{"id":1169,"date":"2018-11-18T07:52:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T07:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2019-11-08T09:01:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T09:01:27","slug":"jindal-global-university-celebrates-northern-conclave-for-building-csr-partnerships-in-association-with-tiss-aesdii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/2018\/11\/18\/jindal-global-university-celebrates-northern-conclave-for-building-csr-partnerships-in-association-with-tiss-aesdii\/","title":{"rendered":"Jindal Global University celebrates Northern Conclave for Building CSR Partnerships in association with TISS AESDII"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

New Delhi, November 18, 2018<\/strong>: O.P. Jindal\nGlobal University today announced the onset of three day-long Northern\nConclave for Building CSR Partnerships <\/strong>in association with Tata\nInstitute of Social Sciences. <\/strong>The sustainability conclave organised\ncollaboratively by O. P. Jindal University CECRAS (Centre for Excellence in\nCorporate Responsibility and Sustainability)<\/strong> and TISS AESDII (Assessment\nand Empanelment Standards for Development Institutions in India)<\/strong> is\ndesigned to be a platform for action and discussion forum which apart from\nproviding ways of thinking and doing also attempts to link corporations, non-profit\norganisations (NPOs), government entities and academia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The three-day Conclave for\nBuilding CSR Partnerships aspires to catalyse partnerships amidst multiple\nstakeholders for achieving sustainable and inclusive development. The Conclave\nis an opportunity for building and sharing skills useful for CSR practitioners,\ndevelopment workers and other stakeholders concerned with optimizing social\nimpact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking at the conclave, Professor\nAmit Lahiri, Chief Sustainability Officer, Associate Director, IIHEd and\nExecutive Director, CECRAS, O.P. Jindal Global University, \u201c<\/strong>It is an\nimmense pleasure to partner with Tata Institute of Social Sciences to <\/strong>host\nthe Northern Conclave for Building CSR Partnerships. <\/strong>The most unique aspect of the three -day conclave is that\n2 universities- an 80+ years old public\nuniversity and 10 years old private university across two cities of Mumbai and\nDelhi have got together to create a platform for multi-stakeholder dialog. This\nplatform brings together the corporation, the NGOs, the government convened by\ntwo leading higher education institutions in India. This is a signal of the\npivotal role that higher education can play in India\u2019s development- i.e. a\nneutral platform for multisectoral partnerships, capacity building, skills training,\nresearch and policy advocacy. CSR is all about creating public good and that can\nonly be done through partnerships, because it is not the corporation or the\ndevelopment institution alone that can do it\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This 3-day platform brought in its opening context setting session two\nof the most senior bureaucrats-one past and one present- Dr. Bhaskar\nChatterjee, ex-Director General of DPE (Department of Public Enterprises) and\nMr. Gyaneshwar Singh, Joint Secretary of the MCA<\/strong>, who gave the audience of\nexperienced development professionals an excellent perspective of the past,\npresent and future of CSR-funded development in India. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Bhaskar Chatterjee, Secretary\nGeneral, Indian Steel Association <\/strong>shared his insights on the past,\npresent and future of the CSR in India, while highlighting the milestones and\nchallenges faced by the committee when drafting the bill. He revised the\nimportant parameters of the Company Act 2013 – CSR goes from backroom to\nboardroom, ensure that money is spent on a project, Schedule 7 which describes\nthat money spent on any of the listed activities will only be considered as CSR\nexpenditure, implementation should be done through NGO, and comply or explain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other important  aspect of the opening session was a special\nplenary lecture by the noted business and human rights scholar Dr. David\nBilchitz, <\/strong>Secretary \u2013 General, International Association of Constitutional\nLaw and Director, SAIFAC<\/strong>  and\nProfessor at Constitutional Law And Fundamental Rights, The University Of\nJohannesburg in South Africa<\/strong>, who\npresented  arguments on why a binding obligations need to be enacted in\nthe form of an international human rights treaty,  making it necessary for\nsome of the largest MNCs (which often have more annual sales revenue than a\nmany developing countries\u2019 GDP taken together)  to not only disclose their\ncompliance but also be subject to legal enforcement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Talking on the forum and highlighting\nthe importance Human Rights, Dr. David Bilchitz,<\/strong> said, \u201cIt is an honour\nto be a part of a platform that offers an important opportunity for NGOs,\ngovernment, academia to come together and discuss inspirational ideas on\nsustainability. While CSR is a responsibility that we owe to each other, it is\nalso vital to realise and build a treaty between businesses and human rights.\nWith the rise of globalisation, these treaties are important to address the\nchallenges of international law and ensure adequate protection of human\nrights.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conclave was held on three mandates-day one was, amplification\nbased workshop on skills, participation and developing partnership. Day two saw\na transition from theory to practice. Day three culminated with best practises\nthat would pave way to play a much larger larger\nleadership role in this paradigm changing business and human rights treat\nnegotiations being currently negotiated in Geneva at the UN now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Delhi, November 18, 2018: O.P. Jindal Global University today announced the onset of three day-long Northern Conclave for Building CSR Partnerships in association with Tata Institute of Social Sciences. The sustainability conclave organised collaboratively by O. P. Jindal University CECRAS (Centre for Excellence in Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability) and Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsroom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1170,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions\/1170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}