CSR Implementation

Explore comprehensive insights into Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategies, including the formation of CSR committees, prioritization of projects, collaboration with NGOs, and effective reporting, to enhance your understanding and application of sustainable business practices.

CSR Implementation

1 Roles and Responsibilities

  1. Formation of CSR Department and CSR Committee
  2. Roles and Responsibilities of the Board
  3. Tax Issues in CSR
  4. Make and Buy Decisions
  5. Annual Reporting on CSR

2 Prioritization of CSR Projects

  1. Defining Prioritization and Stakeholder Consultation for Prioritizing CSR Projects
  2. Methods of Choosing CSR Initiatives
  3. Frameworks for Prioritizing Sustainable Projects
  4. Indicators for Prioritizing CSR Projects
  5. How is the Budget Allocated for CSR Projects

3 Choosing the Implementing Agency

  1. Process of Identifying an Implementing Agency
  2. How is a Partnership with an Implementing Agency Effected
  3. Setting up Terms and Conditions
  4. Rolling Out the Intervention

4 Components of Implementing Agency

  1. Defining and Strategizing CSR
  2. Implementing Agency: Roles and Requisites
  3. Designing a Project
  4. Formalizing CSR Activities
  5. Theory of Change
  6. Scaling Deliverables with Time
  7. Monitoring Project Progress and Realigning Implementation Strategy
  8. Project Impact Assessment

5 Inter-Agency Relationship

  1. Need for Inter-Agency Relationships
  2. Stakeholder Identification
  3. Socio-Cultural Ethos
  4. Work Styles and Values
  5. Attaining Synergy
  6. Inter-Agency Dynamics

6 Role of CBOs and NGOs in Driving CSR Initiatives

  1. Evolution of the Role of NGOs in CSR Practice
  2. Corporate – NGO Partnership
  3. Identifying the Right NGO
  4. Rating Scales for NGOs
  5. Successful Case Studies of NGO – Corporate Partnership for CSR
  6. Importance of Being a Well Rated NGO

7 Actioning the Theory

  1. Relevance of Actioning Theory into Practice
  2. Problem Identification and Idea Development
  3. Stages of Implementation
  4. Integrating Community’s Interest with Practice
  5. Integrating Company Interests with Practice
  6. CSR Practice in India: Leading by Example

8 Implementation Challenges

  1. CSR Implementation Process
  2. CSR Implementation Challenges
  3. CSR and Transparency
  4. Capacity Building for CSR Implementation
  5. CSR Measurement

9 Market Mechanisms for CSR

  1. Conditionalities on Raw Material Production
  2. Role of Voluntary Sustainable Standards
  3. Market Mechanism and CSR

10 Social Ventures

  1. What is a social venture?
  2. Why social venture?
  3. Different Models of Social Venture
  4. Sectoral Focus of Social Venture

11 Social Venture Capital

  1. What is social venture capital (SVC)?
  2. Difference Between Traditional Venture Capital and Social Venture Capital
  3. Types of Social Venture Capital Investors
  4. How Does Social Venture Capital Work?
  5. Responsible Venture Capital

12 Policy Advocacy through CSR

  1. What is CSR Policy?
  2. CSR Policy Formulation Process
  3. Stakeholders Engagement in CSR Policy Formulation
  4. Policy Advocacy Through CSR

13 CSR Reporting Process

  1. Concept of CSR Reporting
  2. Rationale of CSR Reporting
  3. Process of CSR Reporting
  4. Different Reporting Tools and Techniques
  5. CSR Reporting Practiced by Leading Companies
  6. CSR Reporting Under the Companies Act, 2013
  7. Business Responsibility Reporting (BRR)
  8. Integrating SDGs into Corporate Reporting

14 Frameworks for Corporate Sustainability Reporting

  1. Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
  2. SIGMA Project
  3. DPSIR Framework
  4. Global Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)
  5. OECD Guideline Framework
  6. Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol)
  7. Broad Principle-based Frameworks

15 Standards of Corporate Sustainability Reporting

  1. AA1000
  2. SA 8000
  3. ISO 14001
  4. ISO 9001
  5. AS/NZS 4801
  6. OHSAS 18001
  7. ISO 45001
  8. EMAS
  9. ISO 26000

16 Ratings and Indices of Corporate Sustainability Reporting

  1. Asian Sustainability Rating (ASR)
  2. Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI-World)
  3. MSCI ESG Indices
  4. KLD
  5. FTSE4GOOD Index Series
  6. EIRIS
  7. Bloomberg ESG Disclosure Scores
  8. TRUCOST
  9. Boston Consulting Group – CSR/ESG Ranking
  10. CSRHUB™ Sustainability Management Tools
  11. World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA)

17 Thematic Benchmarks

  1. Thematic Analysis of CSR Interventions
  2. Education
  3. Vocational Skills and Livelihoods
  4. Skills Among Differently Abled
  5. Encouraging Sports
  6. Environmental Sustainability
  7. Rural Development
  8. Slum Area Development
  9. Gender Equality and Women Empowerment
  10. Health, Safe Drinking Water, and Sanitation