Harish Hande
Harish Hande is a social entrepreneur best known for building SELCO into a long-standing institution that serves low-income communities with dignity at the centre. While energy was the entry point, his real work has always been about people: enabling livelihoods, strengthening healthcare and education systems, and creating pathways out of poverty through asset ownership.
He believes lasting change comes from working closely with people, understanding their realities, and designing solutions that strengthen agency rather than dependency.
How Harish supports Journey Partners
- Designing for agency, dignity and choice: Helps examine power dynamics in models and redesign interventions so communities are treated as owners and collaborators, not recipients.
- Building livelihood-centred systems: Guides leaders to anchor solutions in income generation, asset ownership, and long-term economic security rather than one-time service delivery.
- Trust as infrastructure: Shares practical insights on building trust with communities, financiers, and local institutions, especially in contexts where people have been historically exploited.
- From organisation to ecosystem: Supports in moving beyond single-organisation thinking to designing local ecosystems that create jobs, services, and durable impact.
- Mission with financial discipline: Helps navigate the tension between purpose and sustainability, showing how financial viability can emerge from solving real problems well.
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