niiticonsulting - sustainable devlopment solutions

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Opportunity

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Introduction

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Poverty• Credit

• Insurance

• Social security

• Housing

• Education

• Livelihood

• Health

Community issues• Infrastructure management

• Health – clean water and sanitation

• Urban planning

• Safety & Security – women and elderly

• Governance

Other issues • Environment management

• Impact investments – sources

and avenues

• Lack of entrepreneurial

ecosystem

• Human resource management

Key socio-economic issues

Key

stakeholders

Government

Industry

Citizens

Investors

Implementation

Agencies

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To service……

Government

Industry

Investors

Implementation agencies

niiti aims to be a social innovator nurturing an open network for ideas

leading to scalable social impact….

By providing

sustainable

solutions in…

Business Strategy

Marketing Strategy

Awareness Campaign

Social Audit

Documentation

Through an open network of

professionals……

niiti: Enabling social innovation

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Focus

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Focus

Types of organisations/projects

Start up Growth Mature

Nature of solution

Marketing & Business

Strategy

Monitoring & Evaluation Research & Documentation

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Network profile

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Meena

Vaidyanathan

• Meena has had a long and accomplished career across business development, marketing, and public

affairs since 1994

• She has conceptualized and executed a number of innovative brand management and global marketing

strategies for some of the world’s best known technology companies.

• She is a member of the core group at Dialogue Social Enterprise and consults with both for-profit and

not-for profit organizations in various capacities.

• She holds a masters degree in biotechnology and business management

Richa Dubey • Richa has had 16 years of rich experience in communications including a content specialist for print,

new media and television

• She has anchored web communications at Cisco India, led public affairs for a prospective national

innovation university on urbanization, and is presently building an advocacy strategy for the International

AIDS Vaccine Initiative’s India office.

• She is history graduate from the University of Delhi

Bharat Shetty • Bharath’s consulting experience spans microfinance, hospitality and education sector.

• A software engineer who specialized in managing large complex and time-critical projects at Infosys, a

risk analyst in a large corporate and commercial loan origination & adjudication department in Toronto

with CIBC and then led a business development initiative at Prithvi Information Systems in the US

• He is a strategic advisor for The Blue Yonder and Hillside Institute of Management & Academy.

Core Team

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Dr Sudeshna • Dr. Sudeshna is a development economist and works as a consultant for the development sector

• She began her career as an international trade policy researcher with an autonomous think tank under

the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi and thereafter moved on to teaching economics

• She conducts socio economic impact studies, monitoring and evaluation of projects, documentation of

initiatives and case studies

Pallavi Singh • Pallavi has had experiences ranging from business development and research to public affairs and

marketing

• She has managed complex partnerships with industry forums and with business schools alike on behalf

of the organizations she has worked for, namely HCL and Honeywell.

• She is a masters in business management

Core Team (contd.)

• Devyani Srinivasan is a monitoring, evaluation and knowledge management consultant. Her clients

include non-profits and for-profit social enterprises in India, and the International Fund for Agricultural

Development in Eastern and Southern Africa and Afghanistan.

• Prior to becoming a consultant she founded the Knowledge Management Program at Villgro, which

included leading the design and launch of a minor in Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship at IIT-

Madras.

• In addition to her 8 years’ experience in the social sector, Devyani is also a poet. She was once asked to

write a poem on monitoring and evaluation, but has decided to stick to prose with her clients for now.

Devyani

Srinivasan


Mansi

Suryavanshi

• Mansi has worked extensively with CXO audiences across India with not-for-profit organizations like

INTBAU(Prince of Wales Charitable Foundation) and research & consulting firms like International

Marketing Assessment India Pvt. Ltd.

• Her skill set includes business development, creating sectored reports, client relationship management,

events and marketing outreach campaigns.

• With a diploma in Management from IIM Kolkata and over a decade of work experience across varied

sectors, Mansi still finds time to be just to her passions in music and fashion designing.

Swati Gaur• With over 8 years of work experience in development, Swati is adept in conducting quantitative and

qualitative research across the markets with expertise in organizing training and development programs.

• She has worked with pure research outfits, implementing agencies and consultancy organisations during

her career.

• Swati has worked on projects related to water and sanitation, public health, microfinance, corporate

strategy in the BoP space and more recently on sustainability issues in supply chains. She enjoys

bringing together all that she has learnt and her statistical ability in analyzing big data to inform decision

making in the social sector.

Core Team (contd.)

Ruchi Jolly • Ruchi is a CA who has carved out her niche in the area of process improvements and automations while

working with companies like GE on various automation projects which have had an impact on reducing

costs and improving productivity.

