUBLISHED: September, 2022

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  1ST Sankalp West Africa Report 2022

  PUBLISHED: August, 2022

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  13th Sankalp Global Summit Report 2021

  PUBLISHED: May, 2022

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  GIIF Publication 2022 – Sankalp Africa Summit’s engagement with IFC’s Global Index Insurance Facility

  PUBLISHED: May, 2022

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  Sankalp Africa Post Event Report 2022

  PUBLISHED: April, 2022

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  Malawi Digital Agriculture Ecosystem Assessment

  PUBLISHED: March, 2022

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  Opportunities and Constraints of Women Owned Very Small Enterprises in India by International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Intellecap,

  PUBLISHED: March, 2022

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  DISRUPTIVE ROLES IN GENDER LENS INVESTING IN KENYA

  PUBLISHED: March, 2022

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  The Future of Work(ers)

  PUBLISHED: November, 2021

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13th Sankalp Global Summit
Report 2021
PUBLISHED: September, 2022
13th Sankalp Global Summit Report 2021
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Transforming India into a Global Solar DRE Manufacturing Hub: A Study into Market Requirements and Readiness
PUBLISHED: September, 2022
About 800 million people across the world live without adequate access to electricity. Solar decentralized renewable energy (DRE) products continue to be a focal point of electricity access, supporting the underserved areas in developing countries. Traditionally the large-scale manufacturing locations and consumer markets have been in China and Sub-Saharan Africa/South Asia, respectively. However, post-Covid, this structure has been undergoing changes.
India has become a more competitive place for the manufacture of solar lighting products, as supply chain disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic has increased the cost of imports. For example, between 2019-20 and 2021-22, there has been an estimated five times increase in freight costs for solar modules imported from China. Industry experts also advise that India has advantages due to its reliable supply chains, shorter lead times, and greater policy and SME support. The subject needed a closer look, and this report is an attempt toward that.
GOGLA and Intellecap have worked on the study titled “Transforming India into a Global Solar DRE Manufacturing Hub: A Study into Market Requirements and Readiness.” The research explores the status of Indian manufacturing for solar and takes a deep dive into various DRE components and products. It also makes recommendations and provides a strategic roadmap for the development of greater DRE product assembly and manufacturing in India.
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1ST Sankalp West Africa Report 2022
PUBLISHED: August, 2022
1ST Sankalp West Africa Report 2022
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13th Sankalp Global Summit Report 2021
PUBLISHED: May, 2022
Welcome to the Sankalp Global Summit 2021 Report!
We at Sankalp are ever grateful to the 292 speakers, including 2 Nobel Laureates, 10 program partners, and the 2521 participants who joined us from 104 countries across the world for the Sankalp Global Summit 2021 summit on “Mainstreaming Impact”. We thank our partners International Finance Corporation (IFC), Bop Inc, USAID Samridh, British Asian Trust, Cartier Women’s Initiative, O Farms, Energy Catalyst, & Bayer Foundation. In addition to this we also had the support of several Friends of Sankalp who supported the outreach & amplification of the summit. We had 29.2 million impressions for the Global Summit!
We also hosted our 2nd Private Equity Conference “Rendezvous” for growth stage enterprises; as well as the 3rd Edition of the CAIF conclave on circular textiles & apparels at Sankalp. We retained our core purpose of convening to create an ecosystem of support for entrepreneurs around knowledge, capital & networks.  We hosted 58 knowledge sessions across core thematic areas financial services, climate change, gender & livelihoods, WASH, agriculture, circular economies, impact investing, & future of work; with cross cutting themes of women, capital & technology. In addition, we had over 25 booths that showcased innovations, & partners in our exhibition area. Our endeavor always was to maintain a balance of gender, & diversity to our panels with a strong focus on bringing out the voice of the Global South.
One of the key highlights of the summit in 2021 was the 8 moderators from mainstream & independent media who helped us navigate the conversations this year – this included BBC, CNBC, CNBC Awaaz, Forbes, IDR, & India Spend. #SankalpGlobal2021 Page | 4 Our Sankalp Awards remain the coveted “Oscars”of the impact world with 257 entrepreneurs applying this year. To narrow down to the best of the best, we hosted two investor screening committees, & a prestigious Grand Jury to select 5 global award winners.  We also introduced a new ecosystem award and had 94,000 voters help us choose our first awardee! Many of our Award winners & semi-finalists have gone on to raise significant funding to help scale their businesses from their engagements at Sankalp.
