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  Catalytic Financing for Scaling Up Solar in South Asia

  PUBLISHED: May, 2024

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  Intellecap Lighthouse 5.0 – An Anthology of Ideas & Insights (2023)

  PUBLISHED: March, 2024

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  Intellecap’s Evaluation of Mothers@Work programme published by UNICEF Bangladesh

  PUBLISHED: March, 2024

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  Unlocking Data Sharing in Agriculture

  PUBLISHED: January, 2024

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  Sankalp West Africa Report

  PUBLISHED: January, 2024

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  Sankalp Global Summit 2023 Report

  PUBLISHED: December, 2023

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  Using Climate Tech for Achieving Net Zero & Resilience- by Sanchayan Chakraborty and Santosh Singh in ” Impact Investing Handbook 2022″

  PUBLISHED: October, 2023

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  Net Zero in Agriculture: Role of Technologies

  PUBLISHED: July, 2023

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  10th Sankalp Africa Summit 2023-Report

  PUBLISHED: July, 2023

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  Impact Investing in South East Asia: Update 2020-2022

  PUBLISHED: May, 2023

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Catalytic Financing for Scaling Up Solar in South Asia
PUBLISHED: May, 2024
Multiple countries in South Asia have made ambitious net zero targets to address climate change, including Bangladesh’s proposal for 2050 and India’s commitment for 2070. This calls for
accelerating the clean and renewable energy transition. The region has immense renewable energy prospects, especially for solar energy which holds a potential of 939 GW.1 However, only 3.8% of the total potential has been developed so far.
The Catalytic Financing Facility for solar aims to infuse investments in the emerging solar segments across target countries. The proposed facility is designed to take a co-investment or blended approach, combining patient development capital with commercial capital to reduce the overall cost of capital while de-risking investments. The facility will de-risk incoming capital with a combination of risk mitigation mechanisms such as payment guarantees, partial credit guarantees and others, while building the ecosystem through capacity development of stakeholders. The concessional capital will assume a high-risk position while commercial capital will be in a low-risk position enabled by grants that provide risk mitigation
measures. The capital flowing through the capacity is expected to largely provide debt to the enterprises and projects while equity, grants, and technical assistance will receive the rest of the share.
Key benefits of the facility are seen across two primary pillars – reducing the cost of capital for project deployment which will lead to reduced tariff of solar energy to consumers;
and reduced risk profile through payment guarantee mechanisms and increased agility in the ecosystem with technical assistance. Further, the design of the facility seeks to address specific barriers in focus segments through a combination of commercial capital along with risk mitigation measures to enable commercial viability of the focus segments.
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Intellecap Lighthouse 5.0 – An Anthology of Ideas & Insights (2023)
PUBLISHED: March, 2024
Since 2002, Intellecap has constantly strived to shape outcomes in emerging and underserved markets by developing key insights and new ideas. As a result, the organization has undertaken bold initiatives across its various practices to push the envelope, seeking to build collaboration and thought leadership as part of the social impact discourse. This year marks the 5th edition of the Lighthouse, and there’s been a concerted effort to bring more diverse, yet unique perspectives to the sectors Intellecap covers, and unearth fresh ideas that complement our work in nurturing ecosystems to deliver change.
The goal of this endeavour has always been to highlight and share the most relevant thought pieces with our external stakeholders, in order to bring forth sustainable solutions towards achieving the SDGs, as set forth by the United Nations. Our aim to cover a diverse set of perspectives continues, as some of this year’s published pieces include accelerating net zero transitions in the agri ecosystem, building circular supply chains, the disruptive potential of agtech, the climate-gender nexus and the role of renewable energy in creating a greener future, among others.
It is our sincere hope that the Lighthouse offers you more than a glimpse into some of the most compelling geographies and sectors Intellecap serves as part of its key constituents, and aspires to continue serving in the years to come.
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Intellecap’s Evaluation of Mothers@Work programme published by UNICEF Bangladesh
PUBLISHED: March, 2024
We at Intellecap are pleased to share the release of the evaluation report for the Mothers@Work program, conducted by Intellecap for UNICEF Bangladesh. The report was executed by Ashish Sinha, Rahul Agarwal, Aali Sinha and Siya R of Intellecap.
The Mothers@Work Program, operating within Bangladesh’s Ready-Made-Garment (RMG) sector, is a national initiative aimed at enhancing maternity rights and fostering breastfeeding support for working mothers. The evaluation focused on assessing the program’s implementation in the RMG sector between 2017 and 2022.
The evaluation captured key program insights and its effectiveness and provided a roadmap for its potential scalability both within and beyond the RMG sector and across various country settings.