• She has also worked on social impact projects related to education, career prospects of rural women.

• As a member of Women Empowerment Committee she is responsible to execute strategies to strengthen

women’s self-help groups, mobilise and capacitate education and career programmes to bring

transformational changes to the lives of rural women.


Detailed profiles of our team: http://www.niiticonsulting.com/about.html

Dr Fred Rose Brian Bell Deepak Srinivas

niiti Network

He is the co-

director/founder of

Acara - a program

of the Institute on

the Environment at

the University of

Minnesota

He has more than

30 years

experience in

innovation and

problem solving

across the

corporate, NGO

and academic

sectors

He is a civil-

environmental

engineer and

sustainability

consultant

He holds a Bachelor’s

of Civil Engineering

from the University of

Minnesota in the US

and a Master’s in

Sustainable

Development from

Utrecht University in

the Netherlands

He has over 7 years of

investment banking

experience.

His keen interests lie in

social enterprise and

start up financing

He holds a bachelors

degree in Finance and

has masters in

management

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niiti Network

In addition to the core team, niiti works closely with a team of committed individuals who are subject

matter experts and sector specialists. We call them the Niiti network. Some active members of the

network include:

Gaurav Kataria

A Harvard Business

School and BITS Pilani

graduate, he has

successfully conceived

and operationalised

many new services and

led multiple strategy

and operations

consulting

engagements across

areas like Innovation,

Customer Experience,

Education, Marketing

and Process

Excellence. He is also

an invited member at

CII’s National

Innovation Council.

Dr. Rama

Krishna Reddy

Kummitha.Dr Reddy is the Assistant

Professor at the Center for

Social Entrepreneurship,

TISS, Mumbai with over 6

years of experience in Social

Entrepreneurship.. has

widely published and

researched on social

entrepreneurship, social

exclusion/inclusion, inclusive

growth and human rights.

Dr. Reddy was awarded with

Indira Gandhi Merit Award

by Govt. of India and Junior

Scientist Award by Bonn

University, Germany for his

academic contribution.

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Clients and Partners

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Partners

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Partners


Some of our Clients

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Select Case Studies

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Krishi Gram Vikas Kendra is an NGO with a mission to facilitate integrated progress and prosperity in rural Jharkhand – one

of India’s most impoverished states. They have been contributing to bringing sustainable development to the region

leveraging the Total Village Management (TVM) model to bring a real difference to their lives, igniting initiative and innovation.

Project Objective:• Impact Measurement and Technology implementation of Social

Return on Interventions (SROI) in the Total Village Management

(TVM) Program

• Content Development for Rural Management programme for KGVK-

Institute of Inclusive Growth

Motivation :• To implement a level of quality and rigor in the monitoring and

evaluation of programmes and to empower and equip the team with

skill sets to run social audits as a process

• To build a rural management programme that is relevant, hands-on

providing an opportunity for youth to contribute positively to rural

sustainable development

Scope:• Document and define standard process for each intervention, including implementation and measurement cycles and develop

standard process and methodology

• Hands-on training to use the Process Design Handbook and statistical software for data analysis.

• Implement a pilot on ground to test the veracity of the process developed

• Conduct research and market survey on scope and availability of rural management programmes in India

• Develop a world-class framework for the rural management programme with a primary focus on hands-on knowledge dissemination

• Suggest and develop case studies for the rural management programme

Krishi Gram Vikas Kendra

** Projects likely to conclude Dec 2013


• Designed a robust process to measure SROI (Social Return on Investment) and trained the team on ground

• Identified a technology platform that will digitize the data collection, analysis and reporting to ensure scale

and sustainability

• Conducted an extensive employability survey to determine market need and scope for a rural management

programme

• Designed a unique application-oriented, field-based framework for imparting management education to

create professionals for the development sector

KGVK : achievements (to date)**

** Projects likely to conclude Dec 2013.


atmosfair is a not for profit social enterprise which offsets air travel emissions by investing in and

developing renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. It is supported by the German Federal

Environment Agency.

Project Objective:• Identify the Green House Gas reduction projects in India.

• Understand the maturity of the Indian corporate market to

invest in carbon offset initiatives

Motivation :• To encourage Indian corporate’s to the fight against

climate change while contributing to the development of

rural India through investments in alternative energy

projects with triple bottom line impacts.

Scope:• Conceptualize and implement a programme to identify projects across India.

• Identify criteria for project selection and select projects.

• Assess different industry sectors for their level of awareness and maturity related to carbon offset or reduction.

