Women on Wings - consulting for social entrepreneurship

This stark statistic is dreadful. Another one shared by the UN Women is that 60% of female deaths occur at home. Today marks Day 2 of a 16 day worldwide campaign to end gender-based violence and the laws and culture that support it. While it's not the only answer to stop violence, employment can decrease it via an increase in women’s outside options and bargaining power and/or a reduction in financial stress in the household. (Haushofer et al. 2019). #16Days #OrangeTheWorld #EndGBV #GenderEquality #NoExcuse

Getting the right people in the room. The necessary people in the room for a recent supply chain workshop for a food-agri social enterprise included representatives from operations/processing/packing, quality control, sales, operation/logistics and the farmer engagement team of Raheja Solar Food Processing. The social enterprise is focused on increasing farmer incomes through solar dryers and mitigating food waste. Founder Varun Raheja and his team along with Women on Wings Supriya Kapoor and supply chain expert Germaine van Teeffelen wanted to identify needs and design the optimal supply chain steps for one of the business’ product lines. On day one, we discussed supply chain maturity, the current supply chain and the different ideas about new business models and how that would affect the supply chain. This also entailed fact checking costs, volumes, potential supplies and volumes, target margins and buyers to assess the credibility of the designed supply chain. On the second day, we worked on forecasting, capacity-planning techniques and deciding mitigations needed to overcome some of the current supply change challenges. Raheja Solar Food Processing and Women on Wings are in partnership to co-create more jobs for women living in rural areas of India. #supplychain #socialenterprise #ruraldevelopment

What's the inflection point where you push your social enterprise through a barrier to scale? Does it include installing a new CEO? Or the Founder becoming a CEO? #socialentrepreneurship #founder #inflectionpoint

Women on Wings experts are appreciated! 👊 Their knowledgeable insights, efforts, generosity, curiosity, flexibility, strong business experience push social enterprises and government institutions toward their growth ambitions. Their pro bono consulting makes our goal of co-creating one million jobs for women living in rural India possible. In the last month, Women on Wings experts* carried out online information-gathering sessions and/or workshops with these social enterprise partners: Bhoomgaadi Organic FPC, Bahula Naturals, AVACreations Social Impact Foundation, Tamul Plates Marketing Private Limited and Taru Naturals. Tom Borghols is beginning a workshop with a new social enterprise partner tomorrow. We will share about that and the many other online/on-site ones from the past months shortly here or sign up for our newsletter on our site. *Marja Versleijen l Germaine van Teeffelen l Chhatra Singh Nahata l Judith Heijnen l Miranda Heining #socialenterprise #businessconsulting #mentoring

Wishing everyone wonderful Diwali celebrations! May the festival of lights bring you peace, joy, new opportunities and beginnings. ##HappyDiwali2024 #lightoverdarkness #FestivalofLights

Women on Wings and VP Capital are excited to announce the extension of our partnership after a successful year focused on empowering women in rural India through consulting pro bono for social entrepreneurship. In the past financial year, Women on Wings has co-created 62,431 jobs, contributing to a total of over 395,000 jobs since inception. VP Capital's funding is crucial in helping Women on Wings move closer to our ambitious goal of co-creating one million jobs for women in rural India. Curious about the partnership? Learn more 👇 #womenempowerment #fundingmakesadifference

🕯️Are you ready for Diwali? Many of our social enterprise partners are in full Diwali-gift-giving promotion + sales mode. They have prepared everything from honey from the Nilgiris, to biodegradable festive dinnerware (Tamul Plates Marketing Private Limited), specialty teas, party recipes, delicate Soof embroidery (Rangsutra Crafts India) and gift hampers for the run up to the festival of lights, their busiest sales time of the year. Pictured below are a selection of their gift-giving and festivity offerings: Taru Naturals single origin farm heirloom box, MANJARI FOUNDATION's Katori initiative's Ragi Laddoo, Last Forest Enterprises Pvt Ltd' assorted pampering gift box from the Nilgiris, MORALFIBRE's upcycled soft toys Curious about Women on Wings 60+ social enterprise partners who are creating livelihoods for women living in rural India? https://lnkd.in/eQgNaPXX #Diwali #DiwaliGifts #LastMinuteGifts #SocialEnterprise

Social enterprises want to reduce their lead times, standardize inventory checks, documentation and reconciliation procedures, so that they can grow. Our operations and supply chain experts can work with them to pinpoint where to best optimize based on the organization's specific needs. Bhoomgaadi Organic FPC's founder, Akash Badave and his team with Women on Wings' Senior Business Consultant Chanakya Mehta and supply chain expert Germaine van Teeffelen met in a series of online information gathering sessions and an on-site process optimization workshop in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Curious about the workshop? Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eFagtS-S

To support scaling of water-energy-food innovations that promote food security, #genderequality and #povertyreduction sustainably, Supriya Kapoor, our Director-Social Enterprises, is on Water and Energy for Food Grand Challenge's Regional Advisory Body (RAB).

As we said, the development of the Government of Uttarakhand's House of Himalayas Ltd. brand is moving at gale-force speed so that it can improve livelihoods. 👊 At a Department of Commerce hosted industry interaction meet in Uttarakhand encouraging export growth, "House of Himalayas" (HoH) signed three of the events four MoUs. HoH entered into partnerships with: > Spices Board India for researching intrinsic values and story for Himalayan spices and developing a cardamom cluster for HoH  > INDIAN INSTITUTE OF PACKAGING - IIP, Delhi for assisting HoH in developing packaging for primary, secondary and territory transport for both domestic and export purposes > LuLu Group International, for the retail of HoH products in Lulu marts These agreements will support and further HoH’s aim to be the first state brand to bring the organic bounty of the Himalayas not only to Indian metro cities but to the global stage. Read about the strategic roadmap that Women on Wings with Minerva Impact, a strategy advocacy has developed for HoH: https://lnkd.in/e2SdsAMg #HouseofHimalayas #ruraldevelopment #DAYNRLM #womenentrepreneurship #SHG #ruralemployment #womenempowerment #APEDA