Advisory Services Work with IWMI
S3IDF sub-contracts to the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) to conduct work in Bangalore on the International Waste Management Institute four-city action research initiative with the objective to promote replicable large-scale liquid and solid waste stream recovery and safe reuse
1st Crowd-Sourced Loan Guarantee Made to Waste Entrepreneurs
S3IDF works with RangDe, India’s first peer-to-peer online micro-financing platform based in Bengaluru, to crowd-source funds to supply waste entrepreneurs with low-cost credit to improve their business operations and finance essential investments, such as the purchase of a waste collection
Advisory Services Work with the ADB
S3IDF contracts to the Asian Development Bank for Increasing Access to Energy in Rural Nepal. The project applies the SMBA® in the renewable energy sector Nepal by working with an ongoing Improved Water Mill Program to make the program more
SARI/E Success Story
USAID’s South Asia Regional Initiative for Energy (SARI/E) lists its collaboration with S3IDF as a “Success Story” that, along with other SARI/E projects, made “critically important regional energy milestones” Read More
S3IDF’s Public-Private Partnerships
USAID’s Global Development Alliance (GDA) choses S3IDF as a case study to demonstrate successful public-private partnerships in its Energy Sector Guide to its Building Alliances Series. Read More
Top Innovation Award from the Asia Clean Energy Forum
S3IDF wins a Top Innovation Award for its Social Merchant Bank approach in the Clean Energy Finance Solutions category at The Asia Clean Energy Forum, an annual event hosted by the Asian Development Bank
S3IDF Recognized at World Clean Energy Awards
In its 6th year of operation, S3IDF is honored with the World Clean Energy Award in the NGO and Initiatives category for its lighting program in southern India. The program reaches over 5,500 poor households, communities and SMEs in South
Advisory Services Work with Tetratech
S3IDF sub-contracts to Tetratech under the USAID SARI-Energy program to help lay the foundation for increased clean energy access and improved market structures to facilitate energy trade and investment
Recognition of Previously Informal Waste Workers
The Karnataka high court rules that the city must recognize the contribution of the previously unrecognized waste workers through the issuance of identification cards
Advisory Services Work with PwC
S3IDF sub-contracts to PwC on the World Bank project Global Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Financing Policy Network Concept Development and Options Study
