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FT/IFC TRANSFORMATIONAL BUSINESS AWARDS 2018Achieving Sustainable Impact through Technology and Finance

6 June 2018 | Royal Institute of British Architects, London

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18:15 Drinks Reception 19:35 Welcoming Remarks and Dinner Robert ArmstrongChief Editorial WriterFinancial Times

Karin FinkelstonVice President, Partnerships, Communications and OutreachInternational Finance Corporation (IFC) 19:45 Lifetime Achievement Award

Tessa TennantCo-FounderClimate Finance Accelerator and NDCi.global 21:05 Keynote Address

Leila JanahFounder and CEOSamasource and LXMI

21:45 Awards Ceremony HOSTED BYRavi MattuTech EditorFinancial Times

Kelly WidelskaGlobal Head of Knowledge and LearningIFC

Achievement in Transformational Infrastructure

Achievement in Transformational Infrastructure: Green buildings

Achievement in Sustainable Development: Education, Knowledge and Skills

Achievement in Sustainable Development: Health, Wellness and Disease Prevention

Achievement in Sustainable Development: Food, Water and Land

Achievement in Transformational Finance

Excellence in Disruptive Technologies

Excellence in Climate Solutions

Excellence in Transformational Business

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BIOGRAPHIES

Ravi MattuTech EditorFinancial Times

Ravi Mattu is the Tech Editor of the Financial Times. Since joining the FT 18 years ago, he has worked in a range of roles, and spoken to CEOs, entrepreneurs, prime ministers and some of the world’s leading management thinkers. Mr Mattu joined the FT in 2000 and

has held a number of senior positions, including Editorial Director for FT2 , the commercial content division of the Financial Times; Business Life editor, overseeing the management section of the paper; Acting Editor and Deputy Editor of FT Weekend Magazine; and editor of Special Reports (magazines and websites), during which time he edited a number of titles, including Mastering Management, and launched FT Wealth.

Kelly WidelskaGlobal Head of Knowledge and LearningIFC

Kelly Widelska is the Global Head of Knowledge & Learning at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group (WBG) and the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in developing countries.

She leads a core global team of knowledge and learning (K&L) professionals who develop and deliver a diverse portfolio of K&L strategies, services and products that capture critical knowledge, improve decision-making, support WBG-wide collaboration, build staff expertise and enhance IFC’s reputation. Under her stewardship, the team also provides guidance, standards and strategic advice to the decentralised network of knowledge and learning professionals who support IFC’s industry and sector groups. Before joining IFC, Ms Widelska worked with Ernst & Young’s Transaction Advisory Services practice, where she led the Global Knowledge & Innovation Team serving the K&L needs of 8,000 operational staff. Prior to that, she built the knowledge capability of Ernst & Young in China and the Far East by implementing a suite of knowledge management services, including research and analysis, content management, network coordination, and deployment and training activities. Ms Widelska holds a Master’s degree in Information Management from Sheffield University in the UK.

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FT/IFC TRANSFORMATIONAL BUSINESS AWARDS 2018

BIOGRAPHIES

Leila JanahFounder and CEOSamasource and LXMI

Leila Janah is the Founder and CEO of Samasource and LXMI, two companies that go beyond charity to #givework to low-income people around the world using cutting-edge social enterprise models in technology and luxury skincare, respectively. She is the author

of Give Work: Reversing Poverty One Job at a Time, released by Penguin Portfolio in September 2017. Prior to that, Ms Janah was a Visiting Scholar with the Stanford Program on Global Justice and Australian National University’s Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. She was a Founding Director of Incentives for Global Health, and a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners (now Booz & Co.). Ms Janah is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, a Director of CARE USA, a 2012 TechFellow, recipient of the inaugural Club de Madrid Young Leadership Award, and the youngest person to win a Heinz Award in 2014. She was named one of Fortune’s Most Promising Entrepreneurs in 2014 and was the subject of cover stories in Entrepreneur, Fast Company, and Conscious Company Magazines. She received a BA from Harvard.

