www.hmri.in
Extending 24x7 non-emergency healthcare consultancy to people, specifically the rural population in Andhra Pradesh

INSIGHT
India has a sizeable rural population, most of which is severely underserviced by traditional healthcare resources. The existing rural health coverage is less than one-third of the World Health Organization guidelines, resulting in approximately three billion annual incidents of patients receiving unqualified or no treatment.

In Andhra Pradesh alone, more than 86% of the villages lie beyond three kilometres from the nearest hospital and roughly 600,000 patients go untreated each day. Besides the obstacle of distance from a centralized healthcare system, these rural populations also have several unique health concerns, including risk from mosquito-borne diseases, poor access to potable water, and a variety of sanitation/hygiene issues.

INNOVATION
One of the most unique means of reaching at-risk rural populations is HMRI’s 24x7 health helpline - 104 Advice. This health contact centre offers non-emergency medical advice, information and counselling services on the toll free ‘104’ number. Assisted by pre-formatted algorithms and disease summaries, callers are matched with appropriately qualified health workers (including medical specialty experts) who provide advice/counselling or make preliminary diagnoses and referrals for further treatment.

IMPACT
104 Advice is currently the world’s largest health contact centre, attending to an average 1,500,000 calls every month. Since it’s inception in May 2007, 104 Advice has received 3, 50,50,997 calls, of which 96% are calls made for medical advice. 2, 75,856 calls came for counselling services, and 2,03,982 calls were made for information enquiry. HMRI’s efforts to address the last mile problem in healthcare delivery are being widely recognised.

Currently this service is available in Andhra Pradesh and HMRI aims to provide a scalable model for improving access to healthcare throughout the developing world.

www.irisbusiness.com
Joining hands with technology - Taking democracy to voting booth via schools.

INSIGHT
The elections have often witnessed an abysmally low citizen turnout in major metros, more shockingly so in a city like Mumbai. Inspite of fervent appeals from celebrities, election commission and the media, people keep themselves away from voting. While poor voting attendance was observed across all age groups, what was especially shocking was the supreme indifference of the relatively young voters. For any democracy to move ahead it is imperative for it is young and actively contributing generation to play a role in shaping governance. That is when the idea to try and get kids to persuade their parents to go out and vote was conceived by IRIS.

INNOVATION
By creating an Internet based voting mechanism through which children in the schools of Navi Mumbai could vote for the candidate of their choice from amongst those standing for elections, IRIS succeeded in generating interest and debate amongst the students. The process mimicked real life: each class had a class Electoral officer appointed by the Class teacher or the civics teacher who was given the responsibility of getting students enrolled as voters.

This election was given media coverage and to spread the word, voting happened through a link on the NMTV website. The interschool voting competition with prizes for highest voter turnout and certificates for all ‘responsible voting citizens’ generated further enthusiasm and response among the students. The solution was available in both English and Marathi.

IMPACT
While the benefits of this exercise cannot be measured for immediate impact, there is anecdotal evidence from schools to suggest that the parents of the children who voted showed up in greater numbers at the voting booth. By participating in the voting, the chidren got a taste of democracy at work. The fact that even Marathi speaking students could use it served to prove that IT is not elitist.

Looking at the success of this pilot, the Chief Election Commissioner of India commended the initiative for adoption all over the country. In the meanwhile, this solution will be rolled out in all Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan educational institutions (650) before all future elections at all levels.

www.mcxindia.com
A price-less partnership for farmers aid

INSIGHT
The rise of Indian economy since the 1990s did not really swing the momentum for many sectors including agriculture that remained lagging behind. Small and marginal farmers to date face various challenges when it comes to decisions pertaining to what crops to sow and what price to sell them at. MCX desired to use its domain strengths to make India’s process of economic growth more inclusive by providing them a level playing field and new opportunities in the domain of agricultural marketing, risk management, and finance. To address these issues, MCX set itself the goal of ensuring that better price information would be provided to the farmers, to help them decide the choice and worth of their produce.

INNOVATION
Through it’s Public Private Partnership (PPP) with India Post, MCX’s Gramin Suvidha Kendra (GSK) has entered into partnerships with various organizations to bring a gamut of services under a single window ranging from - price/market information, addressing technical queries regarding farming, providing scientific warehousing facilities, issuing warehouse receipts and credit lending, supplying quality agri and non-agri inputs, providing a platform for spot trading, and weather insurance services. By involving local people in the value chain GSK represents a collaborative approach that is vital when tackling pressing social problems. This low cost, revenue generating, sustainable model has the necessary flexibility for more services to be added, and is easily replicable.