• Reach out to organizations that have a mandate to reduce their carbon footprint and socialize the idea of helping them

offset by investing in renewable energy projects.

atmosfair


• Identified 11 companies that have shown interest in partnership after interviewing 61 corporate firms

• Identified 37 CDM-Gold stand benchmarked projects out of which 3 were short listed for investment and

future partnerships.

Atmosfair India Renewable Energy Awards 2011 Finalist

Nuru Energy Pvt. Ltd

Greenhouse gases (GHG) targeted: CO, CO2

Type of activity: LED lighting for rural households

Region: Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa

and West Bengal.

Greenhouse gases (GHG) targeted: CO2

Type of activity: Improved Cook Stoves (ICS)

Region: Madhya Pradesh, India

Parikrama Mahila Samiti (PMS)

atmosfair : achievements


Villgro, formerly known as Rural Innovations Network, is a Non profit organisation that focuses on mentoring and incubating innovations that have maximum potential to change lives in rural India. Villgro began its journey in the year 2001 and has till date incubated over 43 innovations.

Project Objectives:• Oral history project to capture “Voice of Experience” on two

tracks: Talent Infusion in the social enterprise space and Social

Innovation

• Due diligence of finalists in the Villgro Social Entrepreneurship

Awards India held at Sankalp Unconvention Forum, 2013.

• Create 30-sec promo montages for outreach and public voting

Motivation :• To encourage the spirit, initiatives and achievements of

individuals and enterprises which are enabling and creating

the Social Enterprise Ecosystem, and understand the

challenges and trends in Talent Infusion / Innovation in this

space through personal stories and experiences of

practitioners.

Villgro

Scope (for Oral history project):• Research on various kinds of issues around talent acquisition, retention and skilling, identify key players representing various aspects of

this pipeline and capture their thoughts on video

• Edit the videos (in partnership with our production team) and present them as “Voices of Experience” in a freely downloadable format

online (Project likely to conclude in August, 2013)

Scope (for Due-Diligence project):• Create script for presenting the finalists to the public via a 30-sec promo video

• Verify the submission made by the finalists through desktop research, and personal and third-party interviews

• Analyse the facts under various categories including sustainability, impact, and contribution to the ecosystem

• Present recommendations to jury.


• Documented over 75 socially relevant projects and individuals whose experience and

stories can benefit the social enterprise ecosystem covering all possible stakeholders

from NGOs to corporates to academics to hybrid firms and enabling organisations. The

candidates for this project were selected from a thorough research conducted on over

300 possible projects / individuals across India.

• Presented a thorough due-diligence report as well as recommendations to the jury for

Villgro awards, and created 30-sec promos for nation-wide public voting on the

selected 15 finalists. All recommendations were accepted unanimously by the jury.

Villgro: achievements

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iihs was established in Bangalore to address the well-acknowledged and daunting challenges of

rapid urbanization like energy crisis, infrastructure etc. and facilitate appropriate responses and

solutions.

Project Objective:• Advisory on public outreach to key stakeholders

• Create a platform for the youth to engage and be aware

of urban issues

Motivation :• To create awareness and engagement among

stakeholders about challenges related

• to urbanisation and contribute to sustainable

• urban development in India

Scope:• Perform background research to understand the funding landscape and advise IIHS on donor outreach.

• Conceptualise an outreach programme to socialise IUC among students and build a platform to engage youth in urban

issues.

• To support IIHS in putting together the largest congregation of stakeholder discussion through the “India Urban

Conference”

Indian Institute for Human Settlements


• Designed and implemented “San-kranti”, a student challenge addressing issues in Urban India

(www.transformurbanindia.com)

• Supported IIHS to put together the India Urban Conference (www.iuc2011.in) in Mysore and Delhi along

with other partners, and helped create outreach through this programme to all the stakeholders in India

and abroad involved in India’s urban issues.

• Prepared one of the largest databases on urban influencers and practitioners in India.

• Strategic advisory support on ongoing interdisciplinary curriculum and outreach on urban development

for working professionals.

The winner of the National Student Challenge 2011 was Team ChaloBEST from the city of Mumbai for their proposal to install an online Public Information System for Mumbai’s Bus Transportation Network.

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“ “iihs: achievements

http://www.transformurbanindia.com/

http://www.iuc2011.in/


Institute of Palliative Medicine is the only WHO Collaborating Centre for Community Participation in

Long Term Care and Palliative Care in developing world and the 5th one in the whole world. It is the

policy, research and training arm of Pain and Palliative Care Society.

Project Objective:• Document various initiatives of the past 15 years ranging

from social and economic rehabilitation, students in

palliative care, etc

Motivation :• To have the opportunity to understand better a unique

model of community based health care that is self

sustainable, so we can help replicate it across the

country and the world in many areas in healthcare and

beyond

Scope:• Help document the vision and mission of the organisation.

