New Delhi: For the first time in the post-COVID 19 scenario to commemorate the good work done by various actors across the country during the pandemic, to document the challenges faced by them at various levels and to develop a roadmap of futuristic collaborations for greater Collective Impact, IICA (Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, Ministry of Corporate Affairs) in collaboration with Sphere India is organising a National Consultation on Futuristic Collaboration for Collective Impact here on February 26, 2022.
The national consultation, which is being organised as part of the Azaadi ka Swarn Mahotsav (@India75) will also have four regional consultations with representatives from state and union Government, Civil Society Organisations, Corporates, Academia, Youth and Media. Over 200 organisations are expected to take part in this mega consultation on Partnership Standards while linking humanitarian and development with resilience.
The Partnership Standards aim to develop Accountability, Performance Management and Technical Standards for transparent and mutually beneficial partnerships for humanitarian and development with resilience. These standards will converge core humanitarian standards, ISO Standards for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Project Management Standards and Technical Standards like Sphere while adapting them for humanitarian and development with resilience scenarios in India.
“The outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) posed an unprecedented threat and challenges to the health, wellbeing, lives and livelihoods of people across India and the globe. The Prime Minister of India gave a call for the Whole of the Society approach and the Government, Corporates, Civil Society Organisations, Academia, Media, Youth and all other actors in India rose to the challenge to respond to this mega calamity. The road to recovery is also an arduous journey ahead but the coming together of different actors and learnings in the process has opened a big potential to how India responds to its disasters and also prepare, mitigate and reduce disaster risks in future through disaster resilient development. This is why this national consultation has been planned with all stakeholders,” said Vikrant Mahajan, CEO of Sphere India, a national coalition of humanitarian, development, and resilience actors in India.
COVID 19 has been a disruptor and has caused a push back to the collaborative progress made by humanitarian, development and resilience organizations across the world. Considering the challenges and immediate needs, Sphere India initiated the COVID 19 Academy and has successfully conducted over 200 sessions, reaching out to over 1.3 lakh people successfully conducting 307 sessions with our knowledge partners, and over 150 sessions with government partnerships.
Last year in 2021 during the Covid period, Sphere India in collaborative partnership with the National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) had launched 6 Multi-stakeholder Coordination Handbooks at the National and State level in Delhi. The development of these Sector Coordination Handbooks marks a strong commitment between our member/partner organisations towards collaborative advocacy. These handbooks are envisaged to be operational guides or manuals for coordination during emergencies and include practical guidance and advice on how different stakeholders and sector actors can come together to strategize preparedness and response.
– global bihari bureau
