Flexible Funding for Women-Led Resilience

​How can funders, practitioners, and communities work together to design more adaptive, women-centred approaches to resilience?

​Join leading practitioners such as Mahila Housing Trust, Antara Foundation, Milaan Foundation and sector partners for a 60-minute panel at India Impact House exploring how flexible funding can better support last-mile innovation across health, habitat, climate resilience, and women’s leadership.

​The session will bring together funders and practitioners to reflect on what becomes possible when capital is designed with greater trust, responsiveness, and long-term intent. Drawing on experience from maternal and child health, urban resilience, digital innovation, and community-led systems change, the conversation will focus on practical ways to strengthen collaboration, support learning, and enable solutions that emerge from community realities.

​Together, we will explore:

• ​How trust-based, flexible funding can help grassroots organisations adapt, iterate, and scale.

• ​What it means to position women as system architects and co-creators of change.

• ​How digital and data innovation can be designed with communities at the centre.

• ​How collaborative funding approaches can bridge health, habitat, and climate in more integrated ways.

​This session is designed for social impact leaders, foundation programme officers, grant-makers, development finance professionals, policymakers, and practitioners interested in strengthening collaborative giving and advancing more responsive, equitable, and women-centred funding models.