IMPACT
The Gramin Suvidha Kendra has greatly empowered the farmers’ cause. Farmers no longer need to travel to marketplaces to know prices. Instead, they only have to walk a few yards to know about prevailing reference prices of their produce if traded on MCX or another national-level commodity exchange. GSK has given farmers the means to produce and measure better quality of yield and fetch better prices.

Moving ahead GSK aims to bring on its platform health, education and microfinance services.

www.steria.co.in
Bridging education with technology - Making learning urbanised for rural appeal.

INSIGHT
Inspite of consistently achieving 7-8% and even higher rates of growth in our domestic economy in the post globalisation era, for a majority of Indians living in rural and semi urban India it has done little to raise their standard of living. The only sustainable way to bridge this urban – rural divide is by giving millions of children coming from deprived backgrounds “quality education” that is comparable to that enjoyed by their more affluent counterparts from the big cities.

INNOVATION
Steria India’s ‘community model’ uses employee volunteers to engage the child right from his/her early school days in primary school, through middle school on to senior school and beyond. With facilities such as computer centres, libraries, morning milk and play areas, self learning English language software, theatre clubs, vocational skills and mentorship and so on an effort to provide a “Superior School Experience” for all round development of the child is put in place. Bright and ambitious kids also have the opportunity to benefit from the Steria India Foundation Graduate Scholarship Scheme (SIFGSS) that provides financial assistance for pursuing a university degree.

IMPACT
Currently, over 45,000 school children study in more than 35 Steria supported schools across Chennai, Pune and Noida. This programme has brought a significant change in perspective of children and the larger community. School enrolment has gone up and dropouts have reduced in these schools. Changes in the community are more dramatic with parents no longer preventing girl children from going to school, and coming forward for computer lessons themselves. Through students, Steria CSR has also succeeded in percolating environment concerns to village levels and earn their participation in Steria’s ‘save the environment’ campaigns.

Steria has plans to work with the government to take computer education and English language skills to more and more schools and also ensure that the infrastructure that is being set up by the government is utilised to the best extent possible.

www.itcportal.com
Transforming Lives and Landscape

INSIGHT
ITC’s commitment to create wealth for the larger society goes beyond the market, the traditional profit and loss statement and encompasses a much larger contribution to sustainable development. This approach to creating larger ‘stakeholder value’, as opposed to shareholder value’, is critically necessary to ensure the perpetual sustainability of our planet and the business as well.

INNOVATION
ITC came up with some viable options in the area of social and farm forestry. After investing in RandD, they came up with BCM clones, that not only grow faster, are disease resistant, require less water but also has 3-4 times more productivity under rain fed condition and 6-7 times under irrigated conditions. This made ITC forestry programmee a commercially viable options for farmers and communities. In the area of watershed development, a unique PPP model was used wherein the scale and resources of the government, community mobilization skills of NGOs and the management skills of ITC together provided higher wealth generation capability to the beneficiaries and achieved a larger scale operation. In the area of waste recycling, ITC provides special bags to accumulate dry waste like paper, plastic and metals and arranges periodic collection through outsourced agencies. Waste paper is used by ITC to manufacture paperboards and other materials are sold to recycling industries.

IMPACT
The social and farm forestry programme has greened more that 1.2 Lakh Ha. with 420 million plants and has provided 46.34 million person days of employment. The watershed programmee has conserved soil moisture to 47,812 Ha. More than INR 30 Lakh has been generated as revenue from this project in terms of waste recycling.

www.educomp.com
Making school education fun & interesting proposition for every child.

INSIGHT
Education forms the basis of a progressive society and nation. While the importance of education has been propagated throughout the country, the current education system does little to make learning fun and interesting enough to attract and retain those millions of children in India who either have never been to a school or drop out due to lack of desire for learning.

