Meaningful collaborations are essential for the success of go-to-market strategies in the rural space. The deep understanding of rural communities built by local NGOs can help start-ups adapt their solutions to suit local needs and drive adoption at scale

An integrated approach is needed to build a cohesive ecosystem that enables access to finance for rural women entrepreneurs, as well as strengthens skill-sets related to their livelihoods as well as financial management. This approach has successfully been adopted at Mann Deshi and has given control on finance to women

Energy plays a critical role in enabling economic and social rural development. I am a passionate believer of Shell’s ambition of ‘powering progress together for more and cleaner energy solutions’ and the fact that collaborations and partnerships are the key to solving climate change and other global systemic challenges.

Analyzing the areas of technology and innovations in the rural ecosystem can help create sustainable solutions that meet the needs of communities at the grassroot level. Additionally, as one of the key factors of integrated rural development, financial viability can enable holistic growth of the rural economy.

To realize the dream of Aatmanirbhar Bharat, there is a need for social and commercial innovation to go hand in hand and develop solutions that address rural needs, accelerate rural development as well as empower rural communities to contribute to the country’s growth journey. Such impactful solutions are needed across the county, customized to suit… Read more “Ramanan Ramanathan”

As a Farming-service provider, Oorja emphasizes on analyzing the demand of rural communities to select sites for solar projects. The SoD Framework will be useful as we expand our services to new geographies. It facilitates comparison of the socio-economic, agricultural, climactic and other parameters across different districts. At a more local level, it could also… Read more “Clementine Chambon”

With limited access to on-ground information and understanding about rural customer base, there is an acute need for a structured framework that can support entrepreneurs like me, to help identify target villages best suited to pilot our product.
For early-stage start-ups like ours, it is tough to physically survey and gather data from hundreds… Read more “Vishal Singhal”

This is a great tool for us, as it make our investment case to the investors is becoming much stronger. The investors like the data-driven approach to justify our presence in the district and are more confident that there are enough customers who want and can afford to pay for our cold storage solution in… Read more “Akash Aggarwal”

Having been in the rural impact space for a number of years, I have been looking for this kind of a tool. The Stages of Development Framework can help zero-in on the right Total Available Market (TAM). This tool, allows for an informed data-driven decision-making that can be used by executives at different levels –… Read more “Vimal Panjwani”

The Stages of Development tool definitely has the potential for value creation for rural-focussed start-ups, especially during the incubation phase. This tool helps rural entrepreneurs to incorporate a structured and data-driven approach in their thinking, while selecting target geographies for pilot testing and expansion.

The Stages of Development framework is a great platform for collaboration between start-ups, industry, NGOs and policy makers to pilot innovations and make it available to the rural community.
Agri-tech start-ups, in particular, can use this tool to build farmers’ access to market, credit, insurance, insights and advisory services.

Health Innovators like us have a huge task ahead, post COVID-19. We need to ensure that our innovations are rolled out efficiently and to be able to strengthen delivery of health services across India.
The Stages of Development Framework comes at the right time to help us, start-ups and innovators, to systematically plan our… Read more “Dr. Kanav Kahol”

2020 has challenged human spirit like never before, as we look forward to continue to have a world free of hunger, poverty and inequity, we need to bring all our collective best effort together, India 2022 Stage of Development Framework is one such collaboration that is bridging the best folks together so that we can… Read more “Vineet Rai”

A ‘tri-sector’ approach, involving the government, corporates and civil society can create synergy between sectors, leading to holistic and sustainable rural development. This can further fast track rural transformation for quicker poverty elimination. Creation of value-chains for high-value agri-products such as livestock and horticulture, which account for more than half of the value of agriculture… Read more “Parul Soni”

The challenges rural India faces significantly differ from that of urban India. At the same time, significant market opportunities exist in rural India. For instance, there is a $50 billion+ market opportunity for clean energy innovations to power livelihoods in rural India. This makes it critical for us to build a deeper understanding of the… Read more “Arunabha Ghosh”