OUR PROGRAM INTERVENTIONS

The mission of ASK is to build capacities for social change. The capacity building work done by ASK today includes building up of perspectives on development, increasing socially responsible behavior, improving knowledge of concepts and practices of development, skills building, developing managerial capacities, enhancing developmental behaviors and attitudes, facilitating clarity of vision and mission, establishment of policies, systems and procedures.

The interventions are made through five program divisions of ASK. These are:

Corporate Social
Accountability Resettlement &
Rehabilitation Grassroots
Interventions Evaluation &
Studies Capacity Building
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Recognition of our work

Despite being an organization a little more than a decade old, our work today is recognized by national and international organizations. We provide services to some of the leading organizations in NGO, Development Aid, and Corporate sectors. We are also a part of several national and International dialogues and forums on social development and socially responsible development.

Some of the organizations to whom we provide our services include:
On Corporate Social Responsibility
CALPERS, the Pension Fund of the United States
Department of Labor, United States
International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF)
Several International Brands of Clothing and Fashion
Indian Corporate Houses
Global Alliance
We are the South Asia Coordinator of Verite, a US based NGO on CSR issues
 
On Resettlement and Rehabilitation
Asian Development Bank (ADB) and to State Governments and public sector Institutions through ADB
National Highway Authority of India
Coal India Limited
National Thermal Power Corporation Limited
National Hydroelectric Power Corporation
Indian Railway Construction Company
Financial Institutions such as IFCI, IDBI
 
On Social Development
Cordaid, Netherlands and its partners
India Canada Cooperation office of CIDA
Partners of Caritas Denmark
Railway Children and its partners
Caritas Cambodia
Caritas Bangladesh
PRIA, Sahbhagi Shiksha Kendra
Caritas India and its associated agencies
Partners of India Canada Environment Facility (ICEF)
Several other organizations at the grassroots
 
Consultations, dialogues and membership

“Crisis to collaboration” consultation process on Brass and Glass sectors jointly organized by IBLF, Save the Children Fund, Business For Social responsibility (BSR) and ASK. The consultations were organized in San Francisco, London, Delhi and Moradabad.
Global Alliance, a Global initiative to build the capacities of corporate houses on socially responsible behavior.
ASK is a member (Civil Society Representative) of the stakeholder council of the Global reporting Initiative, an initiative of the UN.
Asian conference of the Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia
ASK formulated the monitoring policy for R&R in infrastructure projects of ADB
Invited for the safeguard policy review by the International Finance Corporation (IFC)
Facilitated and participated in the Round Table on future of Bilateral Aid organized with Indian NGOs by Cordaid, Netherlands
Facilitated the South Asian and South East Asian conferences on Access to Market that discussed the role of NGOs in enhancing the access to market for the poor and the marginalized
Participated in the consultations held for formulating the Child Labor policy of CIDA
Included by Centre for Social Markets in its publication “ Who’s who in CSR in India”