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Expectations for child welfare from Union Budget 2019
By Anuja Bansal, Secretary General, SOS Children’s Villages of India
The social development sector is looking forward to the Union Budget 2019-20. There should be...
It’s time for CSR to invest in justice
We received good news recently that India had climbed 23 points to the 77th rank (out of 185 countries ranked) in the Ease of Doing...
Aligning Corporate Strategy and Corporate Social Responsibility
The evolution of theoretical thought on CSR can be viewed through three stages: philanthropy, evolution from philanthropy to value creation and shared value. The...
Celebrating the girl child, everyday!
In a country where females constitute over 48.18% of the total population, equal opportunities is the topic of discussion amongst various conversation groups. On...
My Journey to Odisha
After his experiences facilitating healthcare in the villages of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Maharashtra Dr Anantpal Singh writes about Maharashtra in his series.
One of the...
Leveraging Technology For CSR
This is the Social Development space, dude! Don’t you get it, we are driven by passion and sweat and the human touch. The cold...
Partnerships that Enable Impact at Scale
“Are you implementing a local / specific solution or are you willing to subsume your approach in a collaborative approach?”
“Do we work with...
Biodiversity, the lesser child of CSR
Usually when conversations happen on CSR in India, it is often seen that the topics being discussed are community development, with programmes like education,...
Intersection of CSR and business resilience
Most business leaders you speak to would agree that corporate social responsibility is important. Some would rattle off a long list of things they...
Morocco’s development model could show India the way
In recent decades, the Kingdom of Morocco has embarked on a path that fully commits the nation to a development and civil course that...
Key regulatory shifts in Indian corporate governance in 2018
The subject of Corporate Governance (CG) started to gain headway in India in the mid 1990s especially after certain unprecedented capital market events in...
How storytelling can help achieve SDGs
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which expired in 2015, had little impact in accelerating global development efforts. The slow progress of the MDGs, was...