Tessa TennantCo-FounderClimate Finance Accelerator and NDCi.global

Tessa Tennant has been active in green and climate finance all her career. As one of the first Human Environmental Studies graduates at King’s College London, she then worked for the Green Alliance developing the conversation around ‘green growth’. She

went on to co-found the UK’s first green investment fund, the Merlin (now Jupiter) Ecology Fund, in 1988 and has worked to build the green investment industry ever since. In the 1990s, she co-founded the UK Social Investment Forum and the UNEP Insurance Initiative, which later merged with UNEP’s banking group to form the UNEP Finance Initiative. She led the creation and was the first Chair of the Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia based in Hong Kong (ASrIA, now part of PRI), and The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), which works with 3,000 of the largest corporations in the world to reduce their carbon emissions. She has served on numerous fund, company and not-for-profit boards, including the US Calvert Funds and Syntao (current), and is an Adviser to Carbon Tracker and other initiatives. She was a co-founder and first Chair of The Ice Organisation, creator of myice.com, which rewards green consumerism, and was a Non-Executive Director of the UK’s Green Investment Bank, now sold to Macquarie Group. She is presently focused on financing the Paris climate agreement NDCs and is co-creator of the Climate Finance Accelerator and NDCi.global.

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BIOGRAPHIES

Robert ArmstrongChief Editorial WriterFinancial Times

Robert Armstrong became the Financial Times’ Chief Editorial Writer in November 2016. Previously, he was head of the FT’s esteemed Lex Column, as well as a Lex columnist based in New York, providing insight on US technology, pharmaceuticals

and consumer goods companies. Prior to joining the FT, Mr Armstrong was a senior columnist at Dow Jones Investment Banker, covering health care and technology. His writing has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal in the US and Europe and in Barron’s. Prior to this, he served as an equity securities analyst at Seminole Capital Partners. Mr Armstrong earned a PhD in Philosophy at Columbia University, New York, where he taught undergraduates, and a BA, also in Philosophy, at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.

Karin FinkelstonVice President, Partnerships, Communications and OutreachInternational Finance Corporation (IFC)

Karin Finkelston is the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) Vice President for Partnerships, Communications and Outreach. Ms Finkelston’s career at the World Bank Group includes a series of leadership positions at IFC and the

Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) in which she led investment and guarantee businesses, and managed relationships with key clients and partners across the world. She was based in Asia for more than 17 years. Ms Finkelston rejoined IFC in July 2017, after serving as MIGA’s Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for two years. At MIGA – the political-risk insurance and credit-enhancement arm of the World Bank Group – she helped the agency deliver record performance, with the guarantee business growing over 70 per cent. Ms Finkelston spent much of her career leading IFC’s investment and advisory business in Asia, most recently as IFC’s Vice President for Asia Pacific, from 2011 to 2013. Previously, she was Director/Associate Director for East Asia Pacific from 2006 to 2011, and Country Manager for China and Mongolia from 2000 to 2006. Prior to that, Ms Finkelston was a Vice President at Manufacturers Hannover Trust Company in Hong Kong after starting her career in New York. As a manager at Barents Group, she led a team in Hanoi, advising and implementing Vietnam’s first privatisation transactions. Ms Finkelston has an MBA from Harvard Business School and an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College.

Samir AbhyankarPartnerTPG Growth

Samir Abhyankar is a Partner at TPG Growth based in London, working across sectors covering the group’s investment activities in Africa. Prior to joining TPG Growth in 2015, Mr Abhyankar was a Partner with Satya Capital, where he focused on IT, consumer,

financial services and retail investments. Previously he spent six years at Citi Venture Capital International, where he was responsible for its African investment activities, and CDC Group, where he was the Director of Strategy. He was also formerly a management consultant with Marakon Associates. Mr Abhyankar started his career with the World Bank as a banking sector analyst. He graduated with an MBA from INSEAD and holds an MA from John’s Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies.

