Social Accounting and Audit Master Class Workshop 20th and 21st January, 2011, Delhi
Social Accounting and Audit MasterClass Workshop Registration Form
DesiCrew Solutions Pvt Ltd is a rural BPO incubated by RTBI of IIT- Madras. DesiCrew was started with the intention to bring new India's flagship industry - IT Enabled Services to where India really resides - Rural Areas. DesiCrew creates non-agricultural job opportunities in the villages for educated youth.
Mrinalini Shastry facilitated the first workshop on SAA which was held in their office on 6th March 2010 followed by the second workshop recently held on 28th of July ,thus enabling them to start working on the data collection for its Social Accounts.
Larsen & Toubro Limited is a technology, engineering, construction and manufacturing company. It is one of the largest and most respected companies in India's private sectorand is using the Social accounting methodology to study the impact of its commitment to social responsibility, with a range of activities as vast as it is varied - from environmental preservation, a field in which it has won laurels, to rural and social development. SAN India is supporting them to adapt the SAA framework to enhance their CSR strategy specifically in the area of tracking and enhancing social impact .
Vatsala Ravikrishnan has been approved as a SAN certified auditor. Her profile can be accessed on www.socialauditnetwork.co.uk. SAN India hopes to have at least 5 approved auditors in India by the end of this year.
CSIM organized a seminar on Social Accountability through Social Audit on9th February 2010 at MOP Vaishnav College for Women, Chennai.The objective of the seminar was to orient the Sociology students about SocialAccounting and Audit practice in the Indian context .The chief guest for the seminarwas Mr. T.S. Krisnamurthy, Former Chief Election Commissioner.A panel discussion was held to share the experiences in the Government sectorwhich deals with National Rural Employment Guarantee (NREGS) scheme, publicaudits and Right to Information Act.
The following are the list of organizationswriting their Social Accounts in the second cluster this year
Manava Seva Dharma Samvardhini Trust ( MSDS)
Mafoi Foundation
Sevalaya
Concern
Malar
Desicrew Solutions Pvt. Ltd
Smile Train Foundation at the Deccan College of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad
SAN India
391/1, Venkatachalapathy Nagar, Alapakkam, Chennai 600 116 Phone 24867565 / 24867566 info@san-india.org
Our aim is to promote, encourage and support the principles and practice of Social Accounting and Audit in India. Social Accounting and Audit (SAA), is a framework of accountability developed voluntarily by an organization to define its alignment with its mission and to understand how it has performed in relation to this mission. It guides the organization to understand the importance of effectively measuring impact so that they can report on performance, account to stakeholders and make the case for continued investment in their work
It is applicable across organizations from charities to social enterprises, and can be adapted to audit ‘mission’ compliance of organization as well as individual projects. Both in terms of scope and scale it is a flexible and adaptable tool that allows organizations to ‘prove and improve’ performance.
As SAN India adapts this tool to suit India, the challenge for those involved is to ensure that lessons learned are lessons shared and to develop common standards that are relevant and appropriate. In order to ensure that a standard practice is followed across organizations, SAN India provides the inputs and expertise required for using SAA framework to prepare your Social Accounts .It supports you to track your own performance and improve the approach for monitoring and evaluation within your own organization.
You can visit our case studies section to learn more about the organizations who have gained from this rich experience.
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