We Welcome Our Newly Joined Members to Credibility Alliance - A Network of Voluntary Organizations in India to promote norms of good governance and public disclosure
Our New Member
N M Sadguru Water And Development Foundation
Spandan Medical Relief & Rehabilitation Trust
AGRAGAMI INDIA
MAA ACTIVIST
Abhiyan
Society for Education Welfare and
Action Rural (SEWA Rural)
Ragho Seva Sansthan
Samagra Seva Kendra
Space Foundation
Mahila Bal Jyoti Kendra
Association For Social Research And Action (Asra)
Azad India Foundation
Singhbhum Legal Aid And Development Society
Binoba Arogya & Lok Shikshan Kendra
Socio Economic And Education Development Society
Intergrated Development Foundation (IDF)
Magadh Vikas Bharti
Sri Ramakrishna Sarada Math & Mission
Member’s Contribution
After becoming a member of CA, NBJK is more serious about improving its governance as well as better its accountability and show more transparency. It adopted a better accounting package and made it more systematic.
Also, the organization has now developed a proper system for good governance and is currently developing its HR policy, which was not previously in place.
“Now our Annual report contains financial details and balance sheet. We feel NBJK has got better recognition amongst donor agencies due to being members of CA. There are few agencies like GIVE India , HelAge India etc. from which to receive donation - a membership of CA helps.
NBJK also have a network of small NGOs in Bihar and Jharkhand whom it provides financial and non-financial supports. Due to finding better development in organization's governance, accountability, transparency and recognition, NBJK encouraged these organizations to become members of CA. Moreover, NBJK feels that they have also started developing a proper system of internal governance, maintaining transparency and improving record keeping due to following the norms set by CA.
“We feel organizations like Credibility Alliance are very much needed so that VOs/NGOs can get motivation to develop proper internal governance, financial transparency and accountability. " --- Satish Girija, Secretary, NBJK |
Dear members!
Through our last newsletter we circulated Feedback/suggestion forms and received good number of responses. Some of our member organizations expressed their desire to know about training programs being conducted in their region and some more wanted to know about the good practices being followed by other organizations in the network. We hope to address these concerns through our monthly newsletter and also through our regular e-mails. We visited a number of websites and went through annual reports and found some interesting practices which we would like to share with you.
We request our members especially those who conduct capacity building workshops to share the details within our network and to work toward a common goal to strengthen the voluntary sector.
May 2007: The Month in Review
Four new members offer their professional skills to Credibility Alliance
We are glad to inform to all our member organizations that four new persons have joined us to offer their skills for the benefit of Credibility Alliance. We are also pleased to inform and congratulate Mr. Robert Dequadros for his new role as Executive- resource mobilization. Mr. Robert was working with us as Regional Coordinator for the eastern region. The new appointments are
Mr. Daniel Herzog – VSO volunteer for Accreditation
Mr. Vivek Katara – Regional Coordinator (Central)
Ms. Edaneolla Kynta - Regional Coordinator (North east)
Ms. Rituparna Bose - Regional Coordinator (East)
Mr. Pramod Kumar Gupta - Regional Coordinator (West)
Smile foundation endorses Credibility Alliance norms of good governance
Smile Foundation has endorsed norms of Credibility Alliance and it has written to its 65 partner organizations to join Credibility Alliance as a member. Smile Foundation has agreed to sponsor membership to all its partners. To know more about the prestigious foundation please log on to http://www.smilefoundationindia.org/
CRHSE organized Promotional workshop in Vellore, Tamil Nadu
Dr. Bennet Benjamin of CRHSE, Vellore, though not our member but interested in becoming a member, organized a promotional workshop in Vellore, Tamil Nadu. A total of thirteen organizations participated in the meeting. South regional coordinator- Mr. Praveen made a presentation on Good Governance and the emergence of Credibility Alliance. Participants expressed their interest in joining the alliance. The meeting was sponsored by CRHSE.
The David and Lucile Packard foundation, India sponsors 14 organizations of Bihar and Jharkhand for Credibility Alliance membership
The Packard Foundation has sponsored its 14 partner organizations from Jharkhand and Bihar for CA membership for two years. This decision was made after our joint workshop with them on 20th and 21st February 2007. There is a plan to sponsor a total of 26 organizations, which participated in the workshop. We welcome the decision made by the Foundation and thank them for the same.
