Nominations are open to the 6th Annual Sankalp Awards (for India-based enterprises) and first ever Sankalp Awards for Africa (for East Africa-based enterprises). Innovative and scalable high-impact emerging enterprises focused on affordable clean energy access and innovative payment mechanisms to underserved and unelectrified regions.

Sankalp Awards is an initiative of the Sankalp Forum, a social enterprise focused platform. Since 2009, Sankalp Awards has been bringing the spotlight on sustainable and scalable leading social innovations that bring wide scale impact and have showcased more than 100 enterprises and facilitated over USD 120 million of equity investments.

With Sankalp Awards in 2014, shortlisted enterprises will receive strategic mentoring, opportunity to pitch to leaders from global financial institutions & investment houses and access to global networks & media. Moreover, the finalists enterprises In India and Africa will receive the opportunity to present their businesses to a global audience at the regional conventions respectively. High-impact African SMEs will be showcased at the Sankalp Africa Summit in Kenya on 12-13 Feb 2014 and the Indian enterprises will have the opportunity to present to a 1000+ audience at the Sankalp Unconvention Summit 2014 in April in Mumbai.

Aparajita Agrawal, director of Sankalp Forum, said, “Through the Sankalp Awards, we aim to demonstrate the ability of a sustainable enterprise to combine innovation and an astute spirit of entrepreneurship to create access to basic facilities where they don’t exist. With the Sankalp Africa program, we aim to create knowledge-share opportunities & wider network linkages for both African and Indian entrepreneurs and businesses.”

Applications Deadline for Sankalp Awards (Africa): 15 November 2013

Applications Deadline for Sankalp Awards (India): 20 November 2013

About Sankalp Forum
Since its launch in 2009, Sankalp Forum – an Intellecap Initiative, has created an eco-system of social entrepreneurs, impact investors and policy makers who are committed to furthering the cause of social impact through market-based approaches. The Sankalp Forum is designed to catalyze impact investments in sustainable and scalable enterprises in India and South East Asia, operating across five high impact sectors - Agriculture, Food & Rural Businesses, Education, Clean Energy, Health, Water & Sanitation and Technology for Development.

Today, Sankalp Forum has grown to become a collaborative network of over 11,000 stakeholders globally. The Forum engages with the impact creating community, including entrepreneurs, investors, enablers, policy makers; through a year-round calendar of initiatives and networking opportunities to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship at the “bottom of the pyramid”.

For more information http://sankalpforum.com/

For more information on the awards write to sankalpforum@intellecap.com