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Social Impact Conference &
Awards 2022

Impact through social project for Education x

In the the last couple of years, many corporates and social organisations devised programmes to help students who had no option to continue their education during the COVID crisis. Many corporates came up with innovative programmes to support and counsel such students virtually. Nominate your initiative if you think your education-related programme has contributed to bring change and made real impact on the ground.

Impact through social project for Health & Sanitation x

In India, health infrastructure is yet to meet the demand of public health. The unaffordability of medical facilities often is a barrier fo masses. However, there are initiatives aimed at provinding health facilities to communities. During CVOID also, the social sector institutions came forward in big ways to support immediate health needs like hospital beds, oxygen supply, medicines, PPE kits, sanitiser etc. Many institutions aided government efforts in scaling makeshift arrangements to cope with the sudden surge in healthcare needs. Nominate your initiative if it is aimed at improving health and sanitation in the society.

Impact through social project for Skill Development & Livelihood x

India is facing a huge challenge of converting its young human resources in productive workforce. Post COVID, the emerging industry requirements are making it necessary for workforce to aquire market-relevant skills to become job-ready. Many sectors like construction, aviation, hotel, tourism etc have been severely affected due to COVID over the last couple of years. Many traditional jobs have disappeared from the job market. Amid all this, many social sector initiatives have tried to address this problem by skilling and re-skilling the workforce so that they develop new abilities and get ready for the new jobs as per their capabilities. Nominate your initiative if it has made an impact in skill development and livelihood.

Impact through social project for Women and Child Development x

Women and Children still remain the most vulnerable sections of our siceity. As per Census 2011, the total child population in India in the age group (5-14) years is 259.6 million. Of these, 10.1 million (3.9% of total child population) are working, either as 'main worker' or as 'marginal worker'. In addition, more than 42.7 million children in India are out of school. Similalry, much needs to be done in India to achieve gender equality. As much as 27.3% of women in the age group of 20–24 years are married or in a union before the age of 18. As of February 2022, less than 15 % of seats in parliament were held by women. In 2018, 18.4% of women aged 15-49 years reported that they had been subject to physical and/or sexual violence by a current or former intimate partner in the previous 12 months. Such a grave scenario required serious efforts on part of various stakeholders. If your project/initaitive is solving problems for women and child care, you can nominate the same in this category.

Impact through social project for Incubators or Research & Development x

Given the need for large investments and large pools of capital for R&D, the government has opened up the CSR window for the same. Now, corporates are allowed to use their mandatory corporate social responsibility (CSR) spending for investments in publicly-funded incubators and contribute to research efforts in science, technology, medicine and engineering at major institutions and bodies. They can also make contributions to publicly- funded universities, IITs, national laboratories and autonomous bodies (established under the auspices of ICAR, ICMR, CSIR, DAE, DRDO, DST and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology). If your project/initiative is dedicated to publicly-funded incubators or R&D projects, you can nominate under this category.

Impact through social project for Microfinance x

With capital mobilisation remain a major challenge for most of the people towards starting their own business and become self-employed, microfinancing has become a much-needed support system for those who wish to start business at small scale. The government has also been pushing for Mudra loans to support small business activities. Nominate in this category, if your initiative is helping people start their own business and earn livelihood.

Impact through social project for Sustainable Environment x

The world has already started wintessing the harsh effects of climate change due to increasing level of carbon emission.
According to the IPCC, global emissions must halve by 2030 and reach Net Zero by 2050. India, hwoever, has committed to Net Zero target of 2070. Still, the target can only be achived if all the stakehoolders come together to take up enhanced measures to reduce emissions from the transport sector, the energy-intensive industrial sector, especially cement, iron and steel, non-metallic minerals and chemicals.
Also, all government and non-government institution will need to focus on increasing forest cover, solid waste management, reducing use of platic, reducing air pollution, encouraging non-fossil energy for electricity generation and encouraging overall sustaible work practices. You can nominate your project or initaitve if it is helping promote the cuase of sustainable environment.

Impact through social project for Promotion of Sports x

Despite the huge potential of India in world sports, the coutnry has not been able to realise the same due to multiple challenges. The sports infrastructure and training facilities in the coutnry require huge capital investments and the active participation of school students in various sporting events is much needed to prepare a pool of sportsperson who can compete at the world level. A better policy framework aimed at promoting sports at mass level is also the need of the hour. Amidst, these pressing challenges, many organisations are making small contributions towards supporting sportsperson so that they compete at national and international level sporting events. Nominate if your initiative is making a positive impact in promoting sports in India.

