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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR)
Some dialog archived from around early 2014
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Peter Burgess
Bijay Kumar Singh Bijay Bijay Kumar Singh Manager CSR at ACC Ltd. Top Contributor Dear Mam Disha, We at ACC have a standard matrix to engage an NGO as a working partner . If u wish , we can share it . Like (1) Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 26 days ago Abhishek Ranjan .. likes this
Disha B. Shrivastava Disha B. Disha B. Shrivastava Manager- CSR & Resource Mobilization at Armman Top Contributor Bijay, will be nice if you can mail me the details. Like Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 26 days ago
Kompella Harinarayana Kompella Kompella Harinarayana CSR and HR Bijay, Shall be grateful if you could share with me also. Each CSR procedure & practice is a great learning. Like (1) Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 26 days ago Sandeepan B. likes this Girish Krishnan Girish Girish Krishnan Senior Associate at Taburn Information Services Pvt. Ltd. Shall share many case studies, best practices and advocacy .., pl write to girish@newmediacoomm.com we published Like Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 24 days ago Girish Krishnan Girish Girish Krishnan Senior Associate at Taburn Information Services Pvt. Ltd. Publisher of CSR mandate Like Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 24 days ago Pramod Tripathi Pramod Pramod Tripathi Academic President at K12 Education. As per govt recent guidelines, you need to see the financial statement and track record of three years of NGO you are assigning task. At the same time do check the work this NGO performing? do this is in line of task / project you are giving to them. Do let me know if you need any more information. Like Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 24 days ago Kompella Harinarayana Kompella Kompella Harinarayana CSR and HR We used to refer to CAPART guidelines and had our own parameters thereafter. Corporates are free to engage any NGO they prefer and there are no legal guidelines. However, in case of PSUs they usually are more cautious due to issues of CVC, Audit etc. besides the legal cases filed by non-successful or non-performing NGOs. Like Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 23 days ago Jayachandran Rajarethinam Jayachandran Jayachandran Rajarethinam Independent Non-Profit Organization Management Professional The parameters go beyond usual details like legal status, its operations, finance etc. The important factor is the community relations, service delivery, capacity to leverage and network with other institutions.Even small organizations with a passion for development could do wonders in the field. Like (1) Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 22 days ago Debabrata Mandal likes this Dwaraka Pandurangi Dwaraka Dwaraka Pandurangi Volunteer Fund Raiser are you talking about engaging an NGO to help you select CSR projects or to give or CSR funds to? I find that all CSR related conferences have only corporates talking - barely ever is an NGO invited to give their side of the picture and what kind of support would be useful to them. If at all, organizations like UNICEF are invited - they are so so different from an average NGO in India. We find it very difficult to explain to corporates individually the concept of financial, social, educational inclusion of persons with disability. It is fashionable for corporates to say they support education, but they fail to understand special education is a part of education. Such issues, if given a chance, well-established, clean, mature NGOs, already due-diligenced by several organizations, could put across to corporates if given a platform. Thanks. Like (3) Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 21 days ago Sonam Mehra, Abhinay Prasad and 1 other like this Ir.Samuelson Parayu Ir.Samuelson Ir.Samuelson Parayu Senior Manager at P & F Consultant ( Parayu & Friends Consulting Company). Some important aspects to consider are legalities, track records of the individual organization team, their financial conditions and status, their capacity related to your need, track records of the organization performance, their communication networks. Always involve an NGO with good reputation and who is also transparent in all aspects of their operations Like (1) Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 21 days ago Bijay Kumar Singh likes this Bijay Kumar Singh Bijay Bijay Kumar Singh Manager CSR at ACC Ltd. Top Contributor Dear Mam Disha and Mr.Harinaryana, Sorry for delayed communication . In ACC while at the time of NGO selection , we used to keep the following parameters for assessment besides the field visit of NGO's working area and taking some confidential feedback from prevailing funders . Score the NGOs based on 1. Legal (15%) : Distribution - Registration