08:30 am

09:00 am

Welcome from the BoP Global Network, Stuart Hart
Welcome from Ecociate, Kirti Mishra
Summit Agenda, Fernando Casado

09:15 am

Suresh Prabhu, Minister of Commerce and Industry, India

09:45 am

Toward BoP circular economy strategies

Framing Presentation and Moderator: Stuart Hart
Industry Leader: TBA
Thought Leader: Sir Jonathan Porritt, Founder Director,
Forum for the Future

10:30 pm

11:00 am

Finding environment friendly housing solutions for BoP markets

The Construction sector has been the major economic driver in a growing economy. Housing and business infrastructure are key contributors to the sector’s growth. However as an estimated 1.6 billion people (Habitat 2015) need adequate housing across the world, we cannot continue on this trajectory of using high cost  and low quality building materials. The poorly designed spaces, inefficient uses of energy and limited skills of construction workers in the BoP markets add to the challenges. These factors contribute to environmental degradation and therefore there is an urgent need to explore eco-friendly sustainable solutions in the construction sector. All stakeholders need to innovate and offer solutions that are environment friendly, affordable and appropriate for the BoP customers. Policy needs to be set to attract business investments to the sector and business solutions need to be developed for Green Building appropriate for the BoP segment. The social sector can support development of skills as required in construction industry. For e.g. construction of pre-fabricated materials and green materials can be produced locally by community organizations.

ANCHOR: TBA

POTENTIAL CORPORATE AND PARTNERS IN THE SESSIONS: HUDCO, ACC Cement, Ambuja Cement, Ceramic companies, Tata value homes, Tata Steel

FOCUS AREA(S): PARTNERS, IMPACT, INSIGHT

WORKING GROUP 2

Waste management in the context of circular economy, environment, and BoP

Most countries including India have good legislation to regulate waste management. The rules include concepts like resource recovery, circular economy, Extended Producer Responsibility and decentralised waste management. What we have therefore is policies, regulations and intent. As yet, there is little done to transform intent to implementation so that there is a tangible shift towards building a circular economy. In a circular economy where 90% of all waste should go into resource recovery  including closed loop recycling, new businesses need to emerge. Saahas is currently in the midst of identifying such opportunities and businesses, especially those that include and improve the conditions of the informal sector. For eg, the consumer packaged goods industry has a takeback system for PET bottles which is being recycled by the construction sector to manufacture concrete on a commercial scale. These opportunities create new markets, new careers, new manufacturing processes, new technologies, and reduce dependence on virgin materials. Saahas Zero Waste will be conducting two events before April, 2018 to bring attention to the concept of a circular economy . The first event is being organised on December 12 at IIM, Bangalore to discuss business models in the context of a circular economy. A larger event is being organised along with Global Citizen and other partners to engage young people in a dialogue on consumption and circular economy.

ANCHOR: Saahas Zero Waste

POTENTIAL CORPORATES AND PARTNERS IN THE SESSIONS: Coca Cola, IIM Bangalore, Global Citizen, ByFusion,  Govt. of India, and other stakeholders

