Two Winners
₹5 lakh each outstanding early-stage initiatives.
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Who should apply
We are looking for ideas that are reimagining:
03What is an early-stage idea?
An idea already moved into action.
Early-stage does not mean finished. It means you have taken the first real step beyond intention and begun learning from the world.
Testing your idea
Prototyping an early version to test, learn and improve.
Proof of concept
Showing that an idea is feasible and has potential.
Piloting your idea
Trying your approach in a real-world setting.
Implementing
Putting your idea to work and beginning to demonstrate results.
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eligibility criteria
Let's check if your idea is eligible!
Pro tip: The Prize is for young ideas, not necessarily young people. There is no age or career-stage limit.
1. Does your idea see law or justice as a site of change itself and helps advance its systems?
2. Is your initiative based in India, with India as an important target area?
3. Is at least one founder working on it full-time?
4. Is it a new or early-stage initiative that is less than 3 years old?
Answer all four questionsYour result will appear here.
→What is not eligible:
New programmes, products or verticals inside established organisations are not eligible. Initiatives emerging from State institutions (the Judiciary, Legislature or Executive) are not eligible.
06EVALUATION CRITERIA
How ideas are evaluated
Eligible initiatives are considered for their leadership, the agency they activate and the transformation they make possible.
Entrepreneurial Leadership
We look for deeply committed leaders who can formulate practical pathways, take people with them and choose the organising model needed to realise the idea’s full potential.
Activating Agency
Strong ideas create roles for others to become players in making justice—not only recipients of services—and especially activate people traditionally denied agency.
Transformative Innovation
We look for unique insight and new possibilities created by challenging existing roles, information flows, processes, relationships or structures. Technology may or may not be central.
06explore
Past Agami Prize winners.
Fourteen ideas across access, legal innovation, community power and public accountability.
