Social Healthcare Enterprises (SHE). All of your hospital’s operational needs can be met in one place.
SHE, an integrated solution to enable healthcare facilities access non-clinical services like financing, equipment & facility maintenance, medical waste management, legal and advisory services which leads to efficient cost management, clinical outcomes and ultimately enhancing the quality of healthcare.
Available as a web platform and integrated android app, this product enables frontline staff workers in any setting (urban, rural, rurban) across thematic areas to:
Built within the framework of a prayer wheel, where every interaction is a continuation of the previous discussion, and enhanced by an easy-to-use UI and vernacular languages, this solution helps all the key staff in a programme plan and monitor their programme.
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Inspired by the Sustainable Rural Livelihood framework, Measure of Livelihoods is a participative monitoring tool for assessing livelihoods.
The tool has three parts:
The first part provides quantitative data and trends on how the five capitals behave within the project area. The second part provides the qualitative aspects, within the same sample, so that managers can take critical decisions such as re-strategising. The third part provides contextual information which validates the first and second part and also addresses the attributability of changes in livelihoods.
The tool has been used across multiple villages and has helped programmes assess the progress on outcomes easily. Please reach out to us for more information.
This is a digital, societal platform that provides scale and integration to farmers and artisans. It serves the farmer and other stakeholders who play a vital role in the farmer’s livelihood. Such stakeholders are invited to this platform with an intent of exploring new opportunities, expanding business scope, exchanging data and even plugging into each other’s systems through interoperability.
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3 FOLD – Wealthy, Resilient and Responsible Farmers
3Fold is about developing wealthy, resilient and responsible farmers – making them successful entrepreneurs and sustained job creators, helping them increase their income by three times. It believes in the empowerment of farmers and their entrepreneurship potential.
It addresses the key gaps of:
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The solution consists of an Android app and web platform that helps hospitals monitor and execute healthy WaSH practices. The WaSH App has been made in accordance with the Government of India’s Kayakalp Guidelines prepared for healthcare facilities. The multilingual app has a simple and iconised user interface and configurable functionalities.
The adoption of appropriate WaSH habits within healthcare delivery systems on a real-time basis is expected to reduce delay in action when issues are reported, save time, save money, and, most importantly, save lives.
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The cycle of ill health and poverty is kept intact by system inefficiencies, episodic treatment seeking behaviour of the poor, and minimal focus on prevention and non-medical determinants of health. The poor lose up to 1-2 months of productive time in a year to an illness of self and family. Almost 50-80% of them live with some form of undiagnosed illnesses and die earlier than those who are economically better off. About 50-60 million people in India have been pushed to poverty, in the last decade, because of health-related expenditure.
Invest for Wellness (i4We) is a system innovation in primary healthcare, which combines health and wealth interventions, and focuses on wellness for the poor in an affordable, quality assured and scalable way. The programme ensures the primary care of members, navigates them through a range of existing secondary and tertiary providers and uses a blended financing model. The model combines medical, behavioural and social science with an appropriate mix of technology and health financing. It is currently delivered in four settings – Urban, Rural, Factories and Sex Workers’ collectives.
In any setting, a household becomes a member by saving a minimum of ~ 0.8-1 USD per week in a local health group. When a family member is ill, they get free, prompt, convenient and empathetic care in the local clinic by a nurse and a dial-in doctor. When they are well, they are screened systematically for 10 high-burden conditions. In the case of chronic conditions, continued support to adhere to treatment and other changes, is provided. When the condition requires hospitalization or advanced treatment, they are referred to a quality assured network of providers and treatment adherence.
The i4We model is guided by the philosophy of “work with what works” and complements the existing network of health providers by making them more effective and efficient, with a customer focus.
Members get health advice, assured screening and treatment for 20 diseases and conditions, and priority access to health services.
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Climate change consequences and effects on sectors, communities, and natural habitats are interconnected and complex.
The Climate Practice at the Catalyst Group believes in a vision to build “A thriving world powered by resilient communities and carbon neutral systems”. Given the imperative to address systemic gaps in climate ecosystems and promote people-centric models at scale, the Catalyst Group intends to build on our expertise and relationships with vulnerable groups to strengthen climate action.
