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The Sankalp 2010 Awards and Investment Forum is an annual Intellecap initiative committed to catalyzing entrepreneurship in the social enterprise space. Sankalp actively facilitates collaboration between established and budding entrepreneurs, investors, thought leaders and sector stakeholders interested in contributing effectively towards this fledgling yet fast-growing industry.

With a strong focus on double bottomline (social and commercial) enterprises Sankalp, in its second edition, aims to accelerate investment in this space through the showcase of pioneering, sustainable and innovative enterprises capable of long term social impact. Sankalp's primary goal is of bringing together various stakeholders sharing a common conviction that capital should be invested to create multiple bottom-line returns (financial, social and environmental) and not exclusively financial (profit-maximizing) or social (philanthropic) returns.

Thus having successfully established a niche for itself; Sankalp has taken the lead in recognizing those businesses that have mastered the balancing act between the profit and social objectives. Sankalp 2010 Forum and Awards shall recognize, award and connect the most investible social MSMEs (Micro, Small and Medium enterprises) operating in 5 high impact sectors:

Gujarat Water Summit 2010
Theme:"Water Sector in Gujarat – Challenges and Opportunities”

Organizers: Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) & Government of Gujarat

Venue: Courtyard by Marriott, Alishan I, II and III, Ramdev Nagar Cross Road, Satellite Road, Ahmedabad Gujarat India

Description:

India is moving towards a severe water scarcity scenario where its fragile and finite water resources are depleting, while the demand for water from various sectors of the economy is rapidly rising.  In recent years, the rapid industrialization (industry is the second major consumer of water with over 50 billion cubic metres) and growing population have increased the disparity between the supply and demand of water.

Organizer: Sambodhi Research & Communications Pvt. Ltd

Venue: New Delhi

Description: The training is specifically aimed at building institutional and individual capacities in designing & implementing social campaigns to bring about the intended change.

The paper critically evaluates the Greater Bangalore Water and Sanitation Project (GWSAP), implemented by the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB). This project aims to extend piped water supply from the Cauvery to over two million residents in peri-urban Bangalore. This ambitious project has been viewed against the backdrop of the broader trends and debates around market-based reforms in the water sector in Karnataka.

The report presents field experiences and lessons in developing Incentive-based Mechanisms (IBMs) for watershed protection services and improved livelihoods at micro and macro-scales, derived from an action-learning project in India at three locations in the states of Himachal Pradesh (HP) and Madhya Pradesh (MP).

An inter-village transaction was facilitated at one site (the Kuhan micro-catchment in HP), while at the second site (Suan micro-catchment in HP) a transaction failed to materialize despite initial interest. At the third site in MP, there was interest in undertaking a transaction between the city of Bhopal and the catchment of its lake, the Bhoj Wetlands. 

The action research has yielded insights into the role of hydrological information, types of incentive mechanisms, the importance of institutions and the implementation of IBMs.

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The Trans-boundary Water Dialogue (TWD) Project

Location: New Delhi
Last Date: May 12, 2010

This document by Reach Out Water Solutions (ROWS) highlights the daily reality of people living in the slums of Mumbai and the inadequate water supply available to the 10 million slum residents to meet their daily requirements.

It presents a business plan, namely the Slum Water Programme (SWP) that proposes a comprehensive, community driven, decentralised programme to meet the water needs of the slum community.

The programme proposes to do this in three ways:

• Firstly, by dealing with the problem of inadequate supply of water to the slum residents by the municipality, through increasing the availability of water
• By providing improved quality of water through utilising water purification techniques
• Improving access to water by making it available at the doorstep

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Organizer: Sambodhi Research & Communications Pvt. Ltd

Venue: New Delhi

Description:

Excella Orbit, a training division of Sambodhi Research & Communications Pvt. Ltd., is pleased to announce the following training programmes;

Evaluation Conclave 2010
Theme: "Making Evaluation Matter"

Organizers:

• Sambodhi Research and Communications
• Community of Evaluators (COE)
• Association for Stimulating Knowledge (ASK)

Venue: New Delhi, India

Description:

The event will attract global thinkers engaged in innovative evaluation research, theorizing, or practice who seek opportunities to push their thinking in new directions and are interested in applying their ideas in a South Asian context. It will also include leading development theorists, thinkers, activists and policy makers from South Asia to embed discussions in current development issues and contexts that evaluation must respond to.