Minister of State for Civil Aviation, Shri Jayant Sinha and the Minister of State for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy and Mines, Shri Piyush Goyal among the prominent speakers

Organized by Impact Investors Council and the Ministry of External Affairs, the Conclave is supported IDFC Bank, Omidyar Network, GIZ, DFID, and others 

New Delhi, October 12, 2016: India’s only impact investing industry body, the Impact Investors Council (IIC) has announced that it is organizing India’s very first Impact Investment Conclave, Prabhav 2016, in Delhi from 15 to 17 November 2016, in partnership with India’s Ministry of External Affairs. Impact investment primarily focuses on creating a positive social or environmental impact as against merely financial motives. India has emerged as one of the largest impact investment destinations in the world with over 50 active impact investors and a cumulative investment of $7.5 billion till date in more than 350 enterprises and funds across a range of industries such as financial inclusion, agribusiness, healthcare, education and clean energy.

For the first time ever, Prabhav 2016 will bring top leaders from as many as 150 global impact investors to India to meet potential investees. Eminent speakers at the conclave will represent the multiple stakeholders:

• India’s Government will be represented by Minister of State for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy and Mines, Shri Piyush Goyal; India’s Minister of State for Civil Aviation Shri Jayant Sinha; Ministry of External Affairs’ Director, K Nagaraj Naidu
• India’s Impact Investing industry will be led by IIC Chairman and Founder of Elevar Equity, Sandeep Farias; Founder MD & CEO, IDFC Bank Rajiv Lall; Partner and Managing Director, Omidyar Network India Advisors Roopa Kudva; SIDBI’s Chairman and Managing Director, Dr. Kshtrapati Shivaji; Founder–Aavishkaar, Vineet Rai and Founding CEO of Impact Investors Council Amit Bhatia; among others.
• International Impact Investors will be led by speakers such as USAID’s General Counsel John L. S. Simpkins; Marilou van Golstein Brouwers, President- TRIODOS; and Encourage Capital’s Co-Managing Partner and Board Chairman and a Trustee of the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Adam Wolfensohn; Brooks Preston, Head of Investment funds, OPIC; Claudia Schmerler, Head of Division, KFW; Jaap Reinking, Director Financial Institutions, FMO will also travel to India to speak at the event.

The global impact investors will also participate in tours across North, West and South India to meet various social enterprises and gain a first-hand, immersive grassroots experience of social impact at work.

“Impact Investing has the potential to be India’s next transformational industry by bringing so many LPs & GPs together on one platform to meet potential investees, Prabhav 2016 will be a game changer for India’s social enterprises that will indirectly boost incomes, jobs, and access to essential services significantly,” adds Sandeep Farias, Chairman- IIC and Founder Elevar Equity.

Dr. Rajiv Lall, Founder MD & CEO, IDFC Bank says, “IIC is benefiting the lives of the people at the base of the economic pyramid by combining the depths of management, a social entrepreneurial spirit and depth of financial markets to create impact across industries.”

Ms. Roopa Kudva, Partner and Managing Director, Omidyar Network India Advisors says, “Omidyar Network is deeply committed to supporting social entrepreneurs in India – in fact, we hope to double our India investments to USD300mm by 2020. Based on the opportunities we are seeing, we believe that impact investing is at a tipping point in India, and we look forward to attending Prabhav 2016 to further support and advance the industry.”

Amit Bhatia, Founding CEO of Impact Investors Council, says, “Since 2001, India has attracted a stellar $7.5 billion in cumulative impact investments- $2.5 billion in core direct-to-beneficiary sectors (e.g., Financial Inclusion, Skills Development or Affordable HealthCare) and another $5 billion in indirect impact (e.g., Rural Infrastructure & Climate Change). Prabhav 2016 will focus on how India can enhance its Impact Investing ecosystem to build a US$18 billion sector by 2020 and a US$1 trillion social economy by 2035!”

