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Leading health insurance company partners with Fiinovation

A leading private sector health insurance company in India entered into a strategic partnership with Fiinovation, a top Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) consulting firm , and Pinnacle Skills India, an NGO that works towards empowering youth through skill development and education. The programme's key objective is to provide skill development opportunities to women from financially disadvantaged communities in 36 districts across 8 states of India Under this collaboration, Fiinovation and Pinnacle Skills will extend their services to facilitate the corporation's social welfare project for training the youth to take up the roles of General Duty Assistants (GDA). The project's mandate includes community mobilisation through awareness activities, setting-up training centres for skill development, and ensuring employment opportunities. The complete CSR portfolio will be managed and monitored by Fiinovation. Pinnacle Skills India took the responsibility to arrange for

Corporate social responsibility for agricultural Development and its impact on income generation

Indian Agriculture sector continue to remain shabby for the economic growth of India. Although, the rising demand of food in domestic and global markets can create huge possibilities, small and declining land holding, price volatility, soil degradation and climate risks continue to trouble the farmers.  Less opportunities and constraints to improve the agricultural sector also affects the farmers income, especially the small and marginal farmers. The overall development of agriculture needs to involve various service providers such as private agribusiness companies, NGO’s in dissemination of agricultural technologies with knowledge, skills, expertise and leveraging Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds.  Although, inadequate amount of CSR funds has been spent in the agricultural sector by the companies, there is a huge potential for investment in this sector. Companies can implement CSR project for agricultural development and income generation for farmers.

Fiinovation implements CSR Project with People's Forum

Fiinovation, a top global Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainability consultancy has entered into a partnership with People's Forum, along with a Public Limited Company in the business of manufacture of Calcined Petroleum Coke, for a social welfare intervention on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) components in Paradip. People's Forum is a non-profit organisation that works in sectors including women and child development, health and sanitation, livelihood and agriculture. The CSR programme will intend to benefit 700 households in the district, by sensitising the locals on water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) practices. Evidently, the programme will ensure access to safe drinking water by installing community Reverse Osmosis (RO) plants in the locality. The activities will include installation of storage tanks for collection and storage of the purified water. Through this initiative, each household will be able to collect 20 litres of