Impact through social project for promotion of Arts and Heritage Preservation x

Cultural heritage is one of the most critical assets that depict the character and memory of a community; it helps us understand the past and shape the future. In India, it is a culmination of the different traditions, religions, communities and traditions that make up this cultural identity. India's rich heritage also forms its unique identity which attracts tourists from across the globe to explore India’s assimilation of cultures and its historical evolution. The government has various policies and acts to preserve our cultural heritage. However, the huge legacy also requires everybody to preserve and enrich as the country evolves through times. Nominate, if your work initaitve is aimed at preserving the cultural heritage and promoting the arts in India.

Impact through social project for Biodiversity & Wild Life Conservation x

With the opening up of Indian market and process of globalisation, the country has made significant progress in achieving higher Gross Domestic Product (GDP). But, on the other hand, its side effects on the birodiversity and wild life has been very harsh. Various government data also suggest significant increase in the death toll of protected species, combined with increasing threat to animals in protected forest areas which are in the vicinity of develoment projects related to road, highways, railway tracks, oil drilling, pipeline, canal construction, etc. There is an urgent need of specific measures to mitigate and neutralise the risks of such development projects on the forest and wild life. Nominate you initaitve if it is aimed at helping biodiversity and wild life protection in India.

Impact through social project for Differently-Abled x

As per the Census 2011, the differently-abled population in India is 26.8 million. In percentage terms, this stands at 2.21 % of the total population. While there are various goveernment policies aimed at welfare and empowerment of the Persons with Disabilities, but we are still far away from realising the dream of an inclusive society in which equal opportunities are provided for the growth and development of Persons with Disabilities so that they can lead productive, safe and dignified lives. A multi-sectoral collaborative approach, involving all the governments departnments, ministries of the Central Government, the State Governments/UTs, local authorities, For-profits, NGOs and other appropriate authorities are required to rbing respect and empowerment to the differently-abled population in true sense. Nominate you initaitve or project if it is aimed at empowring this community and solving their problems.

Impact through social project for Transgenders x

As per 2011 census data, India's trans population consist of 490,000 people, out of which handful of them only make it to gainful employment. As per the transgender persons (Protection of Rights) Bill 2016, it prohibits discrimination against a transgender person, including unfair treatment or denial of service in relation to employment, education, healthcare, access to public goods and facilities, etc. However, transgenders still face various forms of violence, harassment and discrimination both at home and in public spaces. India has a long road ahead to gender justice. The first-ever study on the rights of transgenders by the National Human Rights Commission reveals that about 92 percent of transgenders are deprived of the right to participate in any form of economic activity in the country, with even qualified ones refused jobs.
We as a society need to provide equal opportunity to education and livelihood needs of the trnasgenders. Their right of education must be ensured and workplaces need to be more transgender-inclusive. Nominate if your initiative or porject is aimed at protecting the rights of transgenders and bringing them equal opportunity in the society.

Impact through social projects for Rehabilitation of Sex Workers and their Children x

As per official estimates, there are over 800,000 sex workers in India. However, unofficial figures place these numbers far higher. Further, a significant share of these sex workers also comprises children, who come into prostitution as a result of child trafficking. In recent years, several NGOs have come up to fight against the social evil by rescuing and rehabilitating the victims, and also fight for sex workers and their human and fundamental rights such as the right to life, dignity and equality.
Nominate your initiative if it aims at protecting the fundamental rights of sex workers; or their rehabilitation by providing them with technical/vocational training for alternate livelihood options.

Impact through social projects for Senior Citizens x

India has been classified as an ‘ageing country’ by the United Nations, with 8.6% of the total population over 60 years of age. This number is expected to triple by 2050, thereby constituting 20% of the population.
Changing socio-economic patterns, such as women becoming economically active and participating in the workforce, and increasing mobility are all leading to more nuclear households, altering social norms of elder care in the family. Despite the dire need, elder care in India is still largely neglected and the development of the ecosystem is primitive. Nominate if your initiative is aimed at helping senior citizens live a dignified life or providing support for abandoned elderly people with old-age home facilities.

Impact through social projects for Homeless x

Homelessness is a major social problem in India. According to the 2011 census, there are 1.77 million homeless people in India, or 0.15% of the country's total population, consisting of single men, women, mothers, the elderly, and the disabled. However, unofficial figures put the number at least 5 times higher.
With no money and no documents to help them access government schemes related to food, health, water, sanitation, shelter and livelihood, the homeless are among the most vulnerable sections of our society, especially in the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis. Nominate your initiative if it is aimed at helping homeless people and providing them with food, shelter, health facilities or positively intervening into their different aspects of their life.

Impact through social project for other Special Areas x

In case, you are working in a specific social areas which you think is solving a social problem, you can nominate your initaitve or project in this special category.