Ashwini Chandak's Contact Details

Ashwini Chandak's Company Details

Ecociate Consultants

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India • 11 - 50 Employees
Market Research

Ecociate Consultants Private Limited is a Business Consultancy firm, with a focus on business innovation and sustainability, relevant to both social and corporate businesses. We are a Knowledge organization that Ideates, Conceptualizes and Activates new business solutions through a process of Community Co-creation and Business Modeling with the community/consumer in the low-income settings of emerging markets.Ecociate has rich experience of designing and conducting social and market research in rural areas for developing project designs and business solutions in subjects like sustainable agriculture, livelihoods enhancement, FPO management, vulnerability reduction, nutrition, consumer behaviour studies, consumer segmentation, channel research and other customized diagnostic studies. The insights from the studies are used to develop workable strategies, some of which are piloted to test the effectiveness. Ecociate has undertaken several projects and research studies on various themes such as Climate change and Sustainability, Agribusiness, Business model innovations, Rural enterprise development, Sanitation and Brand health etc. These projects were done for International donor agencies like Swissaid and Welthungerhilfe, Bi-lateral projects like UFRMP and Katalyst, leading consultancy agencies like E&Y and E4SW, Corporate like Tata Shakti & Indian Herbs and leading NGOs like Taal & Dilasa, Swisscontact, Swissaid India, WfP, WHH, Tata Steel, Ennovent, Indian Herbs, and Agribusiness Systems International, and CSR entities like Ambuja Cement Foundation.The Leadership team, with a combined experience of more than 75 years, has worked extensively in small towns and rural markets of India and has worked on projects in South Asia, South East Asia and African countries. They have led projects designed under bilateral and multilateral programs in Livelihoods & Enterprises (Farm, Off-Farm and Non-Farm), Forestry, Sanitation and Market Linkages in major states like Andhra