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CREDIBILITY ALLIANCE IMPROVING GOVERNANCE BUILDING TRUSTThis newsletter intends to be the voice of the sector and
we want our members to use this as an organ of communication with their stakeholder as well as Alliance.
Do send us information of programs/ events at your end and we can share it with other members of the Alliance.
December 2006: The Month in Review Credibility Alliance and Tribal Development Dept., Govt. of Gujarat meet to discuss accreditation of 100 NGOs: Realizing the need for accountability and transparency within the voluntary sector and importance of accreditation process, Tribal Development Dept. Govt. of Gujarat has initiated this process in Gujarat region in collaboration with Credibility Alliance as the accreditation agency. Initially 100 NGOs of the region will come under this project after thorough assessment and discussion. Meeting was conducted on 4th December’06 in presence of Mr. A. M. Tiwari IAS Secretary (Tribal Development) Government of Gujarat, Mr. A. K. Verma IFS Commissioner (Tribal Development) Government of Gujarat, representatives of Credibility Alliance and Give India, NGO representatives and other officers from Government of Gujarat. Mr. Verma pointed that this process will be more beneficial to smaller NGOs who are good and sincere towards the development process. Formation of core group of Norms Review Committee: To discuss the present norms of good governance for the voluntary sector prepared by Credibility Alliance and to refine/modify the present norms so as to suit performance/ program review along with self declaration; there was a meeting held at Mumbai head office on 23rd December’06. The meeting was attended by the Chairman Mr. B. N. Makhija, Former Chairperson of University Grant Commission (UGC) Dr. Armaity Desai, Professor of esteemed Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Dr. Rajshree Mahtani, Ms. Helen Joseph of Nirmala Niketan, Mr. Venkat Krishnan of Give India, representative of YASHADA, and members of Credibility Alliance. Strategy were formulated to discuss it within the core group and to include other organizations and institutions through a participatory process. The Chairman stated that the organization on board of Credibility Alliance has to follow both minimum and desirable norms. Main points of discussion were issues in field while implementing norms, criteria for programme evaluation and what modifications are necessary to make it more executable.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2007!! In this issue we would like to cover our performance in the Year 2006 with our activity details and most importantly I would like to share with you our West Bengal State Committee’s promotion of Enrichment series in the direction of capacity building exercise. Enrichment series “organized by West Bengal State Committee West Bengal state committee of Credibility Alliance decided to organize a series of workshops/seminars that would help VOs/NGOs to improve their standards of Accounting and reporting system and capacitate them to comply with Credibility Alliance norms. The first seminar was organized by Credibility Alliance West Bengal state committee and PricewaterhouseCoopers Pvt Ltd on August 26, 2006 on “Global Reporting Initiatives” , an accounting system Corporates are promoting within the sector. Chief functionaries and chief accountants of 26 voluntary organizations attended the seminar along with donor agencies like Lutheran World Service, Compassion India, Action Aid and also Tata Consultancy Services TCS from corporate sector. West Bengal state committee also raised funds for their local needs and sponsored entire expense of the workshop. We appreciate the initiative taken and expect similar kind of capacity building workshops in other states too.
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Regional Coordinators meeting held at Mumbai : On 18th and 19th December’06 all four regional coordinators Mr. Robert (RC East), Mr. Vimal (RC West), Mr. Srivastava (RC North) and Mr. Praveen (RC South) joined the meeting with the Chairman, the Executive Director and programme officers to discuss critical, operational and field level issues being faced in the area of membership, accreditation, norms, capacity building and fund raising. It was followed by presentation of activity report of respective region and self-appraisal by regional coordinators. As suggested in Annual General Meeting (AGM) in October’06 also, it was decided that the Alliance will only focus on good organizations referred by state committees to maintain the credibility of the Alliance’s movement. Regional coordinators are requested to take strict actions against tainted organizations that either are Alliance’s member or have applied for membership. There was a discussion on getting good response from north eastern region like Guwahati, Meghalaya and Manipur on follow up after AGM. There was also a discussion on better liaison with administration and government, norms, accreditation, capacity building and need for fundraising from various sources to carry out the exercise. Mr. Robert cited the example of Enrichment Series initiated by West Bengal state committee.
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| Credibility Alliance is a registered organization under Societies Registration Act (XXI) of 1860. As an independent, voluntary (not for profit) organization, we aim at building trust among the stakeholders of an organization such as staff, the Board, donors, volunteers, the general public and the media. We do this by advocating norms for public disclosure and good governance that will help organizations become more transparent and accountable to their stakeholders. The draft of our norms was published in 2003 in English and later translated into six other languages - Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam. More than 15000 copies of this booklet have been distributed. | ||
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