status (3), 80G/FCRA (4), Audit status ( 3), 2. Governing Body members (2), Membership with Credibility Alliance, Participation in networks like VANI or other such forums (3) 3. Thematic (25%): Performance in themes emerging in our community need analysis – 4. Distribution - Primary theme (25), Secondary theme (15), Other themes (5) Posture ( 20%) : Either or - Activist (0), Partnership (20) Scope (10%) : Either or - Grass Root (10), Advocacy (0) Financial ( 10%) : Either or - Annual budgets > Rs. 20 lakh (10), others (5) Manpower (10%) : Distribution - Professional (5), Number (5) 4. Other corporate associations (10%) – Either or –Yes (10), No (0) 5.Output : Ranking of NGOs in database and requesting top 3 NGOs for proposals When : After Needs Assessment Who : Plant CSR Coordinator if required with support of Regional CSR Coordinator However selection is tough chapter and therefore strategy needs to be systematic and should be more contextual as per the need. In my view , select a grass root NGO instead of big NGOs and devote some time for their capacity building I am sure it would provide a very good result . Like (2) Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 21 days ago Prabhakar Talluri, Subhash Mittal like this Bijay Kumar Singh Bijay Bijay Kumar Singh Manager CSR at ACC Ltd. Top Contributor Score the NGOs based on Legal (15%) : Distribution - Registration status (3), 80G/FCRA (4), Audit status ( 3), Governing Body members (2), Membership with Credibility Alliance, Participation in networks like VANI or other such forums (3) Thematic (25%): Performance in themes emerging in our community need analysis – Distribution - Primary theme (25), Secondary theme (15), Other themes (5) Posture ( 20%) : Either or - Activist (0), Partnership (20) Scope (10%) : Either or - Grass Root (10), Advocacy (0) Financial ( 10%) : Either or - Annual budgets > Rs. 20 lakh (10), others (5) Manpower (10%) : Distribution - Professional (5), Number (5) Other corporate associations (10%) – Either or –Yes (10), No (0) Output : Ranking of NGOs in database and requesting top 3 NGOs for proposals When : After Needs Assessment Who : Plant CSR Coordinator if required with support of Regional CSR Coordinator Like (3) Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 21 days ago K. Balkhi, Disha B. Shrivastava and 1 other like this Terry Baird Terry Terry Baird Inside Sales/CSR Part time at Gates Rubber Company THEY NEED HEART AND COMPASSION OTHERWISE THEY'RE ONLY CLERKS TO BE REPLACED BY A MACHINE Like (1) Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 20 days ago Sanjeev Vasudev likes this Subhash Mittal Subhash Subhash Mittal Public Expenditure & Financial Management No tailor made checklist would be helpful as each donors requirements are different. I believe you need to develop your own guidelines, after considering, what exactly you are looking for in an NGO. Pramod Triipathi above has already mentioned Legal requirements for engaging an NGO in CSR related work. Apart from this you may wish to ensure that organisation - complies with legal requirements (so that the organisation keeps focus on programmes and does not get distracted on legal issues which it may not have complied with. (main legal issues are (valid legal existence of the entity - registration under the relevant law; valid tax exemption status - S.12A registration, etc.) - depending on the type of activity that you wish NGO to be engaged in you may need to see compliance with necessary legal laws (e.g. an NGO running Children Home should comply with JJ Registration Act), similarly check for other activities. - past experience in the projects you want NGO to be involved in, - fund absorption capacity (no point giving an NGO huge amounts if they have been implemeng projects only around 10% of the size grant being proposed, - what sort of rapport and reputation the NGO has in community, where it is likely to work under your project (undertake field visits in the area that project is to be undertaken) - obtain details of previous projects and take independent reference from the donors whose projects they have implemented in past (this would help not only in assessing their implementation capacities, but also help in assessing how transparent they are in their dealings. - if project is large do take references from the local district administration. Recently while undertaking assessment of an NGO we found everything in place, but when we talked to the local DC, we came to know that orders had been issued to close one of the institutions that they were running. Hope the above is helpful. Like (4) Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 19 days ago Preeti Aggarwal, Disha B. Shrivastava and 2 others like this Subhash Mittal Subhash Subhash Mittal Public Expenditure & Financial Management Dear Disha, No tailor made checklist would be helpful as each donors requirements are different. I believe you need to develop your own