Baala

12/09/2026

What if philanthropy stopped asking “What should we fund?” and started asking “What needs to change?”

At Baala’s Women’s Health Fireside, we explored what it will take to move from funding programmes to funding institutions, designing for scale, and building collaboration over competition.

The conversation is captured in our new report.

Read it. Reflect on it. And tell us: what would intentional philanthropy for women’s health look like to you?

Let’s keep the conversation going.

04/09/2026

Sexual health doesn’t begin with sexual activity. Its foundations are built much earlier through puberty education, menstrual literacy, body autonomy, consent, healthy relationships and access to care.

If you work in adolescent health, education or gender equity, we’d love to connect to explore this and more!

03/09/2026

Some mornings stay with you, and this was one of those!

Our Women’s Health Fireside began early, with warm conversations, good food, and nature quietly setting the backdrop at Sunder Nursery. But what made the morning truly special was the shared curiosity in the room - a genuine passion to learn, question, and explore what more intentional philanthropy and collaboration for women’s health could look like.

We heard thoughtful perspectives from funders and NGO leaders on where capital can do more, where partnerships need to evolve, and what it takes to move from supporting good work to creating tangible, long-term change together.

The audience brought equally challenging questions, pushing us to look beyond easy answers and think more deeply about power, partnerships, evidence, risk, and the role of philanthropy in building stronger systems.

Grateful to everyone who showed up with openness, curiosity and a willingness to build. Here’s to turning some of these conversations into action. ❤️

31/08/2026

25/08/2026

What does it take to move women’s health from fragmented efforts to lasting change?

At The Women’s Health Fireside, we’re bringing together philanthropy, practitioners, researchers and ecosystem leaders to explore four questions shaping the future of women’s health in India.

From reimagining capital and shifting from programmes to systems change, to recognising interconnected realities and building the collaborations we’re missing.

📍 New Delhi | 27 August 2026 | During AVPN Week

Hosted by Baala with communications partner Prod.

24/08/2026

Meet the Speakers: The Women’s Health Fireside: Ideas, Capital & Collaboration

On 27 August, during AVPN Week, Baala is bringing together leaders from philanthropy and the women’s health ecosystem for a private breakfast conversation:

Featuring Naghma Mulla (EdelGive Foundation), Rajat Sindhu (Oak Foundation), Shailendra Hegde (Gates Foundation) and Soumya Dabriwal (Baala).

This is a space to ask the harder questions, exchange perspectives and explore what it takes to move beyond funding towards lasting systems change.

Interested in joining us? Follow the link in bio!

20/08/2026

Women’s health is attracting more capital. But is it reaching the right places, and are we connecting it well enough?

Can philanthropy do more than fund solutions, to help build the partnerships and systems that make them last?

Join us for The Women’s Health Fireside: Ideas, Capital & Collaboration as we bring together leaders across philanthropy, women’s health, research and gender to ask what it will take to move beyond funding, towards collective action.

If this resonates with you, sign up via link in bio 💙

19/08/2026

Today, we celebrate the people behind the progress, and thank them for showing us what community-led change can look like 💙

17/08/2026

What does it take to move women’s health forward?

More capital matters, but so do the connections between capital, communities, evidence, policy and practice.

During AVPN Week, Baala is bringing together a small group of leaders across philanthropy, women’s health and gender for “The Women’s Health Fireside:
Ideas, Capital & Collaboration”.

If this conversation resonates with your work, we invite you to share your details through the form in the bio. We’ll be in touch with a select group of participants as we bring together voices from across the ecosystem.

15/08/2026

At Baala, we believe that voice, knowledge, access and agency are important foundations for health and wellbeing.

For women and girls, this can mean having the information to understand their bodies, the confidence to ask questions, access to the care they need, and the agency to make informed choices about their health.

This Independence Day, we celebrate the freedom to know, ask, choose and speak, and the young women and girls who are using their voices to create a more informed and equitable future.