Overall, we hosted 2855 hours of networking, & facilitated 956 one on one meetings at the Summit. We recognize that virtual meetings may not be ideal, but the ability to be inclusive, cost effective, and the scale it affords is of tremendous value to entrepreneurs as well as investors. We also hosted dedicated Deal Rooms between investors to meet other investors; investors to entrepreneur deal rooms, as well as a specific Female Founders Deal Room.
Taking it a step forward, at Sankalp we also hosted our 2nd Private Equity Conference “Rendezvous”; which facilitated 85 one on one meetings between entrepreneurs who were looking to raise upwards to $5 Million with potential investors.
In this report you will find highlights of the summit, as well as some key initiatives, and numbers related to the summit. Our agenda, & speaker lists can also be downloaded as annexures.
The real value of a virtual convening is that every session is recorded and the tremendous knowledge repository remains as a digital asset for anyone to access on our YouTube page.
We remain committed to building an ecosystem of support for the Global South and welcome you all to this journey along with us
Regards
Team Sankalp
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GIIF Publication 2022 – Sankalp Africa Summit’s engagement with IFC’s Global Index Insurance Facility
PUBLISHED: May, 2022
On the sidelines of Sankalp Africa Summit 2022 , we engaged with IFC’s Global Index Insurance Facility (GIIF) as a Strategic Partner, in order to build the profile for Index Insurance on the African continent, and explore innovative structures for building the resilience of smallholder farmers, thereby supporting the ecosystem for insurance providers to thrive.
Given the size, scope, and scale of the Sankalp Forum in Africa, GIIF decided to plug into the Sankalp Africa Summit 2022 to leverage the existing network of stakeholders, such that they may be able to amplify the importance of insurance, and build support for the insurance ecosystem in the region.
GIIF’s engagement at Sankalp had two major components, which were:
The Africa AgTech & Inclusive Insurance Challenge, where the Sankalp team identified promising enterprises in the AgTech and insurance space, supported them with investment readiness support and provided strategic exposure to investors from the Sankalp community.
Strategic engagement at the Sankalp Africa Summit to leverage its knowledge-sharing platform to disseminate and share critical information on the agriculture and insurance sectors.
This report captures the highlights of GIIF’s engagement with the Sankalp Africa Summit 2022.
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Sankalp Africa Post Event Report 2022
PUBLISHED: April, 2022
This year’s Sankalp Africa Summit 2022 was an event like no other.
This was Sankalp’s first ever hybrid event in our 13 year history. When designing the event, we set out to drive as much engagement and value to the Sankalp community as possible. Given the uniqueness of our community, we couldn’t simply stream in-person content to a live audience. We therefore innovated on how we wanted to structure our hybrid event, and we decided to create separate programming for virtual attendees and for in-person attendees, so that everyone, no matter how they were able to join, was able to have an amazing Sankalp experience.
We hosted three days of virtual convening with more than 35 digital sessions, and one day of in-person convening. During our in-person event day, we experimented with an unconference style agenda where 85% of the content was contributed and delivered by our attendees themselves in informal ‘Discussion Zones.’ These zones had no stages, microphones, or screens – just good ol’ fashion face to face sharing of ideas, challenges, and inspirations for building our entrepreneurial ecosystem. Delivering this two-in-one programming structure was one of the most challenging for the Sankalp team, but it was by far the most satisfying event I’ve personally ever been a part of.
For many of us, the Sankalp Africa Summit 2020 was the last big in-person event any of us participated in, before we receded to our homes and computers for two years of Covid quarantine. I could not be more honored that the 2022 Africa Summit was yet again the trend setter, and one of the first big events hosted for the region and the industry. Though we were able to safely convene only about 300 people in-person, the smiles, the conversations, the coffee lines, and the meetings under the sausage tree were a welcome change from Zoom meetings in yoga pants.
The pandemic put our regional expansion plan on hold for the last two years, but that is back on our radar now. Stay tuned as Sankalp expands to West Africa later this year. Thank you to all of you, who once again put your faith in Sankalp that we could convene safely and continue to help provide critical linkages for the ecosystem during these tumultuous times. It is our privilege to support and build this incredible community year on year. Until we see you again, stay safe and stay healthy!
Warmly,
Arielle Molino, Sankalp Africa Lead, Intellecap
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Malawi Digital Agriculture Ecosystem Assessment
