RaiseUK solved it by designing the coalition architecture, securing government executive sponsorship, and mobilising four leading Indian banks into a unified delivery structure for 100,000 rural women entrepreneurs.
A social enterprise was co-designing a state-scale initiative to digitally and financially empower 100,000 rural women entrepreneurs in Andhra Pradesh — one of the most ambitious financial inclusion programmes at this scale in South Asia. The programme carried a potential funding pool of US$15M to support 100,000 women financed across four leading Indian banks. The programme required building an unprecedented multi-stakeholder coalition: integrating Andhra Pradesh state government infrastructure, banking partnerships across four leading Indian banks, and technology systems into a single unified delivery model.
The complexity was structural: government partners required procurement compliance; bank partners required risk-adjusted product design; technology systems required interoperability. Building the partner coalition meant navigating all three simultaneously — ensuring each institution could operate within their existing framework while delivering a unified product to 100,000 beneficiaries. From day one, RaiseUK supported the client across the full scope of delivery: all government stakeholder engagement, client pilot design, reporting and evidence pitching, bank framework development, bank engagement, formal agreements, consortium building, and technology integration — providing end-to-end delivery support to ensure the successful design, financing, and launch of the partnership and pilot.
Designed the partnership structure for a state-government led initiative integrating four banking institutions — creating a governance model that allowed each partner to operate within their existing compliance frameworks while delivering a unified product to beneficiaries.
Supported the client in engaging state government officials across the relevant departments — including the state's women and child development authority and the agriculture and finance departments — to secure the executive sponsorship required for state-scale implementation.
Developed the partnership proposal and engagement strategy for each of the four banks — positioning the initiative as a customer acquisition and CSR compliance opportunity aligned to their existing priority sector lending mandates.
Supported the client across the full scope of delivery: reporting and evidence pitching to government and banking stakeholders, bank framework development, formal consortium agreements, and technology and data interoperability requirements across government, banking, and programme systems — enabling unified delivery of digital literacy, banking access, and financial product onboarding at scale.
State-scale initiative successfully structured and launched — a multi-stakeholder digital and financial inclusion programme co-designed with the Andhra Pradesh state government and four leading Indian banks, targeting 100,000 rural women entrepreneurs with US$15M in potential bank financing.
RaiseUK provided comprehensive end-to-end delivery support across all workstreams: government stakeholder engagement, client pilot design, reporting and evidence pitching, bank framework development and bank engagement, formal consortium agreements, and technology integration. The initiative integrates government infrastructure, banking partnerships, and digital technology into a single replicable model — which the client is now positioning for scale across additional Indian states.
"The coalition they helped us build would have taken us two years to assemble independently. They understood both the government and the banking side of the conversation."Chief Executive · Social Enterprise · India
This engagement demonstrates that RaiseUK's capability extends beyond philanthropic fundraising to full-stack delivery support — government stakeholder engagement, bank framework development, consortium building, evidence pitching, and technology integration — across all the institutions required to operate at state scale. If your ambition requires simultaneous engagement with government, institutional funders, and corporate partners — each operating under different governance frameworks — and you need a delivery partner who can run the full programme engine alongside you, this is the engagement model.
The Andhra Pradesh initiative — with US$15M in potential bank financing to support 100,000 rural women — is now the flagship programme in the client's portfolio, being actively showcased to central government bodies and development finance institutions as a model for scaling digital and financial inclusion through public-private partnership.