Awardee Booklet Round

Education Water and Sanitation Health Awarded Innovations Agriculture Climate Change Clean Energy Food Security www.millenniumalliance.in Disclaimer: The facts presented in the booklet are believed to be correct at the time of publication but cannot be guaranteed. The information on the proposed solution, its impact, and scaling potential, etc. were obtained from innovators/organizations, which is deemed by FICCI to be authentic and reliable, and has been included in the booklet in good faith. FICCI and/or other MA Partners make no claims, as to the accuracy of the information, and will not be held responsible for any information which may be erroneous due to socio-economic changes, changes in market forces, inaccuracies in information provided by innovators/organizations or any other changes due to force majeure. As such, FICCI and/or other MA Partners can accept no liability whatever for actions taken (or not taken) based on any information that may subsequently prove to be incorrect. Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 01 Round 4 Awardees AGRICULTURE 05 Value added millet products based rural enterprise 06 Bhagalpur banana fibre project 08 Community owned initiative for food security in tribal area 09 E-DeWeeder: Smart weed sensors based e-weed control 10 Facilitation to market access to default organic farmers 11 Mobile apps for farmers in regional language 12 Study on stored grain quality in hot and cold storage system 13 Original Indian Table (OIT) 15 CLEAN ENERGY 31 Smart nanopower for socioeconomic development of villages 32 Women entrepreneurs for energy efficient slum homes 44 EDUCATION 45 Invisible Visible: A screening tool for identifying children with dyslexia 46 Making elementary education culturally compatible 47 School Transformation Program (STP) 48 Smart Madrasa 49 Kala Samavesh: Education of 3000 children with disabilities using Arts Based Therapy (ABT) 50 HEALTHCARE 61 Smart and portable intensive care unit 62 FlapCut technology for cost effective Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (MTB) diagnosis 63 "MozziQuit" to make the world free of mosquito menace 64 A rapidly deployable device for wound care 69 MiraCradleTM to fill void in birth asphyxia treatment 70 WATER & SANITATION 85 Solid waste resource management and environmental sanitation 86 OTHERS 101 Wireless communication infrastructure for rural settings 102 Entrepreneurship program for youth: Self-employment opportunities for marginalized youth in 103 semi-urban and rural areas Dhakka brake: A regenerative brake device to store the momentum needed for pushing the brake 106 Table of Contents Round 3 Awardees AGRICULTURE 05 BioAvert I: Biological program of disease aversion for horticulture crops 18 Popularising bamboo polyhouses among small farmers 19 Revolutionizing agri business in north east India 20 Low cost innovative and smart irrigation controller 21 Low cost manual milking machine 22 Pilot demonstration and transfer of Solar Conduction Dryer (SCD) from India to Nepal 23 CassavaTech: A high-tech equipment for processing cassava 24 Portable solar cotton picking machine 25 CLEAN ENERGY 31 Expanding solar as a service to lower income households & micro-enterprises in rural India 35 Biogas based cooking grid 36 Piloting of a novel table top solar panel laminator in rural locations for decentralized 37 manufacturing and sales of solar panels by rural youth and women Development of Integrated Energy and Revenue Management System for Mini-grids 38 Harnessing the destructive energy in pine needles for rural development 39 Pre-paid mobile payment based solar micro grids 40 Scaling Prakti multi-fuel clean cook stoves in India, Bangladesh and Nepal 40 EDUCATION 45 Kakshaa: An innovative teaching method to engross students and enrich classroom environment 51 Art in education 52 RIVER Multi-Grid Multi-Level (MGML) dissemination 53 HEALTHCARE 61 Nurse centres electronically linked with city doctors to provide gynaecological and reproductive 72 health services in rural Kenya Empowering women through menstrual hygiene solutions 73 Mobile partograph mLabour 74 Table of Contents Device for lab diagnostics at the doorsteps 75 An automated and affordable point of sample collection screening tool for cervical cancer 76 “Saans” - A device to keep, lungs of neonates with RDS (Respiratory Distress Syndrome) open 77 while transferring them from a low resource setting to an NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) Affordable smartphone integrated non invasive fetal electrocardiogram monitor 78 WATER & SANITATION 88 Desolenator: Solar empowered drinking water system 87 Samagra: Providing access to clean, safe and reliable community toilets for the urban slum-dwelling poor 88 Creating green jobs turning trash to treasure for farmers 89 Solar powered water purification centers for urban