PUBLISHED: March, 2022
Digital agriculture technologies (DATs) have the potential to address the challenges facing the agriculture sector in Malawi by transforming how agri-food actors access information, goods, and services. DATs consist of advanced digital innovations that enable smallholder farmers, agribusinesses, governments, and development partners to in­crease their productivity, efficiency, and competitiveness, thereby contributing to improved agricultural outcomes. Technologies such as mobile phones, drone and satellite imagery, moisture sensors, geographic information sys­tem (GIS), internet of things (IoT), and machine learning are playing a critical role in the agriculture sector enabling the actors to address key challenges along the value chains.
DATs present immense advantages and opportunities to advance the development of the agriculture sector. DATs can be applicable across several use cases. First, DATs help farmers to make more informed production decisions through accurate, timely, and location-specific, weather, and agronomic data advisory. Second, DATs reduce infor­mation asymmetry across the value chain enabling farmers to access timely information on prices and markets and directly engage with the buyers. Third, DATs streamline supply chains and reduce operating costs across value chains.
The growth, scale-up, and sustainability of DATs is highly dependent on an enabling ecosystem including the avail­ability and accessibility of the foundational digital infrastructure and digital skills. This study, commissioned by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through DAI seeks to assess the digital agriculture ecosystem in Malawi to identify challenges and opportunities to inform USAID/Malawi Mission’s current and fu­ture programming. The key objectives of the study include:
1. Undertake a stakeholder mapping of the relevant actors within the digital agriculture ecosystem in Malawi, with a particular focus on local actors.
2. Identify key challenges and opportunities to leverage digital technologies more effectively in the agriculture and allied sectors among stakeholders in Malawi, consistent with USAID/Malawi’s priorities.
3. Identify key challenges and opportunities specific to Malawian women and youth in agriculture and aligned sectors concerning digital agriculture.
4. Evaluate macro-level quantitative and qualitative data and develop recommendations to promote growth of DATs in the country.
This study was commissioned by the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Bureau for Resilience and Food Security on behalf of the USAID/Malawi Mission and conducted under the DAI-led Digital Frontiers project. The report was authored by Intellecap with support from UMODZI Consulting Ltd
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Opportunities and Constraints of Women Owned Very Small Enterprises in India by International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Intellecap,
PUBLISHED: March, 2022
This report presents a post COVID, cluster-based landscape of Women’s Very Small Enterprises (WVSEs) in India and quantifies the untapped credit opportunity. It builds the case for financial institutions to design targeted products for this segment and provides recommendations on how these can be deployed.
Women-owned very small businesses (WVSEs) in India, with an estimated credit demand worth INR 836 billion ($11.4 billion), need the strong support of financial institutions (FIs), as per this latest report from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), ‘Opportunities and Challenges of Women-Owned Very Small Enterprises in India’, enabled by Intellecap. This support will facilitate their growth and drive socio-economic inclusion by eliminating existing challenges.
Launched on the occasion of International Women’s Day 2022, the report says WVSEs face numerous challenges, including inadequate access to capital, technology and information, and infrastructure gaps. There are about 15 million women-owned MSMEs in India, and contrary to popular perception, over 70 percent of them are manufacturing enterprises, many of them home-based.
In addition to challenges mentioned, the segment of women entrepreneurs who often overcome biases from within the family and the business community, witness fractional treatment when it comes to lending. The report says FIs have traditionally catered to men-owned enterprises. The approach then limits the understanding of the operating contexts of women-owned businesses and their socio-cultural constraints. Given that most women entrepreneurs are self-financed, the lockdowns imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic have impacted their business and reduced their income.
This report identifies sectors that WVSEs operate in and highlights the characteristics of these enterprises. It also provides a granular perspective of WVSE business operations in each of the sectors including the nature of businesses they engage with and the intermediaries who provide support to them. On this basis, the report suggests ways for FIs to design new products and new processes to address the needs of WVSEs.
Authors:
Poorna Bhattacharjee/IFC, Srijan Kaushik/IFC, Anil Birla/IFC, Natalia Kaur Bhatia/IFC, Vikas Bali/Intellecap, Mukund Prasad/Intellecap, Amar Gokhale/Intellecap, Abhishek Gupta/Intellecap , Neha Kumar/Intellecap