UNICEF presented Intellecap’s findings on multiple occasions across multiple platforms, notably during World Breastfeeding Week.
This successful evaluation by Intellecap strengthens our position for future collaborations with UNICEF Bangladesh.
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Unlocking Data Sharing in Agriculture
PUBLISHED: January, 2024
Digitized data can be a key enabler in addressing multiple challenges in agriculture with benefits for different stakeholders. To meet food security in times characterized by increasing impacts of climate change on agriculture and supply chain disruptions due to geopolitical tensions, data-driven solutions are being utilized increasingly to optimize the use of inputs, increasing production and productivity and improving access to finance while reducing uncertainties and risks.
Today, however, as the focus on data for agriculture has increased, so have the challenges in the data ecosystem. For instance, there is extensive duplication in data collection, management, and analysis efforts leading to wastage of critical resources and a fragmentation of data ecosystems. Similarly, while several disjoint data pools exist, aggregation of data is constrained because of limited standardization and interoperability. From farmers’ perspective, repeated requests for data is leading to fatigue and a decreasing willingness to engage with digital agriculture service providers.
On the contrary, data-sharing, which can be defined as a scenario where two or more value chain actors share data amongst themselves under a set of binding principles and agreements, can help internalize leakages and orchestrate the agricultural data ecosystem. With this context, Intellecap and several partners organized a learning event and several expert consultations on data sharing in agriculture for smallholder farmers. This report synthesises the learnings from the event and takes a humble first step to decipher action points to promote data sharing in agriculture in a farmer-centric manner.
The report focuses on:
1. Incentives for data-sharing in agriculture;
2. Current scenario of data sharing ecosystem in agriculture;
3. Building blocks of data sharing;
4. Learnings from practical use-cases of data sharing;
5. Recommendations to scale data sharing for agriculture and smallholder farming.
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Sankalp West Africa Report
PUBLISHED: January, 2024
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Sankalp Global Summit 2023 Report
PUBLISHED: December, 2023
One of the Global South’s premier convenings on impact entrepreneurship and sustainable development, the 15th Edition of the Sankalp Global Summit, was a remarkable event that positively engaged over 600 different stakeholders from over 14 countries globally.
The Summit, a celebration of 15 years of Intellecap’s impactful journey in the Global South, was our first fully in-person convening since 2020 when Covid-19 struck and forced the World into a series of virtual convenings. The event was well received and attended by veterans, some of whom have been to Sankalp many times in previous years, as well as newbies who got to experience Sankalp in its full for the very first time.
The Summit themed around ” The ‘Great Transition’: Financing Climate Action for the Global South” was a clarion call for capital, collaboration and decisive action towards solving the global climate crisis. The convening featured over 20 sessions, including vital engagements like Investors Roundtable, discussion on Climate Finance, The Climate Dealroom, Impact Hackathon, and Gender Lens Investing Masterclass.
A shout out to our key global sponsors: Affiliate Partner- Artha Impact, Program Partner- Energy Catalyst, and Knowledge Partners – Aavishkaar Capital, British International Investments, Greening of Finance by Women (GroW), International Development Research Centre (IDRC) & World Bank Group-Korea Green Growth Fund for coming together to help achieve the SDGs , with each of them lending specific perspective and insights at the Summit
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Using Climate Tech for Achieving Net Zero & Resilience- by Sanchayan Chakraborty and Santosh Singh in ” Impact Investing Handbook 2022″
PUBLISHED: October, 2023
Using Climate Tech for Achieving Net Zero & Resilience- by Sanchayan Chakraborty and Santosh Singh in ” Impact Investing Handbook 2022″
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Net Zero in Agriculture: Role of Technologies
PUBLISHED: July, 2023
Agriculture and food systems are responsible for nearly one-third of all global emissions. Paradoxically, while the sector contributes to high emissions, it is itself vulnerable to the effects of climate change, particularly those impacting smallholder farmers from low- and middle-income countries.
However, amidst the challenge of high emissions, the agriculture sector also presents a crucial opportunity to combat climate change and bolster the economic resilience of smallholder farmers. Positively, there is a growing focus on climate action by stakeholders within the sector, including private industry. Nowadays, an increasing number of agri-food corporations are committing to reducing their carbon footprint and transitioning towards net-zero goals.
This research report, supported by IDH and developed by Intellecap, seeks to assist agriculture sector stakeholders in their net-zero or climate action commitments by recommending relevant technology solutions. The report prioritizes and deep-dives into five technology clusters, namely bio-inputs, decentralized renewable energy, precision agriculture, energy efficiency, and farm waste management solutions, while evaluating their scalability in low- and middle-income countries.