FOCUS AREA(S): PAYOFF, PARTNERS, CAPABILITIES

WORKING GROUP 3

Making Sanitation Environmentally Sustainable

More than one third of the World population still finds access to a toilet, a luxury. Of this population nearly 650 million people live in India and open defecation is widespread practice.  In an effort to create access to toilet for all the Government of India has been investing in its flagship programme ‘Swachh Bharat Mission’. An estimated 100 million toilets need to be constructed by 2019 to create access for these people. Poverty is often cited as the major barrier but it is now evident that appropriate technology, awareness about health risks and appropriate disposal of faecal waste, all become important part of the toilet business. The sanitation ecosystem of India comprises donor organizations, NGOs, social entrepreneurs and the private sector who are providing behaviour change communication, technology innovation, supply chain, construction of toilets and its monitoring. However, the construction of toilet does not complete the cycle as toilets may need repair/maintenance and more importantly the waste needs to be removed and processed such that the objective of clean environment is achieved. Whether it is the sewer drains in large cities or safety tanks in smaller towns or the leaching pits in the rural areas, the need for Faecal Sludge/ waste management (FSM) has emerged as a challenge. As more of the toilet population gains access to toilets and instances of open defecation decreases, the need for FSM becomes significant for the safe and environment friendly disposal of human waste. The major urban cities and towns in India have capacity to process 12000 million litres per day (32 per cent) while the total sewage generated is about 38000 million litres per day (MLD). In the small towns and rural areas, the cleaning of the leaching pits, transportation, treatment, and disposal of waste needs to be addressed through environment friendly systems which are sustainable. The stakeholders need to discuss and converge on the business processes and models that remove the risk from polluting solid waste and water to the environment, towards zero pollution.

ANCHOR: Ecociate / Water for People

POTENTIAL CORPORATES AND PARTNERS IN THE SESSIONS: Delhi Jal Board, SATO, PSI, WB, USAID

FOCUS AREA(S): PAYOFF, PARTNERS, IMPACT

WORKING GROUP 4

                                   New Strategies for Building BoP Ecosystems: Setting the Research Agenda

Since the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) concept was first introduced by Prahalad and Hart in 2002, it has evolved into a holistic strategy for sustainable development. Fifteen years later the BoP concept continues attracting interest of both academia and industry. However, the debate has moved from whether BoP is good for the poor and society at large to how to leverage the idea maximally for co-creating value. The debate has also moved from devising affordable products and services as market entry strategies for BoP markets to creating market centric sustainable business models, engineering innovations and developing entrepreneurial approach to serve BoP markets. Instead of imposing external solutions, the focus is now on working closely with all stakeholders, more so with billions of people in different parts of the world to create local solutions.

Scholars play a critical role and can provide thought leadership in developing sustainable solutions and business models that fit the needs of industry. The underlying idea behind the research consortium is to create a platform for academic scholars to come together, discuss and debate current state of knowledge of BoP and identify research topics to advance the field.

In this track, participants would be organized in small groups around certain research themes on the BoP such as generating new research ideas, selecting research design and approach (conceptual, qualitative and quantitative), challenges of doing data collections and executing research.

ANCHOR: IIM Ahmedabad

FOCUS AREA(S): IMPACT, INSIGHT

WORKING GROUP 5

Creating Change Agents for Sustainable Business

The UN’s Global Goals (“SDGs”) have set a challenging framework that 192 countries have committed to delivering on, including many countries where effective BoP strategies are vitally important to future development.

Whilst some businesses, especially a prominent handful of large multinationals, are showing statesmanship-like leadership in responding to sustainability issues, overall business awareness of sustainability is very low. As such, the business sector’s response to the challenges and opportunities that sustainability presents has been correspondingly slow.

Businesses of all scales – from micro- to multinational – need entrepreneurial owners, managers and leaders (“change agents”) to successfully navigate and exploit these sustainability challenges and opportunities. This is particularly the case in BoP contexts worldwide, where sustainability issues are often front and centre.

This workshop will explore what it takes to be a successful change agent in BoP contexts and the role(s) that change agents are/could/should be taking to help build BoP ecosystems. It will also consider where the gaps in support for change agents are, and how these could be overcome.

ANCHOR: One Planet Education Networks (OPEN)

POTENTIAL CORPORATES AND PARTNERS IN THE SESSIONS:  TBA

FOCUS AREA(S): PARTNERS, IMPACT, CAPABILITIES

01:00 pm

02:30 pm

Framing Presentation and Moderator: Stuart Hart
Industry Leader: Ashish Gadnis, Founder and CEO, BanQu
Thought Leader: Iqbal Quadir, Founder, GrameenPhone

03:15 pm

03:30 pm

A platform integrating identity, mobile access and financial inclusion to transform development for millions at the BoP

