Vikaasa
A purpose driven business coalition, committed to co-creating new business models to deliver social and environmental impact.
The Challenge
Accelerating India’s progress on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals across four impact tracks.
Committed partnership
We bring together stakeholders committed to co-creating social and environmental impact by developing new growth models, enabling scale, and empowering todays and tomorrow’s leaders.
Theory of Change
Five core activities interconnectedly drive our work: an ecosystem of stakeholders, a shared narrative and mission, an engaged network of future leaders, co-creation and scaling of commercially-viable projects, and funding for impact capital models.
Impact Tracks
Four key thematic areas, each supported by cross-cutting verticals focused on funding for impact and shared narrative development, against three ambitions and three goals that address seven of the United Nations SDGs.
Vikaasa's Collective Ambitions
- 10
- Develop and scale innovative opportunities across alternative fuels, responsible plastic waste, and GHG emission reductions.
- 30
- Enable commercialisation of sustainable technologies with partnerships for catalytic impact, ecosystem building, and scaling.
- 100m
- Raise awareness with communities about waste management, health, hygiene, healthcare access and resilient employment.
How Vikaasa works
Five core activities drive our work, interacting seamlessly to create people and planet-positive impact.
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Create an ecosystem to bring together stakeholders invested in social impact.
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“The optimistic hope is to have India grow at 10% per year, but the quality of this growth has to be sustainable and inclusive. For this, the government and private sector need to work together.”
- Rajashree Birla
- Chairperson
- Aditya Birla Group and Chair of the Vikaasa Advisory Board
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“I believe that businesses have a significant role to play in achieving a new, more sustainable and inclusive growth model for the future.”
- Sanjiv Mehta
- Former Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director
- Hindustan Unilever
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“When preaching gets converted into positive action and you become part of an initiative, that’s when change comes. This (Vikaasa coalition) is a noble initiative.”
- Rajnish Kumar
- Former Chairman
- State Bank of India
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“As an organization, we continually strive to build our future through sustainable and ethical business practices. Our partnership with Vikaasa is focused on a collaborative approach to build a greener, smarter, and stronger tomorrow.”
- Satish Pai
- Managing Director
- Hindalco
