Monthly Newsletter 2015 VOL IX October CSR …phdcci.in/image/data/CSR-Newsletter/CSR-October -Newsletter_Vol 9... · Monthly Newsletter CSR Committee Message from the Chairman

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Monthly Newsletter CSR Committee

VOL IX October 2015

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Message from the Chairman

Dear Readers,

I am glad to share the ninth edition of CSR newsletter. Month of September was an

innovative month in terms of CSR activities.

MDGs are to be scrapped away by SDGs, with the onset of year 2016; India will

have to buckle up to implement 17 global Sustainable Development Goals with 169

associated targets. This seems to be an ambitious task to achieve in the present

scenario.

CSR Committee, PHD Chamber organized 4th Global CSR Summit on the theme of

Convergence, Innovation and Beyond Compliance on 8th October, 2015 at PHD

House, New Delhi. The Summit was very successful and attended by more than 150

delegates.

Mr. A. K. Pavadia, Advisor, Inter-State Council Secretariat & Addl. Secretary,

Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India inaugurated the Summit and Special

address was delivered by Mr. Salil Bhandari, Former President , PHD Chamber;

Dr. Niraj Seth, Director, Development Advisory, Ernst & Young LLP and Mr.

Surendra Prasad Sharma, Chief Engineer (E&T), Oil and Natural Gas Corporation

Limited.

For interesting articles and event details please reconcile with the ninth edition of

CSR Newsletter.

We will be glad to have your article/publication in our newsletter and look forward

to your suggestions and will like to keep you informed through our monthly

newsletters.

Dr. Suresh Goyal

Chairman

CSR Committee

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MDGs to be scrapped away by SDGs

The MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) are to be scrapped away by

SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals). The idea of SDGs was

conceptualized in the United Nations Conference on Sustainable

Development (UNCSD) which is popularly known as the Rio+20, organized

in Rio de Janerio, Brajil in June 2012. It was introduced by Columbia and

Gautemala and eventually supported by many countries.

MDGs have only eight development goals, comprising of 18 related

targets but with the onset of year 2016, India will have to buckle up to

implement 17 global Sustainable Development Goals with 169 associated

targets. This seems to be an ambitious task to achieve in the present

scenario.

The hurdles India will face in implementing these SDGs are many, few of

them are appended below:-

Lack of adequate data to frame relevant policy

Dearth of finances

Population explosion

Nascent stage of Niti Aayog

Lower tax to GDP ratio

MDGs goal 8, 9, and 10 which covers the areas as inclusiveness,

infrastructure and job creation etc have found place in the first seven

SDGs.

The SDGs are 17 goals with 169 targets, which are to be achieved within 2016-30

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Contd…

Sustainability spanning urbanisation; consumption and production; climate change; resources

and environment; peace and justice; and the means of implementation and global

partnership; comprise the last seven goals in the SDGs.

SDGs are the most comprehensive list of goals the world has ever committed to. In the light of

funding constraints, support from the private sector in areas such as health, education,

sanitation and women’s empowerment will be critical to the government’s efforts. For

achieving these goals the Public Sector has to work creatively in partnership with multiple

stakeholders to harness their latent energy, capacity, resources and innovation.

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.

In the second “The Best Companies for CSR’ study, jointly done

by Futurescape and IIM Udaipur, the participation of companies

this year rose to 216 from previous years participation of 115

Companies. The sample comprised of 165 private companies and

49 public sector companies.

Only 18% of the companies surveyed met the mandatory 2%

spending norm. Not even a single service company in the list of

top ten.

Mahindra and Mahindra is the front runner, four Tata group

companies made it to the top ten. Gail was replaced by SAIL in

the PSU sector, Bharat Petroleum and Jubilant Life Sciences are

the new entrants in the list of top ten.

Nanhi Kali, the Flagship Programme of Mahindra & Mahindra

supports the education of over 11 lakh underprivileged girls in

ten states.

