Chennai:
In a bid to enhance the functioning of NGOs in the state,
Loyola Institute of Business Administration and Centre for Social Initiative
and Management (CSIM) launched a two day workshop to provide tips on social
auditing.
Interestingly, this comes in the wake of Companies Act
2013 making Corporate Social responsibility mandatory for the companies.
Devarajan, the founder of CSIM told Express that the need
for social accounting and audit is to make the NGOs efficient and visible.
“It allows an enterprise to build on its existing
monitoring, documentation and reporting systems to develop a process whereby it
can account fully for its social, environmental and economic impacts,” he said.
Devrajan said that there are many NGOs registered but not
all of them are functioning efficiently. According to Home Ministry figures of
2008-09, the state has the highest number of NGOs in the country. The Union
home ministry figure states that the state alone has 3,123 NGOs.
Social auditor Latha Suresh said that Social Audit
Network is planning to have tie-up with the Union government to do social audit
of Panchayat Raj institutions.
Alan Kay, co-founder of social audit network, UK, says
that charity institutions are being monitored in UK. “The monitoring agency
ensures whether the NGO is really delivering a service and how it has
benefitted the society.”
Latha says the course is being conducted to evolve a
fresh group of social auditors. “The objective of the programme is to initiate
a group of practitioners into the science and art of Social Accounting an Audit
(SAA) by combining theory, examples and practice in a way that will ensure the
participants are well versed with the principles underpinning the process as
well as solutions to the practical challenges that arise out of undertaking SAA
in organisations,” she said.
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