Kalipso ChalkidouDirector of Global Health Policy and Senior Fellow, Centre for Global Development; Professor of Practice in Global Health, Imperial College London

Kalipso Chalkidou is the Director of the Global Health and Development Group at the Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London, helping governments build technical and institutional capacity for improving the value for money of their

healthcare investment. She is interested in how local information, local expertise and local institutions can drive scientific and legitimate healthcare resource allocation decisions whilst improving patient outcomes. She has been involved in the Chinese rural health reform and also in national health reform projects in the US, India, Colombia, Turkey and the Middle East, working with the World Bank, PAHO, DFID and the Inter-American Development Bank, as well as national governments. Between 2008 and 2016 she founded and ran NICE International, a non-profit group within the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

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Helen ClarksonCEOThe Climate Group

Helen Clarkson joined The Climate Group in March 2017 as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining The Climate Group, she worked at Forum for the Future where she founded the organisation’s US office. At Forum, Ms Clarkson led work with large US corporations

such as Target, Walmart, Nike, Gap and Levi Strauss & Co to solve complex sustainability challenges at both the organisational and broader systemic level. She also served as Interim Chief Operating Officer for several months. Ms Clarkson joined Forum from Médecins Sans Frontières where she worked on humanitarian missions in countries including Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Burundi, Pakistan and Nigeria. She has an undergraduate degree in Philosophy from Cambridge University, and a Master’s degree in Business Strategy, Politics & the Environment from Birkbeck College, University of London. She is also a Chartered Accountant.

Aly-Khan JamalPartnerDalberg Group

Aly-Khan Jamal is a Partner at Dalberg and founder of its consulting presence in London. A unifying theme across his work involves directing large flows of investment capital to areas where it can generate both returns and impact. As a result, he is particularly active in

Dalberg’s Investing for Development practice, and has extensive experience working with development finance institutions, private equity funds, a diverse array of impact investment vehicles, and corporate / strategic investors. Mr Jamal works on a diverse range of issues with these stakeholders. Recent mandates include several due diligence engagements for private equity funds into energy access and diversified light industrials in Africa, developing a agriculture blended finance strategy and toolkit for a range of DFIs and donors, advising a major European DFI on the design of a debt fund to catalyse the growth of off-grid solar energy players, and working with President Adesina of the African Development Bank to develop a $400bn agriculture transformation strategy for Africa. As a result of these and other mandates, Mr Jamal has both a detailed understanding of the shifting landscape of impact investment, and a broad set of relationships amongst different actors. He began his career at OC&C Strategy Consultants in their Paris and London offices, where he gained substantial experience in commercial due diligence and sector / portfolio reviews for firms including majors such as Texas Pacific Group, The Blackstone Group, The Carlyle Group, KKR, CVC, 3i and Apax, plus a range of boutiques that focus on specific markets and/or verticals in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Mr Jamal holds a Bachelors of Arts from Oxford University in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, and a Master’s in Economics from McGill University.

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Chris LockeFounderCaribou Digital

Chris Locke is the Founder of Caribou Digital and a Visiting Fellow at the University of California, San Diego’s Center on Emerging and Pacific Economies. Caribou Digital works with development organisations to build digital economies in emerging markets,

helping to take critical mobile services covering health, agri, money and learning tools to scale at a nationwide level. Mr Locke was previously the Managing Director of GSMA Mobile for Development. He has spent the past 15 years working in the mobile and internet industries for companies including the Virgin Group, Three, AOL and T-Mobile. Previous to his industry career, he was the Xerox Lecturer in Electronic Communication and Publishing at University College London, and has maintained strong links to the research community. He is co-editor of Thumb Culture: The Meaning of Mobile Phones in Society, an anthology of research considering the global social effect of mobile technology.