guidelines, after considering, what exactly you are looking for in an NGO. Pramod Triipathi above has already mentioned Legal requirements for engaging an NGO in CSR related work. Apart from this you may wish to ensure that organisation - complies with legal requirements (so that the organisation keeps focus on programmes and does not get distracted on legal issues which it may not have complied with. (main legal issues are (valid legal existence of the entity - registration under the relevant law; valid tax exemption status - S.12A registration, etc.) - depending on the type of activity that you wish NGO to be engaged in you may need to see compliance with necessary legal laws (e.g. an NGO running Children Home should comply with JJ Registration Act), similarly check for other activities. - past experience in the projects you want NGO to be involved in, - fund absorption capacity (no point giving an NGO huge amounts if they have been implemeng projects only around 10% of the size grant being proposed, - what sort of rapport and reputation the NGO has in community, where it is likely to work under your project (undertake field visits in the area that project is to be undertaken) - obtain details of previous projects and take independent reference from the donors whose projects they have implemented in past (this would help not only in assessing their implementation capacities, but also help in assessing how transparent they are in their dealings. - if project is large do take references from the local district administration. Recently while undertaking assessment of an NGO we found everything in place, but when we talked to the local DC, we came to know that orders had been issued to close one of the institutions that they were running. Hope the above is helpful. Like Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 19 days ago Subhash Mittal Subhash Subhash Mittal Public Expenditure & Financial Management Dear Disha, No tailor made checklist would be helpful as each donors requirements are different. I believe you need to develop your own guidelines, after considering, what exactly you are looking for in an NGO. Pramod Triipathi above has already mentioned Legal requirements for engaging an NGO in CSR related work. Apart from this you may wish to ensure that organisation - complies with legal requirements (so that the organisation keeps focus on programmes and does not get distracted on legal issues which it may not have complied with. (main legal issues are (valid legal existence of the entity - registration under the relevant law; valid tax exemption status - S.12A registration, etc.) - depending on the type of activity that you wish NGO to be engaged in you may need to see compliance with necessary legal laws (e.g. an NGO running Children Home should comply with JJ Registration Act), similarly check for other activities. - past experience in the projects you want NGO to be involved in, - fund absorption capacity (no point giving an NGO huge amounts if they have been implemeng projects only around 10% of the size grant being proposed, - what sort of rapport and reputation the NGO has in community, where it is likely to work under your project (undertake field visits in the area that project is to be undertaken) - obtain details of previous projects and take independent reference from the donors whose projects they have implemented in past (this would help not only in assessing their implementation capacities, but also help in assessing how transparent they are in their dealings. - if project is large do take references from the local district administration. Recently while undertaking assessment of an NGO we found everything in place, but when we talked to the local DC, we came to know that orders had been issued to close one of the institutions that they were running. Hope the above is helpful. Like Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 19 days ago Subhash Mittal Subhash Subhash Mittal Public Expenditure & Financial Management Dear Disha, No tailor made checklist would be helpful as each donors requirements are different. I believe you need to develop your own guidelines, after considering, what exactly you are looking for in an NGO. Pramod Triipathi above has already mentioned Legal requirements for engaging an NGO in CSR related work. Apart from this you may wish to ensure that organisation - complies with legal requirements (so that the organisation keeps focus on programmes and does not get distracted on legal issues which it may not have complied with. (main legal issues are (valid legal existence of the entity - registration under the relevant law; valid tax exemption status - S.12A registration, etc.) - depending on the type of activity that you wish NGO to be engaged in you may need to see compliance with necessary legal laws (e.g. an NGO running Children Home should comply with JJ Registration Act), similarly check for other activities. - past experience in the projects