Broadly, the report provides a comprehensive overview of net-zero transitions in agriculture and covers the following topics:
• Emission hotspots across agricultural value chains
• Efforts made by the private sector to meet their net-zero commitments
• Feasible technology options to facilitate the transition to net-zero agriculture in the context of smallholder farmers
• Case studies of technology implementation for net-zero transitions
• Collaborative actions required to scale high-impact technology clusters

The report is expected to be valuable for a wide range of sector stakeholders, including corporations, technology service providers, development funders, and governments. These stakeholders may be involved in reducing carbon footprints, designing products/services for climate change mitigation, or creating an enabling environment for climate action in agriculture.
If you have any queries or feedback on the report, please write to ravi.gupta@intellecap.net, or
borthakur@idhtrade.org.
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10th Sankalp Africa Summit 2023-Report
PUBLISHED: July, 2023
One of Africa’s largest convening on impact entrepreneurship and sustainable development, the 10Th Edition of the Sankalp Africa Summit, was a remarkable two-day event that positively engaged over 1,300 different stakeholders from over 45 countries globally.
The Summit, a celebration of 10 years of Intellecap’s impact journey in Africa, was our first fully in-person convening since 2020 when Covid-19 struck and forced the World into a series of virtual convenings. The event was well received and attended by veterans, some of whom have been to Sankalp many times in previous years, as well as newbies who got to experience Sankalp in its full for the very first time.
The Summit themed around ”Transformative Impact” was well received and attended by veterans, some of whom have been to Sankalp many times in previous years, as well as newbies who got to experience Sankalp in its full for the very first time. The two-and-a-half days of in-person convening featured over 45 sessions, including investor roundtables, networking cocktails and dinners, masterclasses, entrepreneur pitches, deal rooms, debates, showcases and panel sessions.
Additionally, in Sankalp’s true spirit of collaboration, we hosted ten unconference-style sessions where Sankalp attendees had the unique opportunity to contribute and curate content in informal ‘discussion zones’ with no stages, microphones, or digital screens.
A shout out to our key global sponsors: Strategic Partner- Visa Foundation, Affiliate Partner-GIZ and Program Partners-Villgro Africa, FSD Uganda, US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) & Energy Catalyst for coming together to help achieve the SDGs , with each of them lending specific perspective and insight
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Impact Investing in South East Asia: Update 2020-2022
PUBLISHED: May, 2023
Imp-Inv-in-SEA-Update-2020-22-final This report titled ‘Impact Investing in South East Asia: Update 2020-2022’ provides insights into the current state and trends of impact investing and gender lens investing (GLI) in the region. The report analyzes data on impact investment deals for 2020-2022 and builds on prior Intellecap engagements commissioned by Investing in Women to track the evolution of impact investing and GLI between 2007-2019.
The report reveals that impact capital flows have significantly increased in the region over the past 3 years, with investors committing more than 67% of the cumulative capital invested in the ten-year period spanning 2007-2016 in just the current three-year period under review. DFIs invested about USD 2 billion per year over the last six years while private impact investors deployed about 40% more capital across 40% more deals in the current three-year period compared to the prior three-year period (2017-2019).
The report also highlights the diversity of the Southeast Asian impact investing market in terms of deal value and deal volumes. Indonesia continues to lead the region with respect to PII deal volume, while Vietnam has replaced Indonesia as the top DFI investment destination, both in terms of deal value and volume. Thailand attracts the largest ticket-size deals in the region. Myanmar has seen a significant decrease in terms of deal value and volume.
Furthermore, the report indicates that GLI has grown significantly in the region over the last six years with seven times more capital being invested with a gender lens compared to the prior three-year period (2017-19). Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines combined constitute about 80% of GLI deals by volume.
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