A showcase of outstanding global enterprises solving the most complex challenges
The Sankalp Global Awards is a celebration of outstanding social entrepreneurs and a showcase of innovative and successful businesses globally.
Over the last 13 years, for each summit, we have reviewed thousands of applications and showcased handpicked resilient businesses, entrepreneurs who’s big idea had the potential to solve a complex challenge and address a social cause. It gives us immense pride that some of these enterprises have gone on to grow tremendously and shoulder social responsibilities with far reaching impact.
The 2021 Edition of Sankalp Global Awards is looking for social entrepreneurs who are making a mainstream impact.



A showcase of outstanding global enterprises solving the most complex challenges



The Sankalp Global Awards is a celebration of outstanding social entrepreneurs and a showcase of innovative and successful businesses globally.
Over the last 13 years, for each summit, we have reviewed thousands of applications and showcased handpicked resilient businesses, entrepreneurs who’s big idea had the potential to solve a complex challenge and address a social cause. It gives us immense pride that some of these enterprises have gone on to grow tremendously and shoulder social responsibilities with far reaching impact.
The 2021 Edition of Sankalp Global Awards is looking for social entrepreneurs who are making a mainstream impact.
WINNERS OF THIS YEAR'S SANKALP GLOBAL AWARDS


Aloi, Nepal


Bandhu, India


Equatorial Power, DRC


Solinas, India


Numer8, India


Tvasta Manufacturing, India


Essmart, India
WINNERS OF 2021 SANKALP GLOBAL AWARDS


MeMeraki, India


Yolele Foods, USA & Senegal


Folia Water, Bangladesh


SmartTeller, Nigeria


ReCity, India


Whrrl, India
WINNERS OF 2020 SANKALP GLOBAL AWARDS


Duithape, Indonesia


Releaf, Nigeria


Waste Service, Nepal


MDaas, Nigeria


MyCL
2022 AWARDS SEMI-FINALISTS
2022 AWARDS SEMI-FINALISTS


CassVita Inc.
CassVita has invented a breakthrough biotechnology for increasing the shelf-life of cassava from 3 days to 18 months that offers a healthier and better-tasting wheat alternative at scale and creates prosperity for smallholder farmers in West Africa.
cassvita.com


Bandhu Urban Tech
Bandhu's mobile platform enables low-income workers to simultaneously line up accommodation and livelihood by providing each potential migrant with a package consisting of a job and associated rental housing.
www.bandhu.work/


Microfinance.ai
Vitto - Microfinance.AI is a FinTech platform for local-language preferred users to avail micro-financial services through the mobile platform - Vitto.
microfinance.ai


Aloi
Aloi is a micro-entrepreneur financing platform that uses blockchain to automatically monitor business expenditures by catalysing wholesale green lending by connecting wholesale lenders → retail microfinance lenders → borrowers → vendors.
www.aloi.global


Numer8
Numer8 helps small scale fisherfolks using their app to provide hourly updated marine and weather advisory, backward and forward market linkages, and financial connections to small-scale fisherfolks."
www.n8ofish.com


Omiflo
Omiflo designs and builds energy and chemical-free wastewater treatment systems that convert wastewater to clean water using natural plant-based biotechnology and recycled plastic more effectively and sustainably than conventional technologies.
www.omiflo.com


Solinas Integrity
Solinas is an IITM deep-tech startup providing asset management solutions leveraging robotics for the pipeline and sanitation industry, solving problems of water leakages, and eliminating manual scavenging.
pitchbook.com


Tvasta Manufacturing Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Tvasta provides 3D Printing as a mainstream solution for affordable housing, automating construction and improving productivity and sustainability in the industry to provide better infrastructure to millions around the world.
https://tvasta.construction/


Modroof
ModRoof manufactures, sells and installs modular roofing product catering to families in low income areas, non profits, corporates, architects and contractors.
ModRoof.in


Hustlenomics Pty Ltd
Hustlenomics provides an innovative housing solution within townships for families who do not qualify for traditional home financing options, enabling low-income homeowners to utilize their unused backyard space and create supplemental income through rental units.
www.hustlenomics.co.za