Kanini MutooniDirector for InvestmentEast Africa Trade and Investment Hub

Kanini Mutooni is Director for Investment at the East Africa Trade and Investment Hub in Nairobi, an eight-country initiative created to increase and attract patient capital investments into the East African region. Since launch in May 2015, the unit has

supported the allocation of over $25m in investment to companies in the agri-business, financial services and technology sectors. Ms Mutooni also serves as an investment committee member of the African Enterprise Challenge Fund, a $250m donor-funded impact fund based in Nairobi with 124 investee companies in Sub-Saharan Africa. She is also the Chair of the Finance and Audit Committee of the Global Innovation Fund, a UK-based $250m multi-donor fund that supports investment in innovations in emerging markets. She also serves as the Chair of Finance and Audit Committee of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, a UK-based institution that works with communities in over 34 countries to stop the spread of HIV. Ms Mutooni was recognised by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader in 2014 for her contribution to business and was named as one of the most influential businesswomen in East Africa by BusinessWeek magazine in 2013. In 2010, she was nominated in London as a ‘Woman of the City Future Leader.’ A UK Chartered accountant and MBA holder (Cass Business School, City University), Ms Mutooni has worked at Director and Vice President level at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, KPMG, Ernst & Young, and Kleinwort Benson over the past 15 years. She was also the founder and CEO of MyAzimia, an innovative technology platform providing solutions to the crowd-lending sector. The platform facilitated the origination of over $50m in new loans in Europe and the US in the online lending sector.

JUDGES


AWARDS SHORTLIST

AWARDS SHORTLIST

Achievement in Transformational Infrastructure

The award for Achievement in Transformational Infrastructure highlights projects – in both urban and non-urban contexts -- that address the most crucial infrastructure needs in developing economies, with long-term socio-economic impact. Special attention is given to initiatives that are environmentally conscious and help efforts to fight climate change, including green building. Land governance is also taken into account. This category is open to private sector businesses only.

Chaldal Grocery Delivery NetworkBangladesh

Based in Dhaka, Chaldal’s grocery delivery network enables consumers to buy groceries and goods online or via their mobile. Chaldal’s ‘micro-warehouses’ have transformed delivery times, bypassing real-estate and road network limitations, while the use of machine learning aims to further optimise storage space, predict demand and reduce wastage.

CleanMax Rooftop Solar for Tata GroupIndia

Using a ‘build-own-operate’ business model, CleanMax Solar allows consumers to buy cheap and sustainable electricity on a per-kWh basis, with zero capital investment. In partnership with Tata Group, this has led to the creation of a rooftop solar-powered auto plant in Sanand, Gujarat that saves 3 million rupees and 2,700 tonnes of carbon annually.

Fluence Energy Storage ProgrammeUS

Fluence was formed by Siemens and the AES Corporation to create battery-based energy storage at a previously unattainable scale. Drawing upon the expertise, relationships and finances of its parent companies, Fluence has gained contracts for over 500MW of storage, aiding with energy costs, emissions reduction and resilience across 16 countries.

Nissan Energy Electric Vehicle Power Solutions France

Nissan Energy is building strategic partnerships with start-ups and energy companies to solve two key challenges facing the uptake of electric cars -- firstly, providing electric vehicles with the capacity to integrate with the grid; and secondly, creating systems to remanufacture and repurpose lithium batteries that outlive the lifespan of their vehicle.

Wecyclers Entrepreneurial Recycling ForceNigeria

The Wecyclers Entrepreneurial Recycling Force is a project that encourages unemployed youth to get involved in the waste industry. This helps to increase youth employment, promote sustainability, and combat climate change. To date, the project has diverted over 3000 metric tonnes of recyclable material from landfills.


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Achievement in Transformational Infrastructure: Green buildings

During the shortlisting process, a number of entries were identified that were focused on green buildings, so a specific category was created for this sector, as a sub-category to Infrastructure. The three entries short-listed originally entered in the Infrastructure, Food, Water & Land, and Health categories.

Africa Building Partners Mother & Baby UnitGhana

Africa Building Partners’ Mother and Baby Unit project aims to reduce maternal and infant mortality rates in Ghana and the Gulf of Guinea, by establishing and equipping maternity, neonatal and paediatric ICUs. Sustainable building practices ensure lower operational costs, as well as freeing up personnel, medical equipment and maintenance resources.

Capital House EcoHome Phuc Loi ProjectVietnam

EcoHome is a venture of Capital House that provides affordable and environmentally sustainable homes. It is the first low-income housing project in Vietnam to meet international standards for green certification, and is projected to save over 500 GWh of electricity and 5 trillion litres of water over the life of the programme.