INNOVATION
Led by pedagogy, research and technology Educomp Solutions Ltd has conceived a whole new teaching-learning paradigm in schools across India; offering interventions, products and services to teach children in the language they understand and with multimedia that brings alive abstract curricular concepts. With the introduction of MagiKeys Software, Educomp has enabled ‘Online’ / ‘Offline’ ICT usage in different languages like English, Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Urdu, Konkani, Punjabi and Sanskrit. By developing training modules to help understand technology as a tool for imparting knowledge, Educomp lends teachers handholding support and quality training to use it effectively in the classroom. It’s Build-Own-Operate-Transfer (BOOT) Model is designed to help State Governments increase their achievement of targets by investing initially minimal resources.

IMPACT
Educomp has succeeded in raising interest in education amongst children along with the awareness of new age education formats amongst parents in particular and village communities at large. By teaching computer skills to those who may otherwise remain deprived of it, Educomp is changing millions of such lives forever. Taking note of more student roll calls in ICT learning, many state governments have started introducing computer-aided education in schools, thereby motivating the central government to allocate more funds. Better teaching tools and greater job opportunities for ICT qualified teachers have also motivated many teachers to upgrade themselves, in turn impacting the quality of teaching, student learning and ensuring a more efficacious teaching-learning environment to inspire the joy of learning.

www.geodesic.com & www.geoamida.com
Taking mainstream economy to horizons beyond the city sky.

INSIGHT
Four billion people in the world still live under $2 per day. There is an urgent need to reach out and enable the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP), to make them an integral part of mainstream economy. The stakeholders - governments, enterprises and service providers - need to create solutions to achieve it quickly, effectively and efficiently. Technology has to be a major enabler to ensure that every person, anywhere, can access and be part of financial mainstream.

INNOVATION
GeoAmida, the Perfect Last Mile to reach the Un-reached, enables service providers to biometrically identify customers, deliver multiple services remotely and securely, and functions reliably in the remotest parts of the world. The multilingual, graphical interface (display, print and speak) is designed to address low IT literacy of users and fundamentally improve ease of use.

IMPACT
By providing access to quality service, finance and knowledge, GeoAmida has dramatically influenced rural life by increasing rural entrepreneurship, empowering womenfolk and critically narrowing the great ‘digital divide’. For enterprises, a whole new market is opening up due to the presence of a reliable, secure, leak-proof and cost effective technology platform for service delivery.

The next level would be to replicate the success stories globally; an Indian innovation helping to reverse the structure of the economic pyramid!

www.tcs.com
An Innovative Platform to Provide Personalized Services to Farmers

INSIGHT
After extensively surveying farmers, NGOs, university professors and agriculture scientists, it was observed that farmers not only needed agro advisory on a one-to-one level but also needed wide range of other services such as micro credit, crop insurance, market prices, procurement, poultry, cattle, etc. The need for these personalised guidance and consultancy services is prevalent everywhere and sought at all times of the year.

INNOVATION
mKRISHI, is an innovative end-to-end platform involving mobile phones with camera, automatic weather station, sensors, mobile user interface software, server software and connectivity to information sources such as weather prediction applications, current commodity price feeds, etc.

It gives personalized services to farmers by collating the soil, crop and micro climatic data of any land, allowing experts to provide advice on any aspect of farming (such as soil conservation, fertilizer input, pesticide and crop health) on their mobile phone. It allows farmers throughout India to make a query in a local language from a mobile phone and receive personalized advice from experts in the local language.

IMPACT
With mKRISHI farmers receives immense satisfaction as they have access to the experts. Through personalized advice, farmers can increase yield, reduce usage of pesticide and increase the price for their produce. Through repeated question answer sessions with the experts, farmers increase their awareness of latest agriculture inputs such as seeds, fertilizers, pesticides. mKRISHI enables agriculture experts / scientists to reach large numbers of farmers to disseminate latest technologies and best practices developed in a lab. It may generate positive impact on environment as farmers get advice on right application of fertilizers and pesticides to curb ground water pollution.

mKRISHI expects to attract private funds and give rise to micro enterprises thereby generating greater employment. The plan is to demonstrate the impact of various services in an integrated fashion to farmers and thus influence government to invest in creating weather stations, sensor infrastructure, and providing mKRISHI tools to agriculture scientists and workers for carrying out extension work effectively.

http://www.savethebabygirl.com
An initiative, which tackles malpractices of sex-determination and selective abortion

INSIGHT
The gender composition in India has worsened over a period of time. Demographically the ratio has increased from 927: 1000 (f:m) in 1991 to 933:1000 in 2001. However, this ratio is alarmingly decreasing among children in the age group of 0-6 yrs. If this trend extends further it would deepen the gender imbalance in the society. In Maharashtra the imbalance in this age group is even more at 917:1000, while the Kolhapur district in the state has one of the lowest f:m ratio in the country of 839:1000 in children below 6 years. This project aims to reach the very root of sex determination. Even though the law exist, it has been unofficially reported that malpractice of gender determination is going on resulting in selective abortion.