About the Impact Investors Council

Impact Investors Council (IIC) is the industry association of Impact Investors in India. Impact Investors are financial investors who invest in social enterprises to deliver social (and environmental) impact to the poor in sectors such as Agriculture, Financial Inclusion, Affordable Education & Healthcare, Water & Sanitation, Clean Energy, Livelihoods, etc. Impact Investors use the power of both financial markets and social entrepreneurship to deliver such impact. IIC seeks to develop the impact-investing sector in India by focusing on impact measurement & standardization, research & policy support and self-regulation. IIC is a Section 8 company and can be found at http://iiic.in/

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National Dairy Development Board Initiates New Program to Address Nutrition among Children

New Delhi, September 2015: From the platform of the India Health & Wellness Summit & Awards, National Dairy Development Board today discussed a major initiative ‘A Glass of Milk for Every Child’ to address nutrition among children by using its vast network of cooperatives.

The ‘Gift Milk’ program to be implemented under the aegis of the NDDB Foundation for Nutrition was disclosed and discussed at the inaugural session of the India Health & Wellness Summit & Awards in the national capital by Mr. T Nandakumar, Chairman, NDDB.

The 2^nd edition of the India Health & Wellness Summit & Awards 2015 presented by Mother Dairy is an initiative by Blue Pen Media and HealthyDunia.com, the fastest growing health and wellness information portal.

“Having set up a large milk infrastructure in the country, we decided to set out on a new initiative that will aim to address nutritional issues among children. Through the NDDB Foundation for Nutrition we will create a connecting network involving milk cooperatives and school children to ensure the latter get a glass of milk every day. The ‘Gift Milk’ program will provide a transparent electronic platform to connect individuals/corporate who want to participate as donors in the initiative. We expect to roll out the action plan in the next few months and will give preference to schools in poorer areas,” said Mr. Nandakumar.

Addressing the inaugural session of the India Health & Wellness Summit, Mr. S Nagarajan, Managing Director, Mother Dairy Fruit & Vegetable Co. said using milk, pulses and fruits to provide fortification nutrients such as vitamins and minerals is a viable solution to address nutrition issues of the country. He added that Mother Dairy is already supplying milk fortified with vitamin A.

Ms. Aparajita Ramakrishnan from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said that of the 1.3 million deaths of children before the age of 5 in India, half can be attributed to some form of nutritional deficiency.

This year the IHW Summit has focused on increased participation from the government and public health departments to enable a full-fledged dialogue between multiple stakeholders in the sector. As many as 20 speakers participated in six high powered sessions spread across the day with 600 national and international delegates from the industry, government, non-profit-sector and all other stakeholders joining the brainstorming.

“The IHW Summit was conceived with the aim of establishing a platform for in-depth debate, discussion and idea-generation to meet the complex challenges in India’s health and wellness sector. Encouraged with the success of our debut last year and the overwhelming response it got from all stakeholders, we decided to make the 2015 edition more comprehensive, effective and outcome oriented. NDDB made a very good announcement from this platform, and we hope it inspires other stakeholders in the sector to launch similar initiatives,” said Mr. Kamal Narayan Omer, Director, Blue Pen Media, Organizer of IHW Summit & Awards.

“We are aware of the fact that India faces myriad health challenges which can neither be resolved by focusing on just the urban elite nor be addressed by turning all attention to the under privileged. We need a balance in our approach and better public-private partnerships. We hope over the years, IHW will become a fountainhead of new ideas,” said Dr. Bobby John, Managing Director, Aequitas Consulting and Curator of the IHW Summit.

With over 20 awards in multiple categories such as healthcare delivery, innovation and lifesaving technologies, the event followed a rigorous selection process manned by an eminent jury, including some of the biggest names from Indian healthcare companies, doctors, scientists, experts, media representatives, government sector and social leaders.

The IHW Summit & Awards 2015 has been supported by Mother Dairy, Gaudium IVF, KV Developers, EBIX Adam India, Indian Spinal Injuries Centre, Paras Healthcare, Global Health Advocates India, NATHEALTH, Association of Healthcare Providers of India (AHPI), JCKRC Spa Destination Pvt. Ltd., Impact Investors Council, World Simulation Society (WSS) & Aequitas Consulting. Outdoor Media Partner is Prabhatam Group while the Legal Partner is Trust Legal.

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