Morocco Green Mosques Programme

The Green Mosques programme seeks to aid Morocco’s transition to a sustainable energy infrastructure. This involves installing renewable and energy-efficient technologies across the nation’s 51,000 mosques and other public buildings, promoting public awareness of climate change through local religious leaders, and creating green jobs. sing a ‘build-own-operate’ business model, CleanMax Solar allows consumers to buy cheap and sustainable electricity on a per-kWh basis, with zero capital investment. In partnership with Tata Group, this has led to the creation of a rooftop solar-powered auto plant in Sanand, Gujarat that saves 3 million rupees and 2,700 tonnes of carbon annually.


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Achievement in Sustainable Development

In September 2015, members of the United Nations adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) designed to achieve by 2030 the eradication of poverty in all its forms, as well as protect the planet from degradation, and generally ensure that all human beings can enjoy prosperous and fulfilling lives. The crucial role of the private sector in addressing the challenges highlighted by the SDGs is recognised in the Achievement in Sustainable Development category, which focuses on certain specific goals or targets. This category is open to all financial and non-financial private sector organisations, as well as NGOs that can meet the judging criteria. Particular attention is given to the use of new technology and disruptive business models. Entries that focused on projects in fragile and conflict-affected states and the world’s poorest countries are encouraged.

For 2018, this category comprises three separate awards:





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This award relates to Goal 4: “Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all”, with an additional emphasis on the provision of skills-based training that will help young people gain employment and entrepreneurs secure their livelihoods, in line with Goal 8: “Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all.”

Alqueria Education Quality ProgrammeColombia

Alquería Dairy empowers schools in the Cajicá municipality of Colombia, by sharing expertise and training educational leaders in strategic planning. With funding from the Cavelier Lozano Foundation, the programme helps to strengthen the management, infrastructure and communities which underpin local educational providers.

Andela Talent EcosystemUS

Andela helps to support local technology ecosystems and employment across Africa, by training aspiring tech developers. They provide candidates with paid ICT education, whilst embedding them as workers in major tech companies. Andela’s online learning community also delivers accessible training for developers across the

continent.

Beyond Water Entrepreneurship Capacity Building ProgrammeUK

Beyond Water helps to create and grow small businesses in Malawi that build, sell, maintain and repair water pumps and wells. In addition to water and sanitation for domestic clients, these businesses repair and maintain community pumps and provide affordable irrigation for the small-scale farmers who make up 85% of Malawi’s population.

GE-Tata Trusts Healthcare Skills ProgrammeIndia

GE in partnership with Tata Trusts is seeking to reduce the deficit of healthcare professionals in India, by training 10,000 high school graduates over a three-year period. The programme delivers blended learning on technology and patient care skills, alongside soft loans, practical internships and transfer support.

Genius Plaza Digital Education PlatformUS

Genius Plaza provides access to maths, science and language education for underprivileged preschool and school students worldwide. Its cloud-based platform includes curricula and learning resources, alongside tools which enable educators, parents and students from all cultures to co-create and share lessons.

PUJ Academic Innovation ProgrammeColombia

The Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Colombia has created new quality assurance and student support initiatives to ensure that its courses benefit national development objectives. Its programmes help to integrate former FARC guerrillas into society, and to address post-conflict challenges such as sustainable development, local governance and entrepreneurship.

UX Biscate Skills MarketplaceMozambique

Biscate is a mobile platform that connects skilled, lower income workers with customers through USSD technology on mobile phones, and accredits them through customer ratings. This benefits Mozambique’s unique economy in which 90% of the population works in the informal sector, yet only 10% have internet access.