you want NGO to be involved in, - fund absorption capacity (no point giving an NGO huge amounts if they have been implemeng projects only around 10% of the size grant being proposed, - what sort of rapport and reputation the NGO has in community, where it is likely to work under your project (undertake field visits in the area that project is to be undertaken) - obtain details of previous projects and take independent reference from the donors whose projects they have implemented in past (this would help not only in assessing their implementation capacities, but also help in assessing how transparent they are in their dealings. - if project is large do take references from the local district administration. Recently while undertaking assessment of an NGO we found everything in place, but when we talked to the local DC, we came to know that orders had been issued to close one of the institutions that they were running. Hope the above is helpful. Like (1) Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 19 days ago Sanjeev Vasudev likes this Subhash Mittal Subhash Subhash Mittal Public Expenditure & Financial Management Dear Disha, No tailor made checklist would be helpful as each donors requirements are different. I believe you need to develop your own guidelines, after considering, what exactly you are looking for in an NGO. Pramod Triipathi above has already mentioned Legal requirements for engaging an NGO in CSR related work. Apart from this you may wish to ensure that organisation - complies with legal requirements (so that the organisation keeps focus on programmes and does not get distracted on legal issues which it may not have complied with. (main legal issues are (valid legal existence of the entity - registration under the relevant law; valid tax exemption status - S.12A registration, etc.) - depending on the type of activity that you wish NGO to be engaged in you may need to see compliance with necessary legal laws (e.g. an NGO running Children Home should comply with JJ Registration Act), similarly check for other activities. - past experience in the projects you want NGO to be involved in, - fund absorption capacity (no point giving an NGO huge amounts if they have been implemeng projects only around 10% of the size grant being proposed, - what sort of rapport and reputation the NGO has in community, where it is likely to work under your project (undertake field visits in the area that project is to be undertaken) - obtain details of previous projects and take independent reference from the donors whose projects they have implemented in past (this would help not only in assessing their implementation capacities, but also help in assessing how transparent they are in their dealings. - if project is large do take references from the local district administration. Recently while undertaking assessment of an NGO we found everything in place, but when we talked to the local DC, we came to know that orders had been issued to close one of the institutions that they were running. Hope the above is helpful. Like Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 19 days ago Subhash Mittal Subhash Subhash Mittal Public Expenditure & Financial Management Dear Disha, No tailor made checklist would be helpful as each donors requirements are different. I believe you need to develop your own guidelines, after considering, what exactly you are looking for in an NGO. Pramod Triipathi above has already mentioned Legal requirements for engaging an NGO in CSR related work. Apart from this you may wish to ensure that organisation - complies with legal requirements (so that the organisation keeps focus on programmes and does not get distracted on legal issues which it may not have complied with. (main legal issues are (valid legal existence of the entity - registration under the relevant law; valid tax exemption status - S.12A registration, etc.) - depending on the type of activity that you wish NGO to be engaged in you may need to see compliance with necessary legal laws (e.g. an NGO running Children Home should comply with JJ Registration Act), similarly check for other activities. - past experience in the projects you want NGO to be involved in, - fund absorption capacity (no point giving an NGO huge amounts if they have been implemeng projects only around 10% of the size grant being proposed, - what sort of rapport and reputation the NGO has in community, where it is likely to work under your project (undertake field visits in the area that project is to be undertaken) - obtain details of previous projects and take independent reference from the donors whose projects they have implemented in past (this would help not only in assessing their implementation capacities, but also help in assessing how transparent they are in their dealings. - if project is large do take references from the local district administration. Recently while undertaking assessment of an NGO we found everything in place, but