Post event synopsis

An interactive dialogue - Sustainable Social Business Models as an effective form of Corporate Social Responsibility investments 4th June, 2011 Ahmedabad Inaugurated by Mr Asit V ora, Mayor, Ahmedabad City
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5th June, 2011.

Participating Organizations

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

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Mr. Asit Vora, Mayor, Ahmedabad City

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 like Sabarmati river front water project, solid waste management, rehabilitation of slum dwellers and so on. PPPs are extremely important for CSR to be sustainable, protable 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.

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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 makes people 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 Prot which in turn creates self sustaining models Research, 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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Mrs. Sushama Oza, CEO, Adani Foundation

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.

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Mr. Ajay Dixit , Sr. Faculty, Centre for Social Entrepreneurship & CSR, Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India
Corporates should continue their businesses with prot 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, quantiable, replicable, scalable and transparent.

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Mr. Anuj Sharma, Chief Operating Ofcer, Sarvajal

Clean water has a more powerful impact on health than any other potential intervention The challenges of getting water to people is NOT about awareness, attitude, or technology, but is about building a viable business model to deliver services The Sarvajal answer: 1.Rural franchising 2.Technology for monitoring and collection 3. OffGrid, cloud-connected dispensing Sarvajal has a 70 person team and 120+ individual franchisees in 8 districts in Gujarat and Rajasthan, 75,000+ people drink clean water due to Sarvajal model and 250+ people earn their livelihood.

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Mr. Ravin Vyas & Ms. Hiral Mehta, Project Mehak implemented under Mission Mangalam of the Government of Gujarat
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 nancial 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 nding more potential customers for Project Mahek and urged people to volunteer at any of their already initiated projects

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Mr. Vishnu Swaminathan, Director, Housing for All, Ashoka Foundation

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 decit 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

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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 - Afrmative 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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Mr. Vikrant Kishore, Entrepreneur and chief worker, Wealth out of Waste (WOW)

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 landll 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

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Mr. Prashant Pandya, Dy. Director, Solid Waste Management & Conservancy Services, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation

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

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Mr. Aakash Sethi, Executive Director, Quest Aliance

An enabling environment should be created for building partnerships that benet 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 benets.

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Actionable Ideas
An exercise conducted to generate dialogue on the issues and solutions for more eective CSR between ve dierent stakeholders in society.
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Themes of the discussion

The state Public private partnerships for water and solid waste management, increase awareness of citizens, towards cultural integration and education and skills development Incentive creation for participation in development by corporates Corporates The trend of one off charity and achieving the license to operate in an area Ngos/ Civil Society SupportManagerial, technical and nancial Students Young population which needs to be made aware and educated about social responsibility Sustainable social enterprises Regulatory framework for investing in social businesses? Can we get companies to invest without a tax break ?

The lack of a holistic approach and understanding. Disconnect between CSR and employees of a company How to make CSR part of ones business strategy? Do CSR initiatives lack quantiable and measurable impact assessments Should CSR be owned by all departments? Is there a cross functional team? Investing time and knowledge to engage in a learning process

Serve as a monitoring agency in society- as a watchdog over ill practices of entities

Develop future leadership

Is it about the legal entity or the intent of the entrepreneur?

A combination of the public sector, private sector and civil society to work in collaboration for inclusive and sustainable development

Requirement of sector specic expertise (Housing, Livelihoods, Water)

Find a cause and purpose to work towards

Are there metrics to track progress?

A model which has worked for time memorial for efcient social service delivery

A growing increase in professional career choices towards CSR and social development

Key issues identied: -Investment mechanisms -Partnership frameworks -Innovation

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Feedback and Ideas

I would want to listen more from the village based NGOs, which deals with real intensions of the country Shubham Gupta CIIE Presentations made by respective presenters helped me to increase my understanding of CSR and get exposure of certain successful and interesting models of CSR Rajeev Mohan, senior technical specialist, Swasti More corporate participation can be thought of, a round of introduction of all participants so that we can network in a better way Hetal Thaker GSPC

You could make the seminar interactive in terms of dialogues instead of having presentations or speeches and lectures; if the ppts were added as part of the conference kit of participants, it would have helped us to reect before hand and could come up with more and better questions Pramila Mishra Torrent Group Manager, CSR

A much needed initiative to bring various experts on a common platform for exchange of ideas & experiences which denitely help strengthen the CSR programs in the country

Needs to be more interactive, round table seating arrangement could have been more effective, need to make such seminars more interesting Rehana Riyawala SEWA

Seminar was very informative, waste management by AMC is new to me, Ashoka's housing model is also a very new and interesting topic to me Officer -Community development Department, TATA chemicals ltd., Mithapur

Will you be able to help students wailing to take up social service projects network with NGOs? Ashvin R. Patel Navrachana Education Society Vadodra

Can we create a netwok for CSR ideas sharing on an online directory which gives information on categories of CSR activities being handled by different institutions

Can we hear more success stories working currently ? Nagasubramanium G manager, (education and skill development) AKRSP (INDIA)

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From small beginnings come great things.

Thank you

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