• Help organisation transition from first generation leaders to new generation leaders.

• Create opportunities for a lay person to be inspired by local innovation and compassion leading to trigger a new initiative

or support a similar initiative in his home ground.

Institute for Palliative Medicine: WHOCC


• Conceptualised interactive workshops with past and present volunteers.

• Documented experiences / stories in audio / video and text format from

past / senior volunteers that can be shared for the orientation of new

volunteers.

• Realisation of issues within the system, leading to structural changes.

• Created a detailed strategic roadmap for the period 2012-2017 and a

process for its execution.

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IPM – WHOCC achievements:


Lafarge, the world leader in building materials, is running the Lafarge Invention Awards 2011, a

competition to encourage and reward the most innovative projects in India related to building

materials and contributing to sustainable construction.

Project Objective:• To run Lafarge Invention awards 2011 in India.

• To identify innovative projects in India focusing on

sustainability in construction methods.

Motivation :• Understand the maturity of the Indian construction space

in terms of sustainable solutions

• Promote the importance of environment-friendly

construction designs

• Assist a global mainstream leader in the construction

space to actively target new research in the sustainable

construction space

Scope:• Identify the most innovative initiatives in sustainable construction in India that are less than five years old.

• Identify entrepreneurs, new companies, engineering consultants, architects and academic based in India focusing on

sustainable construction.

• Assist Lafarge to shortlist the winners.


• Prepared one of the largest databases on sustainable construction practitioners and researchers in the

country.

• Organised meetings across some of India’s noted research and technology establishments to create

awareness about the award and identify potential entrepreneurs who have new prototypes in sustainable

construction

• Short listed candidates based on criteria laid out by Lafarge.

: achievements

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Khushii (Kinship for Humanitarian Social & Holistic Intervention) headed by cricket legend Kapil Dev

is a national organization working for the upliftment of poor and destitute communities in both rural

and urban areas in India.

Project Objective:• Identify suitable change makers for the World Action

Forum, a social consultancy connecting corporates &

partners with change makers.

• Document initiatives/cases for Coffee Table Book.

Motivation :• To encourage innovative and scalable/replicable change

makers by providing a learning/exchange platform to

share and learn so that a larger impact can be leveraged

and followed through with appropriate support from

corporates

Scope:• Identify social change makers across 8 mandates of the World Action Forum viz. rural development, education, health,

employability, environment, disability, senior citizen assistance, sports, art and culture

• Design and administer questionnaires

• Verify and triangulate information gathered through use of direct and indirect measures

• Briefly document selected initiatives in the form of case summary reports

Khushii


• 16 innovative change makers across mandates including education, children,

health, environment, disability and employability in India were selected to be

documented

• Designed and administered questionnaire method of information collection

• Executed online research and other means to triangulate and authenticate

information

• Documented inception story, impact, sustainable and replicable/scalable of each

• Provided a learning exchange platform to 16 impactful organizations

Khushii : achievements


Our work speaks for us!

We felt the strong need to review our market outreach strategies and implementation on ground so that they can be more effective and more

importantly, measurable. We hired Niiti Consulting to critically look at our systems and processes and suggest a plan of action that will help us

reach our stakeholders better. We found that they far exceeded their mandate to study each business and department in detail in addition to their

own independent research, to come up with a strategy, tactics and detailed implementation plan that was ethically and morally sound, and

effected sharp marketing at the same time.

This process that covered many geographies and teams was conducted efficiently and through the personal insights they got, they were able to

suggest a fresh approach to our outreach strategy, make projections for an organisational structure with detailed job descriptions, and develop a

simple yet effective measurement matrix. Their efforts were much appreciated by the Apollo Team as well as other stakeholders they engaged

with. I found them responsive, insightful and a pleasure to work with. Premkumar S

Group CEO, Apollo Hospitals

KGVK (Krishi Gram Vikas Kendra) and the Usha Martin University Foundation have engaged with Niiti Consulting on two projects since

April 2013.A project in the social space on developing a monitoring and evaluation process, systems and technology in our Total Village

Management program that covers currently 200 villages in Jharkhand. Another project in developing market knowledge, and planning content

structure for an inclusive growth education offering to be launched in 2015.

We consider Niiti to be an exceptional firm. Breadth and depth of functional competencies in the social space; best in class project

management and consulting intervention behaviours that create confidence and comfort while challenging concepts and thoughts with candid

communication and feedback. This happens with good people doing great things. Niiti has it and the ability to sustain it.To summarise our

interaction to date "Value Delivered".Yezdi Karai, Board Changemaker - Total Village Management Operations and Impact Measurement, KGVK


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