How a coalition gets built
Your capital funds the hard early stage: pilots, demonstrations and the systems other partners can later use and fund. This gives the alliance its first real asset, proof that the idea works, before anyone else takes a risk on it.
Things like guarantee funds and credit-readiness systems are built around your funding, so banks and lenders feel safe giving loans at a much bigger scale.
Once your pilot proves the idea, we build the awareness campaigns, paperwork and on-ground teams needed so government schemes and CSR budgets can start co-funding the same people your money first reached.
You decide the goal, the funding and the risk you're willing to take. We set up the rules, roles and accountability so other partners can join in without changing what you set out to do.
For example: a guarantee fund of about $26K unlocked about $520K in loans — 20 times the original amount. A pilot that unlocked $52–$210 in CSR funding per person is a 6x return. This is what we report back to you.
By the time you come in, the anchor partner has already funded the pilot and taken on the early risk. Your money enters an alliance with a proven model.
CSR funding of $52–$210 per person works alongside government support of $10 to $31,500+ per person, already unlocked through the same coalition. Your money isn't working alone, it's working next to public and institutional money.
Training, digital skills and business support funded by program partners create a 6x return on the original funding.
Shared reporting and measurement mean you can see how the whole collaborative is performing.
Because roles and structure are set up early, your funding adds something new to the alliance instead of overlapping with what someone else already pays for. Nothing gets duplicated, and nothing gets wasted.
Holding the centre
A collaborative succeeds when somebody can do all three: convene, execute and hold the centre. Samhita has experience doing this across funders, companies, government, NGOs, banks and technology partners.
What keeps the ladder standing
We take an alliance from anchor-funder engagement through to scaling and sustainability planning, so funders get one accountable partner across design, delivery and evaluation, instead of separate agencies for each.
Proof of the climb
716,000+ Covid-19 impacted workers and micro-entrepreneurs were supported with income increasing interventions.
In partnership with USAID, UNDP, Omidyar Network, India Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), Michael & Susan Dell Foundation (MSDF)
5.3M frontline healthcare and sanitation workers and community members impacted through vaccines, protective equipment, skills and jobs and government benefits.
In partnership with the Gates Foundation, RBL Bank, IKEA, Hindustan Unilever and Crompton Greaves
291,339 women received healthcare information and services, employment and entrepreneurship skills and financial-inclusion support to improve their healthcare and economic progression outcomes.
In partnership with USAID, FHM Engage
$9.7M mobilised across 100+ projects, aligned with India's WASH priorities. Clean water and sanitation, at national scale. Built with the Gates Foundation and 60+ partners.