Abhinav leads Sattva’s Innovation and Blended Finance practices. In Innovation, he works to close India’s translational funding gap, helping move promising research out of the lab and into use at scale by convening capital, academia, industry, and government. Through Blended Finance, he structures capital that makes hard-to-fund problems financeable and
Share FOUNDATIONS Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Our expertise in enabling philanthropic foundations includes programme assessments and impact evaluation. We conduct an in-depth analysis of the viability of the strategy by understanding key levers and enablers, and identifying risks and mitigation. We assess the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and sustainability of
86% of Indian farmers belong to the small and marginal category, and as such, lack access to market and efficient price discovery mechanisms. Farmer producer organisations (FPOs) have been aiming to fill this gap by building cohesion between small and marginal farmers and enabling their access to markets. However, spot
Rental housing is critical to drive economic mobility, and incentivises white collar migrants and students to move to cities. Our study, aimed to understand housing needs and aspirations of such youth populations migrating to Bengaluru, Karnataka.
This episode of Decoding Impact with Rathish Balakrishnan features an in-depth conversation with Shilpa Kumar to unpack why we need climate finance and how Development Finance Institutions are uniquely positioned to address it.
Understanding food systems: Need, types and drivers A food system is a holistic set of practices that contribute towards food production and consumption to meet dietary requirements of the population. Food production, distribution, processing and consumption form the backbone of food systems which require access to resources like labour, finance,
Although global efforts had been underway to improve digital health solutions at scale, it was the COVID19 pandemic that brought the necessity of digital health solutions into sharp focus.
This report for the Deshpande Foundation has stories that present a microcosm of the ‘Sandbox for Innovation’.
Non-profits need a plan to steer through the rough seas, bringing clarity and revisiting relevance in order to adapt and pivot their current programmes.
‘Water Solutions: Leveraging Impact Through Smart Philanthropy’ was a day-long ecosystem convening in order to bring together like-minded philanthropists and practitioners to deep-dive into solutions and opportunities for action at scale in water.