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DISRUPTIVE ROLES IN GENDER LENS INVESTING IN KENYA
PUBLISHED: March, 2022
Gender lens investing (GLI) is an approach to investing into companies, organizations and funds that takes into consideration gender[1]based factors across the investment process to advance gender equality and better inform investment decisions.
Although most funds that invest with a gender lens are based in and operate in the Global North, investors operating in developing countries have also started to adopt the practice in recent years, investing in women-owned enterprises and in enterprises that empower women as customers, employees, suppliers or distributors (termed as gender[1]inclusive businesses). Research demonstrates a strong business case for investing with a gender lens: companies which have women in leadership demonstrate higher share price returns, better attract and retain talent, and are more creative.
However, the scale of GLI remains small, despite increasing interest in this asset class. Women entrepreneurs attract a minority of global investments, receiving 2.3% of global VC funding in 2020. Lack of tailored funding, gender bias from capital providers, inadequate business and technical skills, lack of networks and patriarchal social norms are the key challenges restricting access to finance for women-owned enterprises. Gender[1]inclusive businesses struggle with limited access to information, lack of investor networks and a limited ability to measure their gender impact.
In Kenya, women entrepreneurs similarly struggle to access capital. Most women-owned businesses in Kenya operate informally and struggle to access capital from sources beyond friends and family, microfinance institutions and savings groups (such as Chamas and SACCOs) . Banks and investors often do not view them as potential customers. This is also the case for formal enterprises: although 34% of formal microenterprises in Kenya are women-owned, they account for 76% of the total financing gap for formal microenterprises in the country.
While progress is slow, multiple interventions by the government, donors and ecosystem support organizations are helping channel capital with a gender lens. Aspects such as local presence of impact investors, a growing number of women in business, improved educational attainment of women and a growing entrepreneurial support ecosystem have been enabling GLI in Kenya.
However, success has been mixed, with existing strategies and interventions being unable to sufficiently serve women-owned and gender-inclusive businesses. There is therefore a need for innovative and disruptive solutions to increase GLI in Kenya. This study builds on existing research through consultations with ecosystem stakeholders to identify persistent market gaps and challenges experienced across the GLI ecosystem and potential solutions to address these.
This research provides an in-depth assessment of the gender lens investing market in Kenya. This report builds on existing research through consultations with ecosystem stakeholders to identify persistent market gaps and challenges experienced across the gender lens investing ecosystem and potential solutions to address these.
The key objectives of the research include-
Understanding the business needs and challenges of women-owned and gender-inclusive microenterprises and small and medium enterprises in Kenya
Exploring the varying needs of stakeholders to effectively channel capital with a gender lens
Investigating critical market gaps in the gender lens investing ecosystem
Identifying gender lens investing opportunities that address the structural challenges faced by women-owned and gender-inclusive enterprises
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The Future of Work(ers)
PUBLISHED: November, 2021
Intellecap is proud to launch its ‘Future Of Work(ers) : A Way Forward’ Report, that brings to light its extensive research findings during the course of the pandemic to understand the aspirations, needs & challenges of the labor market in India.
The research included voices from the ground (over 750 existing and incoming workforce members and nearly 150 MSME employers) across 5 States of India; representing different contexts across geographic, socio-economic and cultural parameters of the respondents.
By evaluating the 3 key constituents in this ecosystem – incoming workforce/ youth, existing workforce and employers in the industry, Intellecap was able to build a roadmap that charts out the essential resources to improve the overall quality of the workforce, enable better market linkages, and support enterprises to raise the overall standard of living for their employees.
These measures are imperative to shape a more inclusive future of work(ers) in India.
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We’ve distilled all our Report insights into an extremely detailed and easy to navigate infographic that takes into account the perspectives of key ecosystem actors, the gaps that continue to persist in the labour market, and finally the potential solutions that could transform the landscape for the workforce, and allow them the agency to choose their journey of employment vs. entrepreneurship.

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