when we talked to the local DC, we came to know that orders had been issued to close one of the institutions that they were running. Hope the above is helpful. Like Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 19 days ago Subhash Mittal Subhash Subhash Mittal Public Expenditure & Financial Management Sorry folks, for multiple posting, some problems with linked in. I subsequently even tried deleting the suplicate posts, however nothing happened. Sorry once again for all the inconvenience. Like (1) Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 19 days ago Debadideb Datta likes this Vinay A L Vinay Vinay A L Secretary & Project Head Actual Guidelines: That a NGO should belong to MR./MS. X or his kiths and Kins or anybody that they can relate to. Its an irony but a blatant Nepotism. At the same time, there are very less real NGO's.to choose from. Like (1) Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 19 days ago Disha B. Shrivastava likes this Abhinav Khare Abhinav Abhinav Khare Research Scholar at NIT Rourkela,Orissa Guideline given by Mr Bijay Kumar are very useful. If fact due diligence is to be done in each case . In case grassroot ngo is available in the working area they should be given preference .As they are well known in the area and their overhead are very low..Parameter for selection can be relaxed by committee of senior officers. Rakesh Khare Like Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 19 days ago Jayachandran Rajarethinam Jayachandran Jayachandran Rajarethinam Independent Non-Profit Organization Management Professional Goal alignment is also important in the selection of NGO Like Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 19 days ago Kompella Harinarayana Kompella Kompella Harinarayana CSR and HR As mentioned above, in the ultimate analysis whatever be the inputs we have from external environment, it is for the organization concerned to analytically examine each proposal of NGOs and assess each NGO's performance on their own shortlisted (or for that matter longlisted) parameters. One of the preferable ways is to shortlist three most suitable NGOs and then contact the organizations where these shortlisted NGOs had worked. Discussions with these organizations's personnel concerned also help to have a better understanding of the NGO and its work and people as well as method of working. Not only the strengths of these shortlisted NGOs are to be compared but, their shortcomings as noticed during physical visits, interactions with their partner organizations, vendors, the stakeholders etc. would help in zeroing on one NGO. As again mentioned in the preceding comments by learned members, it is better to have NGOs who know the topography rather than those operating from major cities and who believe in contacts to manage and win CSR projects. Like Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 19 days ago Shrikant Sùndàràm Shrikant Shrikant Sùndàràm Project Manager / Business Analyst thanks for this query. I'd be interested in knowing further Like Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 16 days ago Pravin Bodkhe Pravin Pravin Bodkhe NGO Work in Nashik District pls visit @ www.irldfoundation.org Like Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 13 days ago Shiv Khare Shiv Shiv Khare CEO Foundation for Leadership Initiatives, Hon. Adviser @11th Int'l Conference on Aids in Asia pacific ICAAP 11 Bangkok Corporate normally look for NGO who have their own infrastructure and sound financial back ground how corporate can als benifit from NGO .we tried corporate to support Family planning clinics ,without much success Like Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 11 days ago Disha B. Shrivastava Disha B. Disha B. Shrivastava Manager- CSR & Resource Mobilization at Armman Top Contributor Thanks a lot for all the inputs..that's surely a great learning Like Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 11 days ago Ritesh Ritesh Sinha CSR Head , Lanco Power Ltd While undertaking NGO due diligence it is necessary to concentrate on five major aspects—NGO image, social responsibility(policy,labour standard, code of conduct,Health and Safety), environmental accountability, financial soundness, and policy compatibility—that comprise the suggested dimensions for responsible due diligence. Like Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 11 days ago Bijay Kumar Singh Bijay Bijay Kumar Singh Manager CSR at ACC Ltd. Top Contributor Dear all , All the points given by the people are really important and are based on their practical experience .Just to add in the lines, I feel that a single NGO is not the answer to every sector .As all we know that NGOs have its own area of strength and weakness in particular area. Some of them are experienced in Health and some of them are on the education and so on ................ But remember that we should be very clear that to make NGO partner adaptable as per requirement of corporate culture needs a very professional approach to capacitate to achieve the set deliverables . What happens that in order to achieve our set target we tend to forget the basics of developmental process for which NGOs are far better off than the corporate people . One more sight addition , we would like to give that the recommended NGOs from Govt. side has greater chance for wrong selection due to very obvious reasons of mastering done by both in manipulations which rarely happens with Corporate . Therefore both entities have to understood each one strength and weakness .From corporate angle , we must keep in our mind that they are working partners not the contractors . Like Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 11 days ago
