India Policy Leadership Lab

Cultivating Collaboration Between Social Investment and Policy in India

Highlights of the AVPN South Asia Impact Capital Festival

1293

Social investment delegates

12 Speakers

55.7%

Women leaders represented

To deepen public-private social investment engagements, the India Policy Leadership Lab aims to enhance the collaborations of Indian policymakers and connect them with non-traditional allies. Emphasising action over theory, this platform taps into an array of human, intellectual, and human capital, and paves the way for innovative collaboration across local networks.

Our Core Mission

To empower public sector agents of change and to increase the states’ capacity in executing and achieving impact goals – and the India Lab creates a viable ecosystem for the policymaker do to so successfully.

The Lab aims to

Challenges faced by Indian policymakers in achieving cross-sector convergence for impact

Policy Leadership Lab Alumni

Policymakers strengthen their capacity by

Programme Experience

Diverging from traditional fellowship models, the 12-month India Lab programme takes on a practice-based and adaptive approach that is able to efficiently navigate policymakers’ existing and often rigorous agendas and schedules. Through various forms of resources and tailored opportunities, the India Lab ably fosters credible partnerships and enable policymakers to access the right capital for their initiatives.

01 Induction and Consultation

1-2 brief consultations with AVPN to understand the context in which the policy initiative operates in, define the gap that the initiative is hoping to address and provide an in-depth analysis on the type and scale of resources needed. Induction Ceremony at the AVPN India Summit and Policy Forum to formally introduce policymakers to the programme and connect them and their policy initiatives to Selection Committee members and Knowledge Partners.

02 Resources and Member Mapping

Active ongoing support from AVPN to identify who and what from AVPN’s network and knowledge assets can offer mentorship, sector expertise, or technical and financial support for the advancing of the policy initiative.

03 Lab Sessions

1-2 two-hour sessions to enable policymakers and select AVPN members to learn about the policy initiative and engage their knowledge and expertise to address the challenges for its advancement.

04 Full Engagement of AVPN Ecosystem

Over the 12 months, policymakers may choose to participate in specific AVPN capacity building events and resources, be invited to attend Member-exclusive local activities, and be supported by AVPN’s digital and physical outreach and communications. This includes the APFx: Policy Exchange for Impact and AVPN Signature Events as platforms to showcase their policy initiatives and engage members.

05 Graduation Forum

An exclusive one-day convening of policymakers, select AVPN Members, and Lab mentors that will mark the conclusion and takeaways from the Lab experience and solidify partnerships and milestones achieved during the programme.

Project Funded by

“The unprecedented nature of 2020 has shown the importance of agile, responsive and innovative policymaking. We are very glad to be partnering with AVPN to engage with key selected policymakers and incubate their ideas to scale for large scale human impact through the India Policy Labs. Together we aspire to empower public sector actors of change to effectively leverage the potential of mobilizing private sector capital to advance policy initiatives for impact.”