Managing Partner

Official Tabulators

& Process Advisors

Official Field Assessors

& Process Consultants

Awarding Outstanding Innovations to Improve the Status of the

Girl Child

The Kubera-Edelweiss Social Innovation Honors

Objectives

• To honour non-governmental organizations who have positively impacted the status of the girl child through outstanding innovations in the areas of:

– Health & Nutrition– Education – Employability

• To use prize philanthropy as an effective tool to promote:

– Innovation– Awareness– Targeted benefits to the needy

Scope of the Award

• Non-governmental organizations from all parts of India are welcome to participate

• Working on issues around Health and Nutrition, Education and Employability of the Girl Child.

• A clear focus on innovation

• Innovative service delivery helps to create greater impact and greater sustainability

Award Categories

• Education: NGOs working towards educating the girl child and opening up a world of opportunities for her

• Health and Nutrition: Innovation in the area of Health and Nutrition for the girl child which is often neglected

• Employability: Innovative and Sustainable models ensuring that the girl child is employable in the future

Invitation of applications

Screening of applications by internal committee

Shortlisting  9 Finalists

Field Visits to 9 finalists

Case study presentations by the finalists to the external jury

Determining the winners

The Process

Broad Criteria for Selection

• Innovation – Be put into action– Involving change– Seen as improvements by end users/target group– Achieving results (not just being “different”)

• Direct Social Impact– The impact and benefit for end users/beneficiaries

• Sustainability– The sustainability of the project over a period of time

• Replicability– The project has a model that is replicable in similar contexts

• Context– The geographical/political/social context in which the project is running

Expected Outcomes

• To bring focus and attention to the issue of improving the status of the girl child

• To showcase and leverage support for organizations engaging in innovative projects on the issue of the girl child across India

• To enable the organizations to attract international and domestic donor interest

• To share these innovative ideas within the private, public and non-profit sectors, to encourage adaptation and replication

The Jury

Devaki JainNoted Development Economist

& Gandhian Activist

Harsh ManderEminent Human Rights Activist & Author

Shekhar GuptaEditor-in-Chief, Indian Express

Zia Mody Leading Corporate Lawyer

The Jury (continued…)

Shivnath ThukralManaging Editor, NDTV Profit

Farida Lambay, Co-Founder, Pratham and Vice-Principal, Nirmala Niketan College of Social Work

Indu ShahaniHon. Sheriff of Mumbai

and Principal, HR College

The Sponsors

• Private equity firm that invests in cross-border companies.

• Investment approach centered around partnering with great management teams.

• Believes that long-term value is created by firms who can bring operational assistance based on real-world experiences.

• Managing Partner Ramanan Raghavendran-Chairman of the advisory board of Magic Bus- A Mumbai-based charitable organization.

The Sponsors

• Leading financial services company in India

• Current businesses include investment banking, securities broking, and investment management

• Fosters an entrepreneurial culture that emphasizes teamwork and intellectual rigour

• Recognizes the need for corporate organizations and its employees to share the resultant growth in income and wealth with less privileged sections of society

• EdelGive Foundation- Formed to create an effective and efficient institutional platform within Edelweiss to provide structure and direction to the philanthropic activities of Edelweiss

EdelGive Foundation

• The not-for-profit subsidiary of Edelweiss Group

• Formally registered as a Section 25 company in May 2008

• Primary focus is on creating educational and employment opportunities and sustainable livelihoodsfor underprivileged youth

• Brings an “investment banking and venture capital”rationale and thinking to the social sector

• Edelweiss’ strengths – the ability and expertise to act as a bridge between providers and users of capital - are leveraged to achieve the objective of addressing the needs of this sector