We work with vulnerable people who are disproportionately affected by climate change (small marginal farmers, marine fisherfolk, Nano, Micro, and MSMEs, street vendors, and indigenous people) to continue improving their resilience, or the capability to recover from or adapt to any climate-related disruption without compromising their lives, livelihoods, or long-term well-being.
To address the various levers of impact, the Catalyst Group works with nodal organisations who have the relevant community integration and work at the succinct intersections,
The Regenerative Communities Model implemented by the GREEN Foundation adopts a comprehensive framework and a collaborative action model bringing in regenerative practices, livelihoods, health, and market. The women farmers’ owned and governed Janadhanya Federation and Janadhanya Producer Company anchor and drive this initiative. GREEN Foundation brings its expertise and passion related to agroecology, biodiversity, and women farmers’ empowerment, and orchestrates this action on the ground. This model ensures that every family has access to a set of support and services to undertake crop production, allied activities, and any non-farm enterprises, and address family-specific health and nutrition. The practices that are promoted are planned in such a way that there is biodiversity and resource regeneration. The work so far and the base of communities is giving enough confidence as a step forward in partnership with key enablers with this framework across the GREEN Foundation locations. Apart from the holistic model of Regen Communities, this initiative has developed specific components which can be embedded in other programmes and scaled individually – Regenerative Agri Practices (RAP), BIoinput Resource Centre (BRC), Community Seed Banks (CSB), Value-addition Micro Businesses such as Cold Press Oil, Millet Processing Units, etc.
We want to achieve impact at scale by co-investing with change agents to shape solutions and investments. Some of the work we have implemented in this regard is outlined below:
Our ambition as an organisation is to contribute to impact, scale and sustainability. We achieve this by partnering with large scale/deep change-makers and investors, enabling them to succeed through our capabilities of evaluation partnerships.
Working with CIFF India’s Power, Clean Air and Cooling portfolio partners, CMS co-creates and deploys Theories of Change, Cascade to Impact, Results Frameworks, Partner and Programme Level Management Information Systems (MIS) and Interactive, Tech-enabled Dashboards. facilitate indicator design workshops with sectoral players. Conducted gating review and uncovered insights for investment course correction.
On the solar electrification project (2022-2023) to evaluate the impact of decentralised electricity of last mile public health facilities like Sub-centres (SC), Health & Wellness centres (H&WC) and Public health centres (PHC) in the states of Karnataka and Meghalaya. Currently, the baseline for the study has been completed. The primary scope of the study is to assess the extent to which the DRE programme has impacted the performance of public health facilities and examine factors contributing to the sustainability and institutionalisation of the programme.
Is a $10Mn blended finance facility, that aims to create an environmentally and financially sustainable, scalable, and replicable model of bamboo production, value addition and sale via collectives of 7,500 farmers and 3,600 women artisans in rural Maharashtra and Karnataka who will who will collectively own and manage the end-to-end value chain of bamboo products (from the purchase of saplings for the cultivation of bamboo to sales of final value-added products). The project has been catalysed by USAID, Industree and Kois and is expected to launch in 2022. The project will establish farmer-producer organisations & artisan-owned enterprises to manage bamboo farming & artisanal production, deliver skills training & capacity-building programmes enabling sustainable land management, efficient production & modern design, and raise capital via an innovative finance mechanism to equip farmers & artisans with seed, acceleration & working capital required.
We work with vulnerable people who operate as small producers (farms, forests, allied industries, fisheries and MSMEs) to enhance their livelihoods. Our overall objective is to promote wealthy, resilient and responsible small producers at a national scale through inclusive entrepreneurship. Our approach to build wealth for small producers focuses on having effective market engagement and co-creating business solutions that benefit both businesses and small producers.
Strengthening small producers and their livelihoods at a national scale lies at the heart of our mission and our work is built on a set of core beliefs and learnings:
We ensure that our beliefs are turned into action by employing impactful approaches like:
We use multiple levers to achieve our vision, such as:
By building capacities for various actors (internal and external) based on market opportunities and institutional architecture
By facilitating appropriate financial services throughout the value chain—incubation, production, processing, marketing and so on
By forging business partnerships and orchestrating a range of solutions
By providing technical support—value chain studies, landscape studies, feasibility studies, business planning, hand-holding and mentoring support, institutional diagnosis and assessments, quality assurance systems, technology products, etc.
