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Sankalp Awards Announced in Mumbai

 

The most sought after social enterprise recognition in India - the Sankalp Social Enterprise Awards  announced winners in 5 high-impact sectors.

These are enterprises that work across  India to create impact in the areas of healthcare,energy (renewable), technology for development and agri businesses.

These awards were given at the Sankalp Forum, the largest aggregation of social enterprises in the world; at the Renaissance Powai, Mumbai.

The Winners for 2013 were Barrix Agro Sciences in the Agriculture, Food & Rural Business category,Green Power Systems in the Clean Energy/Technology category,Best First Step Education/IQST in the Education & Vocational Trainingcategory, Banka Bio Loo in the Healthcare, Water & Sanitation category and Awaz De in the Technology for Development.

Awaz De also won the Sankalp-Artha Grand prize of USD 40,000, being jointly chosen by Prakash Bakshi Chairman Nabard,William Hammink, the Mission Director of USAID/India and Sunil Kaushal,Regional Chief Executive, India & South Asia, Standard Charted.

InVenture won the second edition of DFID Samridhi-Sankalp Recognition for Women Empowerment. The winner was felicated by Parveen Amanullah, Bihar's Minister of Social Welfare and received a cash grant of INR 5 Lakh.

Sakhi Unique Rural Enterprises won The Sankalp Forum and the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves  Sankalp AllianceAward for Innovation in Clean Cooking Solutions.Sakhi received a cash grant of USD 15,000 along with the opportunity to be considered for theAllianceSpark Fund.

༯span>Representatives from over 30 countries thronged the Sankalp Forum this year, including USAID, IFC, Village Capital, Villgro, Department of Industrial Development, (DFID, UK)ࠇIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft for Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)) , Akshaya Patra, Deshpande Foundation, Ashoka Singapore Advisory Council, Legatum and several other stakeholders in the social enterprise space.

Day one of the Sankalp Forum hosted the  G-20 Inclusive Business Workshop.The event marked the Asia leg of the G20 Inclusive Business Workshop series, and was organised by the Governments of Germany and Saudi Arabia, as co-facilitators of the G20 Pillar private Investment and Job Creations. At the event were Ms Susanne Dorasil from the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation & Development (BMZ), Amitava Chattopadhyay Chaired Professor of Marketing & Innovation, INSEAD, SahbaSobhani, Acting Programme Manager, Business Call to Action, UNDP.

 

Aparajita Agrawal, Director Sankalp Forum stated,  at Intellecap started the Sankalp awards to discover and recognize the best social enterprise models.Since 2009, we have sourced over 450 social enterprises, enabled 200 mentoring connections and facilitated over USD 120Mn of equity investments into more than 30 enterprises.We congratulate this year's winners and look forward to continuing our work to find and support high potential social enterprises with a special focus on low income and North Eastern states of India this year.

About Sankalp Forum

Sankalp Forum਼(www.sankalpforum.com), an Intellecap initiative, recognizes & supports innovative, sustainable, high impact social enterprises. It builds an enabling ecosystem for early-stage businesses, channels impact investments, and engages over 11,000 stakeholders globally through collaborative year-round initiatives. It mobilizes a community of entrepreneurs, investors, enablers and policy-makers to encourage innovation, facilitate scalability, and drive consensus on matters that aid social enterprise development.

 

Sankalp's Annual Summit is the largest social enterprise focused gathering in the world, and in 2013 it partnered with Unconvention to become the Sankalp Unconvention Summit. The Summit brings together more than 1,000 delegates, thought leaders, industry experts, policy makers from around the world to voice, discuss, debate issues, trends and solutions that aid social enterprise development.