INNOVATION
“SAVE THE BABY GIRL”, is an initiative by the District Collector of Kolhapur. Through the district administration malpractices of sex-determination and selective abortion, which are major reasons for this gender imbalance in the region, are tackled. Through creation of its website http://www.savethebabygirl.com and its online entry software, the administration tracks all sonography tests done across all authorised centres in a district. This monitoring mechanism gives the district administration an effective means to stop the malpractice of aborting the girl fetus. The programme also provides economic support to pregnant women for the period of pregnancy, and encourages adoption of female fetus and girls by providing them economic security.

IMPACT
Tracking of all sonography tests done across all authorized centers is possible through online entry on a customised software. Through this project information regarding pregnancy, list of government hospitals, welfare schemes, and healthcare track record for every fetus is provided.

The plan is to extend this website for early ANC registration and tracing of ANC and outcome of pregnancy. While the effective results of this all-round protection and promotion for the cause of female fetus would be evident in the long run, its initiation is seen as positive footstep in restoring the gender imbalance in the society, and conveys the strong intent of the government to the society in this regard.

www.bagpat.nic.in, www.jpnagar.nic.in
Digitally mapping health for Indian families to dial–up & obtain complete family health profile with medical advice & assistance.

INSIGHT About 2.4 million children, and 1,36,000 maternal women die in India every year due to lack of medical attention and preventive care. While efforts made to curb total fertility, infant mortality and maternal mortality rates through the Reproductive and Child Health Program (RCH II) has yielded positive outcomes, yet despite all efforts, above health indicators are way behind the targets envisioned in the Millennium Development Goals. The presence of vast caste, class, religion and gender based disparities adversely impacts access to, as well as, knowledge of health parameters. Our health model till now is generally conceptualized as a one way supply based approach, emphasising curative medication. Hence, arises the need for intervention.

INNOVATION Aarogyam is a unique, end-to-end community based digital health mapping programme. The innovative use of IVRS and telecommunication technology devolves automatic call alerts/sms (in Hindi) with respect to specific family related information, on all aspects of child immunization, antenatal care, care of pregnant mothers, safe delivery, (Janani Suraksha Yojana), thereby ensuring health for the entire family with special focus on infant and pregnant/lactating mothers. Its pro-active model provides a sitting-at-home dial-up facility for full knowledge of one’s family health profile. Being a two-way Interactive Health model, the project also informs the family about various health parameters if they enquire on in-dial phone numbers. The Reactive model of the project provides complaint registration facilities to citizens through voice recording mechanisms on in-dial phone lines. The best part is involvement and accountability of service delivery providers - by informing the medical staff from time to time about the lapses in their service delivery through automatic call alerts/sms.

IMPACT The initiative has started giving positive results in terms of health service delivery mechanism in both districts of implementation - JP Nagar and Baghpat (U.P.). There has been measurable improvement in child immunization and pregnancy registration across all strata of society. Its zero cost services and free information reach to all has also ensured access to the poorest of poor, and neutralizes gender, class, region based inequalities. Instant messages and calls to service providers have made Medical Officers/ANM's more responsible and accountable, ensuring timely delivery of health care services to the communities.

Efforts have been made to scale the project at national level so that all healthcare activities come under one umbrella. Concurrence to this has already been given by Ministry of Health, Government of India, which has decided to implement it in selected districts of 3 states, including UP.

www.orissa.gov.in/I&PR
Making governance efficient, transparent, and faith-inducing with e-correspondence.

INSIGHT
The age-old process of physical letters has not only restricted the pace of progress but also fallen short in terms of efficiency and reliability, more so in matters of communication between the government and citizens. To achieve transparency, real time updates, better communication access to government bodies and correspondence through e-governance is the need of the hour.

INNOVATION
e-Despatch addresses the challenge of facilitating instant communication of letters with zero fault and still retaining the government process of letter dispatch intact. It ensures government signed letters reach its recipient in real time via, email, fax, SMS and e-Space. This solution helps in speeding up the dispatch process and also avoids errorors due to human intervention. Further it serves as an effective knowledge management repository.

