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A resource center where we track and report trends in urban poverty from South Asia.
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- CNBC TV 18 telecast a special coverage of Sankalp Forum's Annual Summit. Watch the video to find out more about our initiative for catalyzing impact investments into sustainable and scalable enterprises globally.
- Intellecap Impact Investment Network (I3N) signs partnership agreement with global investor network Toniic. Read the press release here.
- Intellecap released a study of India's Social Enterprise Landscape - "On the Path to Sustainability and Scale".
- Intellecap releases a study on "Understanding Human Resource Challenges in the Indian Social Enterprise Sector".
- Intellecap conducted a study for the International Finance Corporation on the Micro, Small and Medium (MSME) Finance Market in India. (note - some of the data in this summary is being updated)
- Intellecap inducted Richard Weingarten as Managing Director. Read a note from our Chairman Vineet Rai.
- Legatum Ventures, which invested in Intellecap in 2007 has published a white paper on "Indian Microfinance: Looking Beyond The AP Act and its Devastating Impact on the Poor". The team at Intellecap helped with the paper as well. See an infographic on the paper here, a short summary here, and download the full report here.
- Intellecap co-founder Manju George was invited to the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos this year. Watch her speak at the closing plenary - 'Leadership Across Generations' - along with Nobel Prize Winner Prof. Muhammad Yunus, Prof. Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum among others.
- Intellecap raised INR 22 crore for Waterlife from Matrix Partners India. Waterlife is a pioneer in providing high quality potable water solutions to the underserved in an affordable and sustainable manner.
Reading Room
- Urban Relevance of India's New Fiscal Budget: India's new budget for the fiscal year 2012-2013 does not have much new to offer the country's social sector, especially the urban poor. Does the national budget ignore the urban context? Read
- Nowhere Else To Go: Street children are a common sight in urban centers across South Asia. Though there are few programs -- public or private -- that go beyond merely providing them with shelter, innovative initiatives are cropping up across the region to help these homeless children. How can the lives and prospects of these children be improved? Read
- Water Shops in Pakistani Slums: Pakistan faces serious water woes. But a new social enterprise in Lahore, called Pharmagen Health Limited, is thinking outside the box in how it makes clean water available to the urban poor. Read
- Building an India - South East Asia Social Enterprise Corridor: There is both a growing need and an opportunity to build a corridor of communication and learning between social enterprises, investors, policy-makers and other market enablers in India and South East Asia. Sharing best case practices, learnings from failures, finding solutions to common problems, speeding up the flow of funding across countries, and sharing intellectual capital could be the founding blocks for this Social Enterprise Corridor. Read