There are more companies spending more than 2% in the Private sector as compared to the Public sector

The Best Companies for CSR

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Contd…

Tata Power is running a conservative initiative ‘Act for

Mahseer’ for saving endangered species. Maternal and

Newborn Survival Initiative (MANSI) is the Flagship

Programme of Tata Steel. It is a public-private venture

being implemented in 167 villages. One more Flagship

programme by the Tata Groups Tata Chemicals is “Save the

Whale Shark Campaign” which aims to spread awareness

about the fast depleting world’s largest fish. Flagship

programme of Tata Motors Learn, Earn and Progress (LEAP)

is a yearlong mechanic motor vehicle training programme

in the vicinity of manufacturing locations.

L&T committed to the construction of 50 check dams in

Maharashtra.

GAIL Institute of Skills (GIS) is providing job-linked skill

training to the local youth in the vicinity of its areas of

operation.

FMCG companies, on an average spend the most on CSR. Financial companies spend the least.

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Project Boond is the Flagship programme of Bharat Petroleum.

Its concept evolved from the idea of constructing rain water

harvesting structures to make villages drought-free.

Elementary education, health, employability and social

entrepreneurship are the focus areas of the Jubilant Bhartiya

Foundation.

The study is based on the evaluation of CSR reports viz Global

Reporting Initiative (GRI), CSR reporting on the company’s

website etc. The four criteria on which the study ranks

companies are Governance, disclosures, stakeholders and

sustainability.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/company/corporate-trends/mahindra-mahindra-tops-csr-list-in-india-even-as-companies-scale-up-operations/articleshow/49330470.cms

Contd…

Ranking 1. M&M

2. Tata Power Co

3. Tata Steel

4. Larsen & Toubro

5. Tata Chemicals

6. Tata Motors

7. GAIL (India)

8. BPCL

9. Infosys

10. Jubilant Life Sciences

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EVENT CORNER

4th Global CSR Summit Convergence • Innovation • Beyond Compliance

8 October 2015, PHD House, New Delhi

L-R: Dr. Niraj Seth, Director, Development Advisory, Ernst & Young LLP; Mr. Salil Bhandari, Former President, PHD Chamber; Mr. A. K. Pavadia, Advisor & Addl. Secretary, Inter-State Council Secretariat, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of Indial; Dr. Jatinder Singh, Sr. Sec. PHD Chamber; Mr. Surendra Prasad Sharma, Chief Engineer (E&T), Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited, releasing the Compendium

L-R: Mr. Vivek Prakash, General Manager-CSR, Jubilant Life Sciences Ltd.; Mr. D. Sreenivas Rao, National Manager, Strategic partnerships and Business Development, Hindustan Latex Family Planning Promotion Trust; Mr. Ramesh Kumar Sahijwani, Vice President - Marketing & Corporate Social Responsibility, IFFCO TOKIO; Mr. Amod K. Kanth, General Secretary, Prayas Juvenile Aid Centre (JAC) Society; Ms. Neelam Makhijani, National Director, Child Fund India; Mr. Surendra Prasad Sharma, Chief Engineer (E&T), Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited; Ms. Urmi Goswami, Economic Times

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L-R: Mr. Navin Kapoor, Programme Coordinator, Hindustan Unilever Foundation; Ms. Mohini Daljeet Singh, CEO, Max India Foundation; Mr. Sanjay Gupta, Director, Childhood Enhancement through Training and Action (CHETNA); Dr. Niraj Seth, Director, Development Advisory, Ernst & Young LLP; Ms. Jyotsna Bhatnagar, Head – Corporate Responsibility, BP & Castrol, BP India; Mr. Harish Mehta, Senior General Manager, Dhanuka Agritech Limited

L-R: Mr. Sidharth Dutta, Sr. Manager, Development Advisory Services, E Y Services Pvt. Ltd.; Mr. Unmesh Brahme, Yale World Fellow, Director, UBLABS

4th Global CSR Summit was organized by PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry on 8 October 2015. The Summit has been envisaged to bring together Corporate leaders, organizations, government representatives, implementing agencies and business experts to identify the practical doable solutions for the problems stakeholders are facing at the ground level, to brain storm a way

