CSR Impact Assessment
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Impact assessment studies are the niche product offering by FullScan that is a specialized area focused on providing evidence-based procedures that are useful to assess the effects of training programs, capacity building initiatives, CSR investments and other social programs on the final beneficiaries and help in providing reports both for internal reviews as well as regulatory compliance by companies, NGOs and other entities involved in such activities.
Impact assessment is an essential element in reviewing the social, economic and financial impacts of investments made in various social and HR aspects. FullScan brings capabilities in assessing impacts that would help companies, NGOs, and other entities that invest in various activities such as training and capacity building programs, the CSR fund utilization and evaluating the results of such investments in a scientific and structured manner.
FullScan undertakes a structured approach for the above through interviews with target beneficiaries, verification of the veracity of the data provided through its extensive experience in background verifications, synthesizing the data in a modular manner, and presenting the outcomes to its clients. The findings help the clients, through a well-researched FullScan report, in order to make decisions on various aspects such as quality of investment, social returns on their efforts, the real impacts on the ground level, identification of issues and course-correction that is required both in the nature and structure of their programs, and quantum of investments that are diverted into it.
FullScan undertakes customized assessments based on the client requirements and after gaining clear understanding of the problem statement from the clients. FullScan, through years of experience in background verification services, has gained the credibility and integrity in the market, based on which it has expanded into the impact assessment surveys, which often require a trustworthy partner to present a genuine and true picture of the reality.
The nature of offerings by FullScan under this umbrella include:
- Training and Capacity Building Impact Assessment
- CSR Fund utilization report and impact assessment (As per the amendment made to Companies Act 2013 in the year 2021, every company having an average CSR obligation of Rs 100 million or more in the 3 immediately preceding financial years are required by law to undertake impact assessment through an independent agency, of their CSR projects that have an outlay of Rs 10 million or more)
- Interview-based impact assessments for policy or regulatory changes
- Impact assessment of schemes by governments through evidence-based reports through interviews
- Other custom-designed impact assessments for companies