Fundamentals of Corporate Social Responsibility

FICCI Aditya Birla CSR Centre for Excellence has been providing strategic direction to the development of inclusive CSR practices. It has been striving to create synergy by providing platform to various stakeholders to share their experiences, learn, exchange ideas. As a part of knowledge sharing initiative, the centre has recently come out with a handbook titled, “Fundamentals of CSR”. The handbook captures global definitions of CSR, understanding of CSR in India, along with tools and standards to incorporate CSR in business.

The handbook is categorized in seven parts to cover CSR in all its different dimensions such as Business overview, understanding various definitions of CSR, importance of CSR, incorporating CSR into business strategy, overview of various CSR standards and guidelines etc. The handbook was released on April 2, 2013, during the “Two days training on Strategizing and Reporting CSR” as a training module