CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility)
Various reports have indicated that less than 10% of the revenues allocated for the underprivileged reach the beneficiaries. The administrative and aligned costs eat up unimaginable chunk of our taxes. CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) is the best way to deploy the funds in to; where it matters the reputed Indian Corporates have been following the CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) practices decades before it became mandatory.
The Corporate sector has long realized that the best way to contribute to the society is to educate and sensitize the future generation. The current environment and the measures taken are not sufficient and effective to mould the angels in remote village schools. That’s where technology intervention becomes the best tool for progressive CSR teams.
- 59% of class V students cannot read class II text book (up from 43% in year 2010).
- 47% of class V students cannot do simple two digit subtraction (up from 29% in year 2010).
- 74% of class V students cannot do simple division (up from 64% in year 2010).
- 57% of Indian schools have 3 teachers or less.
- Quality and Quantity an issue.
- Students poor in basic reading and maths skills.
- Low motivation–Low Confidence.
- Empower Village Youth through Education.
- Technology driven quality education at affordable costs to masses.
DGB Infosystem has been actively engaged with CSR teams across sectors since more than 5 years. Owing to our experience working with dozens of reputed organizations we understand the specific needs to corporate sector (Sponsors) as well as beneficiaries (Schools-Teachers-Students).
The CSR Sales team can, on occasions, advise it’s clients on best practices followed, the documentation and reporting mechanism, filing the reports for audit, impact assessment, public image initiatives and so on. We ensure due visibility of our generous sponsors within the community in discussion with the CSR teams.
The Development team continuously interacts with thousands of teachers and students to understand the needs specific to the class it caters to and develops its products in line with requirements and emerging needs. The development also takes care of computer literacy levels of these schools and the products are designed accordingly.
The Service team needs the geography of these locations by heart and provides on-site support and upgrades promptly. Considering the nature of this project, support at remote locations and knowledge of territories is more crucial than the software and equipment. That’s why our projects are sustainable-measurable-visible.
We create customized CSR strategies aligned with your company’s values, expertise, products, stakeholder expectations and long-term vision and drive effective implementation leading to long-lasting change within communities you work with and causes you espouse.
DGB Infosystem believes in a holistic approach to e-learning, engaging multiple stakeholders at different levels to drive large-scale impact in schools and urban and rural communities. We are working with a number of companies to implement e-learning programs in schools with an added focus teachers training and school management programs.
Our service offerings are focused on delivering end-to-end solutions based on easy education models:
- Designing strategy and programs incorporating best practices.
- Selecting credible implementation partners and building their capacity.
- Engaging in behavioral change communication.
- Ensuring community involvement and sustainable impact.
- Accurately measuring impact both quantitatively and qualitatively.
We also offer end-to-end project management support to design, facilitate and monitor School CSR programs across Maharashtra.
The introduction of the CSR mandate has seen companies move away from ad-hoc donations and events towards a long-term engagement with CSR that ties in with their philosophy, values and business.
DGB Infosystem engages with companies to define their CSR strategy in the following ways:
- Conceptualizing CSR strategy and defining CSR philosophy and objectives.
- Defining vision, mission and funding strategy of the foundation.
- Recommending causes or social initiatives that complement your corporate mandate.
- Conducting a stakeholder needs assessment and recommending initiatives that leverage your expertise and meet your stakeholder’s expectations.
- Evaluating internal process and making recommendations to align them with your CSR objectives.
DGB Infosystem also undertakes stakeholder assessments to map out the needs and requirements of stakeholders. We undertake a range of activities that include
- Primary and secondary research using quantitative and qualitative methods (such as household surveys, interviews with key stakeholders with sarpanch, asha worker, anganwadi worker etc, and interactive participatory research exercises with beneficiaries).
- Mapping community needs to company resources and interest and making recommendations for CSR programs.
A trusted partner with direct access to beneficiaries is one of the most important components of a successful CSR program. E-Disha offers the following services to help streamline the implementation of CSR projects:
- Preparing an implementation roadmap and budgets.
- Selecting and training implementation partners.
- Defining processes and reporting framework to measure outcomes and monitor progress.
- Bridging the resourcing gaps by training and sensitizing partners before project implementation.
- Publishing periodic reports for company review.
Evaluating the effectiveness of CSR programs is one of the most important steps in end-to-end implementation of programs.
- We offer holistic assessments to evaluate the impact of CSR activity on business objectives (increased visibility, brand recognition etc.), on your NGO partners and on community/beneficiaries.
- Our methodology varies from baseline-endline surveys, Retrospective Pretest model (where no baseline exists), control group comparisons etc.
- The data collection tools range from semi structured, personal interviews to focus group discussions to administering questionnaires or a combination.
- The actual mix of research methods will depend upon the sector (education, healthcare, livelihoods etc.), nature of programs and also the profile of the beneficiaries.