The Indian government’s JAM initiative – Jan DhanYojana that has provided banking access to over 300 million people in India and growing, Aadhar, that has brought in digital identity for more than 99% of the Indian population, and Mobile access through telecom networks, that reaches over 1 billion people, provides potential to transform the way benefits are transferred, economic opportunity, job creation & financial empowerment to the BoP. JAM and associated initiatives are bringing together tech companies, banks, e-commerce and digital payment companies, grassroots last-mile delivery organizations, NBFCs, MFIs, small finance banks, and the government administrative machinery for schemes, to integrate at scale. JAM can be a transformational model that can be scaled across Asia, and the Indian government is already in talks with other Asian governments for transfer of knowledge and know-how. Sattva has been working on livelihood initiatives empowered by digital financial inclusion, and is also conducting deep research into mapping the current needs and future potential for making consumers at the BoP go cashless through digital and enhance their economic and social prospects.

ANCHOR: Sattva

POTENTIAL CORPORATES AND PARTNERS IN THE SESSIONS: Axis Bank, YES Bank, SBI, L&T, Tech startups that are part of India stack, NitiAyog, banks such as Bandhan bank

FOCUS AREA(S): PAYOFF, PARTNERS, IMPACT, INSIGHT

WORKING GROUP 7

How can we re-imagine the future of skills and work?

With over 64.4% of the total population between the ages of 15 and 59 in 2015, and a million people entering the workforce every month, India’s demographic dividend underpins India’s rapid growth into one of the world’s largest economies. Skills, the presence of jobs, and ensuring gainful employment, are key areas of consideration to ensure that this demographic dividend is leveraged for economic growth. On the other hand, the Fourth Industrial Revolution marks a disruptive shift in labor markets across developing economies, including in India. According to the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs report, the most in-demand occupations or specialties did not exist 10 or even five years ago, and the pace of change is set to accelerate. In such a rapidly evolving employment landscape, the ability to anticipate and prepare for future skills requirements, job content and the aggregate effect on employment is increasingly critical for industries, governments and civil societies, in order to fully seize the opportunities presented by these trends. The Future of Skills platform can bring together industry, funders, government and other players to collaborate to re-imagine the employability landscape in India, across urban and rural environments, for the BoP.

ANCHOR: Sattva

POTENTIAL CORPORATES AND PARTNERS IN THE SESSIONS: Tata Trusts, Accenture, JP Morgan, skill organizations such as Labournet and DR. Reddy’s Foundation, government skill mission

FOCUS AREA(S): PARTNERS, CAPABILITIES,  INSIGHT

WORKING GROUP 8

Collaboration platform to improve access to housing credit for low income segment

With an Urban Housing shortage of approximately 18 million houses that arises mostly from the low-income & economically weaker segment, the housing sector in India faces a lot of challenges when it comes to the target of achieving Housing for All by 2022.

A major challenge that is faced by both the demand and supply side is the access to low-cost and flexible credit.

Partnerships between stakeholders create platforms for organizations with complementing capabilities to collaborate and serve the under-served. This platform would oppose the general notions of CSR and charity as the sole financial models for serving low-income populations, and develop projects that are financially profitable for all involved stakeholders.

To pursue profitable and successful collaborations, businesses and organizations must be willing to partner with unusual allies such as governments, be aligned with their mission and be equipped with thinking and acting capabilities beyond short term goals. Marginal changes in inputs cannot yield desired results; hence stakeholders must be willing to consistently improve for substantial change in outputs.

ANCHOR: Indian Housing Federation (IHF)

POTENTIAL CORPORATE AND PARTNERS IN THE SESSIONS: Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs, National Housing Bank and other HFI’s and banks (ISFC, DHFL, MHFC, Shubham Housing Finance, SwarnaPragati Housing Micro Finance) from the finance sector, CPR, IIHS, ICRIER and DA from the academic background, DFID, WB, GiZ  as representatives of development institutions, Deloitte, PwC and KPMG from the consultancy sector, and social impact investors such as MSDF, Omidyar Network and Asha Impact.