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forward to integrate CSR into core business values, and to give an opportunity to network and build mutually enriching strategic relationships with various stakeholders and key partners. The Summit was well attended and saw a footfall of 150 dignitaries. The Eminent Speakers in the Inaugural Session of the Summit were Mr. Alok B. Shriram, President, PHD Chamber; Mr. Salil Bhandari, Former President, PHD Chamber; Dr. Niraj Seth, Director, Development Advisory, Ernst & Young LLP; Mr. Surendra Prasad Sharma, Chief Engineer (E&T), Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited and the Keynote address was delivered by Mr. A. K. Pavadia, Advisor & Addl. Secretary, Inter-State Council Secretariat, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India. Convergence means when all the CSR activities are linked with the national development goals like Swach Bharat Abhiyan and further National Developement Goals must be linked to the International Goals. Innovation in CSR has a scope in a way to design the whole project in a strategic manner to maximize the CSR impacts and maximize the reach to the beneficiaries. The most essential thing in this regard that company has to build capacity of the individuals in order to go beyond compliance but the sad part is most of the companies are more focused on 2% spend by the end of the financial year and only concerned about the tax rebate which should not be the goal of CSR said Mr. Pavadia in his Keynote Address. In his welcome remarks, President PHD Chamber Mr. Alok B. Shriram unveiled the initiatives being taken by PHD Chamber and the two foundations of PHD Chamber, namely PHD Family Welfare Foundation and PHD Rural Development Foundation, which were set up more than two decades ago. These foundations are actively involved in executing integrated family welfare and rural development projects in India for the marginalized community. Water conservation, capacity building and skill development are being their focus areas. The speakers deliberated upon the innovative out of box ideas for symbiotic synergy between Corporate and NGOs for the shared vision. The second session Convergence between NGOs & Corporate towards a Shared Vision was moderated by Ms. Urmi Goswami, Economic Times and the Guest Speakers were Mr. Amod K. Kanth, General Secretary, Prayas Juvenile Aid Centre (JAC) Society; Ms. Neelam Makhijani, National Director, Child Fund India; Mr. Ramesh Kumar Sahijwani, Vice President - Marketing & Corporate Social Responsibility, IFFCO TOKIO; Mr. Surendra Prasad Sharma, Chief Engineer (E&T), Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited; Mr. D. Sreenivas Rao, National Manager, Strategic partnerships and Business Development, Hindustan Latex Family Planning Promotion Trust and Mr. Vivek Prakash, General Manager-CSR, Jubilant Life Sciences Ltd. The third session - Taking CSR Beyond Compliance was moderated by Dr. Niraj Seth, Director, Development Advisory, Ernst & Young LLP and the Guest Speakers were Ms. Jyotsna Bhatnagar, Head – Corporate Responsibility, BP & Castrol, BP India; Ms. Mohini Daljeet Singh, CEO, Max India Foundation; Mr. Harish Mehta, Senior General Manager, Dhanuka Agritech Limited; Mr. Sanjay

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Gupta, Director, Childhood Enhancement through Training and Action (CHETNA) and Mr. Navin Kapoor, Programme Coordinator, Hindustan Unilever Foundation. The speakers discussed about how the corporate and development sector organizations can leverage CSR in order to maximize social returns, increase efficiency of CSR programmes to make them self sustaining. Mr. Sidharth Dutta, Sr. Manager, Development Advisory Services, E Y Services Pvt. Ltd. and Mr. Unmesh Brahme, Yale World Fellow, Director, UBLABS were the Guest Speakers in the fourth session- Learnings from the first fiscal. The deliberations mainly focused upon number of challenges faced in the first fiscal by the industries and the development sector organizations after the implementation of the first fiscal of CSR legislation and the way forward.

