Villgro is an Indian incubator for social enterprises, working across climate-smart agriculture, healthcare, climate action, and inclusive livelihoods and entrepreneurship. This pilot sits in its climate action portfolio.
The pilot tests whether e-bikes can carry e-commerce deliveries in rural India. Villgro states four aims for it: rural economic growth, lower greenhouse gas emissions, wider clean energy use, and gender-inclusive jobs.
It is a call for partner organisations, not for individuals. Villgro wants fleet operators, rural delivery firms, charging providers and EV financiers who can run field pilots, and says it will build scalable models from the pilot and share the findings with policymakers and other stakeholders. The programs listing dates the pilot 2024 to present, and the program page marks applications closed.
Benefits & funding
- Access to field pilots run under the program.
- A setting to test a solution in real rural e-commerce delivery operations.
- A chance to trial the solution and demonstrate its impact.
- Exploration of partnerships for scaling the solution.
- No cash award, stipend, grant or equity investment is published for this program; what is offered is pilot access, not money.
Eligibility
- Applicants are organisations. There is no individual application route.
- Electric two-wheeler fleet providers operating in Tier 2, 3 and 4 cities.
- E-commerce delivery partners already active in rural areas.
- Charging infrastructure providers.
- EV finance partners.
- Partners willing to facilitate gender inclusion in the pilot.
- The pilot runs in rural India. No nationality, residency, age, gender or degree requirement is published.
Can you apply?
Open to all applicants
No nationality, residency, education, or experience limits are listed.
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Application process
- 1Check the organisation against the five partner categories Villgro lists.
- 2Use the program page’s only call to action, the ‘Apply for Incubation’ button, which opens Villgro’s incubation application portal.
- 3Register on the portal, then complete the form. It asks whether the enterprise is for-profit or non-profit, whether it will be based in India, its sector and sub-sector, who its beneficiaries are, and whether its impact is direct or indirect.
- 4Note the status before starting: the program page marks applications closed, and no reopening date is published.
Program timeline
2024
Pilot starts. Villgro’s programs listing dates it 2024 to present.
Not published
application deadline. The program page marks applications closed and gives no reopening date.