Dr.Govinda Rao Langoju Dr.Govinda Rao Dr.Govinda Rao Langoju Chief Mentor, Matrix Institute of Development Studies & Ex-Director, NIMH & NIEPMD, GOI. I have developed a check list to do the diligence check on the NGOs proposed to be funded under CSR. Though it is a very exhaustive, one can draw important and key parameters from this to suit to each one's requirement: 1Administrative data a) Year of establishment b) Type of organisation – Trust/Society/Cooperative/Non-profit Company c) Authority under which registered: d) Registration number e) Whether renewal/validity of the registration is obtained: f) Names and details of the promoters: g) Cause of establishing the organisation: h) Vision Statement: i) Mission Statement: j) Policy Statement: k) Terms of Reference: 2Profile: a) Major Strengths b) Unique Selling Proposition c) Details of Major Projects undertaken: d) Outcome and Impact of these projects: e) Evaluation or Impact Study Reports (Attach) f) Milestones achieved g) Major achievements h) Discoveries made i) New initiatives taken up or contemplated with justification: j) Evidence of stakeholders participation k) Evidence of stakeholders’ delight l) Development initiatives: i) Models developed ii) Materials developed iii) Systems developed iv) Technology used v) Training & Development programs undertaken: m) Discovery initiatives: i) Surveys/Studies undertaken ii) Research Projects iii) Innovative Programs undertaken n) Documentation details: i) Books published ii) Articles published iii) Reports published iv) Posters/Brochures/Websites o) Dissemination Activities: i) Public Education ii) Seminars/Conferences iii) Campaigns iv) Workshops v) Netizen activities. 3 Sectoral experience a) Area of specialization with evidence b) Discoveries made c) Initiatives to address issued discovered during implementation of the projects. d) Stakeholders’ delight or feedback. e) Accolades f) Significant achievements. g) Impact studies if any. 4Geographical experience a) Regions served b) Specialization acquired c) Issues/problems discovered d) Solutions developed to the issues at (c) e) New regions taken up f) Reasons for (e) 5 Networking: a) Sharing of information with stakeholders, community and Government agencies. b) Sharing of information and facilities with other NGOs in the region c) Efforts for synergy effect. d) Associations connected with. e) Network/alliances 6Financial health: a) Assets year-wise since beginning; b) Liabilities year-wise since beginning; c) Net-worth year-wise for the past three years. 7Financing sources for the past five years: a) Self-contribution year-wise b) Government grans c) Private funding d) International Funding e) Community Contributions f) Income generated 8 Audit Reports of previous three years (attach) 9 Details of Staff of previous three years (Name, Designation, Role & Responsibilities, Number of years of experience in the current organization, Past experience, Projects executed or worked in): a) Managerial staff strength: b) Technical/Project staff: c) Administrative/Accounts/Office staff: d) Group-D/Sub-staff/Ayas/Office Boys: 10 Board of Directors (List the names of the Board members, their role and responsibilities) 11 Strategy & Methodology (Please tick the one relevant to you): The organization has the following policies and procedures: a) Corporate Governance b) Stakeholders c) HR d) Finance e) Purchase f) Assets g) Project development h) Project execution i) Monitoring & Evaluation j) Environment k) Women Empowerment/gender just l) Child rights & protection m) Rights of Persons with disabilities n) Audit & Vigilance o) Information & Communication Technology Like (4) Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 11 days ago Preeti Aggarwal, Disha B. Shrivastava and 2 others like this
