Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

CENGSSUD Provides Corporate Social Responsibility advisory services for like need based assessment study, CSR planning and Implementation, CSR audits, Institutional capacity building, third party impact Assessment, monitoring, participatory programs for our valuable clients.
‘Corporate Social Responsibility is the continuing commitment by business to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of the workforce and their families as well as of the local community and society at large’.

> How can CENGSSUD help?

CSR advisory partner – Providing an end-to-end solution
While most companies have an internal team that manages the execution of CSR activities, fraud risk-related vulnerabilities are,
however, often overlooked or undiagnosed. Working alongside forensic experts can help reveal inadequacies in the CSR process/
activities on a real-time basis depending on the stage. Our solution cut across the entire life-cycle of CSR implementations through:

1. Development of CSR strategy and policy: We help to review the CSR policy in line with appropriate regulations and identify
potential gaps.
2. Identification of partner: We assist in conducting due diligence on entities/ implementation partners (NGO, Trust, etc.) including but
not limited to their business activities, registration with government authorities, other business activities indicative of any potential
conflict of interest, existence, adverse media information and political affiliations etc. (to name a few).
3. Project evaluation and feasibility analysis: We carry out a detailed ‘Forensic screening’ of your CSR proposals (this could include
identifying any inconsistencies from the approved CSR strategy/ policy, identifying potential indicators of conflict of interest, etc.).
4. Project implementation: We help in Analyzing end utilization of funds and due diligence to identify unusual trends and patterns in
payments, the ultimate beneficiary of funds, etc.
5. CSR effectiveness assessment: We help in Conducting forensic spend analytics to determine the effectiveness of your CSR efforts/
funds in line with CSR strategy.
6. Need basis: We carry out an investigation or gather intelligence, where required, basis any incident occurred.
7. Monitoring and evaluation framework: We deploy framework to assess the effectiveness of the program/s, evaluate impact and
redesign the CSR initiatives through feed forward. Provide reliable reports to the Board on CSR initiatives.
8. Capacity building: We deploy trainings towards the enhancement of capacities of staff and partner NGOs to implement CSR and
other community engagement initiatives through partnerships if required

At CENGSSUD – our experts can help reveal inadequacies in the CSR process/activities on a real-time basis depending on the stage.