Social Impact & Livelihoods
Every listed entity across Northeast India working in Social Impact & Livelihoods.
A support network for women entrepreneurs in Nagaland, launched through the GIZ Her&Now programme with Dhriiti, IDAN, and Startup Nagaland.
A women-founder network in Manipur led by Her&Now alumnae, launched through the GIZ Her&Now programme with Dhriiti and partner state institutions.
A social enterprise making compostable areca-palm-leaf tableware, producing tens of thousands of plates daily for export and supporting hundreds of rural jobs, most held by women.
The Nagaland chapter of SEWA Bharat, organizing thousands of women members across five districts with entrepreneurship programmes, market linkages, and cooperatives.
A foundation advancing sustainable energy access, running clean-energy and livelihood programmes across Northeast India in partnership with state institutions.
A development organization running livelihood, microenterprise, and women's empowerment programmes across Northeast India and beyond.
A Manipur-based clean-energy startup promoting solar-powered rural livelihoods.
A GIZ programme with India's Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship that ran incubation and acceleration cohorts for women entrepreneurs across all eight Northeast states.
The Northeast chapter of FICCI Ladies Organisation, promoting and supporting women entrepreneurs and business leaders across the region.
Nagaland weaving social enterprise guaranteeing employment to BPL weavers and reviving Naga textile craft, with artisan networks extending into Manipur and Meghalaya.
Assam-based rural clean-energy enterprise bringing renewable power to communities across Northeast India, with hundreds of thousands of rural residents reached.
An entrepreneurship-development organization incubating rural and social enterprises in Assam, including bamboo and arecanut leaf-plate ventures, and spinning out businesses such as Tamul Plates.
Textile livelihood enterprise of North East Network working with around 600 women loin-loom weavers across Phek district and Kohima, sustaining Naga weaving traditions.
Eri silk and natural-dye social enterprise in Kamrup, Assam, creating sustainable textiles and livelihoods with Rabha and forest-fringe weaving communities.
Kohima social enterprise and architecture firm pioneering bamboo construction, running skills training and market-linkage programs while incubating local craft and design ventures.
A Nagaland NGO active across all 17 districts and the wider Northeast, running the YouthNet Incubation Centre alongside MeitY GENESIS and Startup India Seed Fund programs for early-stage founders.
Pan-India impact-first incubator backing early-stage social enterprises in agriculture, health, energy and climate, with co-investments extending into the Northeast startup ecosystem.
Kohima-based nonprofit social venture founded by Ashoka Fellow Neichute Doulo, providing incubation, mentorship, credit, and market linkage to over 20,000 members across Nagaland, Manipur, and Arunachal Pradesh.
World Bank-backed Government of Sikkim program building an innovation hub and district incubation centres to revive local economies and support entrepreneurship.
A Shillong-based non-profit working on rural development and entrepreneurship, running the PRIME-Sauramandala Rural Entrepreneurship Fellowship in partnership with the Government of Meghalaya.
NABARD-assisted incubator at Rajiv Gandhi University in Doimukh nurturing rural and grassroots enterprises across Arunachal Pradesh.
A craft and livelihood incubation centre at Khetri, Assam, offering common facility and training support, a raw material bank, and the NE-SHILP showroom for Northeast artisans.
Meghalaya's state nodal institution for entrepreneurship education and micro-enterprise promotion, delivering PRIME and eChamp programs from Shillong.
A Government of Meghalaya Section 8 agency under the Planning Department that implements the state's flagship enterprise and livelihood programs, including PRIME and Megha-LAMP.
Shillong-based social enterprise founded by Hasina Kharbhih that markets Northeast tribal handloom under its Empower brand, alongside travel and consulting arms linked to Impulse NGO Network.
Nagaland's first startup school and incubator under the Department of Industries & Commerce, running Entrepreneurship Development Centres across the state under the Startup Nagaland program.
Impact investor and frontier-markets venture catalyst that backs early-stage social ventures, and facilitated Mizoram's first equity-financed startup deal.
Artisanal brand focusing on traditional Naga jewelry and sustainable textile production.
The North Eastern Development Finance Corporation, a Guwahati-headquartered development finance institution serving startups and enterprises across all eight Northeast states.
India’s first plastic-free plant and home garden store offering biodegradable pots, sustainable gardening products, and artisan-made décor; aims to reduce plastic waste in horticulture
Produces bamboo-based alternatives to plastic such as straws, cutlery, and stirrers. Initially prototyped using a single bamboo species; products marketed under “HAANDAN.” Faced slowdown post-COVID but now restarting and expanding product range (startup.arunachal.gov.in)
Sustainable luxury skincare using indigenous Himalayan ingredients.
