Reimagining Livelihoods
Abhishek Mohanty & Gitika Saksena present a paper at EPIC 2021 conference.
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Reimagining and Scaling Livelihoods in a Socially Sustainable Manner
A third sector skilling organisation sought to set up a social enterprise incubator intended to identify and support social enterprises with the potential to create resilient livelihoods in India. This came against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing migrant crisis that laid bare the vulnerability of the country’s informal sector. We carried out ethnographic research around identified livelihoods to identify challenges that social enterprises could solve.
Scaling Early-Stage Social Startups
The client, one of India’s pioneering social enterprise incubators, sought to understand how three of its tech-led early-stage portfolio start-ups could scale-up. In particular it sought to understand what the founders of the three start-ups should be focusing their energies on, over the next few months, to effect the scale-up.