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This award relates to Goal 3: “Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages”. Although significant strides have been made in increasing life expectancy in developing economies, much more needs to be done to reduce the mortality rate, particularly among mothers and infants; improve the delivery of medicines, healthcare and health education; reduce the impact of a wide range of diseases; and rapidly address new and emerging health issues. Special attention will be given to innovative, replicable business models that improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of healthcare delivery.

hearScreen Healthy Hearing SolutionSouth Africa

hearScreen is the world’s first clinically valid hearing screening solution operated via smartphone. Its use of commercially available technology allows hearScreen to be 80% cheaper than traditional devices, whilst adhering to international audiometry standards. It also enables non-specialist personnel to conduct screening in resource-constrained areas.

JokkoSanté eHealth Loyalty ProgrammeSenegal

JokkoSanté is a web and mobile platform that helps to make

reliable, quality medicines accessible to low-income families

in Senegal. A ‘reward points’ system helps reduce the cost

burden, high levels of waste, and illicit sales of prescription

drugs. It also allows health programmes, NGOs and private

companies to reward target communities.

Khushi Baby Maternal and Infant Digital Health InitiativeUS

The Khushi Baby is a wearable, electronic health record aimed at mothers in India. It helps counteract high maternal and infant mortality rates, by providing medical professionals with rapid access to patient information. The Khushi Baby community outreach platform also encourages mothers to attend medical and health worker appointments.

Lifetrack Medical Imaging PlatformThe Philippines

The LifeSys digital platform by Lifetrack enables the acquisition and transfer of X-Rays and CT scans without the need for high-speed bandwidth. The use of low-cost, off-the-shelf consumer technology reduces costs, and enables countries with a shortage of radiology specialists to outsource their diagnoses to professionals abroad.

Logistimo eVin Vaccine Supply Chain ManagementIndia

Logistimo’s Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (known as eVIN) provides a user-friendly system for digitising vaccine stocks. By reducing information gaps, delays, and forecasting errors, the network enables healthcare officials to lower the costs and wastage resulting from unstable transport and telecommunications infrastructures.

Novartis Access NCDs Affordable Treatment ProgrammeUS

80% of all deaths from non-communicable diseases, such as diabetes and cancer, occur in the developing world. Novartis Access enables governments and NGOs in developing nations to treat such conditions, by providing access to 15 medicines at a basket price of US$1 per month. The programme has served nearly 400,000 patients since 2015.

Telenor Health Tonic EcosystemBangladesh

Tonic by Telenor Health provides affordable, 24-hour access to over 2,000 specialist health workers across Bangladesh, through the purchase of a simple phone scratch card. Available from local pharmacies, mobile airtime vendors and community health workers, the scratch card enables around 5 million customers to access quality medical services.


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This award relates to Goal 2 “End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture”, and Goal 6: “Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all”, with an additional emphasis on access to land, land tenure rights, land management, and land governance – all critical for the achievement of both food and water security.

Connecterra Ida Dairy Farmers AI AssistantNetherlands

Over 6 billion people worldwide consume milk-based products. Alongside increasing demand, farmers face pressures relating to food traceability and animal welfare conditions. Ida, developed by Connecterra, is an artificial intelligence system that helps dairy farmers increase productivity and welfare transparency, while reducing labour costs.

DCM Shriram Meetha Sona Sugarcane ProgrammeIndia

Launched in 2014, the Meetha Sona programme promotes

green agronomy practices in the Indian sugarcane industry.

By improving the technical knowledge of several thousand

smallholder farmers, Meetha Sona has increased farm

yields by 25% and added US $20 million dollars to India’s

local, rural economy.

eWATERpay IoT Pre-Payment MetersUK

According to the World Bank, over 46% of rural water points in Tanzania are non-functioning, due to lack of maintenance. The situation is similar in many other Sub-Saharan countries. Using mobile, Internet of Things and NFC technologies, eWaterPay provides a low-cost means of monitoring water usage and system functionality, allowing operators to respond rapidly to faults.

SilverStreet Capital Poultry Value Chain InitiativeUK

SilverStreet Capital, through its portfolio company Silverlands Tanzania, invests in small-holder poultry farmers, providing much-needed equipment and resources. The venture has helped to stimulate the formerly stagnant Tanzanian poultry industry, benefiting tens of thousands of grain and poultry farmers.

