https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwvXVrS8s7A The recent interim budget focused on how to enable women farmers, looking at how they can be raised up along with other smallholder farmers across India. Today, in certain key agricultural value chains like sugarcane, women make up 50% of the workforce. Yet their
From startups to micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), when one wants to foster scale and innovation, capital is often the first lever to consider—more credit, more investment, and flexible terms for accessing funding. In the post-pandemic world, nonprofits are going to be up against a wide range of problems, most
Through this report, Sattva presents a critical glimpse of the Tamil Nadu state with respect to the CSR investment and its development performance.
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) are strategic assets for economic development and employment generation, but remain too small and informal to make an impact.
Sattva has launched an initiative: India Partner Network (IPN), a knowledge and engagement platform designed for non-profits to fortify their core competencies and navigate the complex landscape of institutional capacity.
To truly understand the problem at its core, a team in Enactus – an international student-led social entrepreneurship body – studied the demand and supply factors of public sanitation.
In this report, we have analysed the cumulative 3-year CSR spend by the entire set of companies (total of 29190) on the regional distribution of CSR using the data made available by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs as of January 2019.
Access to finance remains an issue for many inclusive businesses seeking to expand their operations or deepen their impact. Businesses face multiple challenges including the cost of capital and the scarce availability of affordable finance beyond the early stage. Investment readiness is also an issue, with companies facing difficulties in
Amongst the most crucial causes of India’s agrarian crisis and subsequent economic slowdown is the structural inability of its small and marginal farmers to access small-sized, affordable and timely credit. The Open Credit Enablement Network (OCEN), an upcoming digital protocol, displays immense potential in challenging this situation, by shifting how
The first six years of life are the fastest period of human growth and development, as 85% of the brain development occurs by the age of six. Research cites that investing in the early years of a child’s life, brings the highest socio-economic returns on investment. It helps to break