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Post event synopsisAn interactive dialogue - Sustainable Social Business Models as an efective form

of Corporate Social Responsibility investments

4th June, 2011

Ahmedabad

Inaugurated by Mr Asit Vora, Mayor, Ahmedabad City

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The event

Discussed and supplied options for the utilization of CSR funds.

Discussed and analyzed the scope of PPP models

Imparted CSR education

Deliberated on related CSR ideas with views from a state, corporate, civil society and students

perspective

Established contact and prospective alliances between organizations

Provided an opportunity to participate and engage in solving pressing social issues

Audience Turn out: 87 delegates

Participating Organizations

5th June, 2011.

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It is the role of ALL, government, NGOs, business

houses and people to be aware and responsible

towards development.

The mayor cited many efforts taken by AMC likeSabarmati river front water project, solid waste

management, rehabilitation of slum dwellers and

so on.

PPPs are extremely important for CSR to be

sustainable, profitable and achievable.

Mayor Asit Vora urged entrepreneurs and NGOs

to understand the concept of CSR

Such seminars help to strengthen the concept of

CSR and the role of all the players.

Mr. Asit Vora,

Mayor,

Ahmedabad City

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Ms. Sharon Weir,

Founder,

4th Wheel

The three wheels of development namely the state, international

and multilateral organizations and civil society. The 4th Wheel

is the business sector which the organization focuses on, for

inclusive development.

CSR to us means a shift from random charity which makespeople vulnerable towards a more focused and effective CSR

which results in wholesome/multifacetedgrowth

Sustainability can be looked at from two perspectives - one is

where we try to save/use less resources to meet the needs of

our future generations and the other where the business strives

to meet its triple bottom line ie. People, Planet and Profit which

in turn creates self sustaining modelsResearch, Advocacy and Consulting pertaining to CSR are the

functions through which the 4th Wheel aims to work on its

vision of having socially responsible and responsive business

houses leading to sustainable and inclusive growth and

development

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There has been a paradigm shift from charitable

projects to sustainable and participatory social

responsibility of businesses.

CSR minimizes the negative effects of the

business in the area and maximizes the positive

change of the business in the area.

They are unwritten compliances which have to be

met

Seminar has helped to create networking among

corporates and NGOs.

There needs to be an increase in investment in

terms of time and knowledge towards people.

Mrs. Sushama Oza,

CEO,

Adani Foundation

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Corporates should continue their businesses with

profit maximization philosophy but

simultaneously they should commit to the

following three things

All corporates must focus on the issue of poverty

alleviation and commit their resources to remove

poverty within given time frame

Corporate sector must give priority to social

business creation so that the funds invested gets

recycled several times instead of one time grant

or donations given to NGOs every year.

Social enterprise should be self sustainable,

answerable, quantifiable, replicable, scalable and

transparent.

Mr. Ajay Dixit ,

Sr. Faculty,

Centre for Social Entrepreneurship & CSR,

Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India

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Project Mahek - Addressing Employment Generation

at the Village Level which provides machines to make

Agarbatti (instead of Hand Rolling), has a Buy Back

Guarantee from an agarbatti company under Mission

Mangalam

Started with 15 ladies in October 2010 and in the

process of upscaling the operation to provide

employment to more than 40 ladies from the village and

to expand operations and promote local brands

The project has led to effective financial inclusion and a

positive change in social life

They extended an invitation to initiate such projects in

other villages of AIREP Effort Area, support them by

finding more potential customers for Project Mahek

and urged people to volunteer at any of their already

initiated projects

Mr. Ravin Vyas & Ms. Hiral Mehta,

Project Mehak implemented under

Mission Mangalam of the Government

of Gujarat

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Ashoka is a global association of world's leading social

entrepreneurs with 3000 leading social entrepreneurs as Ashoka

fellows, providing solutions to world's most urgent social

problems

Full Economic Citizenship initiative combines the resources of

businesses and citizen sectors to transform markets

Hybrid value chains provides affordable housing to market

rates to India's informal sector clients and creates markets that

did not exist before

There is a deficit of 24.7 million homes which is a market of US

$250 billion in the affordable housing sector

Develop partnerships between different stakeholders

The process of housing for all - Identify, Develop and Sustain

The model stresses on Powerful alliances, Social impact

innovation and unlocking wealth

Mr. Vishnu Swaminathan,

Director,

Housing for All,

Ashoka Foundation

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Mr. SAtish Trivedi,

Manager,

COmmunity Development,

Tata Chemicals Ltd.

Continuous focus on capacity building and sustainability.

Water management initiative for the Mithapur plant and

township led to the conversion of the co product-salt -being

processed, enhanced and marketed as a high grade table salt

today Tata Salt is India's leading branded salt

Natural Resource Management- .Water Conservation & Water

Management, Agriculture & Animal Husbandry.

