Recent Developments,
Key Innovations, and
Insightful Reports
Your One Stop Platform for Regular Sector Updates
Sector news
View By Category
Categories
- See all
- Agriculture
- Clean Cookstoves
- Clean Energy
- Climate Action
- Digital Technology
- Education
- Financial Services
- General
- Healthcare
- Hygiene
- Impact Investment
- Inclusive Value Chains
- Livelihoods
- Livestock
- Lower Income Consumers
- Marketing, Distribution and Sales for BoP
- Nutrition
- Sanitation
- Water
- Women Empowerment
September 21, 2012
India: Indian Minister for New and Renewable Energy launches electric rickshaw
Farooq Abdullah, the Indian Minister for New and Renewable Energy recently launched an electric rickshaw for the underserved women of the country. This was launched under the initiative called ‘Ummeed ki electric Rickshaw’. These vehicles would be easy to drive and would cause no pollution. Read more here.
September 21, 2012
Chicago Booth MBAs help make solar lanterns for disaster zones
LumanAID Lab, a company co-sponsored by Chicago Booth MBAs Andrea Sreshta and Anna Stork, make floatable, water proof and solar powered solar lanterns which find use in disaster hit areas. Read more here.
September 21, 2012
Rural communities in Fiji to be electrified by Barefoot Solar
Last year, an initiative (called the “Solar Grandmothers”) through the joint effort of UN Women, governments of Fiji, Solomon Islands, Samoa, Vanuatu, Kiribati and Nauru, and Barefoot College of India, recruited 29 women to learn solar engineering skills in the Barefoot College in India on how to set up solar […]
September 21, 2012
Barefoot Power brightens up Kenya
Smart Solar, a subsidiary of Barefoot Power is a solar lantern company which is operating in Kenya. It has so far distributed a record 300,000 lanterns and lighting kits to the rural poor in Africa. It has set its sights on Kenya as a country next, given its massive underserved […]
September 21, 2012
A solar oven that makes salt water drinkable
Driven by the issue of water scarcity in most developing nations’ rural areas, Gabriele Diamanti developed a solar cooker which would give out drinkable water. The design has won Core77 Design Award for Social Impact. Read more here.
September 21, 2012
Tanzania: Solar installations in demand
In the Zanzibar villages, the concept of solar installation is of much popularity now, as villagers see and admire the success of solar lanterns and home systems installed by three women for over 80 households in the Kendwa Village in north Unguja. Read more here.
September 21, 2012
Uganda: JEEP trains VHT (Village Health Team) Volunteers
JEEP, or Joint Energy and Environment Projects is an NGO based out of Uganda, and is active in the space of clean cookstoves as well. It recently held a workshop wherein it trained 79 VHT volunteers regarding topics as indoor air pollution, energy crisis, improved cookstoves, Mwoto stove, and extension […]
September 21, 2012
Himalayan cookstove project distributes cookstoves in Nepal
The US based charity The Himalayan Stove Project believes in the conservation of nature as well as helping to improve people’s health. Their mode of operation is distributing clean cookstoves to the underserved in developing countries and they recently got done distributing about 1400 clean and efficient cookstoves in Nepal. […]
September 21, 2012
GACC seeks feedback
The Global Alliance of Clean Cookstoves (GACC) is seeking feedback regarding its framework to be used in Phase I of its activities so as to measure the progress achieved so far towards their set milestone of scaling the adoption of clean cookstoves to 100 million households by 2020. Read more […]
Get The Latest From The Social Sector In Your Inbox
Subscribe to our newsletter
View Our Publications
Eight Lessons Learned: Inputs for policy considerations in developing resilience against climate risks for small scale farmers in semi-arid regions, full report
Download Full Report
View Blog Posts
GST 2.0 and Tax Cuts: Can They Make Growth Fairer and Greener?
India's latest GST reform, being termed as GST 2.0, is more than just slashing rates. By simplifying the tax structure, cutting levies on essentials, and supporting renewable infrastructure, it's open..
Reimagining Sports in CSR: From Tokenism to a Vehicle for Multiplying Impact
In 2023–24, Indian companies spent about ₹1,396 crore of their CSR budgets on sports — just 4% of the total ₹34,909 crore Indian corporates spent on CSR that year. Most of the rest went to edu..
Interactive SHG Map of India: 7.5 million Women Self Help Groups are spread across 27 States and 6 UTs in India
Under the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM), India has 7.5 million Women Self Help Groups (SHGs) spread across 27 states and 6 Union Territories. Each of these small, self-governed, and peer-co..