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Case Study: Childhood Enhancement through Training and Action (CHETNA)

Name of the company: Childhood Enhancement through Training and Action (CHETNA) Sector / Industry: Voluntary Organization Contact details: Sanjay Gupta, Director, CHETNA, 40/22, Ground Floor, Manohar Kunj, Gautam Nagar, New Delhi 49, Ph 41644471/70, 9811432012, [email protected] website www.chetnango.org About the CSR program / project

Name of the program: Empowering Street Children through Education

Objectives: To empower street and working children through meaningful engagement especially

education; to ensure street children are prevented from slipping into crime and drugs, and to

showcase tripod model (NGO+Corporte+Police)

Year of Initiation: 2007

Target Beneficiaries of the intervention: 300 Street and Working Children

Thematic Area(s) covered: Education and Skill enhancement

Implementation Partner(s), if any: CHETNA, Microsoft India

Brief note on the program: Childhood Enhancement through Training and Action (CHETNA)

empowers most vulnerable street and working children through education. The children who are

not able to go to formal school continue their study under Open Basic Education (OBE) program

run under National Institute of open school. The program is successfully running in partnership

with Microsoft India, and has enrolment of 252 children (152 M, 100 F). The program is officially

adopted by Delhi Police as they find it effective to prevent children slipping into victim of

trafficking, drug abuse or crime and provide space at Nizamudin station and now invited to extend

this to Old Delhi railway station

Geography covered: South Delhi, West Delhi, Noida

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Visual evidences, pictures, highlighting details of the initiative:

Whether any 3rd party assessment has been conducted: Yes by Charity Aid Foundation

Achievements / Results achieved (Qualitative, quantitative):

• Total 252 children (152 M, 100 F) are enrolled in OBE and pursuing education. • 25 children are getting education at GRP Nizamudin Station • Project accepted by Delhi police and soon will be started at old Delhi railway station with help

of another corporate. • More than 15 volunteers who came forward to help in this endeavour. • More than 15 media coverage,

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What is the Innovation/Uniqueness of the CSR initiative and how did the innovation help in

achieving the objective of the program

Open basic education is part of National Institute of Opens Schooling, which is executed by

Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. The NGOs are given accreditation to ensure that

children can pursue their education using distant learning option. CHETNA is among very few NGOs

that has special approval to education street children. Microsoft India, through various in-house

options like employers giving program is supporting education of more than 300 street children at

place of their work or stay since 2007. The program last year adopted by Delhi Police at Nizamudin

Railway station where Government Railway Police Station’s front portion is converted into school

for street children. The innovation of ‘reaching street children where they are’ has really helped

objective of program.

Any awards / recognitions / nominations received

The initiative is widely covered by print (HT, Hindu, Nav Bharat Times, etc) and electronic media

(Zee, Aaj Tak etc.). The program is now replicated at Old Delhi Railway station with help of

www.pipavavrailway.com

What are the major challenges faced and/or lessons learnt through this CSR initiative? How will

it help you in improving your implementation in the following years?

The major challenge is to get a space and financial support for this kind of initiative. The number of

street children is very high and investment on empowerment of street children not in priority and

their number is in lacks. The biggest lesson is that this initiative is very cost effective, not required

much infrastructure, and can help build in future generation. The most valuable is that this

matches with PM’s vision “Padhega India to Badthega India”.

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Dr. Suresh Goyal Mr. Vinod Bansal Chairman Co-Chairman CSR Committee, PHD Chamber CSR Committee, PHD Chamber

For suggestions / queries please contact:

Dr. Jatinder Singh Senior Secretary, PHD Chamber

[email protected]

Renu Rawat Senior Asst. Secretary, PHD Chamber

[email protected]

Snigdha Bhushan Executive Officer, PHD Chamber

[email protected]

PHD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY PHD House, 4/2 Siri Institutional Area, August Kranti Marg, New Delhi 110016

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Disclaimer

CSR Newsletter is designed to provide information of some recent activities happening in the field of CSR. The information shared in this is for informational and educational purpose only. None of the information should be considered for any kind of advisory services. The opinions and interpretations expressed within are those of the author only and may not reflect those of other identified parties.

PHDCCI CSR Committee does not warrant the accuracy and completeness of this newsletter, nor endorse or make any representations about its content. In no event.

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