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UNDP India joins hands with Samhita-CGF’s REVIVE to restore livelihoods affected by COVID-19
This partnership will provide technical assistance such as business advisory, capacity building, digital skills, and market linkages, in addition to ensuring better and equal access to social protection systems for the informal sector workers.
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Decoding CSR Amendments 2021
Initiating discussions to decode the CSR Amendments 2021, Samhita Social Ventures and Noshir Dadrawala, Programme Director at the Centre for Advancement of Philanthropy cohosted a webinar and engaged with over 150 representatives of companies, philanthropic trusts and foundations on 3 February 2021.
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UN Women launches Unstereotype Alliance’s India Chapter
Today, the Unstereotype Alliance launches the India national chapter with a coalition formed to tackle harmful stereotypes advertising with support from EU funded WeEmpowerAsia Programme. The Alliance will center its work in India on broadening the representation of women and girls in non-traditional roles in advertising with a focus on women returning to the workforce..
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Meet These 5 Women Entrepreneurs Who are Pioneers in the Social Sector
Women are increasingly taking up leadership roles in the social sector with aims to bring about various positive changes in society. Setting aside profit making as key drivers of business, these women entrepreneurs have founded social enterprises that prioritise impact over profits. All of us here at Samhita are extremely proud of our Founder & […]
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Need of a stimulus package for NGOs
The year 2020 has been a difficult year for NGOs in India (not just because of the pandemic) and the next year also potentially appears to be a difficult one. “Most NGOs are heavily reliant on their funders and with institutional funding drying up this year, several NGOs, especially the smaller ones, have suffered a […]
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Mahindra Logistics joins the India Workers’ Alliance
Samhita Social Ventures welcomes Mahindra Logistics Ltd. as a pillar of the India Workers Alliance to provide immediate relief to its driver community by transferring Rs 3,000 to their bank accounts to enable them to buy essential commodities. Born out of the Samhita Model, the India Workers Alliance propogates a collective CSR fund for economic […]
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Clean energy taps limited CSR funding, report says – Live Mint
“Companies may not be implementing CSR in clean energy because of various reasons. Many companies perceive energy access interventions to be highly technical. This could’ve discouraged some companies that did not have capacities and capabilities to implement such projects. Companies also find it difficult to source qualified and technically competent implementation partners in geographic areas […]
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Tech underpins a new wave of Indian corporate social responsibility
“There is something magical about the convergence with people halfway around the world. The issues you are dealing with in South Africa are so similar to the ones we are going through in India.” So says Priya Naik, founder and CEO of Samhita Social Ventures in India, addressing delegates at the Trialogue Business in Society […]
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Impact Assessment Needs To Move Away From ‘Output’ To ‘Outcome’
As companies’ CSR and sustainability strategies are growing more sophisticated, they are demanding better measurement and evaluation of the impact of their investments. Priya Naik talks with Nidhi Bennur at Creatively Unsettled on the need for Impact Assessment among social enterprises
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These social enterprises have been helping corporates with CSR, long before it became law
Priya Naik’s mission is clear. “India has a vibrant social sector and there are complexities associated with the nation too,” she says. “We want multiple stakeholders to come together, collaborate and create value using their core competence.”
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Financial Inclusion – Key to Economic & Social Development
Priya Naik, Founder and Managing Director of Samhita Social Ventures emphasizes on financial inclusion as the key to economic and social development in an article in CSR Mandate. In India RBI describes financial inclusion as the process of ensuring access to appropriate financial products and services needed by vulnerable groups such as weaker sections and low-income groups […]
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