Stanley Black & Decker Clean Tech PumpUS

Over 25 million agricultural pumps are used in India, yet most of these are erratic or reliant upon diesel fuel. The Stanley Black & Decker Clean Tech Pump is a solar-powered solution that efficiently and reliably supplies water to rural farms, helping farmers regulate irrigation and yield multiple harvests throughout the year.

SunCulture RainMaker Irrigation SystemKenya

Only 4% of Africa’s quarter-million hectares of potential farmland is currently irrigated. The RainMaker, by SunCulture, provides an affordable irrigation system which uses solar power to collect and distribute water across farmland. Farmers using the RainMaker system have reported an average increase in crop yield of 300% per year.

Twiga Foods B2B MarketplaceKenya

Twiga Foods is a mobile, business-to-business platform that brings technology, farmers and food vendors together. By consolidating and streamlining procurement and logistics, it helps to increase the purchasing power of food retailers while providing farmers with stable markets and minimising post-harvest losses.


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Achievement in Transformational Finance

The award for Achievement in Transformational Finance recognises innovative financing structures, products or services -- including blended solutions that bring together diverse sources of capital – that support initiatives with substantial social, environmental and corporate governance value and the potential to transform lives in developing economies. This category is open to all private sector financial participants.

Aihuishou Electronics Recycling PlatformChina

Aihuishou is China’s largest platform for electronics recycling and disposal. It provides transparent valuation, data deletion, and environmentally-friendly disposal via online, in-store and door-to-door channels. Aihuishou’s aim is to reform a marketplace currently dominated by scalpers, opaque pricing, privacy violations, and environmental disregard.

Alipay Financial Access PlatformChina

AliPay provides mobile payment services to 800 million

users in and outside of China. This enables unbanked

and underbanked citizens to gain access to the global

marketplace online and across millions of brick-and-

mortar merchants. AliPay’s wider initiatives have also

increased transparency in carbon footprint tracking and

charitable giving.

Climate Fund Managers Investor One FundsNetherlands

Climate Investor One seeks to transform the funding of green infrastructure projects in developing countries, by providing whole-of-life financing and strategically-positioned donor capital. In combination with technical, legal, financial and environmental consultancy from Climate Fund Managers, this reduces project timelines and liquidity risks.

GuiaBolso Digital Personal Finance HubBrazil

GuiaBolso is Brazil’s only free, fully-automated personal financial management system. By aggregating users’ financial and credit bureau data into a single interface, GuiaBolso helps its customers to understand their finances, track their spending, and access tailored financial products and loans at the best available rates.

LuxSE Luxembourg Green Exchange

The Luxembourg Green Exchange is the world’s only stock exchange platform dedicated exclusively to green, social and sustainable projects and investments. By providing free access to transparent and strictly regulated financial reporting, the Luxembourg Green Exchange helps increase awareness, credibility and accessibility for green securities.

MicroEnsure Global Products PlatformUK

MicroEnsure delivers insurance for low income communities in emerging markets. The company’s use of technologies and distribution partners, tailored to the needs of local demographics, enhances ease of access and turnaround times on claims. The reduction of value chain costs through digitisation further enables affordable, sustainable and scalable provision.

OASIS Loss Modelling FrameworkUK

Oasis Loss Modelling Framework is an open-source platform that provides access to disaster risk data and models previously restricted to insurance specialists. These tools can assist governments and industry from developing economies to plan for extreme events and climate change. They can also help reduce the cost of disaster insurance for lower-income individuals worldwide.


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Excellence in Disruptive Technologies

This award recognises the short-listed initiative that stands apart across all private sector categories for its ground-breaking use of new technology and the strength of its disruptive approach to markets and business models.

Excellence in Climate Solutions

This award recognises the short-listed entry that across all private sector categories most effectively addresses one or more of the effects of climate change in the context of a developing economy, or that can be replicated in a developing economy.

Excellence in Transformational Business

This prize is awarded to the initiative that in the opinion of the judging panel stands apart among the winners of all private sector categories for its level of innovation, impact, replicability, financial viability and sustainability in the context of a developing economy.


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