Kompella Harinarayana Kompella Kompella Harinarayana CSR and HR One of the issues faced by organization face is that most of the NGOs are not Not-for-Profit agencies. They call themselves as business partners, VOs etc. and meet the salaries and other infrastructural expenditure through the funds of the soliticing organizations. Many so-called NGOs also do not subscribe to the funding to any extent. Like Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 11 days ago Subhash Mittal Subhash Subhash Mittal Public Expenditure & Financial Management Dear Bijay, I liked your rating sheet, since it comes out with a very objective result and hence easy to compare. I just wanted to clarify on one issue. On thematic while overall you give 25% for distribution you have allocated primary theme 25%, secondary 15% & other 5%. I presume primary theme gets scored out of 25%, secondary out of 15% and so on. What happens if an organisation is involved in several themes ? In such cases total score may exceed 25%. I am sure you have some explanation but I have not understood. Like (1) Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 11 days ago Debadideb Datta likes this Kompella Harinarayana Kompella Kompella Harinarayana CSR and HR The upcoming trend is Corporate NGOs., not those foundations established by big corporates. Like Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 11 days ago Prabhakar Talluri Prabhakar Prabhakar Talluri BRANCH MANAGER at AVIVA LIFE INSURANCE everybody is talking of experience of the NGO s to take up the task. agreed. how about the new one s who may not have the parameters mentioned above, but could do a better job, given a chance. Like (1) Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 5 days ago Disha B. Shrivastava likes this Subhash Mittal Subhash Subhash Mittal Public Expenditure & Financial Management Mr Talluri, Govt has fixed norms. Minimum 3 yr track record. Further every corporate which hires another NGO also would feel more comfortable with an established NGO, which has experience and track record. Like (1) Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 5 days ago Debadideb Datta likes this Kompella Harinarayana Kompella Kompella Harinarayana CSR and HR To the best of my knowledge, the GoI has not fixed any minimum experience. It is for the Corporates to choose the most suitable NGOs as per their own analysis. As nearly all the Companies are registered under Company Law, their Boards are responsible to decide every matter in relation to CSR as per the new Company law and the Rules. Like Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 5 days ago Subhash Mittal Subhash Subhash Mittal Public Expenditure & Financial Management Please refer Rule 4 of Companies (Corporate Social Responsibility Policy) Rules 2014. Like (1) Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 5 days ago Debadideb Datta likes this Kompella Harinarayana Kompella Kompella Harinarayana CSR and HR Subhashji, Thanks for the information. I am reproducing the relevant Rule herein below: '4.2 The Board of a company may decide to undertake its CSR activities approved by the CSR Committee, through a registered trust or a registered society or a company established by the company or its holding or subsidiary or associate company under section 8 of the Act or otherwise: Provided that- (i) if such trust, society or company is not established by the company or its holding or subsidiary or associate company, it shall have an established track record of three years in undertaking similar programs or projects;' In my humble and considered opinion, this is applicable only when the activities are undertaken by a trust or society or a company established by the Company or Holding Company or Subsidiary Company or an Associate Company. And this is not applicable to the CSR activities to be undertaken or being handed over to an NGO. I am open to correction. Like (1) Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 5 days ago Pauline Chitra V. likes this Subhash Mittal Subhash Subhash Mittal Public Expenditure & Financial Management Thanks for taking so much pains. But if you observe, under (i) above, it reads 'not established by the company....., it shall have an established track record of three years.....' Like (1) Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 5 days ago Debadideb Datta likes this Ashish Sahay Ashish Ashish Sahay CSR & Environment- Panasonic India Disha, have an SOP for selecting and partnering with NGOs. Do drop me a mail at: ashish.sahay@in.panasonic.com . I'll be happy to revert and share the documents. Regards, Ashish Like (1) Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 5 days ago Disha B. Shrivastava likes this Bijay Kumar Singh Bijay Bijay Kumar Singh Manager CSR at ACC Ltd. Top Contributor Dear Subhash sir, Extremely sorry for delayed communication to your observation . You are absolutely right . Actually the score has to be done out of 25 % only. But this simple matrix is very useful to compare many NGOs in one sheet. Thanks for your observations and value addition . Like Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 4 days ago Sandeepan Basu Sandeepan Sandeepan Basu Business Development Manager TISS enrollment is desired by some companies. Like Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 3 days ago Subhash Mittal Subhash Subhash Mittal Public Expenditure & Financial