FOCUS AREA(S): PAYOFF, PARTNERS, IMPACT

05:30 pm

08:30 am

09:30 am

Agenda and Introduction, Saroj Mohanta
Day 1 Debrief, Fernando Casado

09:45 am

Framing Presentation and Moderator: Fernando Casado
Industry Leader: Jayanth Bhuvaraghan, Chief Mission Officer, Essilor
Thought Leader: Stuart Hart, Founder, ESW

10:30 am

11:00 am

Banks,Telcos, SHS Distributors: PAYGO As Pivot To Customer Identity?

Since the early 2010s, pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) business models for solar home systems (SHS) have been growing rapidly (e.g. $160m funding raised in 2015). Enabling customers to buy durable goods on credit is meeting enthusiastic demand. Sector leaders such as M-Kopa in East Africa, Lumos in Nigeria, or Simpa in India, have enabled hundreds of thousands of rural people to access solar electricity. The benefits of SHS have been widely documented (comfort and quality, savings over kerosene, environmental benefits, etc.)

For customer, going for PAYGO is yet not only about buying an SHS. The data collected throughout customer journey (credit vetting, digital payments, interactions with customer service, etc.) is enabling SHS distributors, banks and telcos to build and use enriched and accurate customer identities:

SHS distributors are using customer data to offer tailored products/services add-ons, to improve their portfolio management strategies, or simply to generate revenues from selling data to partners

Banks are building credit ratings on unbanked households, and creating risk profiles in low-income rural markets which they had little knowledge of

Telco operators are converting customers to digital payments, a powerful source of data which can be added to their existing records (customer profiles, airtime history)

This could become a powerful tool to accelerate the provision of beneficial products and services to low-income populations. However, positive outcomes will need some conditions to be met: Successful cooperation in distribution; Fair value sharing; and Ethical handling of data among others.

ANCHOR: Hystra

POTENTIAL CORPORATES AND PARTNERS IN THE SESSIONS: M-Kopa, Lumos, Simpa and others

FOCUS AREA(s): PAYOFF, PARTNERS, IMPACT, INSIGHT

WORKING GROUP 10

Integrating women livelihoods with markets

India has one of the lowest women participation rates in the workforce. At the same time, agriculture is being radically altered by the fact that women increasingly form over 75% of the agricultural workforce, yet women are invisible in the agricultural growth story of India. At the same time, less than 20% of women are able to contribute to non-farm sectors, with persistent inequality in training, technology, information and incomes. Transforming the gender livelihood prospects in India would mean encouraging women to play strategic roles of producers, aggregators and entrepreneurs across the value chain, while enabling them through access to credit and other productivity enhancing technologies and information. The key component is to establish market linkages and connect women to markets for them to gain profitably from their contributions. And to co-create this with them all along the way.

Sattva has been working on women livelihood initiatives for over 5 years now, in various parts of India, South Asia and Africa, and would be able to bring in relevant experts and practitioners to curate the topic of integrating women with mainstream markets in an equitable and profitable manner.

ANCHOR: Sattva

POTENTIAL CORPORATES AND PARTNERS IN THE SESSIONS: USAID, UNDP, Udyogini, ICRISAT and others

