Sector Updates: Doing the unprecedented, making informal waste workers bankable in Bengaluru
This article is part of our continuing series on Bengaluru’s waste workers, highlighting the challenges, opportunities and positive developments in the sector. Our first article in this series, Sector Update: The changing landscape of Bengaluru’s waste management systems, highlighted the challenges
Sector Update: The changing landscape of Bengaluru’s waste management systems
This article is the first part of our new series on Bengaluru’s waste workers, highlighting the challenges, opportunities and positive developments in the sector. Studies show that by 2050, India will need New Delhi-sized landfills to “dump” its trash. People
Pay For Success – Practitioner Perspectives on Deal-Making, Incentivizing and Re-Engineering a Global System
Just under a year ago S3IDF published the blog post Standardize the Work, Don’t Lose the Nuance: Can The New ‘Pay for Success’ Models Replicate Into Functional Utility?, which sought to respond to the frontier trend broadly known as the
Small Change, Big Change
Whilst people scrambled to bank ATMs minutes after our Prime Minister’s announcement about demonetization and the carefully framed narrative that followed, for me it was a bit of a waiting game. I thought I was smarter than the rest. I had
Reflection on ‘Applying Market Systems Approaches to Financial Inclusion Projects’
The recent DAI publication by John Jepsen and Bhairav Raja, highlights the challenges and opportunities of Applying Market Systems Approaches to Financial Inclusion Projects. The whole article is worth a close read, although I’ll just touch upon a few salient
Standardize the Work, Don’t Lose the Nuance: Can The New ‘Pay for Success’ Models Replicate Into Functional Utility?
The social impact sector in developed and developing countries needs to innovate their financing structures so that the rising demand for social intervention programming is matched by an expanding supply of capital. The ‘pay for success’ Social Impact Bond (SIB)
“De-Sectoralizing” Development through the SDGs
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were an effort to recognize and set measurable targets against the most pressing global challenges; the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are an expanded opportunity to comprehensively address these same challenges until they are eliminated.
Stories from the Field: Therawand
The following snapshot is the tenth in a series of stories from the Electrifying Households and Schools project, which is a yearlong project that is supported by the Applied Materials Foundation. The project aims to address gaps in end-user financing that
Stories from the Field: Jogihatti
The following snapshot is the ninth in a series of stories from the Electrifying Households and Schools project, which is a yearlong project that is supported by the Applied Materials Foundation. The project aims to address gaps in end-user financing that
Stories from the Field: Ilkal
The following snapshot is the eighth in a series of stories from the Electrifying Households and Schools project, which is a yearlong project that is supported by the Applied Materials Foundation. The project aims to address gaps in end-user financing that