and rural regions with poor grid 90 access and water quality Waste picker franchise model 91 The women for WASH initiative 92 Water for all 93 Community drinking water systems from India to Rwanda 94 Table of Contents Round 2 Awardees Agriculture 05 Producing more with less: Promoting Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative (SSI) 26 Portable digital copra moisture meter 27 To achieve higer farm productivity and reduce losses using web and mobile technology in 28 Kenya using the model from India Improving farmers’ livelihood through end to end agri services in Nepal 29 Ensuring food security and income generation for poor farmers of Bangladesh through 30 innovative water management technology named “BHUNGROO” Clean Energy 31 Pico hydro home lighting in hilly areas 42 Clean energy and women empowerment through women led enterprise 44 Education 45 The classroom library 54 Hamari Paathshala: Collective action for education 56 Angel Xpress Foundation (AXF) free learning centers that connect educated adults with slum children 58 Community led solutions for girls' education 59 Healthcare 61 A cost efficient and portable point of care complete blood count (CBC) device from capillary or 79 venous blood based on patented lab on a chip platform technologies Adapting and piloting MIRA (Women Mobile Lifeline Channel) project from India to Uganda and Afghanistan 81 Building an evidence based scalable & sustainable eye care model for Ethiopia 82 Water & Sanitation 85 Jeevandhara handpumps with filtration system for rural areas 95 Installation of pressurized recharge wells for creating fresh water pockets 96 to make water available for drinking and sanitation purposes in water scarce schools of Mewat, Haryana JALDOOT: Safe drinking water delivery model 97 Low cost odour trap for waterless urinals 99 Table of Contents Others 101 Financial deepening and economic inclusion @ tapping the unbanked billions 107 Low cost technology to distribute financial services across the country 108 Round 1 Awardees HaldiTech: A high-tech turmeric processing unit 110 On demand electricity generation using waste heat generated during cooking for rural households 111 using thermoelectric generators CLT e-Patashale: Low-cost innovative e-content for STEM K-12 112 I Love Reading (ILR) 113 Technology based solution, with a strong educational core, in improving reading levels of primary 114 school students in Hindi language in India Mobile technology driven family planning model: An ecosystem to achieve high contraceptive 115 prevalence rates among rural and tribal communities – Project Vikalp (“Options”) MIRA: Mobile Channel on Rmnch+A for rural women 117 Waterlife: Community drinking water system 118 Rang de: Making microcredit affordable for the poor 119 Awardee Portfolio:Intr Agricultureoduction About the Program The Millenium Alliance (MA) is an inclusive platform to leverage Indian creativity, expertise and resources to identify, support and scale innovative solutions being developed and tested in India to address development challenges that will benefit base of the pyramid populations across India and developing countries. The MA is a network that brings together various actors within India's social innovation ecosystem including, but not limited to, social innovators, philanthropy organizations, social venture capitalists, angel investors, donors, service providers, and corporate foundations, to stimulate and facilitate financial and non-financial contributions from the private and public sectors in support of development innovation. The Alliance provides innovators with a range of services such as seed funding, grants, incubation and accelerator services, networking opportunities, business support services, knowledge exchange, technical assistance and facilitates access to equity, debt and other capital. 84 social enterprises have been supported so far under the programme with a funding support of Rs. 63 crores. To foster trilateral cooperation, 12 of these social enterprises are being supported for replication of their projects now in Kenya, Nepal, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Uganda and Afghanistan. The program will support around 350-400 enterprises over the next three years. MA Objectives Provide a platform to leverage Indian creativity, expertise and resources to: 1. Identify game changing innovations The Alliance intends to identify breakthrough innovations that achieve development outcomes for BoP populations more effectively, more cheaply, more broadly (that reach more beneficiaries) and in a shorter period of time 2. Rigorously test, share and appropriately adapt promising solutions The Alliance encourages innovators to rigorously test and evaluate their innovative solutions to confirm that they are achieving a concrete development outcome

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