Flexible Funding for Women-Led Resilience
How can funders, practitioners, and communities work together to design more adaptive, women-centred approaches to resilience?
Speakers:
Ms Chandrika Bahadur, CEO, The Antara Foundation
Mr Dhirendra Pratap Singh, CEO, Milaan Foundation
Ms Pompy Sridhar, India Director, MSD For Mothers
Ms Maina Sahi, Executive Director, EquityPurpose & Advisor to MHT's IKAI Collective (Moderator)
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.
Join leading practitioners such as Mahila Housing Trust (MHT), Antara Foundation, Milaan Foundation, and sector partners for a 60-minute panel at India Impact House. This session will explore how flexible funding can better support last-mile innovation across health, habitat, climate resilience, and women’s leadership.
The panel will bring together funders, practitioners, and stakeholders to discuss 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.
The importance of positioning 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.