FOCUS AREA(s): CAPABILITIES, IMPACT, INSIGHT

WORKING GROUP 11

Improving lives of women and children by addressing malnutrition

India has the highest level of public investment in food and nutrition security of all countries through its public funded programs and has the right to food and nutrition in its constitution. Despite policy and political will, investments and nearly 10 fold increase in GDP since 1991, more than one third of the world’s malnourished children live in India. 38.4% of children under the age of 5 are stunted. 58 % children between 6-59 months, 53% women 15- 49 years and 22.7% men 15-49 years old are anaemic. 20.7% women and 18.6% men are obese and overweight.  India runs the risk of an impending epidemic of obesity, diabetes and other non-communicable diseases related to poor nutrition. Micronutrient deficiencies, which are commonly known as deficiencies of vitamins and minerals below healthy thresholds, affect all the income groups across all states. There have been multiple initiatives such as Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS), mid-day meal program and Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) from the Government to address the nutritional challenge, but the impact has not been notable. The Government of India is on a mission to make India malnutrition free by 2022 (75^th anniversary of India’s independence). The country has prioritised actions in high burden districts and is committed to establish National Nutrition Mission; a sustainable effort towards preventing and reducing under nutrition and other related problems in India.  In order to realise the vision and optimise impact, it needs multi-stakeholder efforts to fight malnutrition. Engaging socially responsible businesses offers multiple  opportunities. Food fortification, health care management, improvement in agriculture, production and processing of affordable and safe nutritious foods are among major  opportunities where businesses can play a major role in pursuing public interest agendas. NGOs and civil society  organization can play a major role in creating awareness, introducing nutritional changes in diet and helping in delivering the appropriate solutions to the BoP consumers.  A coordinated approach, convergent actions and multi-stakeholder platforms in public space can provide sustainable solutions to address malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies.

ANCHOR: TBA

POTENTIAL CORPORATE AND PARTNERS IN THE SESSIONS: The Micro Nutrients Initiative (MI), GAIN, Ministry of Women and Child Development, Pepsi, Save the Children, Unilever

FOCUS AREA(S): PARTNERS, IMPACT

WORKING GROUP 12

Precision agriculture for small farmers

Precision Agriculture allows farmers to manage their fields for maximum output by using data (e.g. on weather, soil and diseases) and digitized farming equipment to apply the right inputs at the right time. Precision agriculture could boost the productivity of smallholder farmers, who usually lack access to information and have few means to afford inputs. With precision agriculture, they could increase yields and maximize the payback of their investments. In addition, transparency on production processes could also improve the market value of crops.

eKutir already serves more than 70.000 farmers in India and elsewhere with Information services and market linkages, creating opportunity for 500 micro entrepreneurs through its intermediary model. The session will explore how to expand the service offering  based on eKutir’s platform by bringing in other relevant data services, financial services, inputs and machinery. Ultimately, such a platform can de-risk small farmers’ business and create transparency, efficiency and productivity along the whole value chain. The session continues a process from the www.ii2030.com event in Berlin in October 2017 and invites new partners to come on board.

ANCHOR: Endeva, Ekutir

POTENTIAL CORPORATES AND PARTNERS IN THE SESSIONS: Bayer, John Deere, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,Welthungerhilfe, HEKS, GSMA

FOCUS AREA(S): PAYOFF, PARTNERS, IMPACT, INSIGHT

WORKING GROUP 13

Healthcare innovation through collaboration

ANCHOR: Essilor

POTENTIAL CORPORATES AND PARTNERS IN THE SESSIONS:  TBA

FOCUS AREA(S):

01:00 pm

01:30 pm

Business Model Innovation – Aligning Business Units for a Strategy of Scale

Using the agricultural sector as an example, the idea is to present different inclusive business (IB) models across the agricultural value chain, with a focus on mainstreaming the principles and practices of inclusive business into corporate strategy and across functions.  IB models at different stages of the agricultural value chain, i.e. “from seed to table”, will be presented in 5-10 minute presentations, focusing on the model itself, and best practices in terms of mainstreaming and internal company commitment. Participating companies will gain knowledge from learning about IB modelling and internal mainstreaming practices. Presenters will obtain feedback on their challenges from peers with different perspectives across the world.

ANCHOR: Inclusive Business Action Network (IBAN)

*POTENTIAL CORPORATES AND PARTNERS IN THE SESSIONS: East-West-Seed, Jain Irrigation, Covestro, Guts Agro, Ekutir

FOCUS AREA(S): PAYOFF, PARTNERS, INSIGHT

*By invitation only