Fifth Norms Committee Meeting held at Nirmala Niketan
Fifth norms committee meeting was held on May 10th 2007 at Nirmala Niketan in presence of seven committee members and five CA staff members. This meeting resulted in preparing draft programme norms which would be discussed with other stakeholders. |
BENEFITS OF CREDIBILITY
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Recognition as being committed to a set of norms that ensures accountability, good governance and transparency within their organization. |
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Access to capacity-building support to meet the requirements specified in the norms. |
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Free services rendered by the Alliance, such as listing your organization in the ‘Organizational Profile’ on the Alliance’s website. |
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Concession in accreditation fees, when it commences. |
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Prospects of attracting greater financial and other forms of support, from different stakeholders, including the government and other donors. |
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Opportunities to influence the policies and procedures of grant-making agencies including the government. |
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Networking opportunities within a large membership base. |
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A sense of belonging in broad and collective efforts to bring greater credibility to the sector as a whole. |
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LETS JOIN HANDS TO MAKE A POSITIVE CHANGE FOR A WELL GOVERNED AND TRUSTWORTHY VOLUNTARY SECTOR IN INDIA !
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Building Relationships for Sustainability South Asian fundraising group is
organizing its 18th international
south- Asian fundraising workshop
(SAFRW) from August 22nd – 25th at
Agra. SAFRW, a leading forum for training
in fundraising and local resource
mobilization is an excellent and
effective learning platform of its kind.
Leaders and fundraisers from over
350 non-profit organizations from all
over Asia will attend and learn how to
increase support for the causes
they represent.
http://www.safrg.org/south-asian-fundraising-workshop.html
National Policy on the Voluntary Sector
Government recently approved
National Policy on the Voluntary
sector which can be
viewed at
http://planningcommission.nic.in/data/ngo
/npvol07.pdf in English and you can get
the details at
http://planningcommission.nic.in/data
/ngo/npvol07h.pdf in Hindi.
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Pilot Accreditation visit to four organizations in Mumbai
Credibility Alliance empanelled Give India as an accreditation agency to carry out pilot accreditation for 6 organizations in Mumbai and 2 organizations in Pune. The pilot accreditation was implemented for member organizations of Give India who expressed their interested in being part of this project. These organizations were selected by Give India and a initial visits was conducted in January-February this year. To complete this process of accreditation Program officers Ms Sarika Kamble, Ms Supriya Suman and Mr Daniel Herzog paid a visit to organizations and a detailed report on their compliance to CA norms was prepared. The organizations took part were:
- APNALAYA
- Kherwadi Social Welfare Association
- Indian Council for Mental Health (Hygiene)
- Indian Association for Promotion of Adoption & Child Welfare
- Bhagini Nivedita Pratishthan
- Janseva Foundation
- NASEOH
- Magic Bus
Reflection of Credibility Alliance norms in Annual reports
The idea of disclosing information and improving transparency within the voluntary sector can only be promoted if the organization desire so. Some of our members have set an example in this regard through their annual reports. Our member, N M Sadguru Water and Development Foundation, an organization with a mission to develop & expand environmentally, technically, socially sound natural resource interventions has disclosed its legal information and program related information under a separate section which says “Information related with Credibility Alliance”. Similar initiative has been taken by Vatsalya Charitable Trust which details its legal status, Board details and Auditors address. Another member of Credibility Alliance, Score Foundation has printed its detailed Audited Financial Statements along with Notes and governance related information which includes details of cost of international travel by employees. We believe there are more such disclosure initiatives by our member organizations. We appreciate and express our sincere thanks to all of them.
Disclosing information through organization’s website
Credibility Alliance member, Deepalaya has pasted its scanned copy of legal and audited financial documents on its website. It can be viewed at www.deepalaya.org .
All our member organizations who have promoted Good Governance and self disclosure mechanism through their website are requested to share with the Alliance. We could present here few of them and would be continuing with it through our future editions.
An informative website for the non- profit and for-profit sector
While surfing we came across a website that provides myriad information and links related to Non-profit and For-profit sector. The website www.managementhelp.org is a free management library that provides easy-to-access, clutter-free, comprehensive resources regarding the leadership and management of you, other individuals, groups and organizations. Many resources for nonprofits tend to be nonprofit-specific that is; they are primarily about fundraising, volunteers, public policy, and advocating.
Planned Activities for June 2007
Promotional meetings at RHDC, Malda, West Bengal on June 15th 2007
For details please write at rituparna79bose@yahoo.com
Sixth Norms Committee meeting on June 23rd 2007
Place: Nirmala Niketan, Mumbai
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CREDIBILITY ALLIANCE IMPROVING GOVERNANCE BUILDING TRUST