To address the various levers of impact, we work with a number of organisations like:
Vrutti, which has a strong grassroot presence and domain expertise, works on the mobilisation and institutionalisation (institutions and clusters) of small producers in order to build their collective agency and supply chain readiness
Fuzhio which specialises in marketing, bringing market opportunities to entrepreneurs, and developing a market-ready supply chain
The GREEN Foundation, that has a strong expertise in biodiversity and conservation, works to promote sustainable, climate-friendly practices
We implemented a number of important initiatives, including:
3-Fold – Working with Vrutti, the 3-Fold model aims at building wealth, resilience and responsibility for the smallholder farmers by working end-to-end on five major value chains. This model delivers six key services, customised and bundled, to the farmers. This programme has been working in six states with over 70,000 small and marginal farmers through 29 Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs).
Walmart Vriddhi Supplier Development Programme – Working with Walmart, the Vriddhi programme works with 50,000 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in India to expand their domestic capabilities and participate in the global economy. It offers on-demand learning and personalised mentoring for MSMEs, as well as onboarding and incubation support on Flipkart and Walmart Marketplaces.
Working with SEWA Bharat, we are providing mentoring support for strengthening Bihar’s only women-led Karnabhoomi Farmer Producer Company, set up in 2018 by 750 women shareholders across two districts: Munger and Bhagalpur.
We want to achieve impact at scale by co-investing with change agents to shape solutions and investments. Some of the work we have implemented in this regard is outlined below:
With the ambition of offering flexible financial products customised for individual small producers, we are in the process of setting up a blended finance facility through the innovative use of philanthropic and debt capital. We will be leveraging guarantee capital to “de-risk” the investment for investors and NBFC partners.
PIE follows the societal platform principles and leverages open-source technology, knowledge resources and deep hand-holding support from pools of professionals, enabling enterprises to directly access national and global markets and reach scale.
This unique evaluation attempts to determine the profit margins and returns from organic farming. It also provides sectoral inputs on topics including whether going organic for a farmer makes financial sense, if so, how to support it, and if not, how to make it profitable, despite the fact that doing so is both climate-friendly and need-of-the-hour.
MSMEs play a vital role in driving economic growth and development by creating jobs, fostering innovation and driving large-scale societal change. It is crucial to empower MSMEs with the necessary resources and guidance to facilitate their growth.
The goal of Business Catalyst is to partner with MSMEs – to support them to grow and increase their business – by addressing challenges faced by them and offering tailor made solutions. Through a process of one-on-one consultation, Business Catalyst seeks to ensure that an MSME achieves its potential by providing them specific solutions based on its business requirements. The range of solutions offered would be as diverse as assistance in capacity building to providing technical services. The services offered would help an MSME improve profitability and address barriers of growth. Know more.
We work towards the holistic development of small producers and to pave the way to a brighter future. All of our work is geared towards achieving the UN SDGs, specifically Goals 1, 2, 5, 10, 11 and 17.
Our Wellbeing for Workforce practise strives to make wellbeing a reality for the first mile workers and reach 100 million workers by 2030. We are committed to the Wellbeing of Workers, their families and communities.
Over the last 14 years, we have partnered with over 30 organisations and built our presence in over 351 factories across 14 states in India. We have also reached 12 countries across Asia and African regions through technical support on building capacities, programmes, systems and workplace policies. We have reached over 230,000 workers and their families (> than 60% are women).
Our work on worker wellbeing, gender equality and women workforce empowerment finds mention by International organisations and in alliances, such as the United Nations Foundation, World Benchmarking Alliance, World Bank, Walmart Foundation, ICRW, amongst several others.
We are a member of the World Benchmarking Alliance and are on the national consultation on Business and Human rights.
To respond to and address the COVID-19 related crisis around health, livelihood and social areas, we are building an Apparel Sector Response in consultation with key stakeholders from the supply chain.
Our core competencies are in developing replicable models on transformation, large-scale implementation, transferring knowledge and best practices that cut across the boundaries and sectors. We have designed and implemented various national and international programmes.
We have built a repository of solutions and approaches to complex problems. We strongly believe that both worker and business wellbeing can be simultaneously maximised, and not at the cost of each other.