Essmart
Essmart is a curated B2B e-commerce platform for rural retail shops that specializes in products that transform rural revenue potential and improve livelihoods, enabling them to sell products that struggle to move through existing supply chains and grow their businesses.
www.essmart-global.com


D-Olivette Enterprise
D-Olivette produces domestic and user-friendly digestion technology that processes organic and biodegradable waste into more food and energy.
www.duithape.com


Equatorial Power
Equatorial Power (EP) is a de-centralized energy infrastructure company, focused on customer growth through its services by building and operating solar hybrid mini-grids (for 20 years) to provide essential power.
equatorial-power.com
PAST AWARDS FINALISTS
PAST AWARDS FINALISTS


Be Girl
Be Girl distributes a full line of quality, sustainable menstrual products to girls and women in underserved global markets, coupled with high-impact education services and transformative marketing campaigns.
www.begirl.org


Farm On Wheels
Farm On Wheels works with smallholder rural farmers providing them access to inputs, services and market, enabling them to increase their production capacity, yield and income.
www.farmonwheels.org


Oorja Development
Oorja Development Solutions finances, installs, operates, and maintains community-scale integrated solar agri-infrastructure for smallholder farmers with an inclusive pay-per-use business model.
www.oorjasolutions.org


SmartTeller
SmartTeller provides farmers and individuals with access to digital financial services by empowering cooperatives in rural areas with banking infrastructure to ensure seamless movement of produce from farms to households.
www.smartteller.net


ReCity
Recity is a circular waste management company that envisions keeping plastic in the economy and outside the environment through the intersection of technology & implementation across the plastic waste value chain.
www.recity.in


Whrrl
Whrrl is India’s largest blockchain platform revolutionizing the post-harvest financing ecosystem through its integrated Warehouse Receipt (WHR) Finance platform.
www.whr.loans


MeMeraki
MeMeraki is re-imagining the future of the artisan economy through the first content and commerce ‘culture-tech’ platform for traditional and folk artists, and artisans, giving them direct access to consumers across the world through their platform.
www.memeraki.com


Yolele Foods
Yolele brings the exciting tastes of African foods to global audiences, supporting smallholder farmers growing underutilized ingredients like fonio on biodiverse, resilient farms – with traceable impact.
www.yolele.com/menu


Folia Water
Folia Water’s mission is to provide universal access to clean drinking water to low-income communities through their water purifiers which will be available in local grocery stores throughout the developing world as commonly as soap, soda, or SIM cards.
www.foliawater.com


MDaaS
MDaaS Global has been building and operating modern, tech-enabled diagnostics centers in clinically-underserved neighborhoods, starting in Nigeria.
www.mdaas.io


Edpartners Africa
Ed Partners is a non-banking financial institution in Kenya that has curved a niche in provision of financial and non-financial services to Affordable Private Schools (APS).
www.edpartnersafrica.com


Duithape
Duithape uses a B2B2C approach, enabling clients to be able to make mass payments to the unbanked in a way that is safe, efficient, highly accountable and traceable.
www.duithape.com


Waste Services
Waste Service Private Limited is a private waste management organization located in Pokhara city, established with the vision to nullify the threats of hazardous biomedical waste for the promotion of health and sustainable environment. It aims to provide a complete and sustainable biomedical solution through its Common Treatment Facility.
www.wasteservices.com.np


Sisu Global
Sisu Global is the future of medical devices in emerging markets, designs medical devices for those who persevere, starting with Hemafuse.
www.sisuglobal.health


Cinch
Cinch is an agricultural technology company that brings the economics of commercial agriculture down to the smallholder scale.
www.facebook.com/cinchmarkets/


Janitri
Janitri Innovations is a medical device technology company focusing on providing affordable and easy to use innovations.
www.janitri.in


MYCL
Support the global production sustainable product by providing high-performance & sustainable leather-like material & while also empowering communities.
mycl.bio


Recube
Recube is a social enterprise that seeks to revolutionize the way people consume every day.
recube.co.in