Income Generation- SHG, REDP, UDAY Foundation, OKHAI6.

Badhte Kadam

Health & Education - Affirmative Action, Mobile clinic, Aids

awareness and Special camps, Scholarships

Environment Conservation- Mangrove Greening,Biodiversity,

Eco club, Whale shark, Lion Cons.

Group based approach with established partnerships with Govt

and Non Govt Agencies.

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Government spends a lot of money for waste

management and there is a huge opportunity for

CSR investments

A lot of recyclable material like paper, plastics

goes to landfill site

Rag pickers are loosing daily income

People work in hazardous conditions while

handling waste

Indian recycling industry imports raw materials

consuming foreign exchange

More impact on fast depleting natural resources

Mr. Vikrant Kishore,

Entrepreneur and chief worker,

Wealth out of Waste (WOW)

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Waste Management is a large service sector.

It is the responsibility of Citizens but they are not

aware about their Role.

Corporate Culture can play an effective Role to

make effective SWM practices in a most feasible

and adoptable manner.

Innovative ideas and new concepts will make a

Sustainable SWM and will lead us for a Sound

Recycle society

Examples of industry engagement in SWM

Mr. Prashant Pandya,

Dy. Director, Solid Waste Management &

Conservancy Services,

Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation

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An enabling environment should be

created for building partnerships

that benefit communities and involve

business, civil society and the state.

More and more businesses will

become partners in sustainable

development programs and will

measure the changes that these

programs are making to the lives of

the disadvantaged, while deriving

business benefits.

Mr. Aakash Sethi,

Executive Director,

Quest Aliance

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Actionable IdeasAn exercise conducted to generate dialogue on the issues and solutions for

more effective CSR between five different stakeholders in society.

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The state Corporates Ngos/ Civil Society Students Sustainable socialenterprises

Public privatepartnerships forwater and solidwaste management,increase awarenessof citizens, towardscultural integrationand education andskills development

The trend of one offcharity andachieving thelicense to operate inan area

Support-Managerial,technical andfinancial

Young populationwhich needs to bemade aware andeducated aboutsocial responsibility

Regulatoryframework forinvesting in socialbusinesses? Canwe get companiesto invest without atax break ?

Incentive creationfor participation indevelopment bycorporates

The lack of aholistic approachand understanding.Disconnect betweenCSR andemployees of acompany

Serve as amonitoring agencyin society- as awatchdog over illpractices of entities

Develop futureleadership

Is it about the legalentity or the intentof theentrepreneur?

A combination ofthe public sector,private sector andcivil society to work

in collaboration forinclusive andsustainabledevelopment

How to make CSRpart of onesbusiness strategy?Do CSR initiatives

lack quantifiableand measurableimpactassessments

Requirement ofsector specificexpertise (Housing,Livelihoods, Water)

Find a cause andpurpose to worktowards

Are there metrics totrack progress?

Should CSR beowned by alldepartments? Isthere a crossfunctional team?Investing time andknowledge toengage in a

learning process

A model which hasworked for timememorial forefficient socialservice delivery

A growing increasein professionalcareer choicestowards CSR andsocial development

Key issuesidentified:-Investmentmechanisms-Partnershipframeworks-Innovation

Themes of the

discussion

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Feedback and Ideas

Seminar was veryinformative,waste management by AMCis new to me,Ashoka's housing model isalso a very new andinteresting topic to me

Ofcer -Community development Department,TATA chemicals ltd.,Mithapur

You could make the seminar interactive

in terms of dialogues instead of havingpresentations or speeches and lectures;if the ppts were added as part of theconference kit of participants,it would have helped us to reflect beforehand and could come up with moreand better questions

Pramila Mishra Torrent Group Manager, CSR

Presentations made by respectivepresenters helped me to increase

my understanding of CSR and getexposure of certain successful andinteresting models of CSR

Rajeev Mohan, senior technicalspecialist, Swasti

Can we hear moresuccess storiesworking currently ?

Nagasubramanium G manager,(education and skill development)AKRSP (INDIA)

I would want to listenmore from the villagebased NGOs, which deals withreal intensions of the country

Shubham GuptaCIIE

Will you be ableto help students wailing totake up social service projects

network with NGOs?

Ashvin R. PatelNavrachana Education SocietyVadodra

Needs to be more interactive,round table seating arrangementcould have been more eective,need to make such seminarsmore interesting

Rehana RiyawalaSEWA

More corporate participationcan be thought of, a round ofintroduction of all participantsso that we can network in a better way

Hetal Thaker GSPC

Can we create a netwokfor CSR ideas sharing on an onlinedirectory which gives information on

categories of CSR activities beinghandled by dierent institutions

A much neededinitiative to bringvarious experts ona common platformfor exchange of ideas& experiences whichdefinitely helpstrengthen the CSRprograms in the country

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