IMPACT
This solution was first pilot tested in the Department of Panchayati Raj, Govt of Orissa. The department issues nearly 300 letters per day. The Commissioner cum Secretary Panchayati Raj, Govt. of Orissa quotes that “Poverty is directly proportional to the distance from information”. Introduction of eDespatch not only serves the purpose of Commissioner cum Secretary Panchayati Raj, Govt. of Orissa getting information and instructions in real time, but also allows citizens, press and field functionaries to remain updated. Witnessing the high usability the Directorate of IT, Orissa Computer Application Center of Orissa (OCAC), Govt. of Orissa, is in the process of deploying it in all the departments throughout the Orissa secretariat. OCAC has also sought to transfer the pan India sales rights of eDespatch in its name.

www.jhansi.nic.in/jjsk.htm
Ensuring every grievance is heard & answered… at a single call.

INSIGHT
The mark of a truly developed nation is its ability to hear and address the grievances of every citizen with minimal constraints and protocols of communication, registration and action between the government and its people. An aggrieved citizen, especially in rural India, has to travel from his base location to block, tehsil, district headquarters to meet the concerned officer just to get his/her grievance registered or to submit an application. Not only is this process time consuming, costly, cumbersome and exploitative but the monitoring and disposal of the complaint is also very tedious and ineffective to the extent where more often than not, the concerned citizen is hardly ever intimated regarding the disposal status of his grievance.

INNOVATION
The Jhansi Jan Suvidha Kendra represents a completely new approach in the arena of public grievance redressal, through which citizens can approach concerned government officials and register grievances through mobile or land line phones. This can be done from anywhere in the district at anytime and the citizens get a quick and effective response/disposal of their grievances registered through call/SMS/Internet. This free-of-cost service is not just easily accessible for registering complaints, but also ensures effective tracking of the complaints by constant follow up with the concerned officer and citizen and intimating the citizen of the status.

IMPACT
The introduction of JJSK has revolutionised the whole system of public grievance redressal in Jhansi District, Uttar Pradesh, India. As of January 2010, a total 7379 grievances were registered with JJSK, out of which 7007 (94.96%) were disposed of, 237 (3.21%) are pending within the target date and 135 (1.83%) are pending after the target date. The system has been instrumental in increasing citizens’ faith in the public delivery system and sanitising corrupt practices like delay tactics, middle man menace and false reporting.

www.ekgaon.com
A partnership between WOSCA, Concern World Wide India and Government Welfare Departments

INSIGHT
Orissa remains one of the poorest states in India and one that frequently experiences natural calamities that further aggravate the living conditions of its already vulnerable population. Government of India has sought to introduce a series of social welfare schemes and programmes to provide minimum support for its poorest citizens. Unfortunately most of these programmees, schemes and services have not achieved their objectives owing to poor implementation as well as chronic corruption in the programme delivery system and absence of social audit.

INNOVATION
Monitoring Entitlements for Rural Communities (MERComs) is a mobile phone-based monitoring system for tracking delivery of social welfare programme entitlements to rural poor. MERComs’ service framework provides a way to efficiently aggregate monthly update of data in realtime from paper-based records of the beneficiaries in the field using mobile phones.

MERComs’s Management Information System is modular, expandable and localised (in English, Hindi, Oriya) for NGOs, INGOs and volunteers for monitoring entitlements delivery to rural poor. This system monitors entitlement of the rural communities as given through identified government programmes to reduce corruption and help increase access to services that has not been covered under the programmes due to lack of access to “updated” information. Thus creating a system to ensure compliance of service delivery, reduce corruption and work towards building a system for a real-time access to services by beneficiaries with 100% transparency.

IMPACT
The project is presently helping 46,710 households in two blocks covering a population of whom 100% were eligible for MGNREGS.

Ekgaon and its project partners are interested in scaling up the services across few districts in Orissa and building a small fee based models for the services provided to the beneficiaries, ensuring revenue and sustenance of the services.

www.swanchetan.org
A project which involves, Delhi Police, Delhi Judiciary, victims and their family and Swanchetan

INSIGHT
Victims of crime and their families in India are terrified of approaching police to lodge cases and approach courts for justice. They face humiliation and insensitive questioning that in many cases makes them withdraw their cases. Victims need psychological support and compassion to support them through their post-traumatic stress and overcome the confusion to narrate the crime in order to continue their struggle for justice. People from all sections of the society suffer psychological trauma and we need to provide respect and dignity to victims in order to show that we are a nation that cares.

