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CSR Compendium – Creating value through partnerships
The Centre brought out CSR compendium
on public private partnerships’ projects.
16 companies shared their case studies
on Education & Skills, Healthcare, Rural
Development and Environment
Sustainability like thematic areas. It was
released by Dr Vinod K Paul, Member, NITI
Ayog in 12th CII National CSR Summit. The
publication showcases the long-term
projects, role of technology and
innovation, and building capabilities of
partners to create impactful PPP projects.
There are several learnings from the case
studies of CSR Compendium. For instance,
systematic planning and implementation
of watershed development projects led to
regeneration of natural resources, and
helped communities to reap benefits for
enhancing livelihoods, especially from the
agriculture and allied sectors. There has
been a positive impact on biodiversity,
with increased green cover in the
watershed area. Digital literacy projects
focused on low-cost scalable design with
maximum output and ensured long-term
sustainability through support from
multiple partners to share the project’s
cost over the entire duration. Healthcare
projects reduced infant and maternal
mortality by strengthening the capacity
of Government frontline workers. This
helped to deliver quality home-based
care, empowering adolescents as well as
tackling critical issues at the
community-level related to maternal
health and infant mortality.
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Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) can be
a powerful tool for bringing in private
sector expertise with respect to human,
financial and technological resources in
creation of economic and social
infrastructure assets and for the delivery
of quality public services. These
partnerships in many ways, have led to
the development of innovative, scalable,
and sustainable projects on a pan
India basis.
Linking CSR with local development
plans brings in sector specific expertise
and increases overall effectiveness and
efficiency of the use of resources, from
execution to the implementation stage.
This helps in creating better impact on
the ground, of projects undertaken for
communities in the area of operation.
There has been a substantial
contribution by the private sector in
social initiatives especially through PPP
since the concept of CSR came into
existence. CSR has emerged as a way of
collaboration between companies,
governments, and civil society.
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