Management Thankyou Bijay. By the way, I see that you are at ACC, possibly may have met you in Dec 2013, when I had come to ACC HQ at Mumbai for a presentation on legal aspects of CSR at ACC's Annual CSR meet. All the Best. Like Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 3 days ago Konstantin Krinski Konstantin Konstantin Krinski Chairman at International Businesses Standards Organization (IBSO) Great question, Disha! I want to invite you to start this discussion in our group https://www.linkedin.com/groups/International-Businesses-Standards-Organization-IBSO-8267027 I hope we'll find the answer :) Like (1) Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 2 days ago Disha B. Shrivastava likes this Sanjay Ghatak Sanjay Sanjay Ghatak Sr. General Manager-Partnerships at Piramal Water Private Limited I guess the most important aspect will be to choose a self sustainable program which can fund itself and continue to serve the society on the ground.....most CSR programs hit operations and maintenance issue as well as management after 12 months Like Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 1 day ago
Pankaj Ballabh Pankaj Pankaj Ballabh Head - Sustainable Development at BP There are two major issues with this conversation. The first is the assumption that all CSR is being done only to meet the requirements of the CA2013. For large industry that requires Environmental Clearances (EC), MOEF has been mandating mandatory CSR for the last decade or more. The CSR commitment numbers in the EC are greater than CA2013 requirements (upto 5% of CAPEX). Many corporations would do CSR beyond the CA2013 requirements as well. The second is the assumption that the primary objective of all CSR is 'serving the society'. What/how/who/where etc of CSR will surely be impacted most by the corporations own need to secure the 'social consent to operate'. Like Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 1 day ago
Subhash Mittal Subhash Subhash Mittal Public Expenditure & Financial Management A very valid point Pankaj. However just a clarification that mandatory CSR relating to EC is not likely to fall under the official definition of CSR (see Rule 4 & 6). The point you raise is relating to what drives CSR. Of course now perhaps most visible driver has become the S.135, however Industry has been undertaking CSR for last several decades. Hence your point that industry has been undertaking CSR without mandatory requirement of S.135. I fully agree with you. I at Socio Research Reform Foundation led a Team studying scope of CSR for FY 2012-13 (much before official CSR was kicked in). Very interesting results came out, including relating to Drivers of CSR, You can see this in the report entitled India CSR Report released in 2013. http://www.srr-foundation.org/index1.htm Like Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 1 day ago
Pankaj Ballabh Pankaj Pankaj Ballabh Head - Sustainable Development at BP Shubash Mittal- Some interesting developments in the MoEF space as the EC text now includes the section 135 elements. Infact as we move along LARR implementation, there will be many CSR like elements added by Table 3 of the LARR. It will be very interesting to see how corporations (and of course communities and government) differentiate between CSR like activities being done to meet different regulations. i.e. is a School programme run to comply with a public hearing commitment different from a school run under a section 135 commitment? Secondly I am not convinced about section 135 actually making CSR execution mandatory. It makes many things mandatory (re institutional structure, policy, reporting etc), but stops short of making actual execution of CSR mandatory. The other regulations are not so 'kind' re non-execution. Like Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 1 day ago
Subhash Mittal Subhash Subhash Mittal Public Expenditure & Financial Management Presently the rules exclude any activity undertaken in the normal course of business, out of CSR's ambit. During discussions on draft rules, it was stated that anything an organisation undertakes which it is required to undertake as per law, would be normal course of business. Therefore if some of the activities included in LARR are required to be undertaken could be deemed to be activities as required under Law, it will be interesting to see if this is allowed as authorised CSR activity. Regarding your second point, you are correct that CSR per se is not mandatory, however if you have not undertaken required CSR then you need to justify in Director's report why it has not been done. Govt has adopted the approach of Naming and Shaming, organisations who do not undertake CSR. With kind of pressure being built on corporates to undertake CSR, it would be difficult for them to avoid it, particularly the large ones. It is interesting time to see how things actually work out on the ground. Like Reply privately Flag as inappropriate 1 day ago