INNOVATION
Swanchetan set up a 24-hour counselling service run by clinical psychologists that reaches out to victims and their families providing support in the worst hour of their lives.

IMPACT
Swanchetan’s intervention aid has resulted in helping victims gain courage and composure to give details that have been included in charge sheets in many cases, especially so in cases involving crime against children. Many children have been able to describe the details of crime to police and later testify in courts, which they could not do earlier. It has aided in creating greater understanding of trauma faced in children, marginalised groups, and other victims of crime. Further it has served as an effective catalyst in justice becoming accessible to the poor and marginalised people, and in framing rehabilitation model for victims of crime in India.

Swanchetan has led to research and advocacy on victims’ rights and is leading to developing a victim centric criminal justice system. It has also initiated the practice to include evidence based research being used to understand victims and offender behaviour in judicial decision-making. Lastly it is developing a rights based perspective for victims of crime and violence.

www.indiawaterportal.org
Uniting pools of knowledge for water resources in India.

INSIGHT
Knowledge about water resources in India exists in silos of different governmental departments, universities, NGOs, states and even particular individuals. The Indian water sector exhibits deeply entrenched ideological positions and many conflict areas; not many platforms are perceived as neutral where debate and dialogue can help find consensus or middle ground. It is imperative to have a neutral platform, to ‘free up’ information flows between multiple stakeholders on water to share successful techniques and experiences amongst water practitioners and demystify various aspects of water management.

INNOVATION
India Water Portal (http://indiawaterportal.org) is a collaborative effort with participation from numerous NGOs, government institutions, corporate, universities and individuals. It is a completely free and open platform, for the dissemination of knowledge, and discussion/debate on water issues. The portal contains more than 1200 ‘knowledge levers’ in the forms of case studies, slide shows, movies, courses, interviews, talks, policy documents, etc. covering the range of water-related topics. The commitment to reduce both digital and content asymmetry prevalent in India has been balanced on IWP through the emphasis on Indian language portals, Multimedia courses and Radio programmes. Some of these include Hindi and Kannada pages, ‘Ask the experts’ service and the Schools Water Portal.

IMPACT
This on-line resource base is a virtual community for water management. This comprehensive water knowledge section, showcasing the best and sustainable water management practices has now become the de-facto knowledge base on water information. The portal receives about 1500 visits per day.

www.peerwater.org
Creating channels for water to find it’s way to people.

INSIGHT
Over one billion people in the world lack access to safe drinking water and, in India specifically, some 62% of rural households lack this most basic human need resulting in constant diarrhoea, illness, and death, as well as, immense hardships for women and girls who walk long distances everyday to fetch water. Although solutions exist and hundreds of organizations are working to carry out water and sanitation projects, with such tremendous overhead and opacity throughout the current system, it is nearly impossible and extremely costly to attempt to manage tens of thousands of remote village projects to really end the global drinking water crisis.

INNOVATION
The Peer Water Exchange (PWX) is a Web 2.0, social entrepreneurship project that transforms the philanthropic process from funding to long-term impact. PWX fosters and enforces collaboration among water project sponsors and implementers to aggregate and facilitate many diverse approaches, solutions, and resources to solve the global water and sanitation crisis. An efficient, decentralized network of partners that can be scaled up without a bureaucracy, PWX is the platform that can transparently, efficiently, and effectively manage the tens of thousands of grassroots projects needed to provide hundreds of millions of people with life-giving water.

IMPACT
Launched in 2006, PWX is today the world’s largest repository of water projects and continues to grow rapidly as more organizations seek to compile all their data on the platform. Its a truly participatory decision-making system in the water sector, empowering implementers in the field to use their experience to decide on funding. PWX has proven that peer-reviews reduce bureaucracy and costs, and increase project success rates through collaboration. The portal now has nearly 60 members and processed around Rs 6 Cr. of funding, with less than 5% overhead. PWX is currently managing over Rs. 45 Cr. worth of projects in over 600 communities and benefiting over 3 lakh people in 21 countries.