Women Rising in India
India | June 22, 2023
India’s Avaana Capital raises $70 million for climate and sustainability fund
ImpactAlpha, June 22 — Mumbai-based, women-led venture capital investor Avaana Capital is looking to raise a total of $120 million for its first …
Gender Smart | May 22, 2023
Bringing women to the forefront of sustainable development
The following is an excerpt from “Working to restore: Harnessing the power of regenerative business to heal the world,” by Esha Chhabra. In …
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Climate + Gender | January 31, 2022
Impact Investment Exchange lists $30 million Women’s Livelihood Bond on the Singapore Exchange
ImpactAlpha, January 31 — Singapore-based Impact Investment Exchange has listed WLB4Climate on the Singapore Exchange. Proceeds from the $30 million bond will be …
Dealflow | February 25, 2019
Indian bond offering launches to lower rates on loans to rural women
ImpactAlpha, February 24 – The World Bank, U.N. Women, and the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) have launched a bond to …
Features | December 6, 2017
Small Change, Big Impact: The one-line revolution in land rights in rural India
West Bengal, India –Suchitra Dey and her husband, a truck driver, had struggled for years to earn a living, taking odd jobs and …
Features | November 29, 2017
Like Darjeeling tea? Meet one of the first women factory managers in India’s premier tea region
DARJEELING, INDIA — At Jungpana, a remote tea estate in Darjeeling, India’s famous tea growing region, two dozen women gingerly move through the fields and …
Features | November 22, 2017
How one artist is changing India’s male-dominated culture, one cartoon at a time
Mumbai, India — Even in India’s most modern city, women must still navigate an oppressive set of taboos. The unwritten rules make them cautious of …
Features | November 1, 2017
Four women defying the odds in India’s male-dominated startup scene
In their “locker-room conversations,” women entrepreneurs in India share stories about how, at meetings with their male counterparts, they are assumed to be …
Features | October 21, 2017
Women farmers are leading northern India from subsistence to regeneration
ALMORA DISTRICT, UTTARAKHAND — Shanti Devi is racing around her farm in her sari, shooting at monkeys with a slingshot. Her tiny plot, at nearly …
Features | October 21, 2017
How women artisans are reviving ancient crafts and modern livelihoods in rural India
MANIPUR, INDIA — Manipur, a mountainous state in the far east of India, is known as the country’s Switzerland. Residents in the villages in the …
Beats | October 21, 2017
Women Rising in India: An ImpactAlpha Special Report
That the rising social and economic power of women in the next two decades is a global megatrend bigger than the rise of …
Features | October 20, 2017
Meeting women who are leading India from what’s wrong to what’s working
In college, my birth country of India was always a subject in politics and development classes. India ranked near the bottom on nearly …
Gender Smart | March 30, 2017
Women Rising in India: Searching for Solutions in the Land of My Birth
In college, my birth country